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5 Summer Fashion Steals To Add To Your Amazon Cart
08/12/22 7:00 AM
I wanted to pull together a quick little roundup of 5 Amazon fashion steals to add to your cart this summer The post 5 Summer Fashion Steals To Add To Your Amazon Cart appeared first on Scout The City.
A simple pub sign led me down a very disturbing rabbit hole
10/29/26 11:00 AM
The cleanliness, or otherwise, of a pub’s pipes has never bothered me before. But that was before I read about the potential yeast, bacteria and mould ...There’s a pub near me with an eye-catching sign outside. I’ve driven past it many times, and it always gives me pause for a little idle thought. On the sign there is a loud and proud notice that in this pub they clean their lines every week.There’s a lot going on with this simple sign. First and foremost, in a long life of pub observance, I don’t recall ever reading such a boast adorning any other establishment. What’s going on here? Surely it’s not the case that this pub, and only this pub, is so scrupulous about the cleanliness of its lines. (By lines, I assume they refer to the pipes that convey the beer from the kegs or casks to the pump and into the glass.) Continue reading...
Alicia Mahon: Trust Built Between the Listing and the Closing Table
10/29/26 10:31 AM
Alicia Mahon is a full time real estate professional with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, where she represents buyers, sellers, and investors. She is part of The Susan Santoro Team, which closed more than $83 million in sales in 2025 and ranked first in both revenue and units within its office. Alicia also received the […] The post Alicia Mahon: Trust Built Between the Listing and the Closing Table appeared first on Grit Daily News.
Allotmentcore: why everyone is dressing like Barbara in The Good Life
10/26/26 10:00 AM
Clogs, chore jackets, straw hats and woven baskets are the look of the season. But are the brands and people embracing this aesthetic really doing any gardening?Lately, it feels like you can’t move for clogs. Everywhere you look, it’s straw hats, dungarees, floaty dresses, chore jackets and basket bags – and that’s in city centres, not garden centres. This is the rise of “allotmentcore” – somewhere between the linen-clad luxury of the “coastal grandmother” and the whimsical outdoorsiness of “cottagecore” – and it’s coming for all of our autumns.“I’d describe it as Little House on the Prairie meets Felicity Kendal in The Good Life, meets Bill and Ben,” says Mal James, professor of fashion design at the University of Edinburgh. “With the overall style of an imaginary love child of Monty Don and Pamela Anderson, the reinvented queen of garden chic.” It’s true that Anderson – once most famous for sporting a high-leg red swimsuit – has more recently become a pioneer of the allotmentcore style, living “romantically” in midi dresses and bandanas, frequently clutching floral bouquets. Popular brands include the family-run Carrier Company from Norfolk, Danish designers Skall Studio and Welsh-founded lifestyle label Toast. As online fashion publication Who What Wear put it: “If it looks like you’re ready to sport a pair of pruning shears at any moment, you’ve got the look right.” Continue reading...
10/13/26 2:00 PM
From a vessel for grieving parents to a seal for packaged foods, this year’s Good Design award recipients won praise for providing thoughtful solutions to extraordinary or everyday scenariosSolar ‘traffic controller’ for apartments takes top design award‘Floats above the landscape’: the architect whose designs touch the earth lightly Continue reading...
Anthony Vaccarello’s decade at Saint Laurent comes to an end – in pictures
10/09/26 5:00 PM
After 10 years as creative director of the Paris-based luxury brand, the designer bows out. From a rock’n’roll aesthetic to see-through brogues, here are 10 stand-out moments Continue reading...
08/19/26 1:00 AM
Ava Ryan tells ET the 2016 trends that still hold up today while celebrating Taco Bell's Decades #TBTB Menu.
Behind the scenes at the scream park: fear, fainting, clowns – and ‘code brown’
10/29/26 10:00 AM
At Norfolk’s ‘premier scare attraction’ there are ghouls, chainsaws, satanic cults and a haunted hospital. But what goes on behind the scenes?‘We always say to the scare actors, you’re going to think the boys will be the worst. They are not.” Backstage at PrimEvil, billed as “Norfolk’s premier scare attraction”, park director Ben Francis is sharing the advice he gives each year to his new crop of performers, before they set out to give punters the fright of their lives – or at least their Saturday night. As Francis covers each demographic, he ticks them off on his fingers. Teenage boys “scream like banshees, and run in packs”. Teenage girls tend towards being unimpressed: “Do your scare and move on, because they will get nasty.” And mixed groups? “There will be an alpha and he’ll be wearing a North Face top.” Francis’s advice is to not waste time. “He will not react to anything … Aim for the weaker one at the back.”This is part of the workplace induction at PrimEvil, one of many immersive “scream parks” that pop up across the UK in the lead up to Halloween. For about £40 a ticket, groups of all ages spend the night roaming themed attractions and being terrorised by actors and special effects. Though the risks are minimal, the spikes in heart rate are very real.‘It’s the best form of therapy and you get paid to do it’ … park director Ben Francis Continue reading...
Biopsies, aerial drills and a personal pizza: a day in the life of a shark scientist
09/06/26 4:00 PM
Jasmin Graham, a shark scientist and science communicator, also makes time in her day to practice her hobbies and play music bingo with friends“Sharks are not monsters, they just need better PR,” writes Jasmin Graham. And she should know: Graham is a shark scientist and science communicator.Here’s what a day in Graham’s life in Sarasota, Florida looks like. Continue reading...
BJ Kuula on Why Tax Breaks Cannot Rescue a Bad Real Estate Deal
10/28/26 8:08 AM
For BJ Kuula, the most important question about an Opportunity Zone investment has nothing to do with taxes. Before considering what a special tax designation might save an investor, he wants to know whether the apartment building makes financial sense on its own. Kuula is the co-founder and managing partner of Kinect Real Estate Partners […] The post BJ Kuula on Why Tax Breaks Cannot Rescue a Bad Real Estate Deal appeared first on Grit Daily News.