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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
These 4 Zodiac Signs Are Always the Best in Bed—Here's Why
Let's face it: most sex can be good, but only a handful of experiences can be out of this world. If you've ever had the pleasure of experiencing the latter, chances are, you slept with one of the four zodiac signs who are cosmically gifted. They know exactly what to say, their timing is impeccable, and before you know it, you feel like you're on Cloud Nine. You can consider their sexual prowess both a gift from the heavens and a result of their personalities and ruling planets (which we'll get to in just a bit). It should come as no surprise that the signs with the most adventurous and intellectual approaches to life are also some of the most talented in the bedroom. After all, sex is an exchange of energy and communication, from flirting to cuddling and everything in between. Those who are concerned with being reciprocal and creating an environment for curiosity and exploration are ultimately the people who will have the best time. It makes sense when you really think about it. When it comes to ruling planets and how we view anything under the purview of intimacy, the key player you'll want to look out for is Venus, the planet of love and beauty. Along with various facets of their personalities, signs with Venus as their ruling planet are more likely to be better in the bedroom, simply because they understand sex is inherently visual. They know how important it is to take note of the little things, constantly setting the mood, creating a sexy ambience, and putting a concerted effort into aesthetics in general. Because great sex feels like it was written in the stars, here are the zodiac signs who are undeniably talented in the bedroom: Say what you will about Geminis, but they're amazing in bed. Ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication and intellect, the sign has a magical way with words. Not only do they know how to flirt and talk dirty, but they're also highly communicative with their partner, making sure their needs are met. As one of the smartest signs in the zodiac, Geminis also bring a curiosity and adventurousness into the bedroom that can't be matched by any other sign. They're always on the quest for new experiences, making them game to try just about anything at least once, whether it's a new position, place, or fantasy. Embodied by the twins, Geminis are highly adaptable, able to take on various moods, personas, and styles in bed. They can be passionate and intense, slow and sensual, or a fun mix of both. They aren't afraid to try new things, and will always make even the most mundane conversations feel sexually-charged and exciting. This is part of what makes them so fun–you'll never know what to expect. You'll have to sleep with one to find out for yourself! Everyone dreams of sleeping with a Leo. Ruled by the sun, Leos are undeniably confident, bold, and flirtatious–traits that translate very well in the bedroom. They're body-confident and self-assured, and simply know they're the hottest people in the room. Sex with them is always an adventure, physically and emotionally. As a fire sign, Leos are passionate lovers. They have a fiery all-in mindset and will bring all the energy and intensity with them into the bedroom. Not only do they love a good, intense buildup with flirting and compliments, but they're also the type to put on a show complete with rose petals, candles, and a hot tub. (They love the drama, we can't forget.) Though they love attention, Leos are also incredibly generous and want their partner to feel adored. They'll do anything to make sure this happens, whether it be through extended foreplay or showers of kisses and cuddles. Bottomline: you'll never forget sleeping with a Leo. If you had to describe Libra's style of intimacy in a nutshell, it would be a slow burn. Passionate, gentle, and intellectual, Libras prefer a playful, flirtatious conversation that leads to something more. For them, sex is a mental and physical experience, and they want to satiate all parts of their bodies, including their minds. Libras also value balance and equality, so you can be sure that sex with them will be a synergistic dream. (They're represented by the scale, after all.) They will always check in to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves, and generally making sure everything is fair and reciprocal. Because they're ruled by Venus, the planet of love and beauty, Libras care about aesthetics. Like Leo and Pisces, you can count on them to set the mood with candles and sensual music, only Libras might one-up them with a sexy outfit and fresh sheets. It may sound silly, but IYKYK, amazing sex is all in the details. Ruled by Neptune, the planet of dreams and fantasies, Pisces can give you one of the most romantic, sensual nights of your life. They're the types to light candles, bring out the massage oil, and make sure the smooth jazz plays uninterrupted, all in the name of setting the mood. Since Pisces are also some of the most selfless and giving people out there, they're wired to put their partners' needs first. You'll never have to ask a Pisces for foreplay–they'll make it their priority. Pisces is also one of the most emotionally attuned signs, so they can sense and intuit exactly what their partner wants, without ever having to ask. With their high amounts of creativity and inspiration, they're also always open to exploring new things. This is why Pisces never gets bored with sex–they're constantly trying new positions, experimenting with toys, and overall, having a game-for-anything approach in bed. Overall, Pisces doesn't just want to have sex–they want to truly connect with their partner, making sure the experience reaches the mind, body, and soul. 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GMA Network
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Lilo Eigenmann Alipayo stuns in impressive new surfing video
Andi Eigenmann's five-year-old daughter Lilo is certainly following in the footsteps of her champion surfer dad Philmar Alipayo. On Instagram, Lakbay Siargao posted a video of Lilo impressively riding the world-famous waves of Cloud Nine. The five-year-old stood strong and confident on her board, riding the wave for more than 25 seconds. Her balance is something to aspire for, and the way she would press on her board to generate more power from the ocean demonstrated quite the know-how of the sport. "Look at her go," the proud mom said as she reposted the video of Lilo. According to Lakbay Siargao, Lilo was with her father on her morning surf. Lilo surfing isn't new — she's been at it since she was 10 months old and has since joined her first surfing competition. What's taken our attention was Lilo's command of the waves. We're totally looking forward to see more of Lilo's surfing. — LA, GMA Integrated News
Times
20-05-2025
- Business
- Times
What I learnt … about standing your ground
Julian Kynaston, 57, is the founder of the creative agency Propaganda, which he set up in Huddersfield 33 years ago and where he remains chairman. He is also brand director of Cloud Nine, a hair accessories brand, and founded the make-up brand Illamasqua, which he sold to THG Beauty in a seven-figure deal in 2017. In his teens he was a violent, designer label-obsessed football casual, supporting Leeds United, where he learnt the value of standing your ground. He now believes more creative agencies need to stand behind their ideas: '[We] owe it to clients to get them to do the right thing. If that just takes a more assertive approach to get them to do that, then so be it.' We were working on
New York Times
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Review: Caryl Churchill Times Four Makes an Infinity of Worlds
A girl made of glass. A god — or, really, all of them. Ghosts, but of the future. An imp who may be trapped in a bottle. Just another day in Caryl Churchill's world. The arrival of new work by Churchill is like the arrival of a new theorem in a supposedly settled body of knowledge. 'Cloud Nine' (1979) explored gender as colonialism; 'Escaped Alone' (2016) domesticated the apocalypse. 'Drunk Enough to Say I Love You' (2006) reframed the alliance of Britain and the United States as a sloppy date. Clones and multiverses are part of her world. With a mathematician's precision, she posits ways of thinking about the universe and its inhabitants that, even when baffling, give more dimension to our experience of both. Her latest investigations take the form of a collection of four one-act plays at the Public Theater, under the portmanteau title 'Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.' Written separately over the last few years, each is pointed enough on its own: short and edgy. But together, in a splendid and surprisingly emotional production directed by James Macdonald, a frequent Churchill collaborator, they are so sharp you hardly feel them slicing your skin. 'Glass' is the most literally shattering. The life of a girl made of the substance, who lives on a mantelpiece for safety, is encompassed in 13 minutes. Her mother frets over her, her brother brags about her, her mantelpiece neighbors — an old clock, a plastic dog, a painted vase — compete with her. (She may be pretty, the clock says, but he's useful.) Soon the girl (Ayana Workman) meets a flesh-and-blood boy (Japhet Balaban) who is entranced by the transparency of her feelings: He can see straight into them, with no need for words. When his own feelings are spoken, in the form of whispers we do not hear, the express bus to tragedy departs. The way intimacy opens to loss is a theme here; the way abstractions become characters is a miracle. Somehow, it takes just a moment to adjust to the bizarre setup and the ensuing complications. (The mother warns that if the girl goes out for a walk with the boy, she had better wear Bubble Wrap.) Nor do we trouble ourselves that the production makes no attempt to literalize the figurines. They're just us. Likewise just us: the gods represented by one actor in 'Kill.' I say one actor, but Deirdre O'Connell is so singular, she's plural. On a puffy white cloud (sets by Miriam Buether), in a cream and gold chenille lamé suit (costumes by Enver Chakartash), she looks down on the ancient parade of human viciousness with amusement and despair and every feeling in between. Not many actors could parse — let alone make both funny and awful — a maniacal, 12-minute monologue that's basically a mixed grill of Greek and Roman sagas. A typical, barely punctuated sample: 'She's committed to being her husband's enemy taking his longtime enemy as her lover, her husband's cousin who wants all that family dead, she's his enemy as soon as he kills their daughter cutting her throat on the altar to get wind for sailing to his brother's war' — on it goes through a thousand horrid demises. Bring a classicist with you to sort out the sources, though it doesn't matter. To the gods, it's all gossip, delivered by O'Connell in the manner of a Southern barfly facing last call. Representing the divine as a debauchee is a brilliant choice, demonstrating a key Churchillian theme: All evil is human evil. 'It's not our fault,' O'Connell says at one point, voicing the gods. 'We don't exist.' The human need to fabricate other worlds and blame ours upon them is also the subject of the third play, 'What If If Only.' A man (Sathya Sridharan) so mourns the loss of his wife that he opens a metaphysical door to an afterlife. But the being who then enters isn't in fact his wife; she's a ghost of 'the dead future,' one of the innumerable possibilities of who she might have become. All the man must do to revive her, the being explains, is 'make me happen' — but, he wails, he doesn't know how. I say he and she for the mourner and the mourned, because that's how this production has cast them, but Churchill doesn't specify. (In the play's online premiere, the mourner was female and her late spouse male.) The story doesn't care about that; it cares about the larger truth that anyone who has suffered a great loss, which is to say everyone, will understand immediately: We can't get them back. There are only more-or-less unwanted substitute futures, suggested in a swishing soundscape of voices designed by Bray Poor. Surely it's no coincidence that the play appeared shortly after Churchill's husband of 60 years, the lawyer David Harter, died in 2021. 'Glass,' 'Kill' and 'What If If Only' make up the first half of the Public's program, along with two charming intermezzos: an acrobat (Junru Wang) performing hand balancing maneuvers on tiny podiums called canes; and a juggler (Maddox Morfit-Tighe) executing flourishes, spins and traps with clubs. In front of a gold proscenium with flashing chasers (lighting by Isabella Byrd), these acts suggest a kind of vaudeville, so fitting for Churchill's evolving take on tragedy as comedy, and vice versa. After an intermission, that thought is further revised in 'Imp.' Two 60-ish cousins, but not the kissing kind, share an apartment somewhere in England. Dot (O'Connell) has unspecified back problems that keep her in her easy chair. Jimmy (John Ellison Conlee) has ambitions toward fitness but sneakers not quite up to the task. Into their pleasantly carping ménage come two newcomers: their niece, Niamh (pronounced 'neeve'), from Ireland, and Rob, a local homeless man. I have not seen a Churchill work in the naturalistic domestic dramedy vein before, and it's fascinating. In 12 swift scenes that take up an hour, she easily achieves the plot density of premium cable, with its regular revelations, its ruptures and reunions. Niamh (Adelind Horan) and Rob (Balaban) begin a relationship that worries Dot and pleases Jimmy. Things progress and devolve in a broadly satisfying, almost familiar way. What makes this pure, strange Churchill is off to the side. It's that bottle, near Dot's chair, which she keeps as a kind of talisman or threat. Is there really something in it? What if it got out? Does it (as Dot claims) grant wishes, especially evil ones? Or is Dot, with her sharp tongue and tendency toward havoc, herself the imp? These questions, always physically present onstage, derange the domestic dramedy and get at the heart of Churchill's worldview. There is always something in the bottle. It did get out. Wishes, especially evil ones, are granted. Yes, Dot is the imp, and so are we all.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
8 fun indoor activities to keep you entertained at home
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. Nothing beats a relaxing day at home. Whether it's a rainy day, a cozy weekend or simply a desire to unwind without venturing outside, there are countless ways to keep yourself entertained indoors. You can learn a craft like knitting and crocheting, wind down with a good book or challenge your family to a hilarious night of indoor bowling. The eight fun indoor activities on this list promise to spark creativity, challenge your mind and provide hours of enjoyment. Puzzles help alleviate boredom, and you end up with a work of art once you've finished! The best thing about puzzles is there's a level for every type of puzzle solver. You can start with a simple 250-piece puzzle of an adorable sea scene and then move on to more picturesque, thousand-piece puzzles like this vintage butterfly puzzle or this gorgeous Italian seaside town. Most Amazon purchases 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 start your holiday shopping today. 19 Items That Can Help You Start New Hobbies This Year A game that's fun for the whole family is indoor bowling! Instead of heading to an expensive bowling alley, bring the competition to your home. Ideal for little kids, the Play Day bowling game from Walmart has lightweight bowling balls and pins that are easy to knock over. A mini bowling set from Amazon with a roll-out alley is also a great option for everyone in the family. Read On The Fox News App Couples, individuals and families can all benefit from an at-home cooking class. Many chefs offer online courses that are perfect for date night or learning a new skill. Take courses from Gordon Ramsay, Wolfgang Puck and Roy Choi on MasterClass with a monthly subscription starting at $10 per month. CozyMeal also has interactive online cooking classes. You can filter the classes by the type of dish you want to make and your specific location. Starting at $29, you can also take 90 to 120 minute classes from Sur La Table. A spa night is the perfect night in, no matter the season. Just grab some face masks, like this three-pack from Amazon. You get a turmeric, green tea and Dead Sea mineral mud mask that all help soothe the skin. To reduce puffiness under your eyes, also include this eye mask set in your spa night experience. Put a jade roller in the freezer and then use it to soothe your skin after using the face mask. If you prefer to have a whole kit all ready for you, Ulta has the Cloud Nine Head To Toe self-care kit. You get a two-pack of rosé face masks, eye gels, a renewing foot mask and a hand mask. Practicing yoga just takes some floor space, a yoga mat and any accessories you want. Walmart has a yoga set complete with a yoga mat that easily rolls up, yoga blocks, sweat-wicking towels, a knee pad and a carrying strap. If you want just the basics, get this beginner yoga kit from Dick's Sporting Goods. It comes with a mat printed with a guide for your hand and feet placement, a block to help you with difficult poses and a strap to help with your range of motion. January Is National Hobby Month – Here Are Three Easy Ones To Start Original price: $14.50 Preparing for gardening season? You can grow a lot inside that you can later transplant into the ground. Seed-starting, reusable planting trays can help you start seedlings, or get a seed-starting kit that includes a self-watering seedling tray. A hydroponics indoor growing system can help you grow houseplants all year round. It contains a pot with a self-watering system and a grow light attached. Original price: $12.99 Kick back with a good book when you want to spend the day inside. "Onyx Storm," the third book in The Empyrean series, is a hugely popular read right now, by a now world-famous author. "The Housemaid" is another popular read at the moment. It's a thriller following a live-in maid who discovers dark secrets about her wealthy employers. For more deals, visit Crafting is a hobby that results in some beautiful art and clothing. Anyone interested in embroidery can start to learn with this three-pack embroidery kit that features easy-to-learn designs. Wannabe-knitters can spend their days inside teaching themselves to knit a hat with a knitting kit for beginners. You get the yarn you need, knitting needles and a beanie pattern. Crochet, an easier cousin to knitting, is also a fun one to learn. Crocheting Wobbles — fun animals and creatures — can help you learn the basics and result in an adorable, knitted friend. Check out this penguin Woobles or there's also a dinosaur article source: 8 fun indoor activities to keep you entertained at home
