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Inside the ‘Invisible House’ on sale for $18 million in Joshua Tree

The eastern side of the Invisible House on a cloudy day. Did you ever look at the alien monolith from “2001: A Spacey Odyssey” and think, “Wow, I’d really like to live inside that”? Well now you can (sort of) for the meager price of $18 million. The Invisible House, a roughly 5,500-square-foot mirrored cuboid sitting on about 70 acres of land in Joshua Tree, Calif., is up for sale. The three-bedroom, four-bathroom space includes ultra-luxury home mainstays like a 100-foot indoor swimming pool and a chef’s kitchen integrated into a minimalist floor plan. The building is clad in nearly…
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How Online Casinos Changed The Way We Gamble

A night out at a land-based casino is generally an occasional event for all except the most voracious gamblers. When online casinos first rose to prominence, they granted even the most casual players unlimited access to casino games. Nowadays, one can easily join a poker game, play slot machines, roulette, and countless other games of chance from any location at any time. This innovation vastly increased the amount of play time for the average gambler. Now, instead of visiting your local casino once or twice a month, you can log on to your online casino of choice from your smartphone,…
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Josh Groban Delivers a Kinder Serial Killer

Opera lovers know how to deal with these situations in the theater. They go to hear the music – more specifically, they go to hear the voices – and they know how to block out or, at least, ignore elements of the production that don’t bother with what they hear. All those things that are important to the seasoned theatergoer, like acting and direction and a cogent plot, are just icing on an evening in the opera house. Which brings us to the strange but wonderful hybrid that is “Sweeney Todd.” Despite being performed in opera houses around the world,…