This is the story of a wild coffee plant that disappeared. Almost. Called "cafe marron," it lived on one island, Rodrigues, in the middle of the Indian Ocean in what is now part of Mauritius. As plants go, it was nothing special. Its leaves were green, its height average (about 5 or 6 feet), its flower white, its existence ignorable.
In 1877, a European visitor, passing through Rodrigues, made a drawing of it and that is the only image we had of this plant, because after that, goats and pigs began to multiply on Rodrigues, and the plant began to disappear. Read More...
Six decades ago, an estimated 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech that day, on August 28, 1963, has since emerged as a paramount symbol of the push for racial and social equality. On Saturday, tens of thousands of people gathered in that same spot to declare that dream was in jeopardy — that America had slid backwards in its fight against hatred and bigotry. Read More...
Timothée Chalamet has been sporting a variety of fashion-forward outfits for the Wonka promotional tour, and his purple velvet suit for the film's world premiere is no exception!
The 27-year-old actor, who stars in the new adaptation of the film based on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, looked dapper in the fitted suit from Tom Ford's Spring 2024 collection that he rocked without an undershirt.
Chalamet paired the bare-chested look with a chunky, white gold, short-length Cartier necklace that featured onyx, opals, tourmalines and emerald stones. Read More...
