Breannah Yeh is a professional slackliner who regularly shares her aerial escapades with her 1.8 million followers on her TikTok account Yeh Slacks.
Slacklining is growing in popularity thanks to video platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and differs from tightrope walking; it uses a flat piece of webbing, instead of a steel cable or rope.
Even before arriving in Tokyo, the Liberian Olympic team was already winning. How did they come out on top? Ask Telfar Clemens, writes New York Times Fashion.
Liberia, a country in West Africa with a population of about five million, is one of the poorest countries in the world. It has never won an Olympic medal — despite having a summer Olympic team almost every year since 1956 — and has had to scrounge for sponsorships before almost every Game.
The first Met Gala since 2019 was a star-studded, star-spangled event, with “American Independence” as the theme.
Can Molly Lewis keep it alive?
She has whistled at tournaments, in the studio for Dr. Dre and at her Los Angeles lounge show, Café Molly. Now, she’s releasing her first EP, “The Forgotten Edge,” made with the help of the producer Thomas Brenneck, best known for his work with Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley. The set is part tiki-bar exotica and part spaghetti-western dreamscape, each track anchored by Lewis’s theremin-like whistle.
Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 roundabouts, with over a dozen still to come. The main reason is safety; compared with regular intersections, they significantly reduce injuries and deaths. But there’s also a climate benefit.
Less than a minute into Bryce Dershem’s valedictorian speech, the microphone cut out. He had just told the audience at his New Jersey high school’s graduation ceremony that he came out as queer in his freshman year.