My dad still uses his Bose sound system that he bought in 1973, and it still works to this day—the best sounding system I've ever heard. But in the current Bluetooth-enabled and home design-obsessed world, Sonos has owned the home speaker space. Not anymore. Last week, Bose launched something just as good-looking, powerful, and the perfect size. —Krista Jones, senior director, commerce and partnerships
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The new Lifestyle Ultra line is giving Sonos a run for its money.
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In 2022, we were obsessed with the Sonos Move. Two years later, we dubbed the (then new) Sonos Arc Ultra the best soundbar of the year. For a moment, Sonos was the king for a day with voice-activated smart speakers, multiroom sound setups, and systems that look good. There was competition, but it was really a one horse race. Now, Bose has paired its world-class audio with a more handsome design. The race is getting tighter.
The Bose Lifestyle Ultra Collection includes a bold, brand-new stab at a soundbar and an accompanying subwoofer. The Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar sounds great without the sub. It costs $1,099, the same price the Sonos Arc Ultra started at. But forget all that and instead look to the new $300 wireless home speaker. I don’t know if you’ve seen the price of anything lately, but $300 for a good speaker with all the modern bells and whistles is what I call a great value, maybe even a bargain.
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Ah, the big Saturday night out. Your have your shirt, jeans, and shoes laid out on the bed like it’s the night before the first day of school. But have you given any thought to your fragrance? It shouldn’t be an afterthought. Honestly, we might consider it the most important part of the outfit; it’s the thing that people will actually remember—for better or worse.
A decent scent can make or break the night. It can attract people to you on the dance floor. It can soften the air around you that otherwise smells like too many tequila shots and too many trips to the smoking section. The right fragrance can go a long way. So, to help you out, we’ve selected a few of our favorite night out fragrances for you to spritz on before a fun night.
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Ater someone is gone, throwaway things can become treasures. A Post-it note. A voicemail. Old text messages. For Euphoria, a reel of test footage shot almost seven years ago turned into a priceless object in the same way. It was never meant to be anything except an experiment with a rare kind of Kodak film. Instead, it became a way to revisit the late Angus Cloud in the show’s season 3 finale, if only for a moment.
It was a poignant goodbye for Zendaya’s Rue, who shortly thereafter succumbed to a fatal overdose herself, becoming another lost name in the notebook of Colman Domingo’s Ali. Fez’s daring escape from prison and Rue’s madcap dash to find him were part of a last hallucination as her life slipped away. This triggers his bloody mission of revenge against Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Alamo. The real-life destructiveness of fentanyl was a running theme this season, one that was especially meaningful to all who worked with and cared about Cloud, who lost his life due to the lethal substance.
Esquire was in the editing room watching as Euphoria creator Sam Levinson; his wife and executive producer, Ashley Levinson; and editor Julio C. Perez IV wove this footage into the early moments of this latest episode. Cloud passed away on July 31, 2023, at the age of only 25. Another showrunner might have chosen to end the character after the passing of the actor, but Levinson went the opposite way. Cloud is gone, but Fez endured.
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