Month: July 2019

A Detroit music festival has sparked outrage by offering half-price tickets to “people of color” — with at least one biracial artist pulling out in protest. The AfroFuture Fest has early-bird ticket prices of $10 for POC (“people of color”) while anyone else has to pay $20. Tickets eventually rise to $20 for POC andRead moreRead more

It pays to have one of the biggest lead-ins ever. “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” the first Marvel movie after “Avengers: Endgame,” swung past any franchise fatigue to dominate the July Fourth holiday weekend, raking in an estimated $185.1 million since opening Tuesday and earning $93.6 million from Friday to Sunday in North American theaters. TheRead moreRead more

When Jony Ive, Apple’s longtime chief design officer, exited late last month, it was as big a loss as could be for the company. Ive changed the world under Steve Jobs’ and Tim Cook’s early direction. He is widely credited with designing Jobs’ dream product, the iPhone, along with the iMac, the iPod, the iPadRead moreRead more

I feel by pointing this out that Alex Morgan will understand I’m only doing what she would expect me to do: treat her exactly as I would a man. The U.S. Women’s national team plays the Netherlands on Sunday in the final step toward defending its Women’s World Cup championship. The team has been besiegedRead moreRead more

The US women’s national soccer team is inspiring Big Apple girls with goals of soccer stardom, proving that ladies kick butt just as well — and probably better — than the men. The team’s smashing success is sending enrollment in youth soccer programs into overdrive, turning 10-year-olds into seasoned analysts, and even winning over aRead moreRead more

Up to 2 million people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong to protest in recent weeks. The immediate trigger was an “extradition agreement” that China had demanded the city’s usually complaisant Legislative Council to pass. The agreement would put every Hong Konger who got on the wrong side of the Beijing authorities atRead moreRead more

Brace yourself: The new iPhone’s camera bump will soon be bigger and uglier than ever. A report on the design of the new iPhone — which some have speculated will be called the iPhone 11 — shows phones with a similar form factor as current models, but with a camera bump that’s twice as largeRead moreRead more

We know who got the honor of being named godparent to all of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s kids — because they told us. But when it comes to their two-month-old nephew Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, we were in the dark until Saturday, because parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kept his christening private. They haveRead moreRead more

The Mets are a terrible defensive team. The execrable bullpen is a more overt culprit in explaining how a team with expectations could begin the holiday weekend with a better record than only one other NL club. The bad glove work, though, has contributed to undermining the pitching. Statistically, the Mets were fourth worst inRead moreRead more

For six years, Chelsea resident Michael Crawford worked for Freedom To Marry, the campaign to make gay marriage legal nationwide. It passed in 2015, but Crawford himself remained single. “I had been looking, but not looking,” Crawford, now the culture director at Move.org, told The Post of his love life. “I kind of lost hope.”Read moreRead more