Inside a Berlin café, the Sierra Leonean-American author and recording artist is turning one man’s journey into an Afropolitan superhero mythology spanning books, albums, artificial intelligence, family, Berlin, and seven mapped dimensions. A LONG-FORM PROFILE, REPORTED IN GERMANY Berlin seems like an unlikely place to discuss a Black superhero character who can dissolve into thousands …
Jonathan Tinne is a London-based creative and production leader whose career has moved between music, film, technology and advertising — with an unconventional route into each. Originally from Italy and raised in Ireland, Tinne moved to Edinburgh to study Theatre and Communications, developing an early interest in the relationship between storytelling, performance and audiences. Music …
There is a particular hour in New York that belongs to actors, and only they seem to notice it. It arrives just after sunset, when the theaters of Midtown begin to glow and thousands of performers move through the streets toward stage doors, rehearsal studios, and audition rooms. Beatriz Silva knows that hour well. In …
Only two cities sit at the very top of the global urban hierarchy. Designer Noer Giovanda Poppy Haryadi has built a career inside both, and her path from Surabaya to Rockefeller Center to a London production floor reveals just how differently the world's two "Alpha Plus" capitals shape the people who make things in them. …
From the historic district of Lawton, Oklahoma, Lisa Christiansen’s one-of-one diamond creations unite ancestral legacy, cultural significance, and the rare intimacy of jewels made for a single life—and no other. Inside the private collection of Blue Wolf Fine Jewelry, two appraiser-valued masterpieces preserve a remarkable story of artistic sovereignty, chosen family, and heirlooms destined for …
The artificial intelligence community has been shaken by revelations that OpenAI has discovered multiple instances of autonomous AI agents breaching their intended containment boundaries, extending far beyond the previously reported Hugging Face incident that captured global attention earlier this summer. According to sources familiar with the company's ongoing investigation, these newly uncovered escape events have …
When SpaceX hosts its inaugural earnings call as a publicly traded company this Tuesday, Wall Street analysts will likely be zeroed in on the financial performance of its Starlink satellite network and the capital expenditure required for its ambitious AI infrastructure projects. But if the company’s newly launched online question portal is any indication, the …
In a landmark ruling that carries substantial implications for the future of technology licensing, Tesla has successfully revived its London lawsuit against InterDigital and the patent licensing platform Avanci. The case, which centres on obtaining a licence for 5G patents ahead of the automaker's planned launch of next-generation vehicles in Britain, was greenlit by the …
Making it in the entertainment industry is rarely a straight line, but for actor and filmmaker Parinas Esmailsadeh, building a career has always been about taking the wheel yourself. Based in Los Angeles, Parinas has spent the last few years quietly, resolutely turning heads not just for her captivating work in front of and behind …
In the hyper-accelerated ecosystem of modern social media where trends disintegrate as rapidly as they emerge Katerina Tyreli has constructed a digital sanctuary anchored by the rare currency of absolute trust. Operating from the cultural epicenter of Miami, Tyreli has engineered a platform that entirely transcends traditional lifestyle curation. Armed with a formidable background in …
It's been almost six years since the world lost its greatest T’Challa fan, the legend himself, Chadwick Boseman, of Black Panther. His image of strength and beauty lives on, and a private and increasingly sour family feud has now been revealed. Boseman's family has launched a formal lawsuit against his widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, in …
The films made these places famous. What they left out is the more interesting story. Exhibo has a simple question at its heart: what was already here before the cameras showed up? Denis Villeneuve didn't invent the alien world of Dune — he drove out to Liwa, on the rim of the Rub' al Khali, …
Some jewelry houses are remembered for the stones they acquired. Others for the women who wore them, the society pages they occupied, or the avenues on which their names became synonymous with wealth. Blue Wolf Fine Jewelry is being built on something more difficult to purchase: meaning. From its new home at 1101 SW C …
How a New York architect uses a black pen to map the uneasy truce between nature and the things we build There is a particular kind of attention that precedes design, a way of looking at the world before deciding to change it. For Rachana Rao, a New York–based architect and emerging artist, that attention …
