Wende Zomnir Launched Urban Decay 30 Years Ago—And Then Completely Started Over With New Brand Caliray: ‘I Do Love The Challenge’

Wende Zomnir launched cult favorite cosmetics brand Urban Decay in 1996, 30 years ago this year. Not one to rest on her ...
Wired

Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School

A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.” In the fall of 2025, top executives from Alpha ...
Los Angeles Times

Culver City’s Wende Museum of the Cold War announces major expansion in Hawthorne

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The Wende Museum announced it is building a $16 ...
TheServerSide

Full Git and GitHub tutorial for beginners

Git isn't hard to learn, and when you combine Git and GitHub, you've just made the learning process significantly easier. This two-hour Git and GitHub video tutorial shows you how to get started with ...
TechCrunch

Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha

Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha, with the blessing of their governments, in a bid to offer a sovereign alternative to enterprises in an AI landscape dominated by ...
GM Authority

GM Alpha 2 Vehicle Platform

The GM Alpha 2 platform, sometimes written as Alpha II or A2, is an automotive vehicle architecture designed to underpin compact and mid-size General Motors vehicles with a longitudinal front-engine, ...
THE WEEK

Alpha School replaces teachers with AI. Is the future of education here?

Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence have educators from elementary to university seemingly fighting an uphill battle as they struggle to manage students’ dependence on the ...
The Art Newspaper

‘Painting continues to be viable’: Enrique Martínez Celaya on his sugar-coated show at the Wende Museum

The past is always with us, as the artist Enrique Martínez Celaya has shown in his trilogy of exhibitions exploring and evoking his childhood in Cuba. Conceived and realised over the past decade, the ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Freebie of the week: Culver City’s Wende Museum opens new community center

The interesting (and free) Wende Museum in Culver City — opened in 2002 to explore the legacy of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union — has opened a new space that offers even more free ...
Great Falls Tribune

Richard Alfons Wende

Richard Alfons “Dick” Wende passed away January 7, 2026 at the age of 83 after a short illness following a diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer. Dick was born on May 11,1942 in Hayward Wisconsin to ...
The Conversation

The psychology of generation Alpha

Generation Alpha is the largest generation ever. Totalling two billion children, it encompasses anybody currently aged 0-15 years old – those born between 2010 and 2025. This is the first fully ...
Business Insider

I helped build Urban Decay, which sold for over $300 million. My sons came to the office and watched me build the company.

This as-told-to essay is based on interviews with Wende Zomnir, the founder of Caliray. It has been edited for length and clarity. I started my career in advertising in Chicago in 1989, but those ...