“Stranger Things” is no stranger to shilling things. The fourth season of the hit Netflix series continues the show’s tradition of featuring countless consumer brands front and center. The main characters are dipping into jars of Jif peanut butter, playing games of Dungeons & Dragons, or sporting a cool Levi’s denim vest. And let’s not…
As the nation faces a post-Roe v. Wade reality, some Democratic governors are playing up abortion protections in their states to try to entice companies to move there. Touting their abortion laws as a selling point, the governors of California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Connecticut are pitching their states to potential defectors from…
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US stocks closed higher Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell concluded a second day of congressional testimony with a vow to battle inflation, even if it risks a recession. What happened with stocks? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rose 194.23 points, or 0.6%, to end near session highs at 30,677.36, after flipping between…
Here’s all you need to know: Netflix’s “Stranger Things” is back July 1, with Part 2 of its fourth season. “Stranger Things” returned in late May with seven supersized episodes, and will conclude Season 4 with two super-duper sized episodes (1 hour and 25 minutes, and 2 hours and 30 minutes, respectively) as the teen…
When Hao Jia received an email from Coinbase that his job offer had been rescinded, he was on his way to watch “Top Gun: Maverick,” the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. Jia’s girlfriend had asked him to watch it for her because she was in China, where the film has not been released, and couldn’t…
June on Netflix is more than just the shoulder season between seasons of “Stranger Things,” especially on the international front. The cult hit British crime drama “Peaky Blinkers” (June 10), which aired in the UK earlier this year, returns for its sixth and final season. The violent exploits of the early-20th-century Birmingham gang pick up…
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