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Lululemon designed Canada’s kits to help athletes feel pride about the diversity, art, and culture of their country. Sure, the Olympics are about feats of athletic prowess. But they’re also about fashion. And this summer, the games are being held in Paris, arguably the fashion capital of the world.

The 150-foot-tall structure in Hudson Yards has been the site of four suicides since opening in 2019. Now, floor-to-ceiling mesh barriers will be installed as a safety precaution. The Vessel viewpoint, an 150-foot-tall beehive-like structure in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, first opened in 2019. Between that year and its closure in 2021, four people died by suicide at the site.

The enigmatic director has designed a room to help you think. Filmmaker David Lynch premiered a new installation at the Salone de Mobile design fair in Milan this week called ‘Interiors by David Lynch. A Thinking Room.’ And that’s everything I knew before walking in. 

Meow Wolf, the arts and entertainment company that opened a Denver outpost in 2021, will lay off 165 employees company-wide, according to an internal memo, even as it moves forward with plans to launch a new location in Texas. In a note to staff sent Monday, Meow Wolf CEO Jose Tolosa said the cuts will include 111 employees across the company’s exhibitions and corporate team, as well as 54 bargaining unit positions at Las Vegas’s Omega Mart. Officials at Meow Wolf didn’t immediately respond to questions about the number of Denver employees who will be affected, but said in the statement that the actions will cut expenses by 10%. The company, based in Santa Fe, has scaled up rapidly in recent years as it expanded its surreal, interactive sculptures and installations to multiple locations in Las Vegas, Denver and other planned markets. Meow Wolf officials are actively negotiating with the employee union as there is no collective bargaining agreement in place, Tolosa wrote in the memo. Related Articles Entertainment | Colorado mountain town is No.

Leah Nylen | Bloomberg News (TNS) The Justice Department may file an antitrust complaint as soon as next month aimed at forcing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to spin off its Ticketmaster ticketing business, according to three people familiar with the matter. The agency has been investigating the entertainment giant for years amid concerns Live Nation has illegally tied its concert promotion services to use of Ticketmaster, in violation of the terms of the 2010 settlement that allowed it to acquire the ticketing company.

A dozen properties owned by Tavern Hospitality Group founders Frank Schultz and Terry Papay hit the market last week, weeks after the mother-son duo reached a deal to end their legal spat. Denver’s Henry Group Real Estate is marketing the properties, which span from LoHi to the Denver Tech Center, and include a handful of buildings a fly ball away from Coors Field. “There’s some really, really good assets,” Henry Group founder Pat Henry told BusinessDen.