Kouvr Annon and the Great Global Fame Recycling Plant By Our Jaded Foreign Correspondent, filing from a café whose Wi-Fi password is literally “Password123” If you’ve never heard of Kouvr Annon, congratulations—you have just proven you own a life. Regrettably, that life is about to be colonised anyway. Annon, a 23-year-old American content apparition, has…
Liv Tyler: The Last Global Sweetheart in an Age of Collateral Beauty and Actual Collateral Damage By “Our Man Somewhere Between Airstrip One and the Duty-Free” The world first met Liv Tyler on a 1995 Italian Vogue cover, back when NATO still thought the Balkans were a quick weekend intervention and the euro was just…
Mike Green, the Man Who Accidentally Became a Global Geopolitical Rorschach Test By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between a Hotel Mini-Bar and Existential Dread Somewhere on a laptop screen in Lagos, a hedge-fund analyst named Mike Green is being quoted as gospel. In a dimly lit bar in Bucharest, two crypto bros toast “the real Mike…
CUPERTINO, California — On a Tuesday morning that felt suspiciously like a Wednesday everywhere else, Apple once again summoned the planet’s press corps, influencers, and sleep-deprived analysts to a glass-and-aluminum temple of consumer desire. The occasion: another “special event,” which, in the argot of Silicon Valley, translates loosely to “a live infomercial with better lighting…
Wicked, in the Original Global Sense Dave’s Locker International Desk – 23 June 2024 “Wicked” used to be a moral verdict handed down by men in sandals who had just invented monotheism and were feeling smug about it. Now it’s a Tony-winning musical, a TikTok filter, and—depending on the hemisphere—either a compliment shouted at a…
Snow Falls in July: How One American Actress Became a Global Rorschach Test by our man in the cheap seats, Frankfurt When the name Brittany Snow first ping-ped across the international newswires last week—courtesy of a perfectly timed divorce filing in Los Angeles that landed during NATO’s summit in Vilnius—foreign correspondents from Lagos to Ljubljana…
Jim Harbaugh, Cosmic Jester of the Gridiron, Now Auditions for the Role of Emperor If you squint at the right angle, Jim Harbaugh looks less like an American football coach and more like a geopolitical weather pattern—an unpredictable low-pressure system that drifts from Michigan to Los Angeles to, rumor has it, any NFL capital whose…
Bailey Zimmerman, the 23-year-old from Louisville, Illinois (population 1,100, two stoplights, and an almost heroic commitment to corn), has somehow become the sonic passport stamp for a planet that can’t quite decide if it’s ending or just rebooting. His gravel-road baritone drifts from Lagos Uber speakers, Manila jeepneys, and Berlin U-Bahn headphones alike—proof that heartbreak,…
**WICKED PART 2: A GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT PROVES HUMANITY’S ENDURING CAPACITY FOR MASS DELUSION** The international box office has spoken, and what it’s saying is rather telling about our collective state of mind. “Wicked Part 2” has enchanted audiences worldwide, grossing $1.2 billion across 75 countries and proving that nothing unites humanity quite like escapism…
The Jelly Roll Doctrine: How a Swirled Pastry Became a Geopolitical Metaphor By the time you finish this sentence, approximately 2.7 metric tons of jelly rolls will have been consumed somewhere between Jakarta and Jacksonville. That’s the kind of useless statistic international correspondents like me toss around to sound worldly while secretly Googling “what is…
Ariana Grande: The 5’3” Geopolitical Juggernaut in a Ponytail By Dave’s Locker International Desk If the Cold War was fought with missiles and manifestos, the 21st-century version is waged with perfume endorsements, TikTok choreography, and the high-pitched whistle note that can apparently be heard from Seoul to São Paulo. Ariana Grande, the Boca-Raton-born soprano who…
The Last Full-Contact Diplomat: Why the World Still Cares About Jim Brown, Dead or Alive By our man in the cheap seats of global memory Cleveland, Ohio, is not, by any stretch of diplomacy, a world capital. Its river once caught fire—twice—an achievement even Beirut politely calls déclassé. Yet when news of Jim Brown’s death…
