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(Simple Indicators Every Beginner Should Know — Part 2) Recently, I stumbled upon George Tritch’s intriguing ‘Periods When to Make Money’ model. Its astonishing simplicity combined with its surprising accuracy has piqued my interest. This compelling tool could potenti...

I feel like my own little corner of the world is gradually returning to normal… Things are not by any stretch of the imagination as they were, but things are very slowly returning to as they used to be… There will, of course, be a new definition of normal in a post COVID world, but let...

Since opening in 2006, The George Payne on Plaça d’Urquinaona has positioned itself as Barcelona’s super bar. Somewhere in between a bar and a club, The George Payne has carved out its own niche, making it beloved both by expats and tourists passing through. The George Payne re...

Last week my son was holidaying in Scotland, renting a holiday place near Edinburgh. It’s been many years since I’ve been there, but I suggested that he visit the Greyfriars kirkyard and the black mausoleum, the final resting place of the infamous George ‘Bloody’ MacKenzie, w...

Ukrainian-born self-taught artist George Voronovsky (1903–1982) — the subject of a current monographic exhibition at the High — lived in Miami Beach from 1972 until his death in 1982. Though he probably did not have the chance to sip $14 cocktails on a boutique hotel roof...

Even the boys in my freshman-year high school class used to quote it. Last April being the nostalgic Millennial that I am, I threw a Mean Girls themed birthday party at my apartment. All the cocktails were named after movie lines. Friends and I played Mean Girls Bing...

We’re less than five minutes into The Fall of Minneapolis and my students are already being subjected to disturbing footage of an officer pointing a gun at George Floyd’s head. The footage was taken on May 25, 2020. Police have been called by a convenience store clerk in Min...

Inthe beginning, the news was filled with headlining stories about a raid on Israel. Hamas attacked with a missile strike that killed 27 Israelis. Immediately Christians, God-believers, and whites alike jumped to the defense of Israel. YouTube became filled with comments, debates, and arguments. The...

I’m not hiding the fact that George Gascón tried to ruin my life, it’s no secret, I wrote a book about it, and I ran political attack ads against him during the primaries. Of course I’m biased beyond belief, but that’s because I had a deeply persona...

Reeves would eventually find himself starring with Claudette Colbert (the Sandra Bullock of her day) in Paramount’s So Proudly We Hail (1942), a war film made shortly before he was drafted into the real U.S. Army Air Force in 1943. The actor remained stateside, with duties that inclu...

Months after the 2022 midterms, the dust is settling on Capitol Hill. It’s been two years since the January 6 insurrection but the attacks on democracy haven’t stopped. While the Congressional committee appointed to investigate the attack on the Capitol recently recommended tha...

By now you have no doubt heard of George Santos, alleged volleyball star, ersatz Wall Street banker, and occasional follower of the Jewish faith. For all I know, you may also have heard that he is a cardiologist, that he was the first man on the moon, and that he invented sliced bread...

Conversely, a foreign visitor traveling in America once recorded that George Washington dealt with his slaves “far more humanely than do his fellow citizens of Virginia.” It was this man’s opinion that Virginians typically treated their slaves harshly, providing “only bread, ...

George Washington stands as an icon of American history, revered as the founding father and the first President of the United States. His leadership during the Revolutionary War and his stewardship as the nation’s inaugural president laid the foundation for the principles and institutions that...