Tony and Ziva: A Love Story the World Can’t Quit Watching (Even When It’s Trying to Look Away) By the time the latest trailer for the Paramount+ spin-off “NCIS: Tony & Ziva” dropped, the clip had already been subtitled into 27 languages, dissected by Brazilian TikTokers, and turned into a meme template by Indonesian graphic…
Musetti: A Global Love Affair With a Twelve-Cent Doughnut Hole By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk PARIS—Somewhere between the Seine and the last functioning traffic light in Naples, the planet has quietly agreed that the pinnacle of human ingenuity is a sugar-dusted sphere of fried dough the size of a golf ball. Italians call it musetti;…
Jesse Watters and the Global Export of Performative Outrage A field report from the international desk By the time Jesse Watters’ latest prime-time monologue ricocheted from a Fox studio in Midtown Manhattan to a phone screen in Lagos, then to a bar television in Warsaw, and finally to a group-chat in Manila, the clip had…
The Last Flight Out of Bucaramanga: How a Colombian Football Match Became a Global Metaphor for Everything Wrong (and Right) with 2024 If you squint hard enough through the smog of modernity, the world occasionally lines up its metaphors like dominoes waiting for a toddler with a sugar rush. Case in point: last Tuesday’s Copa…
Twitter Down: Planet Earth Holds Breath, Discovers Oxygen Still Works By Our Man in the Ether When the blue bird finally keeled over at 03:47 UTC, the silence was so complete you could almost hear the world’s influencers hyperventilating into ring lights. From Lagos to Lisbon, Seoul to São Paulo, the sudden absence of 280-character…
Downdetector: the world’s most reliable panic barometer by our roaming correspondent, still waiting for the Wi-Fi to load in the departure lounge Every civilization eventually builds a shrine to its own fragility. The Romans had aqueducts, the Victorians had rail timetables, and we—citizens of the glowing rectangle—have Downdetector. Visit the site at 03:12 local time…
Kurt Zouma and the Cat Heard ’Round the World A dispatch from the frontline where football, felines and global outrage collide By the time the grainy Snapchat clip reached Jakarta, the cat had already achieved what most UN envoys only dream of: unanimous, cross-continental condemnation. In a split-screen universe where grainy war footage from Mariupol…
Keanu Reeves: The Last Reluctant Globalist By Lena Drăghici, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Somewhere between the bullet-time lobby shootout and the NFT apocalypse, Keanu Reeves became the world’s only universally acceptable export. While Boeing can’t keep its doors attached and Silicon Valley keeps reinventing the fax machine with blockchain sprinkles, the 59-year-old actor glides through…
CRDO: The Tiny Semiconductor Stock Quietly Holding the Global Economy Together—Until It Doesn’t By the time most citizens of Earth have finished their first cup of overpriced coffee, the share price of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: CRDO) has already bounced around like a diplomatic cable in a shredder. Based in San Jose—Silicon Valley’s…
Pam Shriver: The Accidental Oracle of a World That Forgot How to Volley By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Over the International Date Line You know the world is in dire straits when a retired American doubles specialist becomes the most coherent voice in global sport. Yet here we are, watching Pam Shriver—she of the 1980s teased…
The Weeknd in San Antonio: A Global Pop Ritual in the Shadow of Collapse Dave’s Locker International, filed from somewhere between the Alamo and TikTok San Antonio—where the ghosts of 1836 mingle with vape smoke and the faint smell of churros—played host this week to Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian R&B warlock who answers to “The…
Michelle Dockery and the Aristocratic Hangover: How One English Actress Became a Global Rorschach Test PARIS—On a rain-slick Wednesday along the Boulevard Saint-Germain, I watched a French teenager in a knock-off Downton Abbey maid’s apron pose for TikTok beside a homeless man selling knock-off Downton Abbey tea towels. Both were, in their own ways, paying…
