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Today, on the day after, the sun rose. The birds chirped. And so I feel like a kid again!
I’m a kid in my almost totally white suburban small hometown. Dad went to work every day, Mom stayed home and kept having kids. In the few hours a week she had…

Election results: I’m a kid again

The man turned 90 this week.
THE man. Chuck Berry. Maybelline. Johnny Be Good. Roll Over Beethoven.
RocknRoll icon Chuck Berry, the very first man inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, turned 90 years old without much fanfare, other than to…

Chuck Berry is The Man

It’s only been a couple of weeks since this one story was all anyone was talking about. Of course, a lot of things have happened since then. In this 24-hour news cycle we live in, breaking news sometimes lasts less than 24 hours in our consciousness,…

Stanford Rape: She won’t forget after just three months

One of the best Halloween nights of my life was also absolutely the worst.
I’ve always loved Halloween. Growing up in the Northeast, the seasonal changes meant any costume was probably not going to keep you warm enough. Entire neighborhoods were…

Haunted: Halloween with friends

Last week, I took a stand, for what I believe in. I took down one flag, and put up another. I was trying to pledge my allegiance — to a team.
And in doing so, I was reminded of the time my sons saved my life.
Let me explain. I fly flags — not just…

Baseball playoffs: Pick a flag, pick a team

I can still hear it …
It was a tight game, with a lot on the line. And they came at him.
Maybe they just picked that play, or maybe they decided to test the kid who had sat out more than half of last season as a result of a knee injury.
Either way,…

Tough Break

The quintessential American family — the Cleavers from Leave It To Beaver.
Hugh Beaumont and Tony Dow as Ward and Wally Cleaver.
Photo is screen shot from YouTube video.
Kids don’t know everything. Surprise! They have questions. Sometimes, they keep…

Questions: Kids don’t know everything

My teenage sons often point out to me how little I know about their world. Sometimes that makes me smile to myself.
Most of the time, I just laugh in their face.
But I get it. When I was a teenager, I was pretty sure my dad knew NOTHING about my…

Dad I saved the funny lines for you

Photo above: Screen shot from YouTube video of The Who at the Isle of Wight Music Festival, 1970.
Was it last Friday when my bright and precocious five-year-old walked out of his last day of pre-school, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, and a paper crown?
He…

Summertime and the living is easy

Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. Mine was great, and crappy.
My next door neighbors moved out on Friday. Nice couple, kids grown and long-gone. I liked them a lot, but it was a good move for them. They’re going to a smaller place that’s…

Teenage math for Dad: Everything equals fifty-fifty

According to the 31 emails a day I’ve been receiving from ProFlowers, Teleflorist and Shari’s Berries — and the commercials I’ve seen from Kay Jeweler’s, this Sunday is Mother’s Day — in case you hadn’t heard.
By the way, aren’t cards part of the…

Mothers who made a father out of me

Have you ever been on the job and something went well? Come on, it could happen …
No, I mean, where you did something so right that you wish someone would turn around, see what you just did, and cry out, “Hey, nice job! That was really great!”
Or you…

Attaboy Dad you lose two points

On Sunday morning, right after church, a woman I barely know suggested I run naked around my house all week.
This is not the church in the story, it’s the Mission San Diego de Alcala, a nice Catholic church nonetheless.
(Photo via Wikipedia)
We were…

Kid-free for Spring Break: Look out!

Photo above: Kurt Cobain, October 3, 1992 at the Sam Carver Gymnasium,
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Photo by ManWithoutTies via Flickr
This week, at a generally raucous but occasionally solemn event in New York, the band Nirvana was…

Kurt Cobain: It hurt more for some

Can’t see the Dodgers — they’re not on. Thanks again, Dodgers.
I can’t stomach the Lakers — I’ve watched, and they’ve barely been on all year. I can’t afford the Kings — everyone is on their bandwagon.
No Dodgers, or Lakers or Kings, oh my!
Thank God…

Saints softball is all about the beer

Above: Don Baylor catching the ceremonial first pitch from Vladimir Guerrero at the Home Opener for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (against the Seattle Seahawks) Tuesday, April 1, 2014, when Baylor broke his leg.
Video is a screen shot from…

Opening Day: beware of the signs

I am competitive by nature. More so than you, I bet.
See what I did there?
I’m competitive. Don’t believe me?
“The Jesus” Quintana, played by John Turturro, in the film, “The Big Lebowski.”
(Photo is screen shot from YouTube clip)
If I’m going to the…

Should I let my kids win?

(Above photo: YouTube screen shot of KTLA broadcast at moment earthquake hit in Hollywood)
There have been times that I started St. Patrick’s Day with a shot.
The original Mike and Molly, the author’s grandparents.
(Photo by Mike Brennan
This time,…

Shamrock aftershocks: Shaking St. Patrick’s Day

My oldest son is legally old enough to drive, but he doesn’t yet, except a little on our block.
My youngest son is more than 18 months away from being able to take his permit test, but he wants a job, now, so he can start saving for his vehicle of…

Car talk: luxury ride or lunar module?

OSCAR RUMBLINGS AND A SHORT LIST OF RANDOM LESSONS
Haven’t watched the Oscars yet … found out I don’t really need to. For one, neither of my unproduced screenplays were nominated, and my unfinished one was completely shut out. Man, it’s hard out here…

Lessons learned: a shorter list

This is a collection that contains all your pieces.

The Amity Affliction have announced an Australian tour for October. The Not Without My Ghosts tour will see Queensland metalcore monoliths joined by Canadian post-hardcore luminaries Silverstein, fellow Aussie metalcore mainstays Earth Caller and…

The Amity Affliction Announce 'Not Without My Ghosts' Australian Tour

Beloved Aussie heavy music festival UNIFY Gathering is going on the road in 2023. Organisers today have announced that their new touring concept Unify Off The Record 2023 will hit Mackay (QLD), Adelaide (SA), Wollongoong (NSW), Hobart (TAS) and…

UNIFY Is Going On The Road in 2023

My Chemical Romance and Jimmy Eat World played at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, on Thursday, 16th March. Brenton Harris reviews. Jimmy Eat World took the stage to rapturous applause and proceeded to play a greatest hits set that drew heavily on 2001’s…

My Chemical Romance Review – Passionate Embrace on Emo Kings’ Return to Melbourne

Knotfest Australia has officially sold out. A week ahead of the Australian debut of the Slipknot-curated music and counterculture experience, organisers have announced that all three dates of the festival have completely sold out. Headlined by…

Knotfest Australia Is Officially Sold Out

It's Friday, Friday, got to get your fresh heavy fix on Friday. That's right Maniacs it is finally Friday which means it is time to kick off the weekend by lighting the Friday Fire With so many new heavy releases dropping every week, it can be hard…

Friday Fire - Big New Tunes From Avenged Sevenfold, Bury Tomorrow, Blood Command, Jesus Piece, RedHook feat Yours Truly, RUB & Trophy Eyes

Instrumental prog rock powerhouse Polyphia have announced a debut Australian headline tour. Among the most justifiably hyped bands in the world, Polyphia will bring their unique blend of intricate guitar riffs, hip-hop rhythms, bass-heavy trap,…

Polyphia Announce Debut Australian Headline Tour

Japanese metal sensation Babymetal have announced their very first headline tour of Australia. Kicking off in Brisbane on Thursday, June 8 at the Fortitude Music Hall, the tour will make its way down the east coast to Sydney on Friday, June 9th at…

Babymetal Announce First Ever Australian Headline Tour

Linkin Park are set to release the Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition on April 7th. Celebrating two decades of the multiplatinum landmark album, the Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition will be available in various configurations, including a Limited…

Watch Mike Shinoda Unbox The Meteora 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Super Deluxe Box Set

Avenged Sevenfold have shared a new single Nobody and announced their eighth full-length studio album Life Is But A Dream...will be released on June 2nd. Nobody debuted via the official Avenged Sevenfold YouTube channel after the mysterious countdown…

Avenged Sevenfold Share New Single 'Nobody' & Announce New Album 'Life Is But A Dream'

After three years of pandemic-related cancellations and postponements, reunited emo icons My Chemical Romance took the stage in Brisbane last night, officially commencing their first Australian tour in over a decade. With many fans having been in…

Here Is The Setlist From My Chemical Romance's First Australian Show In A Decade

AURORA played at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda, on Thursday, 9th March. Brenton Harris reviews. Norwegian art-pop musician AURORA has one of the most unique and evocative voices in modern pop music. To listen to that voice live and see it emanate from…

AURORA Review – Norwegian Artist Wows Melbourne Audience with Vocal Power and Unvarnished Positivity

A Brutal Debut From Project: Vengeance & The Return of Closure In Moscow Light Our Friday Fire

In recent years, the world of heavy music has had a long overdue injection of fresh feminine energy. Armed with bold creative visions and the talent, confidence and drive to match, a new breed of femme talent are smashing through industry glass…

Five Fiercest Femme Voices In Metal Right Now

Beloved St. Louis post-hardcore veteransStory Of The Year will return to Australia later this month for the first time in five years, as part of the stacked Knotfest Australia lineup. When the band arrive, they'll be packing a brand new full-length…

Interview - Getting Nostalgic With Dan Marsala of 'Story Of The Year'

Dragging on Lars Ulrich's drumming has become an increasingly common pastime for metalheads over the last few decades and Gojira drummer Mario Dupantier is sick to death of it. Duplantier has spoken out in defence of the Metallica icon, sounding off…

Gojira Drummer Mario Duplantier Wants You To Stop Hating On Lars Ulrich

Kentucky metalcore/hardcore force Knocked Loose will bring their pummeling live show to Australia in March as part of the lineup for the debut outing of Knotfest Australia. One of the most beloved and celebrated bands in modern heavy music, Knocked…

'Songs That'll Knock You Loose' With Knocked Loose

Alt-rock legends The Smashing Pumpkins have announced new dates for their upcoming curated The World Is A Vampire Festival. The new dates will see The World Is A Vampire Festival hit Brisbane's Eaton Hill Hotel on April 15th and Sydney's Horden…

Smashing Pumpkins Add New Dates To The Stacked 'The World Is A Vampire' Tour

James Hetfield has been cast in an upcoming western film. The legendary Metallica frontman has reportedly landed a role in the Tubi offering The Thicket. While little is known about the role at present, the cast does feature some Hollywood…

James Hetfield Cast In New Western 'The Thicket'

Unexpected New Offerings From Cradle Of Filth, Extreme & Goodnight Nurse Light Up Our Friday Fire

Papa Roach have been joined onstage by Jacoby Shaddix's own son, Jagger who teamed up with his papa to absolutely smash a duet on Infest fave Dead Cell. The duet took place on the recent Colorado Springs date of their co-headlining Rockzilla Tour…

Watch Papa Roach Perform 'Dead Cell' Live With Jacoby's Son On Vocals

You’re in The Womb,’ says the woolly-hatted manager of The Dreaming, as he shows me into a room with a rosy, cosy 1970s vibe. I could have been in The Mush-Room, The Mystic, The Wanderer or The Moon. In the bathroom, I find the ‘vagina shower’ — pink…

An exclusive peek inside Charlotte Church's wacky Welsh retreat

Wheee! Do you remember freewheeling fearlessly downhill on your bike as a child? And the sweaty slog back to the top so you could do it all again? E-biking in northern Italy’s Trebbia Valley is just like that but without the lung-squeezing climb,…

Hiking, e-biking, rock climbing - why a multi-activity break in Italy could change your life

Launched in 2010, DCT technology, unique to Honda Motorcycles, has evolved into one of the most advanced power transmissions on 2 wheels today. With a choice of Manual and Automatic modes at your fingertips, you’ll never lose that exhilarating…

Rethink DCT: Honda’s revolutionary Dual Clutch Transmission

It felt unbelievable, didn’t it, on Monday night, when peace reigned around the world for those six golden hours that our social media fell silent.
At first, when there were no pinging WhatsApp notifications, I kept restarting my phone and rebooting…

The Facebook outage was exactly the social media reset we all need

Josa Keyes
Aug 4·8 min read
‘Count on your hand 5 things that can fly,’ says Willa Douglas.
The children scatter across the lawn — once a boggy field, now drained and brought into Willa’s magical garden. There’s a stream, a pond, bushes, thickets,…

Rewild your child — Wild for Words: the garden school where English comes alive

The adoption support fund
The adoption support fund (ASF) provides funds to local authorities (LAs) and regional adoption agencies (RAAs) to pay for essential therapeutic services for eligible adoptive and special guardianship order (SGO)…

Adoption support fund (ASF)

Josa Keyes
Aug 10, 2020·9 min read
Going crazy in the confines of my ‘hood, I’d been home alone pretty much since 11 March 2020. I had to break out, do something different and kick myself in the pants.
I’m lucky to be able to work to full capacity…

Confessions of a bootcamp virgin

Alex Innes was born with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) but the genetic eye condition never cramped his spirit. At 27, in 2016, he had eye surgery to improve his sight. Instead, in a rare complication, his usable vision plummeted from 84% to 7%.
Josa…

What it’s like to go blind in your twenties

Josa Keyes
Jan 18, 2020·6 min read
I wasted time and money as I couldn’t find anything clear online about how to reclaim my maiden name. So here’s a simple guide based on my own experience.
Josa Keyes wearing the pink antique fancy dress, in which…

How to reclaim your maiden name after divorce in the UK

Josa Keyes

The Gloria Bell film trailer says it all. Gloria, played by the luminous Julianne Moore, is in the throes of a mid-life awakening. Twelve years after divorce she’s done with being lonely, dealing with dismissive adult children and a boring…

At the age of 57, I went on 36 dates with different men in 12 months - here's what happened next

After a fraught, frantic and fabulous first three quarters of 2016, I discovered Tanya Goodin’s Time to Log Off digital retreats - just what I needed to calm down before winter.
There could be no hesitation. Tanya, a striking and determined blonde,…

Tanya Made Me Go To Digital Detox

I stood in the resin-scented darkroom trying to avoid getting cyanide on my bare feet and craning forward to understand 19th-century photography. Mark Luscombe-Whyte slipped a photographic plate into a chemical-filled fixer box, and the image…

Mark Luscombe-White, Julia Margaret Cameron and me

Middle Piccadilly... it conjures up a rumble of taxis and buses, the flash of electronic billboards and Eros poised on one toe, but that is far from the rural bliss to be found at this profoundly peaceful Dorset retreat.
Tucked away down a lane - you…

The 'Spa' for People Who Don't Like Spas

Summer 2014 has been for me a succession of attempts to overcome my fear of heights, ably assisted by my kind, patient 13-year-old son. It has also been the UK's most fabulous staycation summer for years, and I don't blame David Cameron for taking a…

Mr Cameron Holidays in Cornwall - And So Do We...

Under a fragrant ylang ylang tree, with New Orleans-style jazz tootling in my ears, I tried to make sense of the Southern Hemisphere's constellations, wonderfully bright overhead. There is very little light pollution to disturb your view on a…

Mauritius Mon Amour

A new piece of research suggested that people would rather have an electric shock than be left alone to think. So, I decided to see how I fared on the 'being alone with yourself' front, and took myself out quite deliberately, for an evening of pure,…

How to Take Yourself Out

Two crested grebes, with sly, sliding eyes, prick up the feathers on their heads and launch into a pecking, waterborne dance of what? Mating? Rivalry? I could not tell. An angry moorhen abandons its ambition to salvage an old flannel to bounce a…

Step Back in Time - A Weekend in Geneva

Where do you go when you are a single mum with a lively 13-year-old son? It is not easy as everything holidaywise is set up for more conventional families. You need somewhere safe for the young to feel free, when there aren't two of you to keep an…

Winter Sun for Single Mums in Egypt

'I want to buy THAT one,' the little boy declared, as he trotted past pointing a small determined finger at the Aston Martin. His father, hurrying in his three-year-old's wake, panted out: 'He didn't say that when he passed a Porsche just now'. A…

The Aston Martin Rapide S - The Drive of My Life

With Marvel VFX-related headlines filling up my social channels &amp; trending in entertainment news, I can't help think about that former editor of mine who said coverage of visual effects (&amp; other technical elements of filmmaking) was…

Re: The last 24hrs of news... If only there was a journalist out there who's been covering the VFX industry for more than a decade, interviewing VFX teams from every studio Marvel's worked with, who was also available for freelance work right now.…

American by birth, but Canadian by coffee (and a desire for better healthcare). 

#coffee #TimHortons instagram.com/p/CqDWPmcA09Z/…

Approximately 1/3 of me is really excited about eating corned beef and soda bread later today. The other 2/3 is just as confused as ever. 

#happystpatricksday instagram.com/p/Cp5hbb1p4Zr/…

Weird new obsession: Re-watching The Young Ones. 

Weirder new obsession: Finding the 5th flatmate in each episode of season 1.

I love that this was a thing in #TheYoungOnes &amp; that I only learned about it recently. 

Background:…

For anyone wondering how the job hunt is going for this award-winning journalist w/ 20yrs experience &amp; a great portfolio (imho), @Indeed tells me my resume matches up well w/ a job posting for a server at a local @RedRobinBurgers. So I've got…

Looking for a great new show to binge this weekend? Head over to Netflix. The streaming service has a massive library filled with new and classic series, and with new shows coming to Netflix all the time, it’s always growing and changing, too. We try…

The 49 best shows on Netflix this weekend

Apologies to the amazing #VFX artists I spoke to for 2023's Oscar Effects series, which also ends a 10yr run at DT. I loved working on VFX articles, but was told DT's entertainment section is moving away from VFX coverage going fwd. (Any outlets want…

Sad to announce my 12yr (!) run w/ @DigitalTrends has ended. (More on that later…) As such, I'm now looking for whatever's next for an entertainment writer/editor/critic w/ 20yrs experience. Leads, intros, RTs &amp; virtual hugs welcomed. Clips, etc…

Kids movies run the gamut from animated films that are suitable for children of all ages to comedies and fantasies that might even be rated PG (but mom and dad say they’re okay). While there are tons of great new movies for kids, some of the old…

The best kids movies on Hulu right now

I was also proud to be part of the nominating committee for the Sci-Fi &amp; Fantasy Movie category for this year's #CriticsChoice #SuperAwards. This was a tough one to reach a final decision on the film &amp; actor nominees. 

Full list of nominees…

I was proud to be part of the nominating committee for the Superhero &amp; Comic Book Movie category for this year's #CriticsChoice #SuperAwards. It was a great, wonderfully geeky discussion choosing the film &amp; actor nominees. 

Full list of…

My headline for this review was "Cocaine Bear review: Driving that train? Turn off your brain" &amp; article was longer &amp; sillier, w/ shout-out to the kids on video calls behind me in theater. I dug it, but editor &amp; SEO didn't, I guess.…

It's not all movies and fun here. Sometimes it's spending an afternoon trying not to get yourself electrocuted. instagram.com/p/CpGNYLZJzOH/…

Weak anti-drug messaging Judging by the crowd that turned out for the first local screening of Elizabeth Banks’ gory killer-bear comedy, Cocaine Bear might be the movie event of the year. Banks’ weird, wild movie is loosely inspired by the real story…

Cocaine Bear review: a mixed-bag drug comedy

The phrase "Comb-Over Casper" made me chuckle while I was writing it. #SorryNotSorry

We Have a Ghost review: Supernatural fun with a comb-over Casper digitaltrends.com/movies/we-have… via @DigitalTrends 

#WeHaveAGhost #MovieReview

Shaky story logic Stretched too thin over two hours It’s easy to forget that films can be fun. They don’t all need to be emotionally complicated or packed with shocking moments, narrative twists, or allegorical and metaphorical themes. In fact, it’s…

We Have a Ghost review: Supernatural fun with a comb-over Casper

There are twice as many people in this Thursday matinee screening of Cocaine Bear than were in the Ant-Man &amp; Wasp: Quantumania screening last week. Crazy.

Peacock has another month of new movies, shows, and live sports primed for subscribers in March. The long list of new arrivals in March includes new true-crime documentary series Who Killed Robert Wone? and dating series Queens Court, as well as live…

Everything coming to Peacock in March 2023

HBO Max has put subscribers through a lot lately, but the streaming service is probably hoping that a long list of new arrivals in March 2023 will smooth things over. There’s a compelling case to be made, too, with new seasons of Succession and Perry…

Everything coming to HBO and HBO Max in March 2023

An archive of Rick Marshall's movie and television series reviews

Interviews and features about the visual effects artistry in movies and television, including each year's award contenders in various visual effects categories.

A searchable, filter-friendly archive of Rick Marshall's work, including film & TV series reviews, news, interviews, features, and op-eds, as well as copywriting and sponsored content.

Rick Marshall's Portfolio

Hey, should I chat up Theo, a tattooed musician, or confident web designer Dakota? That’s a dilemma in “Too Hot to Handle: Love Is a Game,” one of Netflix’s most-played games, downloaded 1m+ times since its December release. Over the last two years,…

Netflix pushes deeper into the $170B gaming industry

Ryan Reynolds: movie star, philanthropist, former People’s Sexiest Man Alive, and… exceptional at business? In 2019, Reynolds acquired a 25%+ stake in Mint Mobile, a prepaid phone plan company that uses T-Mobile’s wireless network. Earlier this week,…

Ryan Reynolds, marketing genius?

Japanese entrepreneur Masatoshi Ito died last week at 98. If you’ve ever been to Japan and marveled at its awe-inspiring 7-Elevens, you owe thanks, in part, to Ito. In the US, 7-Eleven had sprung from the 1927 merger of several Texas icehouses, known…

7-Eleven in Japan dials convenience up to… well, eleven.

Sephora, TikTok, and ad agency Digitas announced a new partnership: The Sephora x TikTok Incubator Program. It will connect TikTok creators with 12 brands from Sephora’s Accelerate program, a six-month incubator for beauty founders of color that…

Sephora and TikTok team up

You know, that’s a great question and it’d be great if there were one concrete definition, but… there isn’t. So, we’ll just talk about how the Federal Reserve uses it. The consumer price index (CPI) measures the monthly change in US consumer goods…

What is supercore inflation?

Since 2020, shortages have spread across industries, but this one hits right in the sweet tooth. The Girl Scouts of the USA are in a cookie shortage. Girl Scout troops sell ~200m cookies per year, bringing in ~$800m to fund activities. They’re so…

Where are the Girl Scout cookies?

If you feel like you get more work done in an office, parallel working or body doubling — working with another person in the room — might be for you. For many, another person’s presence can hold them accountable and improve focus. Experts say it’s…

Body doubles are getting stuff done

The ecommerce giant was flying high amid the pandemic as consumers flocked to online shopping. Now, CEO Andy Jassy is cutting costs, most notably by laying off 18k+ employees. It’s also paused construction on HQ2, its second headquarters in…

Amazon’s Virginia bummer

A black fungus coats everything near distilleries. A woman who runs a wedding venue near a Jack Daniel’s operation has had enough. If you’re watching “The Last of Us,” whisky fungus sounds like something Joel and Ellie should avoid, but it’s a…

A woman is suing Jack Daniel’s over whiskey fungus

In November, a verified — but fake — Eli Lilly and Co. account announced that the drugmaker’s insulin was free. The real Eli Lilly quickly denied the phony tweet. In the aftermath, its stock dipped and Twitter paused its check mark program. But now,…

Eli Lilly cuts insulin costs — for real, this time

Remember when the Biden admin tackled the $1.6T student debt problem by canceling $400B of it? That plan hinged on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act. It allows the secretary of education to change federal student…

The student loan forgiveness hearing, explained

One sports drink is so in demand that teens are charging each other to pose with empty bottles. Why? The power of influencers. In this case, former boxing rivals Logan Paul and KSI who, combined, have 40m+ YouTube subscribers. It’s called Prime It…

Kids can’t get enough of this influencer sports drink

Movie theater screens are disappearing — but it’s not a bad thing. Rolando Rodriguez, chairman of the National Association of Theatre Owners, told CNBC that the 30-screen megaplex is out. Instead, new theaters have 12-16 screens, while old ones are…

Fewer movie screens, more fun stuff

For 27 years, Section 230 — part of the 1996 Communications Decency Act — has shaped the internet. It states that website operators (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, media outlets) can’t be sued over what users post or comment, and may also set policies for…

Why everyone’s talking about Section 230

Duh: Workers love a four-day workweek. And apparently, so do companies, per the results of the world’s largest pilot to date. The study included ~2.9k employees across 61 UK organizations of various sizes and industries from June to December 2022. Of…

A study found the four-day workweek works

A Super Bowl commercial for ecommerce platform Temu depicts a woman scoring outrageously cheap deals, including a $9.99 red evening gown. “Shop like a billionaire,” the ad says. It turns out American consumers worried about inflation enjoy Temu…

What’s Temu and why is it everywhere?

By this point, you may already be familiar with Lil Miquela — the virtual influencer with 2.8m Instagram followers and major brand deals. The company behind the creation, Brud, raised $25m+ at a valuation of $144m+ before being acquired by the NFT…

These influencers are so fake… no, really

Right to Repair advocates believe consumers should be able to repair things they purchased, either themselves or at the repair shop they choose. It’s infamously been an issue with Apple, but a yearslong battle with agricultural equipment manufacturer…

John Deere vs. farmers, explained

Is nothing sacred? Apparently not, because Japan is dealing with #sushiterrorism. Some grade-A dinguses have been tampering with plates at conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, causing a stir and a potential dip in sales. Yoshiaki Shiraishi… … opened the…

Gross pranksters hit sushi sales

Wash trading is when someone sells something to themselves to inflate demand or make it look like there’s more activity in a marketplace. NPR’s Wailin Wong offered this example: You buy several copies of your self-published novel to make it seem…

Wash trading and crypto, explained

Exploring immersive work, including theater, VR, AR, games, etc. 

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, wants over 50’s back in work; but many in this group say they can’t find the right role because of their age. Transworld Business Advisors may have a solution to suit you. With over 300,000 over 50s currently not in work,…

Over 50? Carpe Diem! This is your time!

In 2022, our franchisees discovered more people chose to keep their vehicles pristine. When you invest in your own The Wheel Specialist franchise, you’ll see this too, as customers shout about their experience to others. Reports at the beginning of…

Don’t miss out on delivering customer experiences which set you apart

As a Transworld Business Advisors’ franchise partner, we help you understand your clients, so you can deliver the right service. When you join the growing network of Transworld Business Advisors, you join an elite group of people who are supporting…

Delivering the right service for the right clients

When days feel grey, you can help improve a prospect’s mood. Paul Clegg discusses how to inspire them to envision a brighter future, through your content. Having the space to think and reflect is a good use of time. Many of you, will have booked out…

The sun will come out… tomorrow

At Coconut, we’ve been thinking differently this year. As well as focussing on the wellbeing of our team, we’re focused on the wellbeing of the Planet! They’re a conscientious bunch, over at Coconut! Which is why, rather than contributing to the…