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4 hours ago
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Take your Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Charlotte race experience up a notch with premium options
The Coca-Cola 600, one of the crown jewels of the NASCAR season, is almost here to mark an unofficial start of the summer for many race fans. The Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway is set for May 25, with a full show of on-track action occupying the weekend. Advertisement Here are the premium options to see the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Charlotte race weekend. Shop Charlotte NASCAR ticket upgrades Champions Pavilion for NASCAR Charlotte race This all-inclusive package includes: Indoor climate-controlled seating area Closed circuit race coverage on multiple televisions Rooftop observation deck NASCAR-issued day VIP pass Direct access to NASCAR garage and pit road Upscale catering with Chef's Table Specialties Premium bar Race scanner for your use while at the track Parking pass (one pass per four tickets) Clubhouse 500 Level for NASCAR Charlotte race Indoor climate-controlled seating featuring high-back, padded chairs and TV monitors. Clubhouse seats are located directly across from pit road and one level below The Speedway Club. Elevator access Cash-bar service Clubhouse level restrooms Easy access to the fifth Floor Café. The indoor Café area offers the signature casual dining menu with cash bars, sweets shop and an indoor dining area. Food and beverage are not included in the ticket price. No coolers are allowed in this area. Advertisement Shop Club Level NASCAR upgrades Club Deck, 300 Level at NASCAR Charlotte race Experience NASCAR's toughest test of man and machine from the coveted Club Deck, 300 Level, which includes the following amenities: Covered seating Fantastic views of the entire track Complimentary food and non-alcoholic beverages Access to cash bar Dedicated food and beverage service team Terrace Box at NASCAR Charlotte race Experience unparalleled comfort and convenience with Terrace Box seating. Indulge in a delectable array of food and beverages while you enjoy the event from the best vantage point. Plus, receive a complementary Track Pass upon check-in, adding even more value to your race day. Club Suite, 600 Level for NASCAR Charlotte race Indulge in a delectable selection of food and beverages, including beer and wine, with a fantastic view. Club Suite 600 Level buyers also receive a pre-race Track Pass upon checking into the suite. Elevate your race-day experience today. Advertisement Club Suite 600 Level is sold out for May 25. Tickets are available for May 23-24. NOTE: A dress code is in place to ensure a premium experience for all our guests. When is NASCAR Charlotte race? The Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Charlotte race is set for 5 p.m. CT on May 25 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. What channel is NASCAR Charlotte race on? The Coca-Cola 600 will be broadcast on Amazon Prime with Adam Alexander, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the broadcast booth. Shop Charlotte NASCAR tickets We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn't influence our coverage. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR Charlotte race: Premium options for Coca-Cola 600
Yahoo
5 hours ago
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‘Eye-Catching' Banana Pool Float Is on Sale for as Low as $11
The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. 'Eye-Catching' Banana Pool Float Is on Sale for as Low as $11 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Are you looking to make a statement this summer? And, would you like to do it for just $11? If your answer is yes, then I've got the perfect deal for you. Right now, Woot, an Amazon company, is selling Zone Tech Inflatable Banana Shaped Pool Floats for as low as $11 each. To get this super-low price, there's one catch: You have to buy the two-pack. If you don't want two banana-shaped floats, don't fret. You can buy just one for $15. That's still 42% off the original list price of $26. But, honestly, do you really want to be fighting with your significant other, best friend, four-year-old, or grandmother over who gets to use this super-awesome and amazing banana-shaped rocking pool float? All I'm saying is that for just $7 more, you can grab two, so you have one to share. I'll also suggest a wild idea: buy the maximum amount Woot allows per customer. In this case, that's three two-packs, which means you can have six larger-than-life bananas at the pool. Your crew would forever be remembered in lore: "It was the summer of 2025 when an entire family walked through the front entrance of the pool with banana-shaped pool floats the size of a second grader in hand. One by one, they hopped into the pool as everyone there stared in silence, mouths agape." The product description says, "Kick back and relax on this brightly colored inflatable banana pool float designed for summertime fun and lounging in the water. Equipped with a heavy-duty valve, inflation is a breeze with the included hand pump - simply lay it out and pump it up in minutes. Thick PVC material and inner air chambers provide buoyancy and support while its curved shape offers lumbar support for ultimate relaxation. Make a splash with this eye-catching banana float sporting a cheerful yellow peel exterior perfect for pool parties and sunny days. Simply deflate the float by releasing the valve when not in use, and it folds up small for convenient storage in its carry bag between outings." Woot says this product has not been rated or reviewed yet. But I did find the same float on Target where it had three ratings and one review. All three ratings give the float five out of five stars. The one reviewer said, "Grandkids had a blast on this! Nice and big. Took them a while to accomplish staying on, but they did it!" Woot! offers free shipping to Amazon Prime members and $6 flat rate shipping for everyone else. 'Eye-Catching' Banana Pool Float Is on Sale for as Low as $11 first appeared on Athlon Sports on May 29, 2025 This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on May 29, 2025, where it first appeared.
Time Magazine
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
Breaking Down the Twisty Ending of The Better Sister
Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Better Sister Just as New York City's elite gears up for summer in the Hamptons, Amazon Prime is out with a thriller about a high-powered attorney found murdered in his Hamptons home. The Better Sister, released May 29, is the TV adaptation of Alafair Burke's novel of the same name, following magazine executive Chloe Taylor (Jessica Biel) as she searches for the person who killed her husband, Adam (Corey Stoll). When the prime suspect turns out to be Chloe and Adam's son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan), it quickly becomes clear that behind the glitz and glamour lies a dark and complicated family dynamic. Adding to the tension is Chloe's estranged sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks), who comes back into her life to help navigate the criminal proceedings when Ethan is put on trial for Adam's murder. In their relationship, Chloe has always considered herself the 'better sister.' She's the one who has a stable career and perfect-seeming family, while Nicky, who struggles with addiction, is seen as someone who can't get her life under control. But by the end, viewers may have a different impression about what really makes a better sister. The show is a classic whodunit. Here's what to know about the family drama in this thriller and its surprising ending. What is the central question of The Better Sister? The show's central question is simple: Who stabbed Adam Taylor to death? Chloe and Adam are living in the lap of luxury. They have a penthouse apartment in Manhattan with a wrap-around terrace overlooking Central Park, and a second home in the Hamptons. By day, Chloe is running a women's magazine, and Adam works at a tony law firm. By night, they are hitting up the gala circuit. One night when they're out at their Hamptons home, Chloe walks into their living room to find her husband lying in a pool of his own blood. By the second episode, Chloe and Adam's son Ethan is arrested for his father's murder after Ethan's DNA is found under Adam's fingernails. And that's not the only early twist. Police contact Chloe's estranged sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks) because she is actually Ethan's biological mother. Though police believe Ethan needs to be with Nicky in this moment, Chloe views her sister as an addict who is only aggravating the situation. We learn that Nicky is actually Adam's ex-wife, and they had Ethan together. Chloe has always been told that Adam got custody over Ethan after finding Nicky passed out drunk, face down in a swimming pool with baby Ethan nearly drowning beside her. A family on trial The Taylor family's dirty laundry is aired during Ethan's trial. Ethan admits to his lawyer Michelle Sanders (Gloria Reuben) that Nicky gave him a flip phone after his grandfather's funeral and that he was in regular communication with Nicky behind Chloe and Adam's backs. The prosecutor argues that if Ethan hid the phone from Chloe and Adam, then he must be lying about other things. Then the prosecutor reveals that Ethan's email address is linked to a Reddit account that posted threatening messages about his father, including one that called for Adam's death. That's because, Ethan explains at the end of episode 5, 'there were times I wanted him gone.' In episode 6, Chloe takes the witness stand and opens up about a fight with Adam in which he pushed her against their bedroom wall, and she fell to the ground. She said he blamed her for pressuring him to go work for a law firm when he found working in the public sector more fulfilling. Episode 6 ends with Sanders pointing out to the jury that no murder weapon has been uncovered, none of Ethan's blood has been found at the scene, and no witnesses have said that Ethan was at the scene of the crime. Ultimately, the jury finds Ethan not guilty. But the show does not end with the verdict. Bombshells keep being revealed after the trial is over. When Ethan gets home, he finds police records he requested about the night he was taken away from his mother. He had always been told that he almost drowned, but the police report said there were no signs that he inhaled water. It says that Nicky did have Xanax, Ambien, and alcohol in her system, and a flashback shows Adam crushing up pills, mixing them with vodka and lemonade, and serving it to his wife. Nicky reveals that she already knew that she had been drugged after working with a local lawyer. But it's news to Chloe, who is then haunted by Adam's ghost arguing that he was trying to get full custody of Ethan, and that given Nicky's substance abuse issues, she was probably going to kill Ethan anyway. And yet, it turns out that the person that Chloe thought was ruining her life is the one who saves her life. How does The Better Sister end? Twelve hours before Adam's death, Ethan told Nicky via the flip phone that he saw Adam push Chloe when he was trying to take a selfie on their rooftop overlooking Central Park to send to Nicky. And he said it wasn't the first time Adam hurt her. Viewers now understand why, when Chloe found the flip phone in episode 3 and told Nicky to charge it, Nicky quickly deleted the phone's contents. Nicky immediately decided to drive to the Hamptons from Ohio. She waited in her car outside of the Taylors' home until Adam arrived in a taxi. She got out of the car and followed him in to confront him. When Adam threatened to call the police, Nicky threatened to tell the police what he did to Chloe and told him that Ethan knows too. Adam grabbed Nicky's arm and pushed her and that's when Nicky plunged a pocket knife into Adam's neck. We learn Ethan was really trying to protect Chloe the whole time. That's why his DNA was found in the crime scene—he believed Chloe had killed Adam and threw things around the living room to make it seem like an intruder had broken into the house to try and help her. And viewers can understand why Ethan told his lawyer in episode 3 that he brought a gun to school because he was afraid to leave it in the apartment. He was afraid his dad would use it against his mom, or his mom would use it against his dad. He admits in the final episode that he feels guilty for not calling an ambulance when he saw Adam was still breathing at the crime scene, instead choosing to hurry out of the house. The show ends with nobody knowing that Nicky killed Adam, except Chloe. Detective Nancy Guidry (Kim Dickens) does figure out that Nicky did it after interviewing Nicky's mother and discovering that Nicky had told her mother about Adam's death before the authorities informed Nicky about Adam's death. However, Guidry's boss had pulled her off the case because he considered Nicky's mother an unreliable source and a news article had just come out about Guidry's history of mistakes in her detective work. The episode ends with Chloe and Nicky sitting on the beach. They even talk about writing a book about what they've been through. As Chloe tells Nicky, 'I don't have any story without you, not worth telling anyway.' The sisters that were estranged are now closer than ever before.
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12 hours ago
- Health
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Allergy-proof your home with these 10 vacuum cleaners
Fox News and its syndication partners may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom. Spring is an exciting season. The weather is getting warmer, flowers are blooming and you can finally spend some much-needed time outdoors. However, for many allergy sufferers, this time of year can be a double-edged sword. The influx of pollen in the air can trigger sneezing, itchy eyes and a host of other uncomfortable symptoms that make enjoying the season a challenge. Pet owners also often find themselves battling another allergen: pet hair. Fortunately, modern technology offers a solution to these seasonal woes. Vacuum cleaners designed specifically for allergy sufferers can significantly reduce the presence of allergens in your home, providing relief and allowing you to breathe easier. 8 Natural Remedies On Sale That Can Help Combat Spring Allergies Original price: $279.99 The Kenmore 400 series vacuum is a lightweight, swivel steering vacuum with a triple HEPA filter system. The two-motor system delivers extra-strong suction strength on any surface, and the wand extends up to 9.5 feet, so you don't miss any nook or cranny. This particular Kenmore vacuum has a bagged system that traps dirt and pet hair, helping to eliminate all allergens. Read On The Fox News App You can find many of these vacuums on Amazon, and they can be delivered to your door in 24 hours if you're an Amazon Prime member. You can join or start a 30-day free trial to shop. Original price: $429.99 Shark vacuums are popular for a reason, and the Shark PowerDetect proves why. It's an advanced cordless vacuum that's designed to pick up more hair and dirt than other models. You can easily reach edges and corners and trap all allergens on carpet and wood floors. Where most cordless vacuums fail is in their runtime, but the Shark PowerDetect runs up to 70 minutes on a full charge, so you can tackle your whole house. 8 Things You Should Have In Your Home To Beat Spring Allergies Can't stand the thought of vacuuming every week? A Roomba Plus 405 is the right option for your needs. Roombas vacuum on their own, and the Roomba Plus 405 also mops your floors as well. A Roomba is especially helpful for households with pets, since it automatically senses when your floors need to be vacuumed, or you can set a daily timer. A Dyson V15 is a dream for anyone who suffers from household allergies. The vacuum adapts to each type of flooring or carpet in your home, boosting the power when needed. The LCD screen shows the total picked-up particles and displays the power mode and runtime left, so you can better control your vacuuming experience. This stick vacuum is extremely lightweight and transitions into a handheld vacuum, ideal for stairs, couches and other harder-to-reach areas. The hair screw tool sucks up long hair and pet hair without getting tangled. 12 Air Purifiers To Help You Through Allergy Season Original price: $199.99 The Shark Navigator Lift-Away XL is a powerful, lightweight vacuum that deep cleans carpets while still being gentle on hardwood floors. This budget-friendly Shark vacuum has an anti-allergen seal and HEPA filter that traps 99.9% of dust and other allergens, helping you breathe better. The vacuum is extra-large while still being lightweight, and the lift-away feature makes it easier to reach everything. Original price: $1,369 When you want a high-tech vacuum, the Miele Complete C3 fits the bill. It's a bagged vacuum with a lifetime HEPA filter that'll suck up even the smallest dust mites and allergens. Included with the vacuum are all the accessories needed to clean your entire home, including a dusting brush, upholstery nozzle, crevice nozzle and an integrated storage compartment. Miele's Complete C3 comes with a foot switch, so you don't need to constantly bend over to turn the vacuum on and off. Miele is a quiet vacuum that works on all flooring and carpet types. Original price: $199.99 A Levoit cordless vacuum is an affordable daily cleaner that provides 50 minutes of power on one charge. There's an included pet tool that specifically cleans up pet hair and helps you get to hard-to-reach areas. There are three LED lights built in that help you see dust, and the lightweight and flexible handle lets you reach every area of your home. 7 Health Products To Support You Through Seasonal Changes Original price: $499.99 Homeowners with larger homes need a vacuum that can tackle big messes. The Dyson Ball Animal 3 is up to the challenge. The specialized pet tool helps you groom your pets, eliminating hair before it ever reaches the floor. The tangle-free turbine tool removes pet hair from your furniture. You can select from three different cleaning modes, each optimized for different floor types. Dyson's ball technology allows you to easily navigate around furniture and corners, picking up hair, dust and dirt as you go. Bissell is known for its pet-friendly vacuums. Every Bissell purchase supports the Bissell Pet Foundation, which works to save homeless pets. The Bissell 2252 CleanView vacuum has a triple-action brush roll that removes embedded pet hair from all corners of your home. For more deals, visit When you need an ultra-affordable vacuum, the Eureka PowerSpeed vacuum is under $100. It weighs just 10 pounds, so it's easy to maneuver. It also includes a pet turbo tool and an upholstery tool that can eliminate pet hair from all your furniture and floors. Instead of relying on bags, you get washable filters, making the Eureka PowerSpeed easy to article source: Allergy-proof your home with these 10 vacuum cleaners
Telegraph
13 hours ago
- Business
- Telegraph
Amazon has killed the wrong ludicrously expensive fantasy show
Abandon all spoke – The Wheel of Time has shuddered to a premature halt. After three seasons of sorcerous derring-do, Amazon has put the brakes on its $18 million-per-episode, Rosamund Pike-fronted adaptation of Robert Jordan's fantasy saga. The original novels run to 14 volumes. Prime Video made it through the first four and a bit. It's like pulling the plug on Lord of the Rings before second breakfast or killing off James Bond when he'd just only parked himself at the roulette table. To WoT's considerable fanbase, the cancellation is a huge injustice (an online petition is, of course, already up and running). But in one sense, Prime's instincts were absolutely correct. It's about time the streamer pulled the plug on a mega-budget fantasy series that blatantly attempts to be the new Game of Thrones and is based on a beloved source material. The only error is that it flushed the wrong franchise away. The obvious candidate for cancellation is Middle-earth prequel show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Not only because it's terrible – its mishmash of awful wigs and even worse dialogue an insult to JRR Tolkien's meticulous world-building. More than that, the series has become a dead weight around the neck of Amazon – demonstrating the folly billionaires such as company founder Jeff Bezos can wreak with an unlimited budget and the conviction fantasy fans will swallow any tosh so long as it comes with wobbly prosthetic elf ears. Bezos has been criticised for firing Katy Perry into high orbit on his Blue Origin rocket. But if anything deserves to be blasted into deep space, it's the appalling Rings Of Power – which comes with a mind-bending per-episode budget of between $60 - $100 million (depending on whether you factor in the $250 million Amazon paid at the outset for the right to make merry in Middle-earth). In the case of Wheel of Time, the sheer amount of story to get through meant there was always a danger it would be killed off early. However, while the threat of cancellation was ever-present, the decision is widely understood to be related to the departure in March of Prime studio head Jennifer Salke. She had presided over a string of disasters, including Rings of Power and dead-on-arrival espionage series Citadel (a $1 billion budget and no viewers). With a track record like that, Prime was believed to have had misgivings about putting her in charge of James Bond after acquiring creative control of 007 from Eon Productions. Even by the standards of a mega corporation such as Amazon, Wheel of Time was a vast undertaking. In 2019, the company commenced building from scratch a full-scale town on a dedicated site 25 miles outside Prague. It was to serve as a base for a production that, all going well, would run for a decade (all did not go well). Pike – who played Gandalf-esque wizard Moiraine– had moved the Central Europe with her partner and children and expected to be there for the foreseeable. As co-producer on the show, she went all in on the Wheel of Time universe, even narrating several of the tie-in audiobooks (volume one, The Eye of the World, has a run time of 32 hours). She was joined by a cast of literally hundreds. There were grand battles involving a mind-boggling 3,500 FX shots in series one alone (1,000 more than in Marvel's Endgame) and a globe-hopping schedule, that took in Morocco, Italy, South Africa and the Canary Islands. In all, nearly 1,000 people are thought to have worked on the production – comparable to a large scale Hollywood movie. It was much better than Rings of Power too. Moiraine headed a solid cast that also included Peaky Blinders actress Natasha O'Keefe as a vengeful demon. The fight scenes were inventive, spectacularly violent and visually dazzling. Crucially, everything made sense – in contrast to Rings Of Power, which implied an absurd sexual chemistry between elf Queen Galadriel and the wicked Sauron. Compared to some of Jennifer Salke's more prominent flops, Wheel of Time was by no means a calamity. Reviews for series three were positive; ratings were solid. The sub-par production values and fake-looking costumes that had hobbled season one had been put right, too. But WoT was perceived as one of Salke's projects and news that it has been cast into the void is not surprising. The oliphaunt in the room is that fantasy is no longer a voguish genre. Amazon had acquired the rights to Wheel of Time after Jeff Bezos commanded underlings to present him with a project that had the potential to become the new Game of Thrones (the studio made its bid for Lord of the Rings around the same time). Going on for a decade later, Succession and The White Lotus have put eat-the-rich style social satire at the top of the Hollywood want list (see Julianne Moore's new Netflix project, Sirens). Long-haired weirdos running around in capes babbling about the Dark One simply doesn't cut it – especially not when each episode costs the best part of $20 million. Where does that leave Rings of Power? The show has been consistently dire, featuring cheap-looking sets, cheesy dialogue and – for reasons best known to the producers – a tribe of hobbit ancestors who sounded like 'thick Irish builders' from a 1970s sitcom. Horrific on every level, its trajectory has been the opposite of that of Wheel of Time, which slowly built a loyal audience (though viewership admittedly fell off from season one to two). In the case of Rings of Power, just one-third of viewers finished the first series, while audiences fell by half in year two. Why not cancel? The depressing answer is, as part of the rights deal, Prime Video is committed to making five seasons. Which means three more years of TV torture – for them and us. In a grim snapshot of television in 2025, a well-made (and much cheaper) show such as Wheel of Time is pitched into oblivion while the atrocious RoP gets to clop off into the sunset, scorned by practically everyone except the great unblinking eye of Jeff Bezos. It is a bleak end to a cautionary tale. One that, in years to come, is likely to be seen as a warning against Hollywood hubris and the dangers of throwing too much money at a billionaire's pipe dream.
