1. The New Lucky Restaurant, India
Come for some of the best palak paneer in Ahmedabad, stay for the dozen gravestones and burial sarcophagi that pop out of the concrete floor like giant lime lozenges. Supposedly the Muslim followers of a 16th century Sufi saint, all the memorials are encased in protective steel railing and the waitstaff adorn them with flowers each day as a mark of respect.
2. Linger Eatuary, United States
What was once the headquarters of the Olinger funeral empire – at one point it took care of half of Denver’s deceased – is now a restaurant that leans into its history hard. The antiquated aircon units that kept corpses cool have been transformed into lamps, the massive garage doors that opened to accommodate hearses …
The Barbie movie was meant to be for everyone. “If you love Barbie, this movie is for you,” the trailer for Warner Bros.’ summer blockbuster declares. “If you hate Barbie, this movie is for you.”
But with just weeks before the star-studded film about the titular doll was set to hit theaters, some in Southeast Asia have decided that it’s not for them.
It was announced in Vietnam on Monday that the cinematic distribution of Barbie would be banned over the display of a map that includes the &ldq…
Several former friends and employees of Johnny Depp testified on Thursday in the ongoing $50 million defamation trial against Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard. The high-profile trial, which is being held in Fairfax County, Va., is in its fifth week. Depp’s team rested its case on May 3 and, since then, Heard’s legal team has been arguing its defense.
Among the witnesses Heard’s team called to the stand were Depp’s former friend, an ex-business manager, a past agent, and an attorney who used to represent Depp, as Heard’s legal team mounted their defense and built a case for their countersuit. Depp is suing Heard over a 2018 op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post, in which she identified herself as a “public figure representing domestic a…
In an era of increasingly frequent—if often imperfect—queer representation in media, it might be difficult for the young target audience of Peacock’s new reboot of the classic Queer as Folk to imagine that a show following a group of gay men in Pittsburgh living relatively average lives could have created a new paradigm for how gay and lesbian stories would be told on television. But a little over 20 years ago, the original incarnations of Queer as Folk did just that—first in the United Kingdom in 1999, and then a year later in the United States.
So often called “ground-breaking” that the description might start to sound trite if it weren’t also true, Queer as Folk put gay people and queer storylines front and center …