Peanuts for wellness: 10 ways they support a healthy body
Peanuts are an excellent plant-based protein source, helping build and repair muscles, support cell function, and keep you feeling fuller for longer, making them ideal for vegetarians and athletes.
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New on Apple TV Plus in July 2025 — all the shows and movies to watch
A new month is quickly upon us (how is summer flying by so fast?!), which means that Apple TV Plus (as well as the rest of the best streaming services) will be introducing a whole new selection of films and TV shows to celebrate the beginning of July. This coming month will see the addition of several high-profile titles to Apple TV Plus's already sprawling streaming library, including the third season of ambitious sci-fi saga "Foundation," documentary adventure series "The Wild Ones," and the first Peanuts musical in more than three decades. Elsewhere, you've got the fourth and final installment of the hit bilingual comedy series "Acapulco," which closes out the rags-to-riches story of Maximo (Eugenio Derbez) as he returns to Las Colinas to restore it to its former glory before the grand reopening. You can find more info about all the new Apple TV Plus releases coming your way in July 2025 below. Entering its third season this July, "Foundation" is based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, a sci-fi epic that chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization and the fall of the Galactic Empire. Led by Emmy-nominated actors Jared Harris, Lee Pace, and star Lou Llobell, the 10-episode new season will pick up 152 years after the events of season 2. Apple's official synopsis reads: "The Foundation has become increasingly established far beyond its humble beginnings while the Cleonic Dynasty's Empire has dwindled. "As both of these galactic powers forge an uneasy alliance, a threat to the entire galaxy appears in the fearsome form of a warlord known as 'The Mule' whose sights are set on ruling the universe by use of physical and military force, as well as mind control. It's anyone's guess who will win, who will lose, who will live and who will die as Hari Seldon, Gaal Dornick, the Cleons and Demerzel play a potentially deadly game of intergalactic chess." Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Watch on Apple TV Plus from July 11 This six-part adventure docuseries sees a dedicated trio of wildlife filmmakers — including expedition leader Aldo Kane, wildlife and camera trap expert Declan Burley and wildlife cinematographer Vianet Djenguet — travel through the world's most remote and unforgiving environments to track and protect critically endangered animals from extinction. All six episodes will premiere globally in one fell swoop, with each installment featuring crafty camerawork and survival skills as the team races to locate, record and protect these elusive creatures before it's too late. Watch on Apple TV Plus from July 11 It's been more than 30 years since audiences have been charmed by a Peanuts musical special, and luckily that wait will end this July with "Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical," a 40-minute streaming event "about the joy and magic of summer camp and the importance of preserving what you love," per the streamer. "Charlie Brown loves camp and is determined to make his final year special, but Sally, a first-time camper, is nervous and skeptical of the new and unfamiliar place," reads the special's official description. "While everyone settles into camp, Snoopy and Woodstock discover a treasure map that takes them on a wild adventure nearby." Along with the return of those beloved Peanuts characters, the new musical will feature original songs by Emmy Award nominees Jeff Morrow and Ben Folds. Watch on Apple TV Plus from July 18 "In 1984, Maximo Gallardo's dream comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime at Acapulco's hottest resort, Las Colinas, but he soon realizes that working there will be far more complicated than he ever imagined" reads the series descriptor of the acclaimed Apple TV Plus comedy "Acapulco," which will debut the fourth and final chapter on the streamer this July. Led by Emmy and SAG Award-winning star and executive producer Eugenio Derbez, season 4 will see present-day Máximo (Derbez) work tirelessly to restore Las Colinas to its former glory before the grand reopening. Back in 1986, however, young Máximo (Enrique Arrizon) will do whatever it takes to get back on top and secure Las Colinas's future when a competitor claims the number one spot in the annual ranking of the destination's best hotels. Watch on Apple TV Plus from July 23
Los Angeles Times
18-06-2025
- Los Angeles Times
George Lucas' spaceship of a museum lands in L.A. with a wonderful surprise
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, rising on what used to be a parking lot in Exposition Park in downtown L.A., is devoted to visual storytelling: the comics of Charles M. Schulz ('Peanuts') and Alex Raymond ('Flash Gordon'), movie concept art by Neal Adams ('Batman') and Ralph McQuarrie ('Star Wars'), paintings by Frida Kahlo and Jacob Lawrence, photography by Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lange, illustrations by Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth. So when George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson chose Mia Lehrer and her L.A. firm, Studio-MLA, to design the 11 acres of landscape around — and on top of — MAD Architects' swirling, otherworldly, billion-dollar building, the driving forces behind the Lucas Museum made it clear that the landscape had to tell a story too. Lehrer and her team studied how directors, illustrators and painters use topography to help amplify, among other things, emotion, sequence and storyline. 'We looked at the landscapes of myths and movies,' said Kush Parekh, a principal at Studio-MLA. 'How do you take someone on a journey through space? How does the terrain change the story — and how can it be the story?' The result — which feels surprisingly grown-in even though the museum won't open until next year — is a sinuous, eclectic landscape that unfolds in discrete vignettes, all promoting exploration and distinct experience. Each zone contains varied textures, colors, scales and often framed views. A shaded walkway curls along a meandering meadow and lifts you toward a hilly canyon. A footbridge carries you above a developing conifer thicket. A plant-covered trellis, known as 'the hanging garden,' provides a more compressed moment of pause. The environment, like a good story, continually shifts tone and tempo. 'It's episodic,' Parekh said. 'Each biome reveals something new, each path hints at what's ahead without giving it away.' A key theme of the story is the diverse terrain of California — a place that, in Lehrer's words, 'contains more varied environments in a single day's drive than most countries do in a week.' Foothills and valleys, groves and canyons, even the mesas, plateaus and plains of the Sierra and the Central Valley — Lehrer calls all of it a 'choreography of place.' Another, more subtle, layer of this narrative is time. Plantings were laid out to bloom in different seasons and in different places. Bright yellow 'Safari Goldstrike' leucadendron, edging the meadow and canyon, come alive in late winter and early spring. Tall jacarandas, spied from a foothills overlook, emerge then quickly disappear. 'Bee's Bliss' sage, lying low in the oak woodland, turn lavender blue in the early summer. Something is always emerging, something else fading. 'Every month, every visit, feels different,' Parekh said. Even the alpine-inspired plantings cladding the museum's roof — colorful wildflowers, long sweeping grasses and coarse scrubs, all chosen for their hardiness, lightness and shallow roots — follow this rhythm. 'They're alive. They change. They move with the climate,' Lehrer said. Amazingly, the rest of the landscape is a kind of green roof as well, sitting atop a 2,400-spot underground parking structure — available to those visiting the Lucas or any of Expo Park's other institutions. Wedged between the greenery and the parking are thousands of foam blocks, mixed with soil and sculpted to form the landscape while minimizing weight on the building below. 'I wish I had invested in foam before we started this,' joked Angelo Garcia, president of Lucas Real Estate Holdings. 'It's everywhere. These mountains were created with foam.' 'It's full-scale ecology sitting on top of a structural system,' noted Michael Siegel, senior principal at Stantec, the museum's architect of record, responsible for its technical oversight and implementation. 'That's how the best storytelling works,' Lehrer added. 'You don't see the mechanics. You just feel the effect.' As you make your way through the rolling landscape, it becomes clear that it's also crafted to meld with MAD's sculptural design — a hovering, eroded form, itself inspired by the clouds, hills and other natural forms of Los Angeles. 'There's a dialogue,' Garcia said. Paths bend instead of cut; curving benches — cast in smooth, gently tapering concrete — echo the museum's fiber-reinforced cement roofline. Bridges arc gently over bioswales and berms. Ramps rise like extensions of the building's base. Paving stones reflect the color and texture of the museum's facade. 'It was never landscape next to building,' Lehrer said. 'It was building as landscape, and landscape as structure. One continuous form.' Closer to the building, where a perimeter mass damper system that the design team has nicknamed the 'moat' protects the museum from seismic activity, landscape nestles against, and seemingly under, the structure's edges, further blurring the barrier between the two. Rows of mature trees being planted now will help soften the flanks. Vines will hang from the Lucas' floating oculus, right above its entry court. The topography was designed to minimize environmental impact. Hundreds of plants, mostly native to the region, are drought-tolerant (or at least require little watering). A rain-harvesting system captures water for irrigation. And on the north edge of the museum will be 'The Rain,' a waterfall that doubles as a passive cooling system, replacing traditional air-conditioning infrastructure. (Dozens of underground geothermal wells provide additional cooling.) In this part of South L.A., park space is egregiously scarce, a remnant of redlining and disinvestment. This space — set to be open to the public without a ticket, from dawn to dusk — is a game changer, as is a massive green space on Expo Park's south side that also replaces a surface parking lot and tops an underground garage. (That latter project has been delayed until after the 2028 Olympics.) 'It's hotter, it's denser and it's long been overlooked. We wanted to change that,' Lehrer said of the area. What was once a walled-off asphalt lot is a porous public space, linking Expo Park to the rest of the neighborhood via its four east-west pathways and opening connections on the north side to Jesse Brewer Jr. Park, which the Lucas Museum has paid to upgrade. The museum also funded the creation to the south of the new Soboroff Sports Field, which replaces a field that was adjacent to the site's parking lot. The Lucas' circular plaza and amphitheater with seating for hundreds, have the potential not only to host museum events but also to become popular community gathering spots. For Lehrer, the landscape is a convergence of civic and ecological ideas that she's developed throughout her career — really ever since a chance encounter with the intricate original drawings for Central Park while she was studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Design spurred her to pivot from planning to landscape architecture. At this point, she's created arguably more major new public spaces in Los Angeles than any other designer, including two vibrantly didactic landscapes at the adjacent Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, downtown's 10-acre Vista Hermosa Park and the artfully layered grounds and lake surrounding SoFi Stadium. 'This brings everything together,' she said. 'Design, ecology, storytelling, infrastructure, community. It's the fullest expression of what landscape can be.' Lehrer credits Lucas with not just permitting her to explore these ideas but encouraging her to push them further. Lucas supported the rare — and costly — installation of mature plantings. Usually the landscape is the last part of a building to emerge. The progress in the grounds is a bright spot for the museum, which has been grappling with construction delays, the surprise departure of its executive director and, most recently, the layoffs of 15 full-time and seven part-time employees, part of a restructuring that a museum official said was 'to ensure we open on time next year.' As the new building accelerates toward that opening, the vision outside is becoming more clear. 'To have an open-minded client, who gets landscape and also appreciates creativity, it's rare,' Lehrer said. Lucas, who grew up on a farm in Modesto, has been developing the vineyards, gardens and olive groves of his Skywalker Ranch in Northern California for decades. 'I have always wanted to be surrounded by trees and nature,' Lucas said. 'The museum's backyard is meant to provide a respite in a hectic world.'
First Post
13-06-2025
- First Post
Peanuts for wellness: 10 ways they support a healthy body
Rich in protein Peanuts are an excellent plant-based protein source, helping build and repair muscles, support cell function, and keep you feeling fuller for longer, making them ideal for vegetarians and athletes.
