The American Repertory Theater’s second stage will not renew its lease at the end of the year, ending the popular venue’s 12-year run on the outskirts of Harvard Square.

"This time last year, my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the Rutherford County school system died of Covid because someone wasn't wearing a mask,” Grady Knox, a Rutherford County student said. Knox spoke in front of the Rutherford County school board Tuesday night in favor of a mask mandate. He tried to continue his speech, but got interrupted by laughing and heckling from adults in attendance.

The article notes that Bezos bought the Jack Warner estate for $165M. That also comes with an estate-sized plot of land. "The One" runs right up to the property line, so you can't play at being a feudal lord. The Warner estate also benefits from being a century old, and thus looking somewhat timeless, where the place in Bel Aire is going to look really dated in about ten years.

The Bakers Dozen was founded in the 1930s. Its members — beloved bakery owners — meet in secret once per month to sample each other's goods, catch up and help keep their businesses alive.

Is delta-8 THC a fraudulent fad that needs to be stopped, or the future of specialized marijuana? The truth is somewhere in between.

Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.

So who is capable of mounting this "superhuman" or "hybrid" immune response? People who have had a "hybrid" exposure to the virus. Specifically, they were infected with the coronavirus in 2020 and then immunized with mRNA vaccines this year. "Those people have amazing responses to the vaccine," says virologist Theodora Hatziioannou at Rockefeller University, who also helped lead several of the studies. "I think they are in the best position to fight the virus. The antibodies in these people's blood can even neutralize SARS-CoV-1, the first coronavirus, which emerged 20 years ago. That virus is very, very different from SARS-CoV-2." In fact, these antibodies were even able to deactivate a virus engineered, on purpose, to be highly resistant to neutralization. This virus contained 20 mutations that are known to prevent SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from binding to it. Antibodies from people who were only vaccinated or who only had prior coronavirus infections were essentially useless against this mutant virus. But antibodies in people with the "hybrid immunity" could neutralize it.

Xavier Novell had a hell of a resume in the Catholic Church. According to the BBC, he “became Spain’s youngest bishop” in 2010 at 41 years old. He was also an exorcist and such a big fan of conversion therapy and opponent of abortion, euthanasia, and gay marriage that he was considered extreme even by the Church itself. Now, because he wanted this rap sheet to be a bit more colorful, Novell has left all of this behind to pursue a relationship with psychologist and author of “satanic-tinged erotic fiction,” Silvia Caballol.

After building his own version of Middle-earth, Nicolas Gentile has thrown a ‘ring’ into Mount Vesuvius

IATSE is gearing up for a possible strike against the film and television industry, which would be the first industry-wide strike in the union’s history. The union and management’s AMPTP will return to the bargaining table on Thursday in an effort to reach an agreement on a new film and TV contract in advance of Friday’s expiration of their current deal.

In 2018, the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and the 1855 Treaty Authority, an organization that upholds treaty rights for Chippewa bands, enacted legal personhood for manoomin -- wild rice. Manoomin, which translates to “good berry” in Ojibwe, is a sacred food for Chippewa, Ojibwe and Anishinaabe people and has been a part of traditional teachings, stories and way of life since time immemorial. The Rights of Manoomin was the first tribal law to pass and grant legal status for a plant or animal species. It declared that within White Earth and other ceded Chippewa territories, manoomin has “inherent rights to exist, flourish, regenerate, and evolve, as well as inherent rights to restoration, recovery, and preservation.”

Jonathan Neman, co-founder and CEO of the salad maker Sweetgreen, issued a series of internal apologies to staff last week after publishing (and later deleting) a post on LinkedIn in which he placed blame for the severity of the COVID-19 crisis on overweight Americans and suggested the country should focus on fixing that “underlying problem” instead of the country’s broken healthcare system.  But according to company Slack messages viewed by Motherboard, Neman has repeatedly pushed similar views inside the company in the past, suggesting that healthy eating is more important than better healthcare in improving people’s health—provided they make the right choices. (This presumably includes eating his expensive and not necessarily particularly healthy salads.) In his LinkedIn post last week, Neman used a study that said "78 percent of hospitalizations due to COVID are Obese and Overweight people” to argue that the root cause of coronavirus-related death has to do with body-mass index. Neman went on to question the government’s handling of the pandemic, stating that "no vaccine nor mask will save us," and floating the idea of "health mandates” that ban or heavily tax food offered by Sweetgreen’s competitors. (Neman's approach has already been tried abroad in places like Britain, but failed to yield much more than campaigns built on shame and guilt.)

Study finds agriculture and pesticide use threaten relatives of world’s most important crops, considered crucial to food security.

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the WorldTrade Center share their experiences in Adam Baran's SXSW short Trade Center.

Pollution from a former missile plant in Burlington, NC threatens the health of the community.

The city attorney’s office advised city staff on Tuesday that the order requiring Portland’s police force to be vaccinated was now legally dubious due to new guidance from the Oregon Health Authority.

People took the streets on Tuesday, the first day El Salvador officially recognized bitcoin as legal tender.

For Blue's Clues 25th anniversary, Nick Jr. shared a video of Steve addressing the now-adult fans of the show

The announcement follows a string of resignations, raising existential questions for the group

More than a year after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed, it was lifted from its pedestal in Richmond, Va., to be placed into storage.