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This Fuss-Free Sunscreen Stick Converted Me Into a Daily SPF Guy

Scouted/The Daily Beast/Dr. Jart/Getty.All products are selected independently by The Looker’s editors. If you click or purchase something from our post, we may earn a small commission.Sun damage is real, common, and (sometimes) not reversible. I know this because a quarter of my face is singed a permanent golden brown. I don’t blame the sun; I blame myself. For years, my friends, family, and my wife have told me to wear sunscreen, but I couldn’t really be bothered. Like 82 percent of men, I refused to wear sunscreen on my face. That is, until I found the Dr. Jart Sunscreen Stick, a clean, unscented sunscreen that you apply like a deodorant stick on your face. See, I didn’t wear sunscreen for the same dumb reasons as a lot of men: liquids are a mess to use (especially on my face), and I often got the stuff in my eyes, on my clothes, or in my beard. Plus, many sunscreens make people break out. Dr. Jart’s fuss-free SPF stick does neither of the above, and it fits right in my pocket. Honestly, when I first started using it, form factor and convenience were the main selling points.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Why the paint is peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool—experts explain

Poor preparation and a failure to properly apply the coating may be just a few of the reasons why the Reflecting Pool’s new paint job appears to be peeling off

Former Olympian denies vandalising Washington Reflecting Pool after arrest

Davey Hearn says he was simply touching the new paint at the site out of curiosity and did not remove or alter it.

It's all the fault of vandals

It's all the fault of vandals

Trump doubles down on Reflecting Pool claims: Vandals used knife to cut 'violently,' algae vacuumed

After signing an executive order about quantum computing on June 22, President Donald Trump claimed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's peeling paint is the result of knife-wielding vandals. Follow latest updates: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/06/22/what-happened-at-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-last-weekend/90640223007/

How to Paint in Pokémon Pokopia

Read ahead for how painting works in Pokémon Pokopia.

In a Creative Culture That Hates the American Flag, This Man Paints It

In a Creative Culture That Hates the American Flag, This Man Paints It

Sophia Bush Was 'Mortified' in Jerry O'Connell's Dolphin Scene in New Film

Not every aspect of movie-making is glamorous — take it from Sophia Bush. “I got to be mortified from the stands that day,” the actress, 43, told Us Weekly exclusively of a scene in her new film Summer’s Last Resort. “I’ve never been more relieved to be an observer of a scene.” Bush stars as []

Madonna Reveals How 'Falling Out' With Studio Got Her Upcoming Biopic With Julia Garner Scrapped

Not all projects are meant to work out, but it's a terrible feeling when they fail because of something like a budget.While talking with Interview magazine, Madonna opened up about how her biopic, which she'd already spent the past two years writing and developing, and Ozark's Julia Garner was rumored to portray her, was canceled for budgetary reasons.Madonna reflected:“I was supposed to make a movie about my life. I worked on my script for two years and spent two years at Universal Studios with the line producers doing budgeting and casting.We had a falling out, me and Universal, regarding budget because I needed... I’ve had an extraordinary life. I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget. You know what I mean?[I tried to find] a way to make it for less money in Serbia. Maybe they just didn’t believe in me.One of their first reactions was, ‘We don’t believe you’d stay in Serbia more than four days.’ And I said, ‘Did you read the script?’ My whole life has been survival. I’m not going there for a holiday.But anyway, I was in limbo when that fell apart, and then Netflix reached out to make a series.That was a whole other long process, because I couldn’t use the script I had with Universal unless I bought it from them for an extortionist’s price, even though I wrote it. Don’t ask.”Some fans were glad that Madonna knew her worth and didn't settle for less. But knowing that Madonna is worth 850 million dollars, others challenged her to fund her vision herself. So far, Madonna has spent two years writing and developing her story with Universal Studios, and then she attempted to work out the project as a series with Netflix.There's no telling if she'll decide to purchase the rights to the script that she wrote with Universal to move forward with the series with Netflix. Perhaps there's even another path that she could take.But knowing Madonna, she'll find a way to work through this and get her story told.

Looking into the Reflecting Pool: We examined Trump’s vandalism claims

Examining Trump’s claims of Reflecting Pool vandalism

Everything He Touches Dies

The fatal flaw is that he touched it WaPo art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott (gift link): The delight of a reflecting pool is the illusion that there are two buildings framed in the picture, the real one built on terra firma, and the watery one that may seem on several glances to be just as substantial. The doubling can be scattered with the faintest trace of wind. And in that there is poetic conceit of transience, a reminder that everything we build and make and do is fleeting. The urge to put your hand in the water is almost overwhelming. If a reflection in water hints at the ephemeral nature of all man-made things, it also gives the visitor a curious power, the ability to dispel the image with a stone or the flick of a finger. Nature has offered us a double, but we can make that double disappear; it’s mesmerizing, which explains why characters in our myths and narratives often lose themselves entirely in contemplation of reflections. Now, the pool is the story: Its environmental quirks, a common frustration for past administrations, have soured into a fiasco. There are good reasons not to swim or wade in the pool — and both actions are forbidden by law — but arresting people for putting their hand in the water is grotesque. And it repeats a now familiar and maddening pattern of events during Trump’s second presidency, alienating Americans from cherished institutions and beloved places. Touching water is innocent, but now it is

'250-ft gash, poured chemicals': Trump claims vandals damaged Reflecting Pool

'250-ft gash, poured chemicals': Trump claims vandals damaged Reflecting Pool

Tiffany Is Bothered By Black Man Not Appreciating Slavery

Tom Tiffany, a white man running to be Wisconsin's next governor, is running an ad of a sound bite he gave at a sparsely attended event in someone's alley. In the soundbite ad, Tiffany says he has complaints about people like Mandela Barnes, a Black man who is also running for governor. You can already see where this is headed: You know what really POs me? It's politicians like Mandela, Barnes, and others, and you're seeing it from the socialist left that trash America every single day. And they live off of America's birthright. What our founders gave this country, this great experiment that led to the most prosperous, great nation in the history of mankind, and they trash it every single day. Rather than creating a more perfect union, they want to destroy the union. That's what bothers me. So what has Trump's Mini-Me so upset? Four years ago, Barnes made comments at a campaign event about how awful it was that slavery was part of this country's founding and pointing out that Republicans were trying to whitewash it by banning the fact from being taught in schools. Radio squawker Dan O'Donnell, who would later go on to infamy for calling for Governor Tim Walz's assassination, took it out of context to rile up the GOP base against the uppity Black man who was running against Ron Johnson.read more

The painter who captured the soul of L.A.

David Hockney was known for his colorful paintings of ordinary scenes

What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings

Our lovable yet unruly boxer Dusty forced me to wonder: if a dog has no morals, how do you teach it to be ‘good’?When I carried my beautiful two-month-old puppy into our home for the first time, I couldn’t have imagined the scene six months later, as I led her through my local park experiencing such a toxic cocktail of emotions – guilt, regret, powerlessness – that I had tears in my eyes. It was a walk that many dog owners will recognise as having “gone badly”. My exuberant dog, Dusty, had approached another dog that did not wish to play with her. This shouldn’t have happened. I should have been able to call her back. Maybe I should have just kept her on the lead. Maybe I shouldn’t have got a dog in the first place.Dusty started barking, jumping and circling the owner and her dog at high speed. “Do you want to have a dogfight?” the owner asked curtly, while I lunged around on the ground, all dignity jettisoned. “My dog just wants to play with yours,” I protested. “But mine doesn’t want to play,” she replied. “If you just let yours off the lead for a moment,” I countered, “I think mine would calm down. I promise you, she’s not aggressive.” Her reply: “So what do you call this?” Checkmate. As the seconds and then minutes passed, with Dusty still evading my reach, I began to wonder how long this might go on. Would the police have to be called? Continue reading...

'Very aggressive': CNN's Katelyn Polantz stunned by charges against accused pool vandal

New details were emerging Thursday about the former three-time Olympic athlete who was facing felony charges after he was arrested last month after allegedly touching the detached paint of the 14 million renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro was expected to hold a press conference about David Hearn, who was indicted by a grand jury after his arrest, according to CNN correspondent Katelyn Polantz. Hearn has competed three times in the canoe slalom and was riding his bike near the memorial when he stopped to see the Reflecting Pool and reportedly reached inside to feel a piece of partially detached paint from the bottom, and was then cited by park police.He has said that he was just curious about it; he wasn't trying to vandalize it, Polantz reported. But the President Donald Trump, he came out there amid this, amid the arrest of David Hearn, and said this was vandalization and he then called for very aggressive law enforcement and prosecution of anything around the Reflecting Pool.Please remember that there is a 10-year prison sentence for the destruction of federal property, or even the attempted destruction of such things, which will be fully enforced, Polantz added. So now one of the questions is what, in this case, made the U S Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, decide that this should be a felony charge rather than a much lesser charge. For David Hearn — just choosing not to stick with the citation he received, choosing to take it through a grand jury in Washington, DC. What made her do that, and did the president's calling for a very aggressive charge here, a felony charge, factor into the prosecutor's consideration of this case?

Essential Exterior Cleaning Mistakes Every Homeowner Should Avoid

5 Main Mistakes in Exterior Cleaning and How to Avoid Them The exterior of the house is constantly exposed to rain, sun, dust, mold, and pollution. Over time, this leads to the loss of the facade’s appearance, the appearance of spots, and even material damage. Many homeowners try to solve the problem on their own []

French Police Raid House For Drugs And Discover Picasso Painting

A routine police raid targeting drug trafficking in a Paris suburb unexpectedly uncovered an authenticated painting by Pablo Picasso alongside cannabis, cash, and luxury goods, leading to court...

A Stolen Picasso Just Turned Up During a Drug Raid Near Paris, Reportedly Taken From a Storage Facility

The painting has been authenticated but not revealed. Reports suggest it is one of Picasso's portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter

National Guard and Park Police patrol as coating peels...

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Jayson Tatum Breaks Silence On Jaylen Brown Trade

Jayson Tatum publicly acknowledged Jaylen Brown's departure Friday, sharing an Instagram tribute two days after the Boston Celtics dealt his longtime running mate to the Philadelphia 76ers. The trade sent Brown to Philadelphia in exchange for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks. The deal ended a nine-year on-court pairing between Tatum and Brown. Tatum posted a photo of the two players together, reflecting on their shared history in Boston. 9 years! Forever grateful for all that we accomplished together, for pushing me to be a better player, wrote Tatum. From first round exits to winning a champ together and respect for you as a player and as a person. Looking forward to see how you attack this next chapter of your career and wish nothing but the best for you! Continue to be special! Brown had already addressed the trade publicly Thursday night, speaking on a livestream without referencing Tatum by name. The message was received, said Brown, on his stream. I wasn't thrilled with the amount of respect that was shown throughout this process. I think there was a bit of lack of respect. I think it was fine at one point, then out of nowhere, things just went left. I think Brad (Stevens) is getting a lot of the criticism. I wasn't thrilled with the way he facilitated some of the conversations. I definitely think there's more to it. I just wish that the more to it could've been explained to me. Because I think if the more to it was explained that I would've understood. I thought I earned respect to get that explanation. But hey, obviously, I was wrong. That's life. You move on. Celtics president Brad Stevens and owner Bill Chisholm are set to discuss the trade publicly on Monday.

Pengurus bagai makan gaji buta

Aduhai, Cik Bunga pun tidak tahu hendak gelak atau simpati apabila dengar cerita yang sampai ke telinga baru-baru ini. Kisahnya membabitkan seorang pelakon yang sekarang ini sedang menelan rasa kecewa yang bukan sedikit. Mana tidaknya, individu yang diharapkan untuk membantu mengembangkan kerjaya seni, rupa-rupanya dikatakan lebih banyak memberi alasan daripada hasil. Menurut sumber yang rapat ... Read more The post Pengurus bagai makan gaji buta appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

Artist behind controversial photograph in Fredericton gallery defends it as ‘sacred’

The artist behind a controversial photograph blasted as blasphemous by detractors says renewed criticism over its display in Fredericton misses the point.

The Maya City Disappeared~The Jaguars Didn’t 🐆

🐆 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞… 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭. 🌿Deep in the jungles of southern Mexico, archaeologists just found a city no one had seen in over a thousand years. They named it Minanbé — Maya for "there is no path." To reach it, they cut five kilometers through forest so dense it had hidden an entire city, with temples, plazas, and carved monuments, completely intact. No looting. Untouched. 🛕 But here's what moves me. That same forest — Calakmul — is the last great stronghold of the jaguar in Mexico. Around five hundred of them still walk there, through the second-largest rainforest in the Americas. 🌎 🐾 Five of Mexico's six wild cat species still hunt these ruins. The Maya worshipped the jaguar as a god — a spirit that walked between worlds. Their kings are dust now. Their cities fell silent. But the jaguar? The jaguar endured. In a way, the wild cats have carried the Maya forward in their spirits. 🐆 🌳 The forest that protected this city for a thousand years is being cleared right now. So protect the habitat, and you protect them both — the ancient and the living. That's why the Big Cat Public Safety Act matters, and why every nation should pass one like it. 💚 I'm Carole Baskin. Let's keep the wild cat wild. 🐾 https://bigcatrescue.org/conservation-news/when-the-jungle-keeps-a-secret #BigCatRescue #Conservation #Jaguar #Wildlife #WildCats #Mexico #SavingWildlife #SaveThePlanet

Eight Years Of Rituals With Rosalía

In 2018, I became convinced that flamenco had South Asian origins. I hadn’t listened to much flamenco, if any at all, until my roommate Jake introduced me to Rosalía. I watched her dance—using her feet to strike the ground, making an instrument of her body, raising her arms in intricate flourishes—and I thought I’ve seen this before. It looked so Indian to me. Jake and I used to argue about it whenever we watched her music videos, which means we argued about it constantly. Me: “Romani people are from Rajasthan and there is no flamenco without Romani people!” Him: “Bitch, you can’t even spell flamenco.” We didn’t go anywhere without first downing black cherry White Claws and watching the “Con Altura” music video, mimicking her stomps on the brown carpet of our living room. I think I still have the whole thing memorized. Even though Rosalía experienced success early in her career—her debut album was beloved by critics—it took some time for pop fans to catch up. I remember going to Lollapalooza in 2019 and begging my high school friend to ditch a white rapper named “Yung Gravy” and come with me to catch Rosalía instead. She did, and she thanked me afterwards.

black bean confetti salad 2.0

I was in Paris* last week — no, I cannot believe I get to utter sentences like that so casually, either, pinch me — and it was really, truly, and surprisingly spring. The magnolia trees at the Jardin du Palais Royal supplied us with a lace curtain of fluttering pink shadows, the daffodils and hyacinth were popping up from the ground like they’d missed us, and everyone was outside and stayed out until after midnight and this energy climbed inside me, evicted all of the seasonal malaise (turned out I was just cold!), and I did my best to bring all of this warmth and joy back to NYC with me. And despite the fact that my grouchy (sorry, “weathered”) friends tried to warn me that we were experiencing a “false spring” and “don’t fall for it,” la la la, I said, it is spring in my heart now — and in my kitchen, and busted out a warm weather salad. Which is to say: I’m sorry, this sudden cold spell might be my fault. Read more »

Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’

As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco BayAt Dave Eggers’s suggestion, we’re starting the interview by life drawing together. The novelist dropped out of art school but has been drawing for decades, and his new book is set in the art world. Prudence, our model, stands before us with her palms open, nude but for a pair of black knee-high socks. This, unsurprisingly, is an interview first for me. Eggers shows me how to hold my pencil at arm’s length and use my thumb to measure Prudence’s proportions. Since the pandemic, he’s been organising regular life‑drawing sessions in the book-lined offices of McSweeney’s, the publishing house and literary journal he founded in San Francisco in 1998. He loves the element of chance in figure drawing – you never know which sketch will work out – and believes it helps cultivate empathy.How so, asks Prudence, helpfully interviewing him for me, because I’ve been thrown off my game. “I feel like in three hours of drawing a human, you learn so much about them and there is so much affection that comes from carefully trying to get them right,” he says. Continue reading...

Trump defends Reflecting Pool contractors and blames vandals for peeling paint

President Donald Trump remained adamant that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool post-renovation were due to vandals and not the construction team that was given a no-bid contract for the project. Trump and his White House aides have attributed the new coat of “American flag blue” paint peeling to a 300-foot “gash” on the []

Nigel Farage lays wreath and pays emotional tribute to Ann Widdecombe

Nigel Farage has paid a tribute to the “remarkable” Ann Widdecombe after her death.The Reform UK leader arrived at her home, in which she was found dead, to lay a floral wreath.“Her patriotism was deep within her family. She was immensely proud of the work her father had done with the Royal Navy in the war.“She was so much more than just a politician. Suddenly Ann Widdecombe the socially conservative, Christian politician, suddenly appears on Strictly Come Dancing, Big Brother, doing theatre tours around the country, writing novels, quite remarkable, he said.“Then in 2019 when it turned out the Brexit vote wasn’t going to carried out by the Government, I took a phonecall, ‘Ann Widdecombe here’, I stood to attention, She announced she wanted to run for us in the European elections. She joined a brand new party.“She played a very major role in getting Brexit over the line. That being said, she wasn’t happy with the Brexit deal, it wasn’t what she wanted.“Unlike modern politicians, Ann never needed notes. She never sought popularity for the sake of it, she stood up and fought what she believed in.“I’ve come here today to lay this wreath on behalf of many millions around this country that admired her, loved her.”