After trudging through years of tanking sales that screamed “who want me?,” clothing company Express, which also owns Bonobos and UpWest, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday and announced it’s slimming its in-person presence. Closing sales begin today at 95 of the 500+ US Express locations and at all 10 UpWest stores. Express will continue to sell…
Good news for SoCal lovebirds impatient to reach the spontaneous marriage capital ASAP: Construction on a high-speed rail line connecting the LA area and Vegas kicked off yesterday. Brightline West, a subsidiary of the company behind the Brightline Miami-Orlando rail link, is undertaking the $12 billion project, hoping to launch service in time for the LA Olympics…
Love pancakes but hate the mess? Then Batter Blaster was the product for you. Batter Blaster inventor Sean O’Connor told PBS that he enjoyed making waffles for his wife, but always made a mess of the kitchen. The whipped cream he topped them with came in a convenient spray can, so why not pancake batter? His invention put batter in…
When The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999, it was a phenomenon. Uniquely, its stars — Rei Hance (who then went by Heather Donahue), Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams — used their real names for character names and heavily improvised their dialogue. Marketing surrounding the film’s Sundance Film Festival premiere suggested they’d really gone missing.…