NewsWilco’s Jeff Tweedy Announces Book Tour for World Within a SongThe book, subtitled Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music, documents Tweedy’s reflections on the Replacements, Joni Mitchell, and Billie Eilish, among othersBy Jazz MonroeAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterJeff Tweedy, photo by Sammy TweedyFacebookTwitterJeff Tweedy is heading out on a book tour of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music. On select dates, the Wilco frontman will invite guests including Nick Offerman, journalist (and sometime Pitchfork contributor) Amanda Petrusich, guitarist Nathan Salsburg, radio host April Baer, and others. The tour…
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The average sticker price for college, or published costs for tuition and fees, has been rising — but most families don’t pay full price.Tuition, fees and room and board — plus books and supplies, transportation and personal expenses — total an average $27,940 at a four-year, in-state public college for the 2022-23 school year, according to the College Board, which tracks trends in college pricing and financial aid. In total, the equivalent annual cost for a four-year private college is $57,570 on average. At some private universities, the total cost of college is more than $80,000 a year.More from Life Changes:Here’s…
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022.Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNew York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, pointing to security concerns that have made the app a target of bipartisan scrutiny across the country.Congress already voted to ban TikTok on federal devices last year and several states have taken similar steps. The concern generally stems from TikTok’s ownership by China-based tech company ByteDance, since many policymakers fear that structure could make U.S. users’ information vulnerable to being accessed by…
In this articleMETAAJGFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTChatGPT can be a helpful job-hunting tool, if used correctly, according to career coach Sarah Doody.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesIf the tech industry’s top AI models had superlatives, Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4 would be best at math, Meta’s Llama 2 would be most middle of the road, Anthropic’s Claude 2 would be best at knowing its limits and Cohere AI would receive the title of most hallucinations — and most confident wrong answers.That’s all according to a Thursday report from researchers at Arthur AI, a machine learning monitoring platform.The research comes at…
In this articleBALLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTThe Ball Aerospace-manufactured Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite for the U.S. Space Force.Ball CorporationBall Corp. agreed to sell its aerospace division to U.K. defense contractor BAE Systems for $5.6 billion in cash, the companies announced Thursday.The deal is expected to close in the first half of next year, pending regulatory approval.The aerospace unit of Colorado-based Ball, widely known for its beverage and household packaging products, deals in manufacturing spacecraft and specialized aerial systems. It counts NOAA, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies as some of its key customers.BAE noted that more than 60%…
In this articleGOOGLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTSakana AI founders Llion Jones, left, and David Ha, meet at a rooftop bar in Tokyo. Jones, a co-author of Google’s prominent Transformers research paper, is the generative AI research lab’s technology chief, and Ha, a former Google research scientist, is its CEO.David HaLlion Jones had a big role at Google, where he worked for almost 12 years. He was one of eight authors of the pivotal Transformers research paper, which is central to the latest in generative artificial intelligence.However, like all of his co-authors, Jones has now left Google. He’s joining fellow…
In this articleSTLAGMFFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTUnited Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Detroit with Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, far left, Sept. 25, 2019.Michael Wayland | CNBCDETROIT – If the United Auto Workers union decides to strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers when current labor contracts expire next month, the economic effect would quickly tally into the billions, according to a report released Thursday.A work stoppage by nearly 150,000 UAW workers at General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis would result in an economic loss of more than $5 billion after 10…
In this articleCVSAMZNFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA woman walks past a CVS Pharmacy in Washington, DC, on November 2, 2022.Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty ImagesShares of CVS Health plunged 9% on Thursday after Blue Shield of California said it will drop the company’s pharmacy benefit management services and instead partner with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs company and Amazon Pharmacy to save on drug costs for its nearly 5 million members. The announcement hints at the potential for health insurers to abandon the traditional pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM, system and sent shares of other companies that offer PBM…
Aileen M. Cannon, United States District Judge, Southern District of FloridaCourtesy: US CourtsA Florida federal judge on Thursday said she would hold a hearing sealed from the public to discuss prosecutors’ request for an order to protect classified material at the heart of a criminal case against former President Donald Trump.The hearing “will take place at a designated time and place to discuss sensitive, security-related issues concerning classified discovery,” Judge Aileen Cannon said in a written order.Cannon did not say in the order where and when that hearing will occur.But she said that Trump and his co-defendants in the case,…
Florida Governor and 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks with voters and residents in border-adjacent communities during a campaign event in Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 26, 2023.Suzanne Cordeiro | AFP | Getty ImagesThe main super PAC backing Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign posted, and then removed, a memo outlining a four-pronged strategy the Florida governor might take in next week’s Republican primary debate, The New York Times first reported Thursday.The document, which was also reported by NBC News, recommended that DeSantis defend former President Donald Trump from one of his opponent’s attacks — assuming Trump decides to skip the…
Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Report of Special Counsel John Durham,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to Citibank on Thursday, demanding information about whether the bank gave law enforcement information about customer transactions in the days surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.The subpoena, obtained exclusively by CNBC, came after Jordan previously requested that several financial institutions, including Citibank, provide the information voluntarily. They include Bank of America,…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.Picture it: Sicily. Your beaded wrap skirt jangles gently in the breeze, your Aperol Spritz held aloft on a heavily bangled arm. Your look encompasses both animal prints and florals. Congratulations: you’re having a hot Cavalli summer. Recently on Instagram, Parade CEO and creative director Cami Téllez declared it “Cavalli summer,” and influencers like Tinx quickly joined the movement. Bella Hadid, Kali Uchis, Emma Chamberlain, Iris Law, and Emily Ratajkowski have been breaking out the brand’s vintage 2000s boho-chic wares. Zendaya performed at Coachella wearing a Cavalli…
Olivia Rodrigo’s new album Guts is dropping in three, two, one (September 8 if you want to get specific) and we’re here for a fit check. You know the pic: Olivia’s lying on a purple floor with “GUTS” spelled out in rings on her fingers, wearing a lavender bra and black slip dress. And if you want to recreate the look (Halloween is coming up, just saying), Olivia’s exact bra and dress are fully available.According to @rodrigocloset, Olivia is wearing the Araks Gita Underwire Bra in Ambrosia, which is $150 on the brand’s website:Gita Underwire Bra AmbrosiaGita Underwire Bra AmbrosiaShe…
Considering that we’re still in the throes of summer, it may feel a touch surreal to be thinking about fall style already. Thankfully, we have the perfect excuse to dream about cozy knits and sexy long-sleeve dresses: Calvin Klein’s fall 2023 campaign, starring none other than Kendall Jenner and debuting exclusively on ELLE.com. The supermodel-entrepreneur-expert cucumber-cutter has been working with the legendary American brand for over a decade now, fronting both signature CK Underwear ads and sporting its signature wares. Next season sees Jenner in vampy makeup with blown-out hair, embracing a classic ’90s supermodel look that wonderfully contrasts her…
There I was, being influenced by Gen Zers on TikTok, when I stumbled upon a shoe that stopped my scroll. It was an incredible cream-colored Simone Rocha confection with a chunky plastic sole and pearls strung atop floral straps that crisscrossed to cinch at the ankle. And it was a sneaker.Traversing the digital landscape, my head quite literally spun. As I stared at a $1,000 pastel green and pink Kiko Kostadinov style, I wondered: how do you get a demographic who wouldn’t typically drop money on sneakers to create Reddit threads devoted to dupes? When did vintage Diesel ballet sneakers…
Courtesy + Design Leah RomeroIn ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke to self-proclaimed nap enthusiast Nell Diamond, founder and CEO of Hill House, and the brains behind the viral Nap Dress® (yes, she trademarked it). “It was aligned with my whole idea that I’m like a Victorian ghost who can nap anywhere—like, I need a fainting couch,” she tells ELLE.com of the brand’s unexpected hero piece. “I wanted a dress that, at any moment, I could take just…
There are few brands that have a grip on the fashion set quite like Ganni. So, when the Danish label collaborates with another powerhouse brand like New Balance, you know it’s going to be good—and sell out, fast. Such was the case when the two combined forces to create its first sneaker collaboration for those who embody a distinctly Scandinavian level of cool (one that mixes maximalist whimsy with a downtown edge). Well, the brands are at it again with another one for the books. There are three fresh-off-the-runway Ganni x New Balance pieces to be had, and you can…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.“I’m up for anything. What do you want to know?”That’s how Pamela Anderson begins our conversation. It’s morning where she is, namely, at her rustic home on Vancouver Island, off the coast of Canada. Anderson has already been up for a while; she says this is her favorite time of day. She’s been spending the dawn hours working on a newsletter, which she jokes she mainly does to avoid writing her kids “long, rambling emails.” She’s also working on a novel which she describes as “very romantic…