Posts by Sophie Clearwater
In the Hilarious ‘Youth,’ Sharon Horgan Nails the Precarity of Middle Age
If youth is, as the saying goes, wasted on the young, then Horgan’s Alex is a character actually equipped to savor what little she has left of it. “I have 10 years left as a sexual person,” she determines in the premiere. With the petulant son, Ruarí (Aran Murphy, a near-clone of dad Cillian), whom…
Read MoreYour Shoe Size Can Change as You Age. Here’s Why
A study published in 2016 examined the foot measurements of 68 women aged 20 to over 80. It found that the widths of the balls of the feet increased by 3 to 4 millimeters per decade, while ball circumferences increased by about 5 to 7 millimeters, high-step circumferences 0.4 to 4.8 millimeters, and heel instep…
Read MoreFive Ways the World of the Dinosaurs Looked Different From Ours, Beyond the Presence of the 'Terrible Lizards'
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Read MoreThe Fight Over Data Centers Is a Fight Over Who Owns the Compute
The A.I. boom has concentrated compute in enormous data centers, but advances in distributed training are challenging the assumption that serious A.I. workloads must live in hyperscale campuses. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images Zoning hearings in Tucson, Reno and smaller towns across the American West now fill up with residents holding groundwater charts and utility…
Read MoreScreening at TIFF: Arie and Chuko Esiri’s ‘Clarissa’
Sophie Okonedo in Clarissa. Courtesy TIFF It’s been an exceptional year for filmmakers transposing Mrs. Dalloway to modernity. The Tribeca Festival played host to The Last Day by Rachel Rose, a loose, impressionistic echo of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 classic. Meanwhile, Cannes and Toronto saw brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri expand on the story in a…
Read MoreDakota Johnson Cheekily Calls Musicians “Tricky Motherf–kers” After Chris Martin, Role Model Romances
Dakota Johnson hasn’t freed herself from the dating musicians. The Verity actress, who recently stepped out with Machine Gun Kelly following her breakups with Role Model and Chris Martin, joked about what her relationship type is while coyly sharing insight into her love life. Despite initially telling Vogue in an interview published Sept. 18, “I don’t want to say anything about that” when asked about…
Read MoreHow Zoe Kazan Made ‘East of Eden’ Her Own
Both versions are, in Kazan’s estimation, self-portraits of the artists who made them. Renowned for directing A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront and co-founding the influential Actors Studio from which the school of “method acting” was born, Elia Kazan was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952. The Hollywood blacklist was…
Read MoreThe Nasher’s New Survey Treats Protest as an American Tradition
Bruce Davidson, Time of Change, 1963. Gelatin silver print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. Anonymous gift, 2018.24.123. © Bruce Davidson With midterms right around the corner, there’s no better time to check out “Turn the volume up!” at the Nasher…
Read MoreIn PBS’s Heartrending ‘Trespasses,’ Love Defies War in ’70s Belfast
Tom Cullen and Lola Petticrew in Trespasses —Wildgaze Films and All3Media International In an early scene of the exquisitely devastating miniseries Trespasses, two strangers in a pub ruminate on the relationship between art and pain. Cushla (Lola Petticrew), a schoolteacher taking a shift behind her family’s bar, admits she couldn’t finish reading A Clockwork Orange;…
Read MoreTom Cruise Reveals What He and “Genius” Taylor Swift Spoke About at Travis Kelce’s Game
Pat McAfee Reveals What It’s Really Like Sitting Next to Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise at an NFL Game Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift small-talk, work and the weather and football. The Digger actor shared what he and the “I Knew It, I Knew You” singer chatted about while sitting next to one another at her husband…
Read MoreHouston’s Insiders Say the City’s Cultural Scene Remains One of the Art World’s Best-Kept Secrets
Untitled Houston returns October 2-4, with a VIP preview on the preceding Thursday. Photo: CKA Associates, courtesy of Untitled Art Following a successful debut in Texas last year, collector and entrepreneur Jeffrey Lawson’s Untitled Art returns to Houston next month with an edition that promises to be even more anchored in the city’s expansive art…
Read MoreAfter a Family Health Crisis, Bill Ackman Takes a Startup Approach to Brain Research
Bill Ackman is putting $400 million into a new New York brain research institute. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images In February, Bill Ackman got a middle-of-the-night call from his oldest daughter: she had walked into her sister’s Brooklyn apartment and found her collapsed on the floor. First responders did not know what was…
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