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Cocktails to Go and Blood-Sucking Celeb Weirdos

Photo: New York Magazine

Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable. Tap or click each image below to enlarge.

Photo: Public Domain (Adams); Antonio Rubio/Flickr (Tests); Tito’s Vodka; Yale University (Elite); Vinod Divakaran, DDSP (Djokovic); CT Senate of Republicans (Anti-Vax); Brooklyn Exponential Festival; U.S Mint (Maya Angelou); Sergey Eylanbekov/Courtesy Dwight. D Eisenhower Memorial Commission (Eisenhower Memorial Commission)
Photo: Student Workers of Columbia; Starbucks (Unions); Gov. Kathy Hochul/Twitter(To Go drinks); Team USA.org (Nathan Chen); Joan Marcus (Wicked); MacMillan (Xochitl Gonzalez); Metropolitan Transit Authority (Interborough Express); Chris Smart/Flickr (Walkout); Jeopardy Productions (Schneider)
Photo: Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Globes); HBO Max (Gadot); ElHormiguero (Garfield); Fanpage.-/Flickr (Nicole Scherzinger); Damien Shaw (Cow); Oculus (Cow); Purina (Cat food); Marco Metzler (Zooey Deschanel); Picturelux/alamy (Momoa & Bonet)
Photo: Gap (Yzy); Rodrigo Ferrari (Kanye); Dulce Osuna (Julia Fox); rai19/Flickr (Acropolis); Mario Perez/HBO (Coolidge); Edith’s; Wordle; HBO (Euphoria); Georgia Bulldogs; 20th Century Studios (Bob’s Burgers); Disney+ (encanto); Barefoot Contessa (Ina Garten); trillian421979 (Cosmo)

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