This is so true. One of the things that drove me nuts in Italy was that there's no ice. NONE. Ice is not a thing. I got stung by a wasp and my foot swelled up, and instead of ice, they gave me garlic to put on it. SO I had a swollen and stinky garlic foot. But they also had electric kettles (we own one now, totally a game changer) and other little conveniences that I learned to love. I did laundry in a bucket with powdered hand-washing laundry soap and a scrubby board like in the old days, and hung my clothes to dry, but everything was still clean and fresh. Just different.
Moving in with an expat taught me that what we prefer in our homes is culture, not nature
The first time I saw a tumble dryer was on an episode of Baywatch, when the clothes of a would-be drowning victim were put through the wash. To a European kid, this thoroughly unremarkable scene was unthinkable—the clothes came out dry! My family had all the standard home appliances, but dryers aren’t very common in Europe. The idea that you could wash an outfit and wear it again the very same day seemed impossible.
Having lived my whole life in Europe, I’ve never considered air-drying my laundry to be a problem, or even much of an inconvenience. But this winter, my life went through a home-technology revolution: I now live with a tumble dryer. The appliance came with an American called Luke Abrams, who first moved to London four years ago. He went through a rite of passage that every U.S. expat must endure: an encounter with the typical British combo washer-dryer—a two-in-one appliance. It appears to be a stroke of genius until you realize that the dryer part doesn’t really work—and everyone who lives here knows this. I point this out to Luke as he describes his initial frustrations with this particular European quirk. His eyes widen: “No shit it doesn’t work! But when you come from the land of functional appliances, you don't expect that!” Luke’s exasperated, and I can’t help but laugh—it’s a national conspiracy, but not an intentional one.
Americans and Europeans have a lot in common, but there are still a million little things that rattle expats and travelers. So what do you do when you move across the Atlantic—do you take your home comforts with you, or do you go native? And why do we like living the way we do, anyway? Having spent the winter setting up house with an American in London, I’ve found many of my own ingrained beliefs thrown into question. There are a lot of decisions to be made when you move in with someone, but this time there’s an added cultural divide—American top sheet or European duvet cover? Preferences are often just habits.
“When you move to a new country, you can either 'assimilate' or you can choose to bring the good things from your homeland with you,” says Luke. “Take the good things with you!” Luke eventually convinced his landlord to let him install the full American laundry experience in his first London flat. This means the washer is bigger: “A British washer is like an Easy-Bake Oven: You can't do anything real with it. It’s appliance theatre,” says Luke, who’s an electrical engineer. He’s impressed with the European condenser dryer, though: It doesn’t need any holes drilled for draining or venting, so you can put it anywhere that has a power outlet—you just empty the water out of a drawer after each use. “It's a modern engineering miracle… This is mind-blowing as an American. Brits aren't particularly innovative, but this is damn clever,” he says.
I can certainly see the appeal of a tumble dryer: Britain is a very damp Island, and air-drying laundry in winter can take days. But as a dyed-in-the-wool European, I have to admit I struggle to see why it’s such a big deal to Luke.
The differences in European and American home technology become less arbitrary when you consider that the average room size in the U.S. is more than double that of Britain. Since American homes are often larger, appliances can be, too. “Looking at the engineering of [American] appliances, sometimes they seem less efficient—simply because they didn't need to be,” says Naomi Climer, a fellow and former president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. “[Less] thought has been put into space-saving and efficiency.” So it’s not just the refrigerators themselves that are bigger, Climer points out, but also the behind-the-scenes machinery in the appliances; in Europe, engineers would have made more of an effort to compress everything into a smaller space.
This isn’t just a personal struggle: retailers have faced it, too. When Ikea first launched in the U.S. in 1985, its Swedish sofas were deemed too shallow, kitchen cabinets were too small to fit the local appliances, and people bought the flower vases as drinking tumblers, dismissing the European glasses as something akin to dollhouse furniture.
Culture is usually the driver for engineering, not the other way around, says Climer, a Brit who’s also worked in America. Environmental regulation is the other key restriction for European engineers, who’re constantly working to make appliances greener: “If you're willing to do a longer wash, you can do it at a lower temperature, which is much more energy-efficient.” This explains why European washing machines take two hours to do a standard cycle, whereas American equivalents do the job in a quarter of the time. It also hints at why the average American household uses about two to three times more electricity than a typical European home, although smaller and greener home appliances are starting to make inroads with environmentally minded consumers in the United States.
As usual, the U.S. is ahead of Europe in adapting the latest tech trend: the connected home. But because everything moves faster now and there’s more competition, the differences between the American and European home tech are likely to be minimal—there will be a shared standard. This kind of international coordination is relatively recent, says Climer, who remembers when professional film cameras would all take different tapes depending on the manufacturer. This sort of thing is unthinkable now. “Smart-home manufacturers [realize] that if they don't play with open standards, they won't get a market,” she says. “I think the days of proprietary products are [ending], and people are going to build things that are connected.”
For an American, coming to Europe is usually an exercise in making do with less. But over in the land of abundant home appliances—pressure cookers, robot vacuums, coffee makers, fat-reducing grills—there’s one glaring omission guaranteed to knock Brits (and Australians) off their equilibrium: Americans don’t use electric kettles. “It’s a madness,” says Stuart Granger, an Englishman who’s lived in Washington, D.C., for almost four years. “In the U.K. you can't find a house without a kettle. It’s literally the first thing on anybody’s shopping list when they [set up] their house,” says Stuart, who lives with his American girlfriend. “So over here, how do you boil water? What do you mean, you put a saucepan on the hob? It’s archaic!” Stuart laughs at the absurdity, but actually, he lives a kettle-free life now: “Yes, I’m at peace with it.”
Unlike many of the cultural differences in home tech, the electric-kettle divide exists for a reason: power output. The U.S. uses 120V as standard while Europe runs on 230V, meaning a kettle boils significantly faster in the land of endless cuppas. “I love the electric kettle,” says Jesse Spielman, an American who’s lived in London for three years. “Now that I drink my own weight in tea every day, I can't imagine living differently.” Jesse has also learned there are other uses for the kettle: “If I were making pasta, I'd boil the water in the pot, but my [British] ex turned me onto boiling water in the kettle and then pouring it in. It saves a ton of time.”
Stuart’s favorite thing about moving to America has been living with air conditioning: “I can’t imagine life without A/C anymore, especially over here when it gets really hot. It's just fantastic that you're always comfortable.” Garbage disposals in the sink are pretty neat too, says Stuart, if a little counterintuitive: “It's such a convoluted way of not picking up the peelings and putting them in the bin.” Stuart pauses for a moment. “This is weird. I'm singing the praises of America, whereas when I moved here it was the opposite—everything was just odd.” Stuart eventually realized he had to stop comparing, as it started to sound a lot like complaining: “Pointing out differences is fine at first, but after a while you have to shut up. Get over the kettle, and stick a pot of water on.”
Jesse has also adapted to life in Britain, but while he’s polite about it, it’s clear that British home tech really isn’t the main draw. His observations are certainly less enthusiastic: the half-height refrigerators with a single ice shelf, for one, and the separate taps for hot and cold water that means you’re either burning or freezing (in fairness, the locals dislike those too). “And I don't understand why so many British bathroom light switches are on pull cords. You always have to pull them harder than you think.” This stops me in my tracks—this is odd, and yet I’ve never once thought about it.
Most sci-fi shows have a parallel universe episode where crucial details have been changed—everything you know has been replaced with a different version of itself, triggering a feeling of alienation. In psychology, the “Uncanny Valley” refers to the revulsion triggered by things that look almost human, like overly realistic robots or computer animations. The differences between America and Europe—Hershey’s, not Cadbury; Fahrenheit, not Celsius; Tylenol, not Paracetamol; money in quarters rather than fifths—can be similarly jarring. None of this is a big deal on its own, but when he or she is overwhelmed with a constant barrage of tiny differences all day every day, the expat may be excused for feeling a need to assert that things are different at home. “We call them crisps, not chips!” you may exclaim, but what you’re really saying is, “Life used to make a lot more sense.”
Moving to a different country is one of the quickest ways to learn that so much of what we do, think, and prefer is culture, not nature. Even if you stay put yourself, living with an expat can be a shortcut to the same realization. Often, unusual choices about home tech become possible. This is what happened to Chris Gurney, a Brit who lives in London with his American partner, when they had a discussion about which appliances to prioritize in their small kitchen—they ended up preferring a wine fridge to a dishwasher.
Gadgets that initially seemed redundant or even strange can end up hooking you: Luke likes to remind me of how I was initially against his idea of putting a drinks fridge in our bedroom. “How awesome is it?” he says. “You thought I was crazy, but you have cold beverages all the time now!” I nod—it’s pretty great. I didn’t understand the American obsession with ice and refrigeration at first, but living with Luke has showed me there’s a lot to be said for putting a few simple things in place to make your life more comfortable.
For Luke, the bedroom fridge and tumble dryer are actually outliers—he got rid of most of his possessions when he left America. “It's so much better to have less stuff,” he says. “[In the U.S.] the houses are bigger, so people buy more things; you have walk-in closets so you buy more shirts and shoes, the fridges are bigger so you fill them up with more food.” Luke says he lives just as well now as he did before, but it’s taken him years to feel like this. And yes, says Luke, he realizes he would never have reached this conclusion had he not moved to a different country, where his American habits could be challenged by a different way of life. Now, life’s literally the best of both worlds: “I'm comfortable. I have everything I need, and I got rid of everything else. The stuff I have are all things I need, and that I like.”
Last week, the bridal and special-occasion gown brand Alfred Angelo abruptly closed both its retail boutiques and its wholesale business. Other bridal stores are taking advantage or helping out (depending on your point of view) with sales and offers of help, and the former employees of at least one store went back in against the bankruptcy court’s rules to fetch paid-for gowns and distribute them to customers.
The Rescue Operation
Three former Alfred Angelo store employees in California teamed up to make sure that customers didn’t have to worry about the whereabouts of their gowns. There’s a tiny problem with this, though, since the company’s bankruptcy estate owns those gowns and the stores now.
An attorney explained to Scripps Media that the former employees should not have entered the stores and grabbed dresses and paperwork, since a temporary restraining order now governs the stores and their property.
As far as the bankruptcy court is concerned, women who hadn’t yet picked up their gowns are “third parties,” not people who paid for merchandise and should have the right to pick it up.
“The actions of the employees may constitute theft or grand larceny under state law and could subject them to state criminal prosecution,” the bankruptcy attorney explained. “Third parties receiving stolen items could also face state criminal charges and prosecution.”
The ex-employees who organized the wedding gown raid don’t especially care.
“Like, are you really going to come after a bride?” the group’s ringleader asked, referring to herself as the “Robin Hood of bridal.” She said that other stores’ former employees were performing similar missions to unite dresses and brides, but didn’t specify which ones.
At least there are sample sales
For brides whose dresses are still on order, things are murkier. Stores ranging from giant big-box chain David’s Bridal to tiny boutiques have special deals for affected customers, and women across the country are offering their own gowns to brides in need.
“It was a great company. They gave you excellent service but what dirty pool to leave us hanging there,” the owner of an independent bridal boutique in Traverse City, MI told the Detroit Free Press.
Another store owner told the Free Press that she would be offering huge discounts on Alfred Angelo sample gowns in stock, since she wouldn’t be taking any more orders based on those samples.
David’s Bridal is offering discounts on its own products and, perhaps most helpfully, waiving rush fees for alterations on gowns purchased from Alfred Angelo for events coming up this summer.
The company speaks
Alfred Angelo finally posted a notice on its website, admitting that it filed for bankruptcy on July 14, and directing customers with questions about their orders to the bankruptcy trustee.
Her address is alfredangelo@mjstrustee.com. In the message, include your order number, your name as it appears on the order, and the location of your purchase.
“We apologize for the inconvenience and hardship resulting from this event,” the company said in its statement. “We appreciate your patience. Thank you.”
Not a fan of the nipple darts, but for someone who usually plays it relatively safe, this is a real departure (exposed shoulders! Plunging neckline! Kinda sexy heels! Good for you, Kate!)
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a second, undisclosed meeting that lasted roughly an hour at the G-20 summit in Hamburg last week.
The White House confirmed that the two spoke on the sidelines of the G-20 dinner to several news outlets, including CNN, NBC, and Reuters.
According to the Washington Post, which quotes a senior administration official, Trump got up from his table halfway through the meal and sat in an empty seat next to Putin.
Don was quickly noticed for sharing a name with the U.S. president after officially becoming the fourth tropical storm to form in the Atlantic this season.
The first trailer for Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved novel A Wrinkle in Time is finally here, and it’s everything we hoped it would be.
Unless you were specifically seeking it out, you’ve probably never noticed the little jars on grocery store shelves stuffed with scaly skin-on fish floating in sour cream, or a wine sauce the color of a murky creek. Or maybe it caught your eye and it made you shudder. For those accustomed to fish only in stick form, herring can be a daunting species. Growing up with a Norwegian mother, I feasted on these little fish for as long as I can remember: pickled herring, mackerel filets packed into little tins with tomato sauce, dried whitefish soaked in lye. Herring, consigned to the ethnic aisle at most American grocers, remains king in many parts of the world.
Herring has held special significance in Scandinavia for centuries. Neolithic-era Scandinavian burial mounds contain herring bones. In the Middle Ages, fisheries in the Baltic and North Seas burst with herring, which remained a ...
Corey stuck googly eyes on one of the posters today, as is his duty as a real american hero
Similar posters were pulled from the D.C. transit system. But the CTA said ads for the infamous alt-right figure's book "do not violate CTA's ad prohibitions." [ more › ]
Unless you want to pay for ultra-premium ice cream (ultra-high butterfat/low churn) just buy cheap ice cream like this. You'll get the dope flavors you want and spend less. There aren't that many ice cream productions lines out there putting out commercial quantities so whether you buy Breyers or Dreyers or Walmart its usually all within the same range of quality.
Walmart expands their ice cream variety with the launch of 49 new Great Value brand ice cream flavors just in time for National Ice Cream Day this Sunday, July 16, 2017.
The new flavors include premium, no sugar added, light, sherbet, and frozen yogurt lines in 48-oz tubs for about $7 each.
Here's the new faces you can find in the frozen section at the retail chain:
- Premium flavors: - Strawberry Cheesecake Forever - Bet Your Butter Pecan - That Green Nut - Rocky Road Adventure - Down by the Sea Salt Caramel - Cotton Candy Craze - Break-Up Brownie - Cinn-fully Delicious - Banana Puddin' - #Chocolate - Peanut Butta' Tracks - Ahh Fudge... Tracks - Legend Cherry - Sour Pucker Punch - Pralines and Caramel, and Cream, Oh My! - Toffee Philosophy - I'll Have S'mores - Choco Coco - I *heart* PB
- Core flavors: - Coffee - Cookies & Cream - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - Homestyle Vanilla - Neapolitan - French Vanilla - Vanilla Bean - Strawberry - Mint Cookies & Cream - Chocolate - Mint Chocolate Chip - Chocolate Chip
On Friday, Donald Trump, a man who may or may not have been the inspiration for Slender Man, bid a very uncomfortable farewell to the French president and first lady after a two-day visit to celebrate Bastille Day. What should have been a three-second photo op stretched into an incredible 30-second handshake that,…
Donald Trump said "something" could happen regarding the Paris Agreement on climate change during his trip to France ahead of Bastille Day. Mr Trump withdrew the US from the global climate agreement which nearly 200 countries signed in December 2015 in an effort to combat global warming and help poorer countries adapt to an already-changed planet. "If it happens that will be wonderful and if it doesn't that will be ok too," Mr Trump said in a joint statement with French President Emmanuel Macron.
In a victory for challengers of the Trump administration's travel ban, a federal court judge late Thursday agreed once again to partially halt the ban of certain foreign nationals from six predominately Muslim countries on a nationwide basis -- a direct rebuke the government's attempt to limit the close family members allowed in the US.
If your summer plans include eating a bunch of lobster rolls or other meals involving the crustacean, we’ve got good news: Your sustenance won’t break the bank.
The Associated Press reports that lobster-lovers will be paying less for their seafood dishes this year, despite a lower supply of the shellfish.
Currently, analysts say wholesale hard-shell lobsters are selling for about $0.37 less per pound than they did at the same time last year. At retailers in Maine the cost translates to about $8 to $13 per pound depending on the size and type of lobster.
While prices remain a bit lower than normal for lobsters, its unclear if they will drop any lower once the lobster fishing season comes into full swing.
So far this year, the AP reports that the lobster industry has been slow to bring in the goods compared to other years.
One reason for this, the AP points out, is the high cost of bait. Because of this, fishermen are waiting to hit the water.
“It’s starting to trickle in. It has just been a slow start to the season.” Bill Bruns, operations manager for The Lobster Co. in Arundle, ME, tells the AP. “We’re starting to see some signs of life.”
Unlike past years — we’re looking at you, 2015 — the slow start to the lobster season isn’t expected to lead to an increase in prices.
Other industry insiders note that a slow start to the season isn’t always bad, as it can lead to a more stable market as the year progresses.
Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway went back to her stand-up roots tonight, adding a potentially ill-advised “prop comedy” element to an appearance on Fox News. Conway went on Hannity tonight to talk about Donald Trump Jr.’s ongoing efforts to make himself the greasy-haired center of the current Russian collusion scandal, and apparently felt that the best way to illustrate her points was by holding up a couple of signs with the words “Conclusion, Collusion, Illusion, Delusion” written upon them. (To be fair, Conway made sure to cross out “Collusion” with a highlighter, making her intended point crystal clear.)
“Just a little fun with words,” Conway joked, because there’s no reason political divisiveness and allegations of treason can’t be wacky good-time fun.
Unfortunately for Conway, it turns out the the internet also likes having fun with words, and proceeded to do exactly that with the opportunity she’d served ...
1) Good to see the ladies of SNL getting nominations. They carry that show. 2) BARB GOT NOMINATED 3) The fact that Kaitlin Olsen STILL hasn't been nominated for an Emmy for oustanding actress in a comedy series is proof that there is no god and the universe is entirely unfair
A sweeping year of Peak TV dominated the Emmy nominations Thursday morning, with new series like The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, Westworld, and This Is Us entering a drama field now dominated by shows on streaming networks. The comedy field remained more stable, with old favorites like Veep and Modern Family leading the pack, but overall the industry awards reflected the ongoing state of change in the world of television, as established networks like HBO, FX, and AMC contend with an onslaught of high-quality scripted programming from sites like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon.
The nominations, announced by the actors Shemar Moore and Anna Chlumsky, also suggest that the limited series is still en vogue, with some of the biggest critical hits of the year (including Feud, Fargo, Big Little Lies, and The Night Of) doing battle in a category that was a relative graveyard of quality only a few years ago. Though some new comedies broke through (particularly FX’s Atlanta), it was the Drama Series nominations that saw a real shake-up, with last year’s winner Game of Thrones taking a year off, the longtime Emmy favorite Downton Abbey finally out of the picture, and last year’s critical darling Mr. Robot contending with a sophomore slump.
The winners will be announced Sunday, September 17, at a ceremony hosted by Stephen Colbert (it will air on his parent network CBS), though most of the smaller technical awards will be given out at the “Creative Arts” ceremonies on September 9 and 10. In a year without Game of Thrones, the Drama Series category will be wide open (five of the seven nominees are in their first season), with Netflix’s The Crown possibly holding a slight edge because of its costume-drama credentials (a longtime favorite for awards voters), though its sci-fi series Stranger Things may coast to victory on pure buzz.
Comedy Series only has one new nominee (Atlanta), and the Emmy veteran Veep, which has won the last two trophies, may be tough to dethrone. Limited Series is a total free-for-all, but HBO’s Big Little Lies, which drew several nominations for its all-star cast (including Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, and Alexander Skarsgard), is probably the front-runner on name recognition alone. A full list of the major nominations is below, with a longer list of all the technical nominations available at the Emmys website.
Outstanding Drama Series
Better Call Saul
The Crown
The Handmaid’s Tale
House of Cards
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Westworld
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
Anthony Hopkins, Westworld
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder
Claire Foy, The Crown
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Keri Russell, The Americans
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld
Robin Wright, House of Cards
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul
John Lithgow, The Crown
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Michael Kelly, House of Cards
David Harbour, Stranger Things
Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us
Jeffrey Wright, Westworld
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale
Samira Wiley, The Handmaid’s Tale
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things
Chrissy Metz, This Is Us
Thandie Newton, Westworld
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline
BD Wong, Mr. Robot
Hank Azaria, Ray Donovan
Denis O’Hare, This Is Us
Brian Tyree Henry, This Is Us
Gerald McRaney, This Is Us
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Alison Wright, The Americans
Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid’s Tale
Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away with Murder
Ann Dowd, The Leftovers
Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black
Shannon Purser, Stranger Things
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Vince Gilligan, Better Call Saul (“Witness”)
Steven Daldry, The Crown (“Hyde Park Corner”)
Reed Morano, The Handmaid’s Tale (“Offred”)
Kate Dennis, The Handmaid’s Tale (“The Bridge”)
Lesli Linka Glatter, Homeland (“America First”)
The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things (“Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”)
Jonathan Nolan, Westworld (“The Bicameral Mind”)
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
Joel Fields, Joe Weisberg, The Americans (“The Soviet Division”)
Gordon Smith, Better Call Saul (“Chicanery”)
Peter Morgan, The Crown (“Assassins”)
Bruce Miller, The Handmaid’s Tale (“Offred”)
The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things (“Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”)
Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Westworld (“The Bicameral Mind”)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Atlanta
Black-ish
Master of None
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Zach Galifianakis, Baskets
Donald Glover, Atlanta
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Jane Fonda, Grace and Frankie
Allison Janney, Mom
Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Louie Anderson, Baskets
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Tony Hale, Veep
Matt Walsh, Veep
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live
Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Kathryn Hahn, Transparent
Judith Light, Transparent
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Riz Ahmed, Girls
Matthew Rhys, Girls
Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live
Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live
Hugh Laurie, Veep
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Wanda Sykes, Black-ish
Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe
Becky Ann Baker, Girls
Angela Bassett, Master of None
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta (“B.A.N.”)
Jamie Babbit, Silicon Valley (“Intellectual Property”)
Mike Judge, Silicon Valley (“Server Error”)
Morgan Sackett, Veep (“Blurb”)
David Mandel, Veep (“Groundbreaking”)
Dale Stern, Veep (“Justice”)
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta (“B.A.N.”)
Stephen Glover, Atlanta (“Streets on Lock”)
Aziz Ansari, Lena Waithe, Master of None (“Thanksgiving”)
Alec Berg, Silicon Valley (“Success Failure”)
Billy Kimball, Veep (“Georgia”)
David Mandel, Veep (“Groundbreaking”)
Outstanding Limited Series
Big Little Lies
Fargo
Feud: Bette and Joan
Genius
The Night Of
Outstanding Television Movie
Black Mirror (“San Junipero”) Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sherlock (“The Lying Detective”) The Wizard of Lies
Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries
Riz Ahmed, The Night Of
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies
Ewan McGregor, Fargo
Geoffrey Rush, Genius
John Turturro, The Night Of
Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries
Carrie Coon, Fargo
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan
Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan
Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries
Alexander Skarsgard, Big Little Lies
David Thewlis, Fargo
Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan
Stanley Tucci, Feud: Bette and Joan
Bill Camp, The Night Of
Michael Kenneth Williams, The Night Of
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries
Regina King, American Crime
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies
Judy Davis, Feud: Bette and Joan
Jackie Hoffman, Feud: Bette and Joan
Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries/Movie
Jean-Marc Vallee, Big Little Lies
Noah Hawley, Fargo (“The Law of Vacant Places”)
Ryan Murphy, Feud: Bette and Joan (“And the Winner Is”)
Ron Howard, Genius (“Chapter One”)
James Marsh, The Night Of (“The Art of War”)
Steven Zaillian, The Night Of (“The Beach”)
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries/Movie
David E. Kelley, Big Little Lies
Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror (“San Junipero”)
Noah Hawley, Fargo (“The Law of Vacant Places”)
Ryan Murphy, Feud: Bette and Joan (“And the Winner Is”)
Jaffe Cohen, Michael Zam, Ryan Murphy, Feud: Bette and Joan (“Pilot”)
Richard Price, Steven Zaillian, The Night Of (“The Call of the Wild”)
Outstanding Reality Competition Program
Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Project Runway
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice
Outstanding Host for a Reality Competition Program
Snoop Dogg, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner
Gordon Ramsay, MasterChef Junior
Alec Baldwin, Match Game
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway
RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race
W. Kamau Bell, United Shades of America
Outstanding Variety Talk Series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Real Time with Bill Maher
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
Billy on the Street
Documentary Now!
Drunk History
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Tracey Ullman’s Show
whoa. Makes me grateful I reported our gas leak right away.
No one was hurt after a house near Libertyville exploded Wednesday afternoon and investigators are working to discover the cause of the blast.
Shortly after 2:30 p.m. emergency crews responded to a house explosion on the 1700 block of North Sunnyview Road in an unincorporated area of Lake County,...
if you had told me they'd STILL be together today, I'd have never believed you. Good for them?
Jordan Rodgers and JoJo Fletcher found love and got engaged last year on "The Bachelorette," but Bachelor Nation is still eagerly awaiting a wedding date.
Blood banks serving the Chicago area are at a critically low level not seen in several years, forcing postponement of surgeries in at least one hospital, officials said.
The American Red Cross of Chicago & Northern Illinois reported 700 fewer blood drives during the July Fourth week than the weeks...
A “Hire a Realtor” page quietly surfaced on the website, only to be taken down shortly thereafter
Amazon may be getting into the real estate business.
Real estate news website Inman reported that on Tuesday, while Amazon Prime Day was in full swing, the e-commerce behemoth quietly debuted a new “Hire a Realtor” page under the Home and Business Services section that featured a field in which to enter a ZIP code followed by a “Coming soon” message.
The page appeared to tease a service that would allow consumers to hire a real estate agent through Amazon.
But by Wednesday afternoon, the page had been taken down.
This “preview” prompted investors to speculate that the company was seeking to take a bite out of online real estate databases like Zillow and Redfin’s marketshare. Once the news surfaced, Zillow’s stock price slumped, according to GeekWire, indicating just how closely investors are watching for Amazon’s next big move.
Could this mean that consumers will soon be able to command Alexa to find them a house, as a The Real Deal headline joked?
Coincidentally, all three companies—Amazon, Zillow, and Redfin—are based in Seattle.
Seriously, you guys, what the hell. Let’s all pause with the I Fucking Love Science memes for a second, because something intense just happened. The BBC reports that Chinese scientists have managed to teleport an object from earth all the way into orbit around the planet. That situation transpired, so let’s everyone just take a beat, admire the awe-inspiring majesty of humankind’s relentless pursuit of knowledge, and bask in the glory of collective advancement, before getting back to complaining about why they’ve broken up Game Of Thrones into two smaller final seasons rather than one big one.
The researchers teleported a photon from a lab in the Gobi desert to a satellite orbiting some 300 miles away from Earth, using a method known as quantum teleportation. The Guardianexplains this process as “an eerie phenomenon in which the complete properties of one particle are instantaneously transferred ...
This is also the same night as a conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsberg. RBG is gonna be the top choice for me, but in the even that sells out before I can nab a ticket, I'll console myself with a little Froggy.
Oh shit, #1 concert of the year. I’m calling it!
Or, to predict what Kelly is going to say, “You know; that’s alright. You can go to that show by yourself. I’m good.”
The internet is filled with questions about celebrities that will never be answered. Luckily, John Cena has just stepped up to do his part and answer some of those burning, lingering questions about John Cena that fans have tossed into the ether. The sixteen-time champ went “undercover” on a slew of websites, courtesy of GQ.
Let me just say, however, that this is the worst instance of going “undercover” of all time, because his username on all these sites was “ActuallyJohnCena.” You’re not fooling anyone, tough guy. The end result was pretty wonderful, and don’t worry: he answered plenty of questions about his jorts. And whether he’s in the Illuminati. And what his favorite anime is.
I greatly appreciate the thoroughness of the websites he visited. I definitely never would have thought of Quora. Also, this may be the first recorded instance of a definitive answer being given on Yahoo! Answers.
No idea how most of these sites and responses reacted to John Cena ACTUALLY answering their questions, but at least over on Reddit, everyone is completely thrilled. There’s even a thread requesting that he be given mod powers. I think this is a solid idea. Cena already rules the rest of the world, so why not let him control the internet, too?
What with today’s world of streaming services and TiVo, television commercials are no longer the cultural milestones they once were. But back in the day of rabbit-ear antennae, black-and white broadcasts, and only three or four channels, commercials were as much a part of the consumer’s life than the shows they interrupted. YouTuber Fred Flix has compiled a handful (about 15 minutes’ worth) of ads from this bygone era, and they reveal some disturbing elements from mid-20th-century culture.
Especially for women: There are a few coffee commercials here in which nice housewives become absolutely distraught over the thought that their coffee is below par, or that they might have run out of Maxwell House for the man of the house. Even the working women depicted feature a deodorant-wearing secretary that’s looking for a lunch with the (presumably male) boss to move her career ahead, or a Marilyn ...
It’s been more than 20 years since Disney dropped ICP from its Hollywood Records label, ushering in the golden years of people being offended by the Insane Clown Posse. Hell, the golden years of people making fun of ICP are arguably in decline. But Juggalos are still out there, still representing their greasepaint-and-Faygo-filled lifestyle both collectively, like in their upcoming March on Washington, and individually, like the guy who was so committed to getting ICP’s ”My Ax” played on the radio that he showed up at the station with ax in hand.
38-year-old Richard Newton’s attempt at razor-sharp promotional swag didn’t resonate with the receptionist at the iHeart Radio section of the Kiss 108 radio studios in Medford, Massachusetts, though. In fact, they called the cops on him, and when police arrived, Newton—who had been sitting in his car drinking beer in the interim—rammed ...
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R&B musician and Chicago-native R. Kelly is facing new, disturbing accusations of sexual abuse of young women. [ more › ]
Similar posters were pulled from the D.C. transit system. But the CTA said ads for the infamous alt-right figure's book "do not violate CTA's ad prohibitions." [ more › ]
Walmart expands their ice cream variety with the launch of 49 new Great Value brand ice cream flavors just in time for National Ice Cream Day this Sunday, July 16, 2017.
