Walt Disney’s (DIS) box office juggernaut “Black Panther” isn’t on the road to just ticket-sale riches. The film could also generate nearly $250 million in licensed merchandise sales in 2018 as companies look to cash in on the cultural phenomenon, according to The Licensing Letter, a trade publication. Though “Black Panther” merchandise sales are dwarfed […]

On March 1, Kofi Bazzell-Smith, a self-taught artist and the president of the Japanese Culture Club at Parkland, led a workshop on Yonkoma Manga. Bazzell-Smith taught students from a PowerPoint and the Japanese Culture Club handed out sushi. The workshop was held in D105 from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m.. To begin, the Japanese Culture […]

Roseann Lake, author of ‘Leftover in China’, discusses how women who aren’t married by 25 are reshaping China’s traditional culture. Roseann Lake: Leftover women in China are a strange byproduct or aftershock of the one-child policy. In 1979, China enacted a once child per family policy to reduce the growth rate of its enormous population. Roseann […]

After a few too many summer brunches and sugar binges, Beauticate writer Molly decided her skin was looking a bit dull and in need of a wakeup call. In a bid to get to the root of the problem, she decided to put a few popular beauty diets through their paces, and descended upon two […]

Tate Modern, London From his wife to his lover, from phallic-faced women to Christ in a nappy, this giddying exhibition captures the furious pace Picasso worked – and lived – at Picasso at 50: Savile Row suits, a chauffeur-driven Hispano-Suiza, and living in a swanky apartment near the Champs Élysées, with his wife, the Russian […]

Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) is celebrating the eight edition of its ‘Live Our Heritage Festival’, running from March 1 to April 7 at Global Village. Held under the theme of ‘An Eye on Emirati Cultural Heritage’, the festival will focus on educating the public about UAE traditional handicrafts and heritage. Until Thursday, […]

“Beauty” for J.C. Penney consists of fine jewelry, its hair salons and Sephora shops. According to CEO Marvin Ellison, Penney’s salon customers visit a store twice as often as non-salon customer. Winning shoppers in the beauty category can lead to increased foot traffic and sales in other departments, including apparel.J.C. Penney’s investments in beauty aim […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – It’s not often the dress that steals the show at the Oscars isn’t even new. But that’s what happened Sunday when comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish strode on stage in a $4,000 white Alexander McQueen dress she’s worn publicly at least two other times, widely considered a faux pas in Hollywood. Haddish wore […]

I’m up just a bit early. I have surveyed the news on the internet (as I always do when rising). The national news is full of articles on the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting. There are details about the shooter, Trump is expressing the opinion that teachers should be armed, students at that high school […]

“I honestly thought kids were a lot stupider,” Maher told Hogg and classmate Cameron Kasky on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher tonight. “You’ve really given me faith that the kids today are actually very bright, way brighter than we were.” And that was before Hogg revealed that he hung up on the White House last week, offended that […]