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Patrick Dovigi with Aspen home (Chrisn45 CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons, David Marlow, Getty) Talk about the magic touch. Just one year after he bought the property, entrepreneur Patrick Dovigi has sold an Aspen, Colorado, home for $55 million , $10.5 million more than he bought it, the Wall Street Journal reported. Dexter Rutecki Properties was the buyer. Dovigi, a retired Canadian professional hockey player who founded Green For Life Environmental, bought the six-bedroom home with a pool and spa and views of the slopes for $44.5 million in December 2021. Dovigi, a former goalie who played minor league hockey in Canada before being taken by the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the 1997 NHL draft, has been active in the Aspen luxury residential market. In June 2021, he bought another home for $72.5 million. Green For Life, which Dovigi founded in 2007, is a Canada-based waste management company. While there has been an overall downturn in residential markets,...

The year 2022 has finally come to an end. As many chose to celebrate at home due to rising COVID-19 cases, a crowd of about 15,000 in-person spectators came from across the country and the world to watch the ball drop in Times Square. You can join them virtually by watching the livestream above. Or watch the stream on YouTube if you want to cast it onto your devices. Source link from New York News Alert https://ift.tt/XiUIT6B via IFTTT

American intelligence agencies gave highly sensitive data to the Ukrainian armed forces that allowed them to track and kill a dozen Russian generals and sink the Russian flagship Moskva , a new book reveals — despite strident administration denials. A “furious” President Joe Biden gave “presidential tongue-lashings” to CIA chief Bill Burns and other top aides in May after leakers told NBC News and the New York Times that Ukrainians had been given real-time intelligence from US sources. “He didn’t like what he considered to be publicly taunting the Russians,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told author Chris Whipple in the forthcoming book “The Fight of His Life,” out Jan. 17. The reports of secret streams of real-time battlefield intelligence drew a furious response from the Kremlin — and instant repudiation from the Pentagon, the National Security Council, and Biden’s press office. “We do not provide intelligence with the intent to kill Russian generals,” NSC spokes...

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We’re Here Florida, Part 2 Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars * * * * Photo: Greg Endries/HBO When  We’re Here  planned its third season, the show no doubt set its sights on Florida partly because of the state’s shocking “ Don’t Say Gay ” law, which Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law this past spring. It makes a lot of sense: Florida is a hotbed of anti-gay activism and right-winged nightmare, juxtaposed with Miami beach culture and a whole bunch of Disney magic. There’s simply a lot going on in Florida, and  We’re Here  wanted to be a part of it. But all the shit happening in Florida has only spread, and now multiple states are seeking to ban children from drag shows and drag shows altogether, lumping them in with sex work and other seemingly lascivious activities. The fear-mongering might have begun in Florida, but it has moved north as quickly as an invasive weed. I love that  We’re Here  spent a sizable portion...

Reactions poured in from the worlds of journalism, politics, sports and entertainment following the death of TV news pioneer and “The View” creator Barbara Walters. She died Friday at her home in New York at age 93. An intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host, she led the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar. “Without Barbara Walters there wouldn’t have been me — nor any other woman you see on evening, morning, and daily news. She was indeed a Trailblazer. I did my very first television audition with her in mind the whole time. Grateful that she was such a powerful and gracious role model. Grateful to have known her. Grateful to have followed in her Light.” — Oprah Winfrey, television icon “Barbara Walters was the OG of female broadcasters. She was just as comfortable interviewing world leaders as she was Oscar winners and she had to fight like hell for every interview. I deeply admired her and she was incredibly supportive through the years. … As I wro...

ORCHARD PARK – Monday Night Football is wrapping up its 53rd season this week with quite a crescendo as it will air what is arguably the game of the year in the NFL, the Buffalo Bills’ visit to Cincinnati to take on the Bengals. This will mark just the third game in Monday Night Football history involving two teams with 11-or-more wins. In 1997, San Francisco (12-2) defeated Denver (11-3) in what proved to be the Broncos’ last loss of that season en route to a Super Bowl 32 victory. And in 1985, the Los Angeles Raiders (11-4) won the league’s final regular-season game at the Los Angeles Rams (11-4). It is also just the third time since 1978 when the 16-game schedule was instituted that teams will face each other while riding winning streaks of six-or-more in the final two weeks of a season. The Bengals have won seven straight, the Bills six. Sign up for the Bills Blast newsletter Delivered straight to your inbox, additional Bills analysis, insight, stats, quotes and te...

Sotheby’s Tara Fox, Compass’ Traci Conway Clinton and Parsa Samii, and Max Scherzer with the pitcher’s newly purchased 5-bedroom Colonial in Old Brookville (Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, Compass, Getty) Mets ace Max Scherzer knows a thing or two about negotiating, having hammered out two of the priciest contracts in baseball history and the latest collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball players and owners. Those skills served him well when it came to buying a home on Long Island, property records show. The Hall of Fame-bound pitcher just closed on an Old Brookville mansion for a cool $5 million, which was $400,000 below the asking price . Given the 3-year, $130 million deal he signed in November 2021, the savings amount to what he earns for two innings of work. Before taxes, of course. Despite the 7.4 percent discount, Scherzer got himself a heckuva house. Built in 1950 but renovated in 2019, the 10-room, tree-sheltered Colonial near ...

Photo: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Vivienne Westwood, the simultaneously iconic and iconoclastic fashion designer, died Thursday, December 29, 2022. Westwood’s design work impacted every facet of pop culture — from the Sex Pistols to today’s corset trend, Westwood did it all. So it comes as no surprise that her passing was mourned by a wide swath of celebrity. Everyone from Paul McCartney (who called her “a ballsy lady”) to RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.  winner The Vivienne, everyone had fond things to say about Westwood. Many tributed her contributions to style, especially in founding the punk aesthetic. But Annie Lennox also paid tribute to her activism. “Vivienne Westwood’s passion lay in ‘activism’, which she embraced completely and wholeheartedly. Her life force simply blew definitions out of the water,” she wrote on social media. “Far more an eighteen year old than eighty – one in human years – A fearless, formidable force of nature who turned everythin...

Seven Picks a Week is our guide to what’s worth catching in arts, culture and activities during the week ahead, with contributions from reporters throughout the WNYC/Gothamist newsroom and colleagues from WQXR and “All of It.” Don’t miss one of the year’s top art exhibitions If you still haven’t seen “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure,” you’re running out of time to see one of the year’s most distinctive art offerings. The expansive exhibition chronicles the life and work of legendary artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat (pictured above), as told by his family and loved ones. Curated by Jean-Michel’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, the exhibition offers an intimate look at not just Jean-Michel’s body of work, but also his life and legacy. Featuring over 200 never-before-seen and rarely seen paintings, drawings, ephemera and artifacts, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure” closes this Sunday, Jan. 1; order tickets here . – Allison Stewart and Emily Thompson, “...

CHESTNUTHILL TWP., Penn. — More than a month after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students rocked the small town of Moscow, Idaho, authorities announced a suspect in the grisly murders had been arrested . Bryan Kohberger Monroe County Correctional Facility Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested Friday morning in the Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains region, law enforcement sources said. Sources say that authorities knew who they were looking for and had tracked Kohberger to Chestnuthill Township, Penn. A SWAT team entered the location Kohberger was staying in and took him into custody, sources say. RELATED: A timeline of the killings of 4 University of Idaho students He was taken into custody “based upon an active arrest warrant for murder in the first degree” issued by the Moscow, Idaho police department and the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office, according to a criminal complaint. Kohberger received his bachelor’s degree in 2020 from DeSal...

An individual linked to the brutal stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students found dead in their beds at their off-campus house last month was reportedly taken into custody Friday. The Moscow Police Department said in a statement that it would be holding a news conference at 1 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) to “give an update of the ongoing investigation.” “We are not confirming anything at this point,” Moscow Police Department spokesman Capt. Anthony Dahlinger told the Daily News. The department is “going media dark” until the news conference, he added. This photo provided by Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility shows Bryan Kohberger. Arrest paperwork filed by Pennsylvania State Police in Monroe County Court, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, said Kohberger, 28, was being held for extradition in a criminal homicide investigation in the killings of four University of Idaho students, based on an active arrest warrant for first degree murder issued by the Moscow Police D...

In the late twentieth century, the American psychic Jeane Dixon, nicknamed the Seeress of Washington, won a huge following after predicting, in a 1956 magazine article, that a man resembling John F. Kennedy would be elected President four years later—and then die in office. But she also said that the Third World War would begin in 1958 and that the Soviet Union would land the first man on the moon. Soothsaying is not science. Yet some of the trend lines for the world in 2023 are already visible; the wars and crises of 2022 will shape the challenges of the New Year. Among them, ruthless autocrats are exerting their might in ways that strain the diplomatic bandwidth, financial resources, and arms stockpiles of democracies. None of the world’s most troubling crises— Vladimir Putin’s gruesome invasion of Ukraine , Xi Jinping’s unprecedented military drills around Taiwan, Iran’s nuclear advances and arms sales to Russia, Kim Jong Un’s record missile provocations, the Taliban’s i...