Frankford Candy’s new additions to its lineup this year include:
- Elf on the Shelf Molded Hot Chocolate BOMB: The elf-shaped BOMB features Belgian milk chocolate filled with mini marshmallows that melts away so you can enjoy a decadent cup of hot cocoa. The 2.12-ounce BOMB will be available at Target and Five Below stores nationwide as well as online at FrankfordCandy.com.
- Frankford Hot Chocolate BOMB with Chocolate Chips: A twist on the original Hot Chocolate BOMB featuring a hollow melting Belgian milk chocolate shell filled with mini marshmallows and chocolate chips. The 1.6-ounce BOMB will be available at Walmart, Five Below and Walgreens stores nationwide.
- Giant Gummy Lunchables Pepperoni Pizza Kit:…
Here’s a closer look at DQ’s 2023 Fall Blizzard Treat Menu:
- Oreo Hot Cocoa Blizzard Treat: Oreo cookie pieces and cocoa fudge blended with DQ soft serve and garnished with whipped topping
- Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Blizzard Treat: Snickerdoodle cookie dough pieces and cinnamon sugar blended with DQ soft serve.
- Caramel Fudge Cheesecake Blizzard Treat: Cheesecake pieces and fudge covered salty caramel pie…
Spoilers for House of the Dragon, Succession, The Last of Us, Yellowjackets, Fleishman Is in Trouble, Dead Ringers, This Is Going to Hurt, The Retrievals, and Exposed.
The first of many horrific birth scenes in House of the Dragon made me vomit. The king is desperate for a male heir, and the queen is in labor with a breech baby. At the king’s command, a maester (a healer with a medieval understanding of science) cuts the queen open. There’s plenty of blood, but the m…
After a nearly three-year wait, a new season of Stranger Things premieres on Netflix in May—and it’s just one in an array of much-anticipated releases. New series, including The Lincoln Lawyer, which is based on a Michael Connelly book, and Savage Beauty, a South African tale of revenge, are also hitting the streaming platform. The documentary Wild Babies, which zooms in on the adventures of adorable infant lions, elephants, and penguins, makes an excellent palate-cleanser.
Meanwhile, reality TV lovers can catch the latest seasons of The Circle and Bling Empire, or binge the U.S. version of Love on the Spectrum, which follows singles with autism on their quest for love.
Here’s everything coming …
Spoiler alert: This article discusses, in depth, the final two episodes of Amazon’s Swarm.
If you’ve finished streaming Swarm, Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ Amazon horror comedy about a young woman’s murderous obsession with a pop star who is clearly meant to mirror Beyoncé, allow me to welcome you to the land of Huh?! You did, after all, just watch Dominique Fishback’s serial-killer stan Dre—full name: Andrea Greene, now living under the alias Toni—ride off in the back of a limousine with her idol Ni’jah. Except Ni’jah, who is portrayed by Nirine S. Brown throughout the show, in which she’s usually observed from afar, now has the face of Dre’s best friend and ado…
A sudden and surprising spike in European exports of washing machines, refrigerators and even electric breast pumps to Russia’s neighbors is raising concerns among officials the trade boom may be helping Vladimir Putin’s war machine in Ukraine.
Armenia imported more washing machines from the European Union during the first eight months of the year than the past two years combined, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the EU’s Eurostat database. Kazakhstan imported $21.4 million worth of European refrigerators through August, more than triple the amount for the same period last year.
Kazakh government data meantime show a jump in refrigerators, washing machines and electric breast pumps being shipped into Russia.
Some trade via Eurasian states …
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a new regulation that would block companies from forcing employees to sign noncompete clauses that threaten legal action if they join a competitor or start their own competing business.
Roughly 30 million people—about one in five American workers—are bound to noncompete clauses across a variety of jobs, including hairstylists, doctors, and even sandwich makers. These workers are often forced to remain in their current jobs, which may pay less than other companies, or risk being shut out of their industry altogether.
The FTC rule, proposed on Jan. 5, could have massive ramifications for the U.S. economy, raising wages and increasing competition among businesses, economists say.
“Noncompetes are basicall…
Frank Gehry wants to build a park in Los Angeles. Not just a normal park on empty land; that’s for lightweights. Gehry wants to take chunks of the legendarily unlovely Los Angeles River, a 51-mile engineered waterway mostly lined with concrete, and suspend parks over them. It sounds like a pipe dream, or in this case more of a channel dream; it’s expensive, unprecedented, structurally complex, and anathema to many of the locals. But Gehry, 94, has made a career of overcoming such obstacles and, in the process, transforming cities.
Skepticism was also the initial response of officials in charge of selecting the architect for the Guggenheim Museum in the northern Spanish town of Bilbao, upon seeing the extremely rough models Gehry presented in 1991, in one version of wh…
The largest bank failure in American history happened in 2008, at the height of the Great Recession and the big bank bailouts that helped birth a major right-wing movement. The second- and third- largest ones happened last week.
Federal regulators moved quickly on Friday to take over Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) after it became insolvent. Over the weekend, they did the same for New York-based Signature Bank, which had seen customers withdraw billions after SVB’s collapse. On Sunday, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) assured the customers of both banks that they would be able to access all their funds on Monday, hoping to prevent bank runs elsewhere and ensure companies with millions parked in the banks can make pa…
Twitter is launching a new subscription service for $7.99 a month that allows users to verify their accounts, the company announced in Apple’s app store on Saturday. The feature will be a part of Twitter’s already existing Twitter Blue subscription, which is currently $4.99 and offers paid users additional services.
While it’s not clear when the new subscription model will go live, the company said users will be able to receive a blue check mark, “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.”
Twitter’s old verification program launched in 2009, amid pressure to authenticate accounts of public figures and agencies to protect the public.
“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has…