The Radice Files — Episode 151: “This is a man’s world, but it would be nothing, without a woman or a girl”

Frank Radice
6 min readSep 7, 2021

Listening to James Brown and Joss Stone do “Man’s World,” (see the …and finally) blew me away. It shines a classic light on what’s happening today. This world would absolutely be nothing without a woman or a girl.

Why the ‘metaverse’ will prove to be more than a buzzword

Companies are pouring money into 3D digital environments that can be explored via avatar. Here’s why they’re here to stay.

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In-person Fashion Week parties return with a slew of chic soirées

New York Fashion Week will kick off Wednesday with models strutting the runways in real life and a number of in-person, vaccine-required bashes.

pagesix.com

Fall antitrust forecast: Biden raises hammer on Big Tech — Axios

Four giant companies, four fronts of a massive antitrust fight: Here’s where things stand.

www.axios.com

Fall 2021 TV: Here Are the Shows to Look Forward to Next Season | Vogue

Long-awaited miniseries like “Scenes from a Marriage” and “American Crime Story: Impeachment” and the new season of “Sex Education” are all slated to drop over the next few months.

www.vogue.com

35 Best Movies of 2021 (So Far) — Top New 2021 Films to Stream Now

With haunting dramas, stellar action, and films from international masters, these are the best movies of 2021 so far.

www.esquire.com

The top 10 most anticipated books this fall, according to Goodreads

This is a very big season for serious readers.

fortune.com

Kanye West grabs 10th №1 album on Billboard — CNN

Kanye West has hit lucky №7 with his 10th №1 album.

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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia to Ease Climate Change Denial — The New York Times

The campaign, if sustained, could put pressure on Fox News, though critics were skeptical that a sea change was in store.

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After years of inaction against adtech, UK’s ICO calls for browser-level controls to fix ‘cookie fatigue’ — TechCrunch

In the latest quasi-throwback toward ‘do not track‘, the UK’s data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting to allow Internet users to set “lasting” cookie preferences — suggesting this as a fix for the barrage of consent pop-ups that continues to infest websites in the region. European web […]

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We used to joke about the potential of TV advertising — then it evolved | The Drum

Cara Lewis, executive vice-president, head of US media investment at Dentsu, talks us through the big steps TV ad buying has seen in recent years. She discusses how to enter the medium in a more data-driven era.

www.thedrum.com

Telosa: Marc Lore and Bjarke Ingel unveil plans for 5-million-person city in the American desert — CNN Style

The cleanliness of Tokyo, the diversity of New York and the social services of Stockholm: Billionaire Marc Lore has outlined his vision for a 5-million-person “new city in America” and appointed a world-famous architect to design it.

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Massive Attack call for government plan to cut live music’s carbon emissions | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Band commissioned report on industry’s footprint and criticise ministers for not doing enough

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Neil splits with GB News? |

Andrew Neil is highly unlikely to return to GB News. Relations between the veteran broadcaster and GBN CEO Angelos Frangopoulos are said to have broken down and

advanced-television.com

Benedict Cumberbatch on Straight Actors Playing Gay in ‘Power of the Dog’: ‘It Wasn’t Done Without Thought’

Telluride: Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee parse the specific challenges of their roles in Jane Campion’s evocative new Western.

www.indiewire.com

Discover Your Inner Spy At This Iconic James Bond Exhibition In NYC — Secret NYC

This high-tech interactive James Bond Exhibition is opening in NYC this September — and it’s here to make your spy dreams come true.

secretnyc.co

‘Star Wars’ Icon Mark Hamill Just Blew Up the Internet With a Single Tweet | Inside the Magic

‘Star Wars’ icon Mark Hamill has blown up the internet with a single Tweet. See the hilarious ongoing social media challenge here.

insidethemagic.net

How ‘Shang Chi’s’ Action-Packed Bus Scene Came Together — Variety

Fight coordinator Andy Cheng shares insight on how “Shang Chi’s” bus fight scene came together.

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Facebook posts from misinformation sources get 6 times more engagement than reputable news sites, new study says

Facebook said the study doesn’t show how many people viewed misinformation — but it doesn’t share that data with researchers.

www.businessinsider.com

Celebrity creative directors are back in fashion — is it a good thing? | The Drum

Celebrity creative directors are back.

www.thedrum.com

McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A and Others Could Speed up Orders at Personal Cost With This New Tech

Fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and Chick-fil-A might be planning to speed up orders with some newly introduced tech, but it would come at a personal cost to customers. ZDNet reports that’s a technology company called AdvanTech has created the Fly-Thru Drive-Thru, a ‘simple new solution’ […]

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R.I.P…

Michael K. Williams, Star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ Found Dead at 54

Michael K. Williams, who memorably portrayed Omar Little in “The Wire” and Chalky White in “Boardwalk Empire,” has died at age 54. The New York Police Department confirmed to Variety that the actor was found dead on Monday at 2 p.m. inside of his Brooklyn residence. Williams was a regular on many acclaimed HBO series, […]

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Irma Kalish Dead: Trailblazing Sitcom Writer and Producer Was 96 — The Hollywood Reporter

Irma Kalish, the pioneering sitcom writer and producer who teamed with her late husband, Austin “Rocky” Kalish, on hundreds of television episodes, has died. She was 96.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Jean-Paul Belmondo, French Actor and Star of ‘Breathless,’ Dies at 88

No cause of death has been disclosed

www.thewrap.com

And finally…

James Brown & Joss Stone Live 2005

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Frank Radice

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