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- Stocks and Oil Prices Sent Conflicting Signals in April Amid Havoc of Iran War
Energy markets remained disrupted by turmoil in the Middle East, while the S&P 500 posted its best month since November 2020. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - US dismisses proposals to ‘review’ Britain’s Falklands claim f...
A leaked internal Pentagon email had suggested that the US was considering punishing the UK over its lack of support for the Iran war, by reassessing Britain's claim to the territory. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - What We Know About New York’s Proposed Tax IncreasesCity leaders and state lawmakers are pushing Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the wealthy, and they have floated several options. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Is The Devil Wears Prada 2 the Great Millennial Journalism Movie?
Normally, I am against content labels for media, but I might have to make an exception for The Devil Wears Prada 2. This movie should come with a trigger warning, at least for millennial journalists. The fizzy, frothy comedy is also a jewel-box encapsulation of a generation's broken dreams, told through the decline of magazine journalism. The film opens at a journalistic awards ceremony, one of those rubber chicken dinners where journalists give each other plastic trophies to honor worthy (but often little-read) work. Just as our heroine, Andy Sachs (a perky, perfectly neurotic Anne Hathaway), accepts the top honor, she receives a text. Everyone at her table has been fired as part of a corporate cost-cutting deal. Andy makes tearful remarks and goes off to mourn her job and the industry. At the same time, Andy's old nemesis, the fearsome Miranda Priestly—the formidable editor of the (former) fashion powerhouse Runway—is facing a scandal for running a puff piece about a dicey fast fashion company. Runway's owner sees Andy's speech, which has gone viral, and offers her a job as the magazine's features editor in an attempt to revitalize the publication's journalistic credibility. The setup is somewhat strained, but the important thing is that it quickly brings Andy back into Miranda's orbit, renewing the cat-and-mouse dynamic that drove its hit predecessor. The Devil Wears Prada was released in 2006, before smartphones, before the publishing industry crashed, before everything went online. Watching it now is like finding a buried time capsule, every detail a precise signifier: Andy's fling is not just a successful magazine journalist, but a freelancer. Her friends drink wine and Cosmopolitans. Andy even wears a toe ring. Much of that movie's tension was about journalistic values: She wanted to be a serious reporter, but by working at Runway, she learned that fashion has value too. This late-breaking sequel inverts that idea. The question it poses is whether either journalism or fashion matters anymore. Yes, is the movie's emphatic answer. But the film is also honest enough to acknowledge that neither journalism nor fashion have the cultural cache they used to. The first film was a breezy coming-of-age fantasy about a young woman making her way in the hustle and bustle of the world's greatest metropolis. The sequel is about what happens when the world has changed, and those hopes seem dashed. And it's not just… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - ‘SNL U.K.’ Sets Hannah Waddingham and Ncuti Gatwa as Hosts for Final Episode...
“Saturday Night Live U.K.” has revealed the hosts for the last two episodes of its inaugural season: Hannah Waddingham and Ncuti Gatwa. Waddingham, known for “Ted Lasso” and “Ride or Die,” hosts the May 9 edition with Brit Award winner Myles Smith as the musical guest. Gatwa, whose credits include “Doctor Who,” “Sex Education” and […] [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Dem tied to cartel operative says ‘White nationalists’ joining immig...
A controversial Democratic congressional candidate running in a South Texas border district is under fire again as critics accuse him of smearing Border Patrol agents as racists, an allegation his campaign dismissed as "desperate attacks."Bobby Pulido, a former Latin music star running to unseat Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz, is taking heat for a recent interview in which he asserted, "It’s always down to race."During the interview, which was on a podcast called "Mind of Geniuz," Pulido accused the Trump administration and Republicans' immigration enforcement agenda of being motivated by the "theory of White replacement.""When President Trump ran, he ran on getting rid of the bad guys. They lied to us," Pulido said."It’s race. It’s always down to race. And I hate to say this, because I hate to inflame it, but I’m going to call it out because that is what it is. Look, when they have this theory of White replacement, they’re saying, ‘Oh, no, no, if it weren’t for this and this and crime,’ they’ll throw in all these other things to dance around the true issue," he said. "Which is there’s too many Brown and Black people, which they’re saying they’re just going to stay the same and be poor."CRITICS ROAST JASMINE CROCKETT AFTER SHE CALLS HERSELF 'ONE OF THE 535 MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE' IN USPulido noted during the interview, "I do not want to demonize law enforcement." However, he expressed that when it comes to immigration enforcement, "a lot of the people that are joining, not all of them, okay, there’s a lot of White nationalists that want to join because they want to go hunt down people, right, they’re yahoos.""It’s a shame," he went on, "because then you start branding all ICE agents."A spokesperson for De La Cruz’s campaign decried Pulido’s comments as insulting Border Patrol agents.Notably, just over 50% of Border Patrol personnel are Hispanic. The Rio Grande Valley Sector of the southern border, along which De La Cruz’s district sits, is home to roughly 3,100 Border Patrol agents and personnel, according to Texas Monthly. The spokesperson said that "Monica is proud to be raising her kids in South Texas," emphasizing that "the Border Patrol agents our opponent insults are the same people she spends Friday nights with at a carne asada, sees at her kids' schools, and prays with at church on Sunday.""That's why she has their back in Congress, and that's… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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