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Much has been made about the exodus from California’s Bay Area, with thousands of residents — empowered by the option to work remotely and fed up with high housing costs — moving out of the region since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, as the interactive map below shows, many metro area in the U.S. are experiencing flight from densely packed urban neighborhoods. Thousands of households abandoned neighborhoods in New York, Chicago and Boston. Many flocked to nearby suburbs, or relocated to the South and Sun Belt.…

Brampton rapper Spitty is taking his aspirations to build his city’s creative community to new heights in his new position as Artist Ambassador, and it all started in the office of Brampton’s former MP.In a space that is usually full with political jargon and debates, Jagmeet Singh made room for the community. His office is decorated with games to entertain anyone who walks in. But one day in 2010, spirits were particularly heightened as Singh and his team prepared to host their seasonal open mic.Spitty and his friends…

I meet Malcolm Harris, voice of millennials and anti-capitalist crusader, at a Brooklyn coffee shop, suggested by his publicist for a book-tour interview. He goes for a guava croissant along with his $3.75 drip. He hints this is not an endorsement of a bourgeoisie micro-luxury, but an ironic jab at the media tycoons of Condé Nast who are picking up the tab.Harris, a spry 34, is generating considerable buzz with his book, Palo Alto. He knows the town and the tech industry it sits at the heart of well. He grew up there, was…

It’s personal for Lana Del Rey. The Blue Banisters singer shared that a single billboard promoting her forthcoming album Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd has been placed in the hometown of her ex-boyfriend. “There’s only one and it’s in Tulsa,” Del Rey wrote on her private Instagram account, later adding in the comments, “It’s. Personal.” The billboard may not have been Del Rey’s only delightfully petty move. According to The Fader, all signs seem to be pointing to the ex-boyfriend in question being…

Lana Del Rey is all about quality not quantity when it comes to targeted ads. And, apparently, vengeance.The L.A.-based singer-songwriter is using one strategically placed billboard to promote her forthcoming album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” and it’s in her ex-boyfriend’s hometown of Tulsa, Okla.“There’s only one and it’s in Tulsa,” the “Summertime Sadness” singer wrote earlier this week, captioning a photo she took with the billboard on her supposedly private Instagram account. (A screenshot…

He was never their best player. He was never their biggest star.He never won a batting title. He never scored a Gold Glove. He never signed a historic contract.It required a mass organized effort to vote him into his first All-Star Game. When his team recorded the final out of his only championship, he wasn’t even on the field.Despite being in the middle of the greatest nine-year stretch in franchise history, Justin Turner was never the most famous, celebrated or accomplished of Dodgers.But he was the Dodger who signed…

Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen housing applicants, predict criminal recidivism, identify food assistance fraud, determine if a high schooler is likely to drop out, inform sentencing decisions for young people, and many other things.That snapshot of semiautomated urban life comes from a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). The…

Jack Harlow is paying homage to his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.Tonight, the Grammy-nominated rapper will bless fans with a one-off concert livestreamed on Amazon Music’s Twitch channel. Though the show is going down at NYC’s Brooklyn Steel, it’ll celebrate the Southern city by transporting “fans deep into Harlow’s world, paying tribute to the rapper’s hometown” by giving “fans an up-close-and-personal taste of Harlow’s favorite small businesses, artists, and restaurants.”The event, aptly titled “Louisville by Jack…

Bloomberg: Sources: to evade US sanctions, Huawei is supporting PXW, a startup based in its hometown Shenzhen that ordered chipmaking equipment for a semiconductor plant — When the US government blacklisted Huawei Technologies Co. as a national security threat, it cut the Chinese company off … Bloomberg: Sources: to evade US sanctions, Huawei is supporting PXW, a startup based in its hometown Shenzhen that ordered chipmaking equipment for a semiconductor plant — When the…

Will Lizzo ever get to live down her drunk DM to Chris Evans? The singer hilariously went viral over a year ago for shooting her shot with the Captain America actor, and callbacks to the situation just keep going. Most recently, a cardboard cutout of Evans was present at the singer's show in Boston (Evans' hometown), and it made its way on stage and became part of one of the dance numbers. Needless to say, the on-brand moment looked like a blast for concertgoers.Tons of fans took to social media following Lizzo’s show in…