Meta app’s new feature to assist users manage unread chats WhatsApp is reportedly doing work on a new option which will let users have more control in managing their unread message count in its Android version. As this new feature is currently under development, beta testers who have already registered …
Read More »Rosanna Arquette on Matthew Perry’s legacy: ‘He helped so many people’
Rosanna Arquette is always going to remember Matthew Perry for two things: his desire to help people with addiction and his love of grape soda. Arquette, 64, talked to People Magazine about the impact the late Friends star had not only in her life, but also in the lives of the countless people he …
Read More »‘Barbenheimer’ was a boon to movie theaters and a headache for many workers. So they’re unionizing
For movie theater owners around the country, the same-day release of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” this summer meant record box office sales and a gratifying sign that the public still craved entertainment on the big screen. But for some employees at the Alamo Drafthouse in Manhattan, “Barbenheimer” was the breaking point. “That really pushed us to the …
Read More »Many who struggled against Poland’s communist system feel they are fighting for democracy once again
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. He was just 19 but already appalled by the way the regime imposed its harsh censorship, not just on political thought but culture as well. A member of his church choir would give him a …
Read More »Vaccine hesitancy affects dog-owners, too, with many questioning the rabies shot
Cindy Marabito runs a pit bull rescue out of her house in Austin, Texas. “We’re the only raw-feeding, holistic, completely no-kill pit bull refuge and rescue in the United States,” she says. She currently has nine dogs that roam her big, mulched backyard by the banks of the Colorado River. …
Read More »Misty Copeland’s dedication to inclusion spans many projects — and her push for new dance emojis
Misty Copeland has her hands (and feet!) in many different projects simultaneously, but all are motivated by her passion to use her platform to promote diversity in all the spaces she inhabits. The first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre in 2015, Copeland says …
Read More »City’s Parris and West Ham’s Kmita recall their journeys to the top
The footballing journeys of Manchester City’s Nikita Parris and West Ham’s Rosie Kmita have been depicted in motion projections in a video produced by the FA, as the two players prepare to go head to head in the Women’s FA Cup final this Saturday. The video traces the journeys of Kmita, 24, …
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