The wallpaper playfully intermingles late-Georgian-style silhouettes of Ward and her beloved oversize insects.
. Cocktails are followed by dinner. The most hotly anticipated guests sometimes skip cocktails and even dinner, and arrive around dessert time for maximum impact (we’re looking at you, Rihanna).For more coverage of the 2025 Met Gala, visit:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald. Spending by Americans slowed despite rising incomes, potentially an early reaction to higher prices on some imported goods.from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose just 2.1% in April compared with a year earlier, down from 2.3% in March and the lowest since September. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.5% from a year earlier, below the March figure of 2.7%, and the lowest in more than four years. Economists track core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed.
The figures show inflation is still declining from its post-pandemic spike, which reached the highest level in four decades in July 2022. Economists andhave warned that prices will likely head higher as Trump’s widespread tariffs take effect, though the timing and impact of those duties are now in doubt after they were
On a monthly basis, overall prices and core prices both increased just 0.1% from March to April. The cost of big-ticket manufactured goods rose a hefty 0.5%, though that increase was offset by a 0.1 decline in other goods, such as groceries. The cost of services rose just 0.1% from March to April.
The big increase in durable goods prices could reflect the early impact of tariffs. Americans also cut back their spending on longer-lasting factory goods in April, the report showed.Kate Mara and Robinson in a scene from “Friendship.” (A24 via AP)
Kate Mara and Robinson in a scene from “Friendship.” (A24 via AP)But there’s also a feeling in the second half of the movie that DeYoung isn’t sure how to end this slide into insanity and the movie gets unmoored from its satirical look at bromances and just follows Craig as a one man wrecking machine, like the movie was hijacked by
Not to take anything away from DeYoung’s debut, which is a hoot. Do us all a favor and see it with your buddies. And if you see a guy there all alone, maybe reach out?“Friendship,” a A24 release that is in select theaters Friday and goes wider May 23, is rated R for “language and some drug content.” Running time: 100 minutes. Three stars out of four.