Mikey Madison took home the trophy for best lead performance.
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The 2025 Independent Spirit Awards took place in Santa Monica on Saturday.
"Anora" was the big winner in the film categories, taking home best feature.
Meanwhile, Netflix's "Baby Reindeer" nabbed three acting prizes.
The 40th annual Independent Spirit Awards took place in Santa Monica on Saturday, with "Anora" dominating in the film categories and Netflix's "Baby Reindeer" also winning big.
Sean Baker's sex worker drama took home multiple awards, including best feature, best director, and best lead performance for star Mikey Madison.
Madison picked up the trophy fresh off of winning best actress at the BAFTAs last weekend. The film itself has been on a hot streak in the final leg of this year's award season, nabbing prizes at the Critics Choice, PGA, DGA, and WGA awards in recent weeks.
Madison beat out Demi Moore as well as some of the year's most acclaimed male performers, including Colman Domingo and Sebastian Stan.
Sean Baker won the award for best director at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
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In short, "Anora" has gained some major awards season momentum. Per Gold Derby's latest predictions, the Neon indie drama is now the frontrunner to win in the best film and best director categories at the Academy Awards next month.
Elsewhere in the film categories, Sean Wang's "Dìdi" won best first feature and best first screenplay, while Kieran Culkin continued his winning streak as he picked up best supporting performance for "A Real Pain," which also won best screenplay for director-writer Jesse Eisenberg.
In other categories, "Nickel Boys" nabbed the best cinematography prize, "September 5" won for best editing, and "No Other Land" scored the win for best documentary.
Over on the TV side, "Baby Reindeer" went home with multiple awards. The Netflix series won three acting prizes for cast members Richard Gadd, Nava Mau, and Jessica Gunning who won for lead, supporting, and breakthrough performance, respectively.
Richard Gadd.
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The award for best new scripted series went to FX's "Shōgun." Meanwhile, "Hollywood Black" took home the award for best new non-scripted series.
The Independent Spirit Awards aims to celebrate the best in independent film and television, offering a more irreverent take on the Oscars.
Joking at the ceremony, returning emcee Aidy Bryant called it "Hollywood's third or fourth biggest night."
Brad Keselowski believes Atlanta Motor Speedway offers a better balance of skill and entertainment compared to the chaotic pack racing seen at Daytona.
We may see the M4 MacBook Air as soon as March. In the Power On newsletter this weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is readying itself for the launch of the upgraded laptop next month. The company is “preparing its marketing, sales and retail teams for the debut,” according to Gurman’s sources, and it’s letting inventory of the existing models wind down. The M4 MacBook Air is expected to come in two sizes, 13-inch and 15-inch, like the previous model.
Apple introduced the M3 MacBook Air last March, and unveiled its new M4 chip a few months later, bringing that first to the iPad Pro. In October, it refreshed the iMac, Mac mini and MacBook Pros with the M4 family of chips. The MacBook Air is now due for its turn. While the laptop didn’t get the M4 chip in the fall, Apple did announce a long-awaited memory boost for the lineup at that time, with the M2 and M3 now starting at 16GB of RAM.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/apples-m4-macbook-air-could-be-here-in-just-a-few-weeks-153004599.html?src=rss
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Baseball fans have learned over the last few years that the players they cheer for take fantasy football extremely seriously and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Chris Bassitt reminded them of that.
Bassitt’s punishment for going 4-10 during the 2024 season – becoming the team’s bat boy, according to Sportsnet. He served as it for the team’s spring training game on Saturday against the New York Yankees. He wore "4-10" on the back of his jersey.
Fantasy football was a hot topic of conversation between Joc Pederson and Tommy Pham in 2022. Pederson, then with the San Francisco Giants, and Pham, then with the Cincinnati Reds, got into an incident over fantasy football. It led to Pham slapping Pederson over the whole ordeal.
The one-time All-Star is entering his 11th season in the majors and third with Toronto. He had a 4.16 ERA in 31 starts for the team last season. He also had 168 strikeouts.
Bassitt finished 10th in American League Cy Young Award voting in 2023. He led the American League with 16 wins, 33 starts and 826 batters faced. He pitched in a career-high 200 innings.
This season, Fan Graphs projected Bassitt to be the No. 3 starter in the team’s rotation behind Kevin Gausman and Jose Berrios. The Blue Jays are also expected to have Max Scherzer and Bowden Francis as well.
President Donald Trump’s White House is looking to sell two prominent federal buildings in San Francisco, including the recently dubbed Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, according to local reports.
The Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, a two-decade-old, 18-story tower known as the San Francisco Federal Building until its formal dedication to the former House speaker in December, sits on Mission and 7th streets in an area that has been for years plagued by open-air drug dealing, illegal markets reselling stolen goods and other crime.
In addition to Pelosi’s namesake building, the Trump administration is reportedly also considering selling the 1930s-era federal building at 50 United Nations Plaza, which currently serves as the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) regional headquarters. The potential sales were reported by KGO-TV, as well as the San Francisco Chronicle, which cited a GSA document earmarking both federal properties in San Francisco as "non-core" assets to possibly be sold off.
In 2023, hundreds of federal employees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assigned to the building were instructed to work from home amid worsening safety concerns, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. At the time, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, demanded its closure due to the drug dealing at the building’s doorstep.
"It's another example of how he is coming after Democrats. He's coming after California, and it's all about payback," former Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier told KGO, referring to Trump. "The lease will keep going up and you will end up paying the property taxes of the lessor, whereas you don't pay federal taxes when you are a federal government."
In a 2020 executive order, Trump described the 7th Street federal building – an energy-efficient "green" structure opened in 2007 at a cost of $144 million – as being considered by San Franciscans as "one of the ugliest structures in their city."
Andy Ball, a developer who worked as a concrete subcontractor on the building two decades ago, told the Chronicle the project was a "waste of taxpayer money from day one."
"No investor would have built this building," Ball said, estimating the costs were about "50% greater" than if the project had been funded by the private sector. "In this market, it will represent the greatest difference between cost to build and its sale value."
The potential building sales come as the Trump administration, through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), continues efforts to downside federal government bureaucracy. Though the lease remains active for the 800,000-square-foot former Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, Musk moved his tech company, rebranded as X Corp., to Texas last year.
Last year, the overall vacancy for downtown San Francisco reached 37%, with the vacancy rate specifically in the Mid-Market area sitting at 55%, according to the Chronicle.
As of December, the Federal Protective Service ramped up security at the corner since the 7th Street federal building was formally named after Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco for more than 37 years in Congress. Residents who spoke to KGO-TV lamented that the problems just seemed to have been moved a block over, as federal employees would now enjoy the benefit of armed security, while everyday citizens do not. The building, which can accommodate roughly 2,000 workers, currently houses offices for Pelosi, HHS, as well as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Labor, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Fox News Digital reached out to Pelosi's office, as well as the GSA and the White House, for comment Sunday but did not immediately hear back.
The author (right) is in an age-gap relationship with her younger husband (left).
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My husband and I have a nine-year age gap; I'm in my 50s, while he's in his 40s.
We often have to compromise on things, but sex can become an issue as my libido diminishes.
Luckily, we have learned to compromise and put in effort while in the bedroom.
I never imagined myself married to a much younger man. It wasn't part of my plan. When my first husband died, I assumed my next chapter would be one of quiet companionship — if I found love again at all. But then I met him.
We had been friends for a few years and even worked together for a while. It wasn't until we met in person for the first time that things shifted. His smile made me weak in the knees; his energy was infectious, and before I knew it, I was smitten. The fact that he was nine years younger than me? That detail barely registered at first.
As our age-gap relationship deepened, I started noticing the ways our age difference showed up — not just in pop culture references or childhood memories, but in how we approached life, relationships, and, yes, even intimacy.
We have our differences as an age-gap couple, but we make it work
He was in his late 30s, still in his prime, while I was staring down the barrel of my 50s, navigating perimenopause, joint pain, a waning libido, and the occasional existential crisis in the beauty aisle. I worried about keeping up and about whether our differences would eventually pull us apart.
But love has a way of silencing doubts. From the beginning, we clicked on a level that transcended age. We laughed at the same ridiculous jokes, found joy in the same adventures, and, most importantly, communicated.
Sure, there are generational differences. I grew up with landlines and handwritten letters; he downloaded music off Napster before I knew what a digital file was. There are moments when our pop culture references completely miss each other; I'll talk about a classic song from my youth, and he'll respond with a blank stare, and vice versa.
But instead of seeing these differences as a divide, we treat them as a chance to learn from each other.
I introduce him to my favorite throwback R&B, and he gets me into shows I wouldn't have given a second glance. I teach him about the pre-internet dating world, and he keeps me up to speed on what's trending.
If there was ever an unspoken rule about relationships working best when both people are in the same generation, we never got the memo.
Sex and intimacy can get tricky, but it's all about making an effort
Sure, as an older person, I have a diminishing libido, but there's a misconception that younger men are always the ones with the higher sex drive and that older women are the ones trying to keep up.
What I've found is that libido isn't dictated by age alone. Some nights, he's ready to go, and I just want to curl up with a book. Other times, I initiate sex while he's wiped out from a long day.
Compromise plays a big role in our intimacy. He has more energy for spontaneous late-night plans, while I'm more of a "let's schedule sexy fun" kind of woman. We meet in the middle: I rally for the occasional late-night adventure, and he indulges my need for a well-planned weekend getaway.
What keeps our relationship passionate isn't just physical chemistry; it's effort. We don't just assume passion will take care of itself; we cultivate it.
We prioritize intimacy, not just in the bedroom but in the small ways we stay connected every day: the lingering touches in the kitchen, the flirty texts in the middle of the afternoon, and the date nights where we still dress up for each other.
Confidence is the most important for me
Society often suggests that women over 50 should fade into the background and be grateful for any attention they receive. This sentiment is reflected in a 2021 AARP survey, which found that nearly two out of three women aged 50 and older experience regular discrimination, affecting their mental health.
Despite these societal attitudes, I refuse to buy into the notion that aging should equate to invisibility or diminished value.
I don't try to be 40 again for my partner. I don't compete with younger women for him. I own who I am — laugh lines, wisdom, and all.
And that self-assuredness? That's what keeps the attraction alive. He didn't fall for me because I was trying to be something I'm not; he fell for me because I embrace precisely who I am.
There's no magic formula to an age-gap relationship
I've found that love doesn't follow generational rules. It's not about pretending the differences don't exist or trying to mold yourself into someone younger (or older). It's about meeting each other where you are, keeping curiosity alive, and never taking each other — or the spark — for granted.
At least, that's how we've kept the sexy alive and grown closer, even as we grow older.
Nine years apart? That's just a number for us. What really matters is that we keep choosing each other — one inside joke, one stolen kiss, one well-planned weekend romp, and one "how the hell do you not know this song?" moment at a time.
Katy Allen hired an assistant to help her with home tasks.
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Katy Allen has three children and runs a business.
She has no family nearby, and her husband is a touring musician.
She relies on home assistants for about nine hours each week.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Katy Allen, founder of Artful Agenda. It has been edited for length and clarity.
For the past eight years, I've relied on recent college graduates to help me make my life happen. They're not babysitters or admin assistants — I think of each helper as a "second me," who will do with any of the tasks I might, whether that's processing Amazon returns, putting away laundry, or taking the car for an oil change.
I'm a mom of three kids, who are now 11, 8, and 5. I'm also a business owner and was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. My husband is a musician who is often on tour, and our closest family lives five hours away.
Hiring help fills an important gap for me. It allows me not only to get things done but, more importantly, to close some of the mental tabs that I constantly have open in my brain. Because of the help, I've been more successful at work and more present with my kids.
Find yourself also wishing for a body double? Here's how I've made the arrangement work seamlessly.
Find the right help
I live near a university, and that's where I've found most of my helpers. The women who help me are typically students or recent college grads. They might work for a year or two before moving on. When they do, I typically ask them to refer a friend who might be interested in the job.
If I have to advertise, I say right in the ad I'm looking for a second me. I explain that they might be asked to do anything I would do (within reason — I won't have them scrubbing up bathroom messes), and each day will look different.
Automate the process
Having a helper is all about reducing my workload, but a lot of my friends worry that hiring help will actually be more work. To avoid that, I automate as much as possible. My helper works a set schedule, typically two to three days each week for about three hours at a time. She has a key to my house and can let herself in and start working without me giving directions. Some days I don't even see her.
I keep a running list of items (like laundry) that constantly need attention in a Google Doc. If I have time each week, I add more pressing items, like returning items to the store, getting a birthday gift, or organizing a particular area of the house.
The Google doc is great because my helper can leave comments and notes, letting me know what she did and if she had trouble with anything. I can process that when I have time, rather than during my workday or when I'm with the kids. I can also provide simple feedback in the document.
Trust is key
As you can see, my helpers have a lot of access to my life. I even share another Google Doc with log-in information for certain accounts, like Amazon. A relationship like this only works if you can really trust the person who's working for you.
I've never had issues with a helper being untrustworthy. Once, I had a helper who just wasn't a great personality fit. She must have felt the same, because we parted ways fairly quickly, and I advertised the position again.
Start small
I pay my helper a decent rate, somewhere between what I'd pay a babysitter and what I'd pay a professional admin assistant. So, the cost can add up. When I started this eight years ago, I'd be surprised at how much I spend on hired help today. Yet, it makes sense because I am more productive at work.
If you're new to hiring help, start small. Hire someone for ad-hoc projects or for just a few hours a month, and see if the impact on your productivity and brain space is worth the cost. For me, it certainly has been.
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