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5-star recruit Jermaine Bishop commits to Texas Longhorns
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas landed a big-time in-state recruit for the Class of 2026 in Willis’ Jermaine Bishop. Bishop, rated a 5-star recruit by 247Sports, verbally committed to the Longhorns on Wednesday. The recruiting site ranks Bishop as the country’s No. 1 overall “athlete,” meaning he could play several positions at the college level, and…
Read MorePaige DeSorbo Swears These Amazon Heels Are the Most Comfortable Ever — and They Look Expensive
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Read MoreMike White channels Longhorns legend Augie Garrido with motivational speech ahead of NCAA tournament
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The regional tournament round of the NCAA softball tournament is always a tricky one. The host schools, Texas, for example, are expected to steamroll through the double-elimination bracket because other teams are playing in their yard and they’ve had the best season to this point. But sometimes, it doesn’t work out that…
Read MoreKlein Vision Will Sell Flying Cars for $1 Million in 2026
TIME100: Gayle King Reveals What Oprah Winfrey Told Her After Blue Origin Space Flight (Exclusive) The Jetsons’ futuristic lifestyle is almost within reach. Beginning in early 2026, consumers will be able to purchase Klein Vision’s AirCar, the first flying car produced in 75 years and the first-ever to be certified for flight. Upon release, the…
Read MoreAustin band cancels European tour after drummer arrested by CBP at Dallas airport
AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin-based band went viral online this week after posting on social media that it had to cancel a European tour because its drummer was “forcibly removed” by Customs and Border Patrol from a flight out of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The band, Lord Buffalo, said in the post, “We are…
Read MoreThe Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda
Julia Bullock as Cleopatra. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous play through something of a non-entity. Enobarbus tells us that “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.” By the time he says this, we’ve met the queen and…
Read MoreU-Haul Gallery’s Mobile Model Takes Art to the Streets
By turning rental trucks into exhibition spaces, U-Haul Gallery challenges the conventions of brick-and-mortar galleries. Jack Chase of Uhaul Gallery During the jam-packed New York art week, you may have spotted a nondescript U-Haul truck parked outside any one of the city’s main fairs or high-profile gallery openings. It stands to reason—U-Haul, with its relatively…
Read MoreLorde Addresses Nonbinary Identity Speculation
Lorde is getting candid on her gender identity. The two-time Grammy winner (real name Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) recently explained how her gender has become “way more expansive” over the… Source link
Read MoreScreening at Cannes: Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’
A scene from Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’ Fabian Gamper/Studio Zentral In Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature Sound of Falling, a German farmhouse plays host to the stories of several young girls and women across more than a century. Split between four distinct periods—World Wars I and II, the 1980s, and modern day—Schilinski’s ethereal drama travels…
Read MoreWalmart Executives Warn of Imminent Price Increases Despite Lowered Tariffs
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Read MoreAt Christie’s, Women Commanded the Market While Rewriting Records
Auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang sells Miss January by Marlene Dumas for $13.6 million. Christie’s Women dominated Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale on May 14. Led by auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang and largely powered by phone bids with female specialists, it brought in $96.5 million, with a 92 percent sell-through by lot and 97 percent by value. The…
Read MoreA Baby Receives the First Customized CRISPR Treatment
Gene therapy has always held enormous promise to correct genetic diseases, but turning that potential into treatments has been challenging. In a study published May 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, researchers led by teams at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University…
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