When I think about New York City (Taylor’s Version), I immediately think about lipstick, the West Village and ’s impeccable fall fashion looks. It was true when 1989 was first released in October 2014, and it’s true now with the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) nine years later. Case in point: The perfectly preppy look the singer wore on the eve of her re-release.
Photographed in the West Village, Swift paired an oversized Stella McCartney polo shirt, Polo Ralph Lauren baseball hat and Tod’s bag with the most timeless fall boot trend: brown heeled knee-high boots. And I cannot stop thinking about the boots. Look at the boots! The boots!
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Unfortunately for all of us who aren’t worth $1 billion, Swift’s boots are allegedly Prada. If you are willing to drop the money on a pair of Prada boots, please do, and I will live vicariously through you! However, there are so many affordable alternatives that give off the same timeless and preppy energy that looks just like Swift’s. You know, without the hefty price tag.
Scroll down to shop some of the best, more-than-worthy alternatives to Swift’s brown knee-high boots. Now excuse me while I (not so) patiently wait for more Taylor Swift fall fashion inspo.
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The block heel of these classic brown boots makes them so much easier to walk in than other options on this list without forgoing the height.
OK, I own these exact boots in black, and I LOVE them. Every time I wear them, I feel like I'm doing the "Style" strut. And thanks to Swift, I will buy them in this dark brown color. I can walk comfortably in these shoes for hours despite the super tall heel height.
If you're obsessed with the look but cannot get behind the heels, don't stress. Franco Sorto makes an excellent and super affordable alternative to the Prada boots.
During a closed-press meeting, a dozen Jewish leaders met with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to discuss steps the Biden administration is taking to counter antisemitism within K-12 and higher education communities. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Several prominent Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, gave Biden administration officials recommendations for increasing safety at schools after a spike in antisemitism on college campuses.
During a closed-press meeting on Monday, a dozen Jewish leaders met in Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s Washington office to discuss steps the Biden administration is taking to counter antisemitism within K-12 and higher education communities. Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Deputy Education Secretary Cindy Marten and Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, were also in attendance.
The meeting comes as the Biden administration looks for its role in addressing student demonstrations around the Hamas-Israel conflict that have roiled college campuses, and as groups say they’ve seen an uptick in antisemitism and Islamophobia.
“We’ve seen hundreds of pro-Hamas events across the United States. So one of the things that struck me from this meeting is you heard multiple people from the Jewish community say we’ve never seen anything like this ever,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who attended the meeting.
“The level of anxiety expressed by many different people from our community was something I think the secretary and the deputy simply had not heard before,” he said.
Several people commended Cardona’s leadership in the meeting and noted that he directed his team to write down and take action on some of the recommendations made by the groups.
“It was clear that this wasn’t just a meeting to talk about what the Department of Education could do,” said Julie Rayman, managing director of American Jewish Committee, who also attended the meeting. “It was a recognition that the administration sees that Jewish students are feeling vulnerable, that there are real security concerns, and that there’s a united front in both care and action.”
Details of the recommendations: The recommendations included a “Dear Colleague” letter that strongly supports Jewish students on campus and has a similar forcefulness as the Biden administration’s national strategy on combating antisemitism, and a nationwide compliance initiative from the department that would preempt waiting for civil rights complaints to be filed.
The groups also recommended the department examine actions from student groups on campuses supporting the Hamas attacks because they could be “engaging in material support for terrorism, which would be a criminal matter,” according to an attendee who spoke on background. They also want the department to consider training for K-12 educators on antisemitism.
Greenblatt, whose group tracks antisemitic incidents, said in the weeks following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks the number of anti-Jewish acts across the country jumped by 388 percent.
“That’s a massive spike when you consider the fact that prior to Oct. 7, we had already seen historic levels of antisemitism in this country,” he said.
Several groups said Cardona said the right things in the meeting but want the Biden administration to make sure the meeting is followed with action. Cardona acknowledged the uptick in antisemitism was unprecedented, according to several attendees, and he told the groups that when the problem is unprecedented, the response also has to be unprecedented.
Biden administration’s response: Jewish leaders commended the Biden administration for taking meetings on campuses with Jewish students, Hillels and other Jewish student organizations. Cardona and White House domestic policy adviser Neera Tanden are also slated to visit a college campus and hold a roundtable with Jewish students this week, NBC News reported.
“Mr. Emhoff and Secretary Cardona unequivocally denounced Antisemitism and all other forms of hate,” the White House said in a readout of the meeting. “They also reaffirmed the administration’s support for Israel and the right for Israel to defend itself against terrorism.”
Additionally, the White House said the administration announced new actions to combat antisemitism on campuses. The Biden administration has directed the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to make sure that campus law enforcement “is included in engagements with state and local law enforcement.” The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights also expedited its update of the process for discrimination complaints to say that antisemitism is prohibited under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
StatMuse @statmuse
Cam Thomas is averaging more PPG this season than
Joel Embiid
Steph Curry
Jayson Tatum
Kevin Durant
LeBron James
Nikola Jokic
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Damian Lillard
Anthony Edwards
Trae Young
Kyrie Irving
Small sample size but… statmuse.com/nba/player/cam… – 4:01 PM
Ira Winderman @IraHeatBeat
No load management for Bucks on this second night of back-to-back vs. visiting Heat. Giannis, Lillard and Middleton not on their injury report. Only listing is MarJon Beauchamp out due to illness. – 1:50 PM
Frank Madden @fmaddenNBA
Lineup data is essentially all noise at this point but for those curious about the Bucks’ new star pairing:
Giannis + Dame: -20 in 45 min
Giannis w/o Dame: -4 in 20 min
Dame w/o Giannis: +3 in 21 min – 12:16 AM
Jay Allen @PDXjay
Damian Lillard struggled mightily tonight, scoring just 6 points in the #Bucks loss to the Hawks. It’s just the 16th time in 771 career games that Lillard has failed to score in double figures. – 12:09 AM
Kevin Chouinard @KLChouinard
Dejounte Murray finished with a game-high +/- of plus-26.
That’s matches the eye test. He and Capela came close to pitching a shutout on Lillard. – 9:35 PM
Anthony Chiang @Anthony_Chiang
On the front end of a home back-to-back before hosting the Heat tomorrow, the Bucks fall to the Hawks 127-110. Damian Lillard finished with six points on 2-of-12 shooting from the field. – 9:28 PM
Ira Winderman @IraHeatBeat
Bucks down 28 with 7 minutes to play and Lillard is in? This opens a back-to-back for Bucks that concludes Monday vs. Heat. (Lillard 2 of 12 tonight so far.) – 9:12 PM
Eric Nehm @eric_nehm
With 3:33 left in the third quarter, Damian Lillard has his first points of the night on a pull-up 3.
Hawks still lead, 89-70, though. – 8:45 PM
Tim Reynolds @ByTimReynolds
With Chris Paul’s start-every-game run now over, the active player with the most games in the NBA without coming off the bench now is Damian Lillard — 833, including tonight, including playoffs. – 8:32 PM
Tim Bontemps @TimBontemps
In eight minutes so far tonight, Toumani Camara – a Suns draft pick included in the Deandre Ayton portion of the Damian Lillard trade – already has 8 points, a couple rebounds and an assist. Easy to see why Portland is excited about his potential. – 8:23 PM
Justin Garcia @tmjgarcia
This is just the 11th time Damian Lillard has been held scoreless in a half. The last time was 11/5/21 against the Indiana Pacers. – 8:23 PM
Ira Winderman @IraHeatBeat
Heat to get angry Dame tomorrow? Lillard scoreless on 0 for 7 with his Bucks down 68-47 at half to Hawks in Milwaukee. – 8:13 PM
Eric Nehm @eric_nehm
After being turnover-free in his Bucks debut, Damian Lillard already has four turnovers in just 10 minutes of game action tonight.
Hawks up, 43-33, with 7:16 left in the second quarter. – 7:56 PM
Eric Nehm @eric_nehm
Jae Crowder is listed as a starter with Khris Middleton out for tonight’s game against the Hawks.
Bucks starters:
Damian Lillard
Malik Beasley
Jae Crowder
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Brook Lopez – 6:36 PM
I notice that people get kind of misty-eyed when they talk about the Junji Ito-inspired roguelite role-playing game World of Horror. If it were their cold husband, they’d have been wanting to hold it for a long time. It’s been out in some capacity, either as a demo or in early access, since 2017, but, finally, on October 19, Polish developer panstasz released its fully-grown 1.0 version to an itching crowd the way you might toss an animal a treat—it slips from your fingers, and it gets snapped up.
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I usually scoff at that kind of hunger, but World of Horror deserves it. Though the game’s final form isn’t much different from its earlier iterations, there’s a polite superiority in its poetic horror storytelling, and it demonstrates the value in making people wait—the beauty in anticipation and, then, when you can’t take it anymore, the cosmic release.
In approaching World of Horror’s complete version, I feel like I’m creaking open a moth-eaten almanac, one stuffed with post-it note recipes and mysterious dates scribbled in and out with pencil. Like physical objects weathered by time, the game has been pressed into a very particular shape. Its 1-bit MS Paint job demonstrates this best. It glues a definite vibe across World of Horror’s gameplay, shamelessly and expertly mimicking Junji Ito’s uncanny ink drawings and distinctive visual take on terror.
I set a second aside to admire it. There are tons of color palettes to choose from, everything from cloudy seaweed green to more traditionally eerie clotted blood reds, and I experiment with adjusting the aspect ratio to either display the entire dumpy ‘80s PC it’s simulated on or full-screen the game to fit my actual computer.
When I’m satisfied with whole-screen, piss-yellow (there’s a time and place for it), I sift through young adults—the five playable characters I have unlocked are college-aged—and settle on Haru, 24, who’s addicted to cigarettes. “You’ve gained a new status,” the always-populating notifications at the bottom of my computer screen say. “[NICOTINE] WITHDRAWAL!”
Episodic horror, over and over again
That’ll be authentic for my custom playthrough, which lets me, among other things, choose my character’s stats and which Old God I want to destroy my life. The Extracurricular Activity mode is the game’s standard setting, and Quickplay acts as a playthrough randomizer, but neither of these guarantee me my God of choice—The Thing Forsaken By God, a gilded mirror with a blackened core. It makes it so going home, the place I can change Haru into a clean bomber jacket or take a bath to replenish stats, increases my doom, a percentage that triggers the God’s resurrection and ends a playthrough if I let it hit 100.
With that settled, I head out to solve five mysteries afflicting my degenerating town in Japan with the murky goal of unlocking a miserable lighthouse at the end of it. I want to call these mysteries World of Horror’s “episodic” elements, but the game clearly prefers them to be roguelike, making it so the items or status effects you accrue during one mystery impact your narrative in the next mystery you play in a set.
Unraveling one mystery takes me five-to-ten minutes, assuming I’ve survived its turn-based combat with a Jane Doe’s worm-eaten corpse, or a guy sprouting noodles out of his deflated skull like he’s a planter pot, or another one of the game’s many abominations. If the heavy “strong attacks” I spam (powerful spells unhelpfully drain my reason, one of my health stats, and I never have enough time in a typical encounter to figure out the secret combination of claps and bows I need to exorcize a ghost’s ass) can’t save me from death, my next playthrough of the same narrative is slightly different. I encounter a different scary lady who wants to kill me, I find objects in fresh cobwebbed corners, have the opportunity to buy new items or receive different perks, or attempt to unlock another one of the mystery’s multiple endings.
These random encounters are the game’s most obviously sinister element, but they’re not what I quickly learn to like best. I’m more fascinated by the atmosphere it creates in subtleties. Its pixel-art style ascertains that gore is more suggested than shouted, and that is excitingly destabilizing, and World of Horror effectively wields narrative generalizations, too.
I catch myself nervously glancing at my ticking doom counter, which increases whenever time passes. Invisible “Town statuses” that slow-drip throughout a playthrough often isolate my character, giving me the chills. Contaminated Water turns my tap water into sludge, for example, taking my life-giving bath time away from me. Cut Off From The Outside World informs me that my town lost radio signal—it has no explicit gameplay consequences, but I realize I can’t call for help, and the thought brambles my mind.
Infinite anxiety, not content, please
Two hours into my approximately three-hour playtime, I feel a tension headache coming on. I’ve been enjoying the vibe, the vague savagery of World of Horror’s proud, oozing enemies and all their ominously enigmatic names—“Something Truly Evil,” “Scissor Woman,” “You?” It makes me think of the palm-sized, everyday ambiguities that jab at my paranoia while I float around my house—didn’t I leave the light on in here? Who moved my cell phone? Is this stomachache actually a WebMD case study?
But World of Horror sometimes feels too stuffed for me to settle into its potent, unconventional horror. I admire that, like an Ito comic, World of Horror has a sense of being apolitical. In the loaded horror genre that I love, it’s rare that something is scary simply because it is. In World of Horror, women are disgusting. Men are disgusting. Noodles are disgusting, because the world is dark and only getting darker, and the only pure thing is to accept it.
This quiet dread is sometimes prematurely swallowed by World of Horror’s many overwhelming elements—changing stories, reaching their multiple endings, acquiring the keys to unlock the dimming lighthouse, adding on perks to find items, or incantations, or mystic rituals that change with each playthrough, and…it’s a lot. Sometimes as I play, I find myself staring at plants in my room instead of at the screen, because they aren’t as noisy. I let Haru die and end my run prematurely.
I’d return to his dying town in Japan one day. There aren’t many horror games like this, games that don’t need rote, sometimes offensive tropes to scare you, games that are so well-oiled, they’re confident their horror will spread all over you just by touching them, like brushing against a wet spot and getting it all over your hand.
I’m impressed. Still, I think I’ll always want World of Horror to more widely embrace the minimalism it practices in moments so eloquently. I understand that ambient horror. I can live with it.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Rangers general manager Chris Young was trying to change short- and long-term history when he agreed with Corey Seager after the 2021 season on the most expensive contract in franchise history — 10 years at $325 million.
The Rangers had not made the playoffs since 2016. The franchise that began in 1961 as the Washington Senators had remained one of six current teams that had never won a World Series.
In Seager, Young was enlisting a player who had won the NLCS and World Series MVP in 2020 when the Dodgers captured their first championship since 1988. Both of those series were played in the COVID-created bubble of Globe Life Field. That is the Texas Rangers’ home.
That was the site of World Series Game 1 on Friday night. That was where Seager came to the plate with one on and one out in the ninth inning and the Rangers down two runs to a Diamondbacks team playing at a heightened level of performance and confidence, particularly on the road.
Arizona closer Paul Sewald had been near perfect this postseason — eight innings, three hits, no runs, six-for-six in save opportunities. But he committed a baseball sin to open the ninth with a 5-3 lead — he walked the ninth-place hitter, Leodys Taveras. The struggling Marcus Semien, who was signed for seven years and $175 million as a near package deal with Seager, stayed struggling as the lineup turned over by striking out.
Corey Seager lets out a yell of celebration after blasting the game-tying two-run homer in the ninth inning of the Rangers’ 6-5 comeback victory over the Diamondbacks in 11 innings in Game 1 of the World Series.USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con
But that brought up Seager and in the dugout Rangers third baseman Josh Jung thought, “Don’t throw him a heater up” But that is what Sewald did with the first pitch. Seager went to the upper deck in right field to tie the score. Known for hard work (often on his own) and stoicism, even Seager broke character to pump his arms in jubilation.
“It’s such a special moment, but that’s why you bring a guy like that in who you pay top dollar for a top-tier performer,” Texas first baseman Nathaniel Lowe said.
Seager is on the short list of best hitters in the sport — and perhaps an even shorter list of just who you would want batting in this type of situation: your team on the precipice of losing the World Series opener in its home park.
“It’s like the script was written for him,” Jung said. “It’s truly incredible. The at-bats he puts together night in and night out in the big spots and in the big situations. When he was coming up there. I was like, ‘Don’t throw a strike, something cool is going to happen.’ First pitch, there he goes. There’s no words to describe what he means to us.”
Perhaps the only player who the Rangers would want up more in a critical spot than Seager these days did bat with one out in the 11th inning of what was still a 5-5 game. Arizona had just brought Miguel Castro in for a right-on-right matchup against Adolis Garcia. But these days it doesn’t matter with which hand the pitcher throws — or who the pitcher is.
Corey Seager belts the game-tying two-run homer in the Rangers’ Game 1 comeback win.USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con
The opener of the 119th World Series was the first of 37 games this postseason to go to extra innings. And Texas won 6-5 when Garcia smoked an opposite-field homer to right. It was the eighth homer this postseason for Garcia and marked the fifth game in a row he went deep — only Daniel Murphy in 2015 at six has a longer streak. It was the first World Series walk-off homer since the Dodgers’ Max Muncy took out Nathan Eovaldi in Game 2 of the 2018 World Series. Eovaldi was Texas’ starter in Game 1 Friday.
He was terrific vs. the first six batters, retiring them all, going to a 0-2 count on five and striking out four. But in the third Eovaldi was victimized by a two-run Corbin Carroll triple and, from there, Arizona would get four steals from four different players, a homer from Tommy Pham and two RBIs from Ketel Marte, who has a hit in all 17 postseason games in his career to take a 5-3 lead to the ninth.
Adolis Garcia celebrates while rounding the bases after hitting the game-winning solo homer in the 11th inning of the Rangers’ Game 1 comeback victory.USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con
In relief of Eovaldi, the Texas bullpen — the weak spot of the team this postseason — produced 6 ¹/₃ shutout innings. Within that Rangers manager Bruce Bochy seemed more likely to use Jacob deGrom or Nolan Ryan in a tight playoff game than Aroldis Chapman. But those relievers who did pitch kept it close for Seager to tie it and Garcia to win Game 1.
“Right now that list [of who you would want up in a huge World Series spot] is very small,” Texas star rookie Evan Carter said. “And honestly there’s probably two people in this room right now that I would want up there for sure.”
POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – After an agonizing month for Makayla Fay Meave’s family, someone is finally being held accountable for the 30-year-old mother’s murder.
“It’s a little bit of a sigh of relief,” said Barbara Harper, Makayla’s mother. “To us, it feels like it’s been 10 years even though it’s just been a few weeks.”
“We got some results back on some evidence we had been waiting for,” said Travis Dinwiddie, Pottawatomie County’s Undersheriff. “We executed the search warrant on the house. Frank Byers was inside, and he was taken into custody for a probable cause affidavit for first degree murder.”
Mugshot of Frank Byers
Court records reveal Byers’ work boots “had a blood like substance on them” that investigators now say came back as a positive DNA match to Makayla.
According to court records, detectives also found a Walmart receipt for a mop, ammonia and bleach on Byers’ property the day Makayla was reported missing.
After reading through text messages, court records show investigators believe Byers committed the crime so he could “establish a relationship” with another woman.
“He was at all the family functions. We would have never… I would have never thought he would do something like this,” said Harper.
However, Makayla’s mother said she became suspicious of Byers after her daughter disappeared.
“There was no concern, no sorrow, no tears. It was all just a show, and we could see it,” said Harper.
If convicted, she hopes Byers gets the harshest punishment possible to get justice for her daughter.
“The death penalty,” said Harper. “I can forgive him through Christ, but I am still flesh and I want the death penalty for him and anyone else that helped him.”
Byers hasn’t been officially charged yet but faces counts for first-degree murder, unauthorized removal of dead body, and desecration of a human corpse.
