Check out San Francisco's newest escape room and speakeasy
How it works: Guests have one hour and 40 minutes to solve a series of puzzles in numerous rooms, filled with interactive games and live actors. A flight of three cocktails or mocktails is included.
Visitors can also skip the escape room and head straight to the speakeasy, which serves Asian fusion dishes and cocktails inspired by dishes like Korean cold noodles and Vietnamese phở.
Zoom in: After spending her life savings on opening Lore, founder and owner Vy Tran took to Reddit to share her journey on becoming a first-time business owner.
She initially "braced for the worst," but acknowledged the process has been "surprisingly good." she wrote.
What they're saying: "It just seemed like a really good time to build something six months ago, when I heard about all these programs that San Francisco was doing to fill their vacant storefronts," Tran tells Axios.
The intrigue: Tran said the city was also missing a "cool, New York-style cocktail bar."
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Best Soundtracks from Popular Movies
Music plays a vital role in filmmaking, setting the mood, enhancing emotions, and making scenes unforgettable. A great movie soundtrack can elevate the entire viewing experience and even become iconic on its own. Over the years, some movie soundtracks have transcended their films to become cultural phenomena, influencing music lovers and movie buffs alike. Here's a look at some of the best soundtracks from popular movies that continue to resonate with audiences worldwide. The soundtrack of The Lion King is a masterpiece blending African rhythms with Broadway-style songs. Composed by Hans Zimmer with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, it features unforgettable tracks like 'Circle of Life,' 'Hakuna Matata,' and 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight.' The music perfectly captures the film's themes of life, loss, and hope. James Horner's haunting score combined with Celine Dion's powerful ballad 'My Heart Will Go On' helped make the Titanic soundtrack one of the best-selling movie albums of all time. The music beautifully complements the epic romance and tragedy of the film. This soundtrack is a nostalgic mix of 70s and 80s pop and rock classics, curated to reflect the quirky, retro vibe of the film. Songs like 'Hooked on a Feeling' and 'Come and Get Your Love' helped the movie stand out and brought renewed popularity to these hits. Howard Shore's epic orchestral score is an essential part of the Lord of the Rings experience. From sweeping themes that evoke Middle-earth's grandeur to intimate melodies for the characters, the soundtrack adds depth and emotion throughout the trilogy. Disney's Frozen soundtrack, featuring songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, became a cultural sensation. The anthem 'Let It Go' became a worldwide hit, empowering listeners of all ages with its message of self-acceptance and freedom. John Williams' legendary score is one of the most recognizable in film history. From the iconic Star Wars Main Theme to character motifs like The Imperial March, the music defines the space saga's tone and legacy. The Pulp Fiction soundtrack mixes surf rock, pop, and soul, perfectly matching Quentin Tarantino's eclectic and stylized storytelling. Tracks like 'Misirlou' and 'Son of a Preacher Man' remain timeless favorites. This modern musical features original compositions by Justin Hurwitz that celebrate jazz and romance. Songs like 'City of Stars' and 'Audition (The Fools Who Dream)' won critical acclaim and added emotional layers to the story. Curated and produced by Kendrick Lamar, the Black Panther soundtrack blends hip-hop, R&B, and African musical influences. It complements the film's themes of culture, identity, and power, with tracks that stand out both in and outside the movie. Yann Tiersen's whimsical and melancholic score perfectly matches the quirky Parisian atmosphere of Amélie. The soundtrack's delicate piano and accordion melodies evoke a sense of wonder and nostalgia. A memorable movie soundtrack not only supports the story but also creates an emotional connection that stays with viewers long after the credits roll. Whether it's orchestral masterpieces, catchy pop tunes, or genre blending hits, these soundtracks have made their mark on both cinema and music history. Next time you watch a movie, pay close attention to the music it might just become your new favorite soundtrack. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Buzz Feed
4 hours ago
- Buzz Feed
22 Terrifying True Stories That Remain Unexplained
Recently, people on Reddit shared their most frightening unexplained experiences, and I made the mistake of reading them right before attempting to go to sleep. Now, I have no choice but to share these spine-tingling tales with you. Here are the stories that made me afraid to turn out the lights: "The night before my birthday in 1996, I dreamed that I was walking around near the peak of Everest. It was snowing hard, but I was quite comfortable. There was a tent. To announce my presence, I sang 'Goober Peas." The two men inside were frightened, and I tried to calm and cheer them. I stayed with them a while and comforted them." "A few years later, I read about the Everest disaster in which mountaineers had to pitch a tent too high on Everest and died there, the night before my birthday in 1996. I can't explain it, but I hope I comforted them."—Yugan-Dali "In 1989, I was driving on a familiar rural highway in broad daylight. I was rounding an easy bend and shocked to see a small town on the right side of the road. There's a sign: St. Vincent. A few of the things immediately noticeable were a shop called Webster Welding, an old-fashioned horse-drawn water pump for fire fighting, several large poplars with dead tops, and black and white painted rocks along the street that faced the highway. I kept watching in the rear-view mirror, and it stayed visible. I drive a few miles, and there is a gentleman waving at me from beside his car." "We were playing team tag at night back in middle school. A friend and I were hiding near a bush around a tree. Suddenly, something in the bush moved, and we assumed it was an animal. We threw a stick into the bush, and it came flying back out. A dark figure about 4 feet tall ran across the field into the woods. We freaked out and ran back to our house, about a 1/2 mile away." "I moved to a different city for university at the peak of the pandemic. I lived off campus in a suite with a couple of my friends from my hometown. Life happened, and they both ended up moving out by the end of the first semester. So I was now living alone in a very quiet neighbourhood. I got off of work late one night and crawled into bed around 12 a.m. I woke up about an hour later to the sound of footsteps shuffling around in my bedroom." "I opened my eyes to see a very tall man in my doorway, backlit by the streetlights, with his cellphone upright in his hand as if he was recording. When the person registered that I was awake, they backed their way out of the room and started running. I followed them outside and watched them hop into the driver's seat of an empty car that had been left running before speeding down the street.I had no information to give to the police when they arrived. To this day, I have no idea who that person could have been, or what they were doing in my bedroom at 1 a.m."—_sekwekwi "This still gives me chills just thinking about it. I was 7 or 8 years old. I was lying in the top bunk of the bunkbed I shared with my twin brother. We had an attached bathroom, and the only light coming in the room was the light emanating from under the bathroom door. I was lying in bed, listening to my brother cry as my dad tried to remove a splinter from my brother's finger. I looked at the foot of my bed, and I saw a man about 5'10" tall, long hair about shoulder length, short beard, and what looked like a flannel shirt and possibly overalls or suspenders standing there, and his pupils were glowing, kind of green, like if you see an animal's eyes in the dark." "It's around 3 in the morning in rural North-Central Alberta. My friend and I are driving home from a high school party in which neither of us drank or took any drugs. It's the middle of winter. In Alberta, this means it's cold outside. This night it was below -30 degrees Celsius (below -22 degrees Fahrenheit). The whole way home, my friend and I are chatting. As we round a corner, I'm zoning out listening to my friend talk, when through the windshield, I notice glowing eyes off the side of the road, the headlights not fully hitting whatever it was. The eyes were green/yellowish. This would be normal, but these eyes are about 7-8 feet above the ground." "It was around 1 a.m., and I was still up watching TV. I couldn't sleep. I got really into watching some sort of history documentary about the Shroud of Turin. When they zoomed up closely to the shroud, my TV started to glitch, and the picture was stuck on the shroud. The audio froze, and then I heard a man's voice saying, 'Don't look' in a really unnatural deep voice. It felt like it was right behind me." "I whipped my head around, and there was nobody there. I have lived alone since my wife passed. My daughter and grandchild come over on occasion, but this night I was alone. I live in rural Ireland, and whilst not my first rodeo with ghosts, etc, this experience felt unnatural. I don't know why. The TV went back to normal a couple of seconds after I heard 'don't look.' I managed to hunt down the documentary and combed it for these don't know where it came from. For some reason it really frightened me. I went to bed a little shaken up, if I'm honest. If I see anything about the Shroud of Turin advertised or in news articles, I get a shiver. The voice sounded extremely deep. I've never heard a voice like it. Big baritone voice. I don't know. I'm getting the shivers typing this, and I've seen some stuff in my lifetime on this earth."—Banpitbullspronto "My first husband and I were separated. I dreamed one night he arrived at our home and knocked on the door. When I opened the door, he looked extremely tired and a sunken version of himself. Even though he didn't say it, he was asking forgiveness with his eyes. Of course, I forgave him and welcomed him inside. Our favorite thing to do was to lie in bed and talk for hours, so we lay in the bed and began our conversation about nonsense stuff. As we were talking, the window at the foot of our bed was glowing a bright, warm light (not blinding but comforting)." "I was out with my ex-roommate on a night drive. We liked to go driving and get lost in the country sometimes and just jam out to music and talk. We lived in central Illinois, so it was pretty much just open land and cornfields. It was super dark, though, so we couldn't see too much beyond the sides of the road and what was in front of us. My roomie was driving, and at this point we had the music off. She suddenly stopped mid-sentence. I had been looking at my phone, so I looked up at her when she got quiet. Her eyes were wide and her brow furrowed. I looked up at the road. On the left side, there was a man just ominously staring into the darkness." "My friends and I went exploring in the caves in Lilydale as teenagers. They were and still are rumored to be haunted. But no one knew it at that time. We were about halfway in when this happened. We were telling stories and laughing, and could hear this faint clinking noise up ahead. My friends were curious, so we decided to go further. As we went deeper and deeper in the cave, we saw a light up ahead and could not make out where it was coming from. We started to see a figure, but it wasn't moving." "We slowly approached the figure, and it appeared to be an old man mining wearing dirty overalls, a dirty white shirt, and a dirty yellowish hat. His sleeves were rolled up, and he had a long beard. One of my friends yelled out, 'Boo,' and he turned towards us and started running after us. It appeared he was about 50 to 60 years old, but he didn't move like a man. It took us a good 10 minutes to get back to the car, and we sped our way home. About a mile past the caves, we saw the same man on the side of the road. We were all screaming, trying to figure out how he got ahead of us without a vehicle. We have only talked about that night a couple of times, but we are all convinced we saw a ghost or supernatural being."—archameidus "My partner and I had some guy decide he was going to try to intentionally ram our car in a parking lot. We thankfully escaped unharmed after a terrifying chase, but we never figured out why he zeroed in on us. We were just minding our own business, trying to leave the lot. We still occasionally rehash it years later, but it makes no sense at all." "This happened to me when I was about 14. No one believes me, and I obviously can't prove it, but I know. I was babysitting two girls, one five and a baby in a crib. They were in the same room. It was a Victorian-style house with a third floor for the main room. I was watching TV and heard the baby crying. I waited and didn't hear her again, so I figured she went back to sleep. A bit later, I heard her again, and I went upstairs to check on her." "I lived briefly in a rental home, which was owned by a church in a small Florida town, and which was built in 1908. Every night around 8 o'clock, I heard dragging, shuffling footsteps coming from the kitchen. If I walked into the kitchen, they would stop, and if I turned my head to look into the kitchen from the den, they would pause and continue the very moment I looked away again. This lasted for five minutes or so each and every night." —dirtybirdsriseup "When I was a teen, I was in the living room around 3 a.m. Just chilling on my laptop on the couch. Two years before, my uncle had passed away in the room above the living room I was currently sitting in. I swear it was like all of a sudden, every window upstairs had been opened from the way the wind suddenly blew around and sounded. And then I remember hearing one loud THUD directly above me in the room upstairs." "When I was around 13 or 14 years old, I was spending the summer at my grandparents' home in rural Guatemala. I guess my grandfather was going through something and was dealing with it the only way he knew, getting drunk. It was my first time seeing him like that, so I followed my mom's lead in dealing with him. She gave me his stash of mostly empty bottles and told me to pour them out in the little grove between my grandparents' home and my uncle's home. I go as far in as possible and start pouring them out, when I suddenly hear some shuffling." "When my gran was 10, her dad died in a train accident, leaving her and her mother to care for her much younger brother. A few years later, her brother had come out of his bedroom in the middle of the night, terrified. He said that there was a man at the end of his bed. My gran and her mum checked his room thoroughly and didn't find anything there. They all went back to bed. A few minutes later, he complained again, saying that the man was still there." "Once more, they checked the room and found nothing. My gran's mum asked him what the man was doing. He said he was just smiling. She asked him to describe what the man looked like. Keep in mind that he was very little, around 2 or 3, I think, when his dad died, and he would have forgotten what he looked like by this point. As he was describing the man, my gran and her mum were beginning to get scared. He was describing his dad."—noahthequeerfish "The house I live in is pretty old, and we have heard a lot of strange things here. Bangs, crashes, and things moving/falling are fairly normal, but one night I awoke to find myself in the middle of a bad case of sleep paralysis. I was lying flat on my back, and there was a huge shadow person leaning over me and pushing down on my chest. I tried to scream, but no sound would come out, and I couldn't move anything except my eyes to wake my husband. It was terrifying, but once I broke the spell and woke up, I realised it was simply a nightmare and felt better." "I had a vivid dream about running frantically along a beach promenade, screaming to other people to run and trying desperately to cling to the benches, and huge waves crashed over us and receded. Then, getting up and sprinting again to the next point of safety where we could cling to something. When I woke up, I didn't recall the dream immediately, but walked into the living room where my parents were watching breaking news about the tsunami in Japan, and it struck me so intensely that I'd just seen something exactly like that, and the dream came rushing back." "In my last house, I used to hear someone whispering my name at night upstairs. I never noticed for a while because I would have a headset on, but when I took it off, I would hear it every now and then. The sound was so close it felt like it was inside my head. Then I started hearing it in my son's room when I would feed him at night. It freaked me out for a while, but I chalked it up to lack of sleep as a new dad." "One night, my wife came downstairs from feeding our son and asked, 'Were you calling me? I thought I heard you whispering from the stairs.' I never said a word about it to her prior to this. It continued for both of us until we moved out. It never escalated, so we just called it our little ghost."—CamoMeatball "I think I was in college (about 20 years ago), and I was staying at my parents for the weekend. They live in an apartment building. It was in the middle of the night, around 1–2 a.m., when suddenly we heard loud scratches and bangs on the entrance door. They were so loud that we all got up and gathered in the hallway to see what was happening. My father looked through the door sight, and there was nothing there." "I was talking to my roommate while her boyfriend was on the balcony smoking. My back was to the TV. Mid-sentence, she stopped talking and began to stammer. I thought she was having a stroke at first. She pointed behind me, and I turned. An orb of blueish white energy was rising above the TV." And finally, "When I was a kid, my sister (3 years older than me) was convinced she had magical powers. Almost every week, she was telling me she had some new power. 'I have cat powers!' 'I can turn invisible!' 'I have spider powers!' When I was 5, my sister and I went to a jungle gym play place. Her power at this time was that she could 'disappear into thin air.' I didn't believe her. I asked her to prove it." "She said, 'Oh no, you must not watch. When I disappear, I emit a very toxic form of light known as green flash. It will poison you if you see it!' I said I still didn't believe said she would go round the corner and disappear, and that I had to not watch, but that when she did, I would never be able to find her. And so she went round the corner. But here's the thing. The 'walls' were netting. I could see her perfectly through the netting, which was 99% hole. She thought I couldn't see her, but I could see her eyes were locked onto her, not blinking, as she stood in the corridor around the then... she fucking was there, and then she wasn't.I RAN to where she had been, and looked high and low around the area for her, and sure enough, she was NOWHERE to be seen. The corridor was a dead end, so there's nowhere she could've run away, other than back down the corridor, which I would've seen. There were no other people in that corridor at this time, either. Nobody ran between us. I literally just saw her disappear into thin air.I ran around the jungle gym trying to find her, and eventually found her in a COMPLETELY different part of it. When I asked her how she disappeared, she said, 'See, I told you I have powers!'To this day, I have absolutely no fucking CLUE how this happened. I can't even begin to work out what happened or how she did this. She was totally motionless when she disappeared. She didn't appear to move up, down, left, or right before vanishing. She was there, then she was gone. And I still have no fucking clue how."—FeelThePower999 Has anything like this ever happened to you? Tell us your unexplained story in the comments or via the anonymous form below:
Business Insider
4 hours ago
- Business Insider
K-pop giant Hybe scored big with the band Seventeen. Now, an American member is out to conquer the US.
Joshua Hong of Seventeen is one of 13 band members, but he's poised to become one of the K-pop moneymaker's most significant assets stateside yet. On Friday, Hong released his reimagining of "Love is Gone," originally by the US DJ duo Slander, featuring American singer-songwriter Dylan Matthew. The TikTok-famous heartbreak anthem went viral during the COVID-19 pandemic. "This was such a special collaboration and opportunity to work with a group of incredibly talented artists to create a brand new world for this record. The Seventeen version stays true to the emotional core, but breathes new life with fresh vocal melodies and overtones," Slander said in a press release. Hong hasn't released solo music yet, but he released the English track "2 MINUS 1" in 2021 with his Korean-American bandmate, Vernon. The latest release comes as Hong has become one of the more active group members. Two members on Seventeen's roster — Jeonghan and Wonwoo — have enlisted for South Korea's compulsory military service, with dance leader Hoshi and vocalist and producer Woozi set to join them in September. Hong is American and is exempt from serving in the Korean army. And that's just as well, because he's all over the place, from the cover of Allure Korea to releasing a perfume in collaboration with Lola James Harper. He has also inadvertently fueled the Labubu-buying frenzy in South Korea by posting snaps of him kissing the doll and being spotted at the airport with the doll clipped to his Chanel bag. To be sure, Hong isn't the only Seventeen member who's had significant solo activities. The band's leader, recently made his Met Gala debut in a gray Hugo Boss outfit that resembled a traditional Korean hanbok. The band is set to embark on another tour that kicks off on September 13 in Incheon, South Korea. Having an American member of a K-pop band being active stateside is an ongoing strategy for Hybe, the megacompany that owns Pledis, Hong's label. In June, Hybe was marked as a "buy" pick by Goldman Sachs analysts, who said they were "most bullish on HYBE's fundamentals for producing and monetizing Mega IPs." The Grammy-nominated BTS — also under Hybe — is set to return in 2026 with new music and a tour. In the meantime, Seventeen remains one of the most successful investments under Hybe's umbrella. In 2023 Seventeen, per statistics compiled by Goldman, achieved an all-time high of 4.5 million albums sold in week one of release, breaking BTS's record of 3.3 million copies. The US also holds promise for big money for groups from Hybe and beyond. Stray Kids, the mega-band under the label JYP, just wrapped up the US leg of its dominATE tour.
