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Healthy Living Trends Inspired by COVID-19: Retailers, Food, and Consumers’ Growing Self-Care Muscles

“Self-care” took on new meaning and personal work-flows for people living in and through the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Acosta, the retail market research pro’s, updated our understanding consumers evolving as COVID-19 Has Elevated the Health and Wellness Trends of the Recent Years, results of a survey conducted among in May 2021. In the… Read More »

Perfume Genius Explains How His Recent Physical Transformation Inspired a New Creative Era

2020 has been (and continues to be) incredibly tough for all kinds of reasons, but it will go down as a great year for music, if nothing else. Among the many contenders for album of the year is Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, the lush, inviting fifth studio offering by Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Michael… Read More »

How disease, war and a remote Scottish island inspired George Orwell’s ‘1984’

Jura is a small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for two things: It’s home to a renowned distillery, and it’s where George Orwell wrote “1984.” Orwell arrived at Jura in May 1946, hoping the fresh air would help a chronic lung condition, and moved into a remote farmhouse. He soon set up a… Read More »