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Activist investor Ryan Cohen is amassing a sizable stake in Nordstrom Inc. JWN 5.86% and intends to urge the upscale department-store chain to make changes to its board following a steep share-price decline, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Cohen, who built his fortune on online pet retailer Chewy Inc., CHWY 5.06% hopes to engage with Nordstrom’s management about a…

The voice is unmistakable. That rich grain and mournful, lived-in tone can only be Leonard Cohen. His song Suzanne plays, while on stage a woman falls into the arms of a man. He curls then lifts and balances her body again and again, without her feet ever touching the ground. The dancers are from Canadian company Ballets Jazz Montréal, and Cohen gave his blessing to the creation of this show set to his songs. He agreed to the music selections and chose specific recordings, but died in November 2016 at the age of 82,…

Here are two widely known facts about John Cale: He was a founding member of the Velvet Underground, and infused the group with its astringent avant-garde sensibility; and he once decapitated a chicken onstage and chucked it at the audience, causing some of his band members to quit. “It was the most effective show-stopper I ever came up with,” he wrote unrepentantly in his 1999 memoir, “What’s Welsh for Zen.”Cale’s place in music history includes not only the first two Velvet Underground albums, but also his production…

Activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA 3.41% worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is privately pushing the Chinese e-commerce giant to accelerate and further boost its share-repurchase program, according to people familiar with the matter.  While the stake is small in comparison to Alibaba’s market capitalization of nearly $300 billion, Mr. Cohen has a wide following among individual investors…

A vacation can be a wonderful experience, especially when it involves a tropical backdrop. Sandy beaches, impeccable palm trees and crystal clear water are welcome sights and, while it may sound crazy, they really do help one get into the vacay mood. Celebrity couple Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen are the latest A-listers to go on holiday and did so in the Caribbean. The views, as you would expect, were nothing short of spectacular, though Fisher was the one who truly dazzled, thanks to her strappy swimwear. The…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSacha Baron Cohen took aim at Kanye West and Donald Trump in a new Borat skit on stage at the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors.The actor and comedian returned as Borat Sagdiyev during a segment of the night paying tribute to U2.Baron Cohen began speaking as the character by pretending to mistake president Joe Biden, who was in attendence, for former president Trump.“I am told the president…

Naive solution proposal for synthetic mobility data generationVisualized using Kepler.glMobility data is the geographic locations of a device, passively produced through normal activity. It has important applications ranging from transportation planning to migration forecasting. As mobility data is rare and hard to collect, researchers have begun exploring solutions for synthetically generating it.In this article, I will discuss a naive solution for generating synthetic mobility data. This synthetic data can be used for…

Arta Finance, a fintech that aims to replicate the family office experience for a wider audience through artificial intelligence, debuted with $90 million in funding from investors who include Betsy Cohen and former Google chief Eric Schmidt. Calling the operation a "digital family office," Arta CEO Caesar Sengupta, who led Google's payments initiatives until 2021, said the startup will offer AI-personalised portfolios and alternative investments to accredited investors in the United States, with the aim of eventually…

Sacha Baron Cohen might be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Deadline cites an unnamed source close to production, who claims that the Borat star is likely to play Mephisto on Ironheart, the Dominique Thorne-led series, which will branch out of the upcoming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. While not as concrete as usual reports, it claims that the actor was recently spotted at the Marvel facilities, at the UK's Pinewood Studios. Better take this with a pinch of salt, as Marvel is notorious for deliberately "leaking"…

Ironheart Stars Dominique Thorne In The Lead(Photo Credit –wikimedia/Poster From Ironheart ) The Marvel Cinematic Universe is right now in a phase where it is already very vast but continues to expand with a scope of even more entries. Multiple new projects have been greenlit and a majority of them have already been announced, there are many characters that do not have any actor associated to them. While the big leads have been associated with Tom Cruise, Daniel Radcliffe, Henry Cavill, and so on, getting himself…