‘Blood for Dust’ Review: Dire Straits

This drug-run thriller, starring Scoot McNairy, traffics in grim ponderousness. Source link

A Lakeside Restaurant Reopens in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne

Plus: a Pennsylvania wellness retreat, whimsical wallpaper and more recommendations from T Magazine. Source link

Hipgnosis Agrees to $1.4 Billion Deal to Sell to Concord

Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Neil Young, helped kick-start a rush on catalog sales. But its future has been in doubt. Source link

How Highsnobiety Is Shaping the Current Media Landscape

Highsnobiety is a store, a website, a production agency and a clothing line. Oh, and Pamela Anderson is on the latest cover. Source link

Croatia’s Election Result Makes a Far-Right Party a Possible Kingmaker

The Homeland Movement came third in parliamentary elections, setting itself up as a possible partner for the ruling conservatives, who failed to achieve a majority. Source link

Millions of Girls in Africa Will Miss HPV Shots After Merck Production Problem

Nearly 1.5 million teenage girls in some of the world’s poorest countries will miss the chance to be protected from cervical cancer because the drugmaker Merck has said it will…

An ISIS Terror Group Draws Half Its Recruits From Tiny Tajikistan

Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 people. Source link

In ‘Franklin,’ Michael Douglas Uses His Charm to Bankroll America

A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his nascent country’s future. Source link

Dafydd Jones on Photographing New York Society in the ’80s and ’90s

In the 1980s and ’90s, Dafydd Jones’s party shots captured Manhattan’s rich and powerful. Source link

A Nigerian Chess Master in Times Square

Tunde Onakoya is trying to break a record for the longest chess marathon. And he’s playing his games in the open air in Manhattan. Source link