Nordstrom Inc. says it is winding down its Canadian operations and closing all 13 of its stores in the country. The company, which launched in Canada in 2014, has six Nordstrom stores and seven Nordstrom Rack locations. All stores will close and all the company’s staff in Canada — roughly 2,330 people — will lose their…
Pardon the binary thinking, but the multimedia Kenya-born artist Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. Or something close. It has become an enveloping, shadowy place shot through with flaming color, incalculable beauty, but also disease and violence. Hybrid creatures populate both the artist’s extravagant collages and startling sculptures, variously merging…
The U.S. Treasury’s efforts to create a U.S. digital currency could be imminent, an administration official said, per Insider. The Treasury is “engaging in the technological development…so that we would be able to move forward rapidly if [it] were determined to be in the national interest,” said Nellie Liang, undersecretary for domestic finance at the…
A skyscraper in Hong Kong which was under construction has gone up in flames. Two people were reported injured and taken to hospital. The fire may have started on the bamboo scaffolding on the outside of the building, according to local media. But there has been no official confirmation of the cause. Source link
Boja Kragulj, an accomplished clarinetist who once performed with orchestras in New York, Philadelphia, and Jacksonville, Florida, has already lost four teeth. And she expects to lose at least a dozen more. Five years ago, seeking to correct her bite and improve her breathing, Kragulj tried a dental device that she was told would put…