The Best New Soccer Stadium In America

from The San Jose Mercury News Is Earthquakes’ new stadium best soccer venue in America? By Elliott Almond SAN JOSE — It started almost 2 1/2 years ago when 6,256 soccer fans grabbed blue-bladed shovels to break ground at a long forgotten lot just west of...

Dizzying Hedonism On Film

from The Daily Mail Glitz, glamour and infamous excess: Dizzying photos from inside Studio 54 reveal the star-studded debauchery of the world’s most famous disco Nearly 40 years after it opened its doors to a flood of party-hungry movie stars, fashion royalty...

SQUAREPUSHER Damogen Furies Woo-hoo

from Paste Magazine Squarepusher Announces New Album Damogen Furies, Shares New Track By Jeff Pearson Since 2012’s Ufabulum, prolific English producer Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson) has been relatively quiet. He released the Music for Robots EP last year, a composition...

Meditation Boom

from The LA Times MEDITATION BOOMS AS PEOPLE SEEK A WAY TO SLOW DOWN By MARY MACVEAN Participants meditate during a class at Unplug, a new meditation studio in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2014. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times) One hundred fifty people sat in the...

Michele Ferrero, Creator of Nutella Gone

from The New York Times Michele Ferrero, Tycoon Who Gave the World Nutella, Dies at 89 By HILARY STOUT Michele Ferrero, widely regarded as the richest man in Italy and — a distinction more notable to lovers of sweets everywhere — the creator of Nutella, died on...