"Sometimes women become plus-ones, and sometimes guys become plus-ones," she told PEOPLE at the 2017 Global Goals Awards on Tuesday evening in N.Y.C. hosted by Melinda Gates and U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed.
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Before the show begins, celebrities walk the promenade with their plus-ones.
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Straight sizes, however, still outsell plus ones four to one, he says.
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Chris Evans, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Bradley Cooper often bring their mothers as plus-ones.
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We'll give 25 random winners — and their 25 lucky plus-ones — tickets to the show.
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David Anthony has a Jawbreaker tattoo and co-hosts a podcast called No Plus Ones.
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" And, on the R.S.V.P. cards: "We regret we cannot accommodate plus-ones, children or emotional support pets.
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Why do we offer our coupled friends plus-ones at all, when we don't know the partner?
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Fine. But I think there's a better way, and that's to not give plus-ones to anybody.
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The special plus-ones afforded the women an opportunity to keep questions on the carpet about issues.
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The party was off-site, and we (losing nominees and our plus-ones) were taken there in buses.
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Initially we were told that only nominees could enter, without our plus-ones, though this was later changed.
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We're told 100 people are on the guest list with plus-ones, but only half got the fancy document.
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A Milan city councilor for culture, Filippo Del Corno, wants to open the park to adults without little plus ones.
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In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week this May, CheapCaribbean is giving free flights to 50 teachers and their plus ones.
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In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week this May, CheapCaribbean is giving free flights to 313 teachers and their plus ones.
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The new pieces, dubbed "Plus Ones" by the trendy brand, expand Away's offerings to cover almost every type of travel bag.
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The business of plus-ones—or inviting at times complete strangers to this important and personal life event— is also expensive.
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The ninth-floor House Canteen, the club restaurant, is open to hotel guests and plus-ones, and on a space-available basis.
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Although the tech is relatively complicated, the concept is super straight forward — it's simply a matter of counting plus ones and minus ones.
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And given that there will be irrationalities to which it is just not feasible to cater, a few plus-ones are maybe okay.
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Each of Trump's plus-ones represented a major political stance or goal of his administration, such as stronger immigration or fighting the opioid crisis.
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The plus ones of actors are always a spot of interest, but during awards season, there is a renewed interest in the dates of celebrities.
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They allowed plus ones to sign up last week, but all the spots were taken in 45 minutes, so I got waitlisted to no avail!
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There are certain subjects that are always divisive, like whether cash bars are acceptable, which guests should get plus-ones, and whether to invite kids.
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The two guys are desperate for plus-ones, and to prove to their family that they can act like the grown-up men they are (ha!).
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Topping the bill of the "special plus-ones," as CNN put it, was Michelle Williams with Tarana Burke, the woman credited with founding the #MeToo campaign.
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Like the rest of the Away line, it's available in a limited palette: the permanent colors for all three "Plus Ones" include navy blue, black and asphalt.
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Faced with the prospect of attending 10 weddings between them, longtime college friends Alice (Erskine) and Ben (Quaid) make a pact to be each other's plus ones.
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And only giving plus-ones to people who are married or in serious relationships is a useful albeit arbitrary way of narrowing down the amount of plus ones you feel obligated to offer; the number needs to be narrowed down somehow, because if every guest got a plus-one, you'd lose all your money, so why not choose this messed-up determining factor that most people seem to accept as normal?
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Werner told me as much when I (along with Noisey editor Dan Ozzi) interviewed him to get his take on band reunions for the podcast No Plus Ones.
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When we returned home after graduation, we made a two-headed unit, speaking in a language of arcane in-jokes and serving as each other's de facto plus-ones.
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The two inseparable stars, who have been BFFs since their Dawson's Creek days and are each other's perpetual red carpet plus-ones, spent the day gallivanting around L.A. on Thursday.
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In their push to highlight the problems of sexual harassment and gender inequality, eight actresses at Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony are extending their political statements to their plus-ones.
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My fellow gawkers include observers from the European Space Agency, plus-ones of Blue employees, and the Southwest Airlines pilot who safely landed a plane in Philadelphia after her engine blew up.
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When the co-workers you don't know all that well have implied plus-ones, you can hardly apply the term "crash" to your grandfather's second cousin, even if you've never met her.
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I take in the wide drive, suitable for showcasing high-end cars, as other guests implore their plus ones to take the perfect shot of them by the pool for the 'gram.
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To show they favor permanent protections for young immigrants, at least 23 lawmakers will bring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients as plus-ones to Tuesday's State of the Union, including Sen.
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No one in our wedding party knew who they were, and we just figured they were plus ones of friends that we didn't get to talk to, given there were so many people.
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This is not the main awards show, mind you, but rather the official red carpet where celebrities are photographed and asked softball questions about their wardrobes, plus-ones, and who they're hoping will win.
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I didn't know her; I was there with a gaggle of other young women who were all "plus ones" of other people, and Carrie and Penny thought we were prostitutes — I was so excited.
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It's also smart optics — Middleton wouldn't want to be upstaged by a prince and a TV star, but she also wouldn't want to look mean or exclude some of her other friends' plus-ones.
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Some of the policies were even more lenient: One bride said she gave plus-ones to anyone she knew was in a serious relationship, regardless of whether they were living together, engaged, or married.
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Now users will see a horizontal tray of channels atop Explore, including an algorithmically personalized For You collection, plus ones like Art, Beauty, Sports and Fashion, depending on what content you regularly interact with.
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The reason these Joe & The Juice employees from around the world (and their plus-ones) have gathered in this violet-lit industrial space is not for a Zoolander-style walk off, but for something even weirder.
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Nonetheless, someone has to think of that stuff and come up with a good enough menu to help the Television Academy and their plus-ones either celebrate their wins or make them momentarily forget the losses.
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Almost always, plus-ones were offered to people in the wedding party, regardless of relationship status (and to a few single people who had to travel very long distances and wouldn't know anyone.) Aside from the courtesy plus-one offerings to people in the wedding party, who are devoting serious time and resources into the event, the main reasoning for offering married people and people in serious relationships plus-ones seems to be: Making people feel comfortable, as well as returning the favor if they had been offered a plus-one in the past.
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Several actresses brought along activists as their plus-ones and ceded their interview time to them, though the format of "red carpet interview," which is breezy and intensely visual by design, felt ill-suited at best and insulting at worst.
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This season's most polished plus-ones are fashioned from either snake or croc (all ethical faux skins, of course), and while Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Tory Burch all had exotic offerings, two mid-range indie brands are leading the way.
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Plus-ones for people in serious relationships, when the married couple doesn't know one of the partners, are not meaningful to the married couple—they are not people who would have been invited, on their own, to this special day.
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A number of actresses also brought prominent female activists as their plus-ones to give them a bigger platform for their causes, and spoke out in support of women who came forward with stories about alleged sexual harassment and sexual abuse by powerful men in Hollywood.
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In the past year, MoviePass has had its monthly unlimited plan, added and removed a $7.95/month plan, a quarterly plan, aspirations of IMAX ticketing and plus ones, automatic enrollment that infuriated users, three-movie limits, and has currently settled on the old unlimited model with a limited selection of movies.
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This may seem like an extreme position, but I believe that the custom of offering plus-ones—overwhelmingly to people who have romantic partners, as if that kind of partnership is more valid or serious than non-fucking ones, as if people in romantic relationships are less able to handle doing a single thing alone—is extreme and weird.
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Where Everyone's an Influencer A place where everyone is an influencer seems like the absolute most fun place that you could ever be, so thanks to Taylor Lorenz for going there: The occasion was Instabeach, an exclusive, invite-only annual party hosted by the photo-sharing platform for 500 top creators along with plus-ones, talent representatives, managers, and—for the first time—press.
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You are always the guest at weddings, aren't you, never quite part of the bridal party or usher alliance, just a guest, just you in your suit or your nice dress just making up the numbers, and I mean it's probably because you cycle through potential plus-ones at such a rate of knots that anyone planning their wedding—weddings, and you wouldn't know this because you are a mess, weddings take months of planning, even years—and because anyone planning their wedding doesn't quite know who to invite with you to theirs, so there's you, with the generic '+1' wording on your wedding invite, an extra in the crowd, eating your meal and listening to speeches by people you've never met or seen, secretly thinking, 'I could have been involved with this, surely?
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Lynette ends up attending yoga, salsa dancing and flower arranging with the other plus ones and gets more and more frustrated. Eventually, she tries to persuade the other plus ones to storm the seminars with her, saying that they are in 21st century America, not an oppressive patriarchal regime. However, the organizers quickly offer the plus ones cocktails and they are distracted. Lynette gives up and takes a drink too.
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By 1996 she had toured Europe extensively, signed with WEA Germany (Warner Brothers) and earned numerous awards with the dozen albums, which blended influences of punk, folk, rock, blues and Americana into her dark unique acoustic sound. Her first full-length album was Birdboys which came out in 1987. Her most recent album is 2012's On Market Street. Shortly after the release of Pale Green Girl, Houston and original guitarist Greg Ingraham recreated the Avengers, adding bassist Joel Reader (formerly of The Mr. T Experience, and The Plus Ones) and drummer Luis Illades (of Pansy Division, formerly also of The Plus Ones) to round out the lineup.
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Long-time friends Alice Mori and Ben King find themselves in that inevitable year that all late 20-somethings experience—in which seemingly every person they know gets married—and agree to be one another’s plus ones as they power through an endless parade of insufferable weddings.
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In 2015 Michael Hogan of The Daily Telegraph criticised the general portrayal of male companion figures in Doctor Who. He described Mickey, alongside 2010-2012 character Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) and 2014 character Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson) as all "basically soppy, sappy, slightly annoying plus-ones to far superior females".
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Lynette runs away. Back at home, Renee comes over and discovers that Tom and Lynette are in the middle of a fight. Tom yells at Lynette that she embarrassed him, adding that for years he took a back seat to her career but she can't do the same for him. When he storms off, Lynette tells Renee that the conference was awful because the plus ones were treated like second class citizens.
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The woman agrees and introduces herself as Meg Butler, the president of Amtec. Lynette explains that she is with her husband, and Meg immediately becomes rude, explaining that Lynette won't see Chris Cavanaugh because the seminars are not available to plus ones. Lynette is surprised and Meg explains that it is because some people spent their lives working up the corporate ladder and others just married someone who did. Lynette is furious but Lee manages to drag her away.
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In 1999, a compilation album called Died for Your Sins was issued by Lookout! Records. In addition to original unreleased studio recordings and live tracks, three tracks were newly recorded in 1999 by the scAvengers, featuring original members Houston and Ingraham with new members bassist Joel Reader (The Mr. T Experience, The Plus Ones) and drummer Danny Panic (Screeching Weasel). To support the album, the scAvengers did a few shows. In 2003, a live album titled Zero Hour was released in Italy.
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Reader left the band after Alcatraz and joined the Plus Ones. He was replaced by Gabe Meline, who had contributed to the recording of Alcatraz. This lineup recorded the EP The Miracle of Shame in 2000, which also included organ and keyboardist Erik Noyes. Noyes was a semi- official band member who had contributed to Revenge is Sweet, and So Are You and Alcatraz and joined them officially for touring in the summer of 1999, but did not remain with them long.
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It is used as the theme song for the TV broadcast version of Stone Quackers; however on streaming websites such as Hulu, the song is replaced by the song St. Jacques by Lightning Bolt. It plays in the background during one of Carol’s sleep-deprived dream sequences in Episode 3 / Season 10 of The Walking Dead. It is alluded to in the Okkervil River song “Plus Ones.” Was used as the opening song in Season 2, Episode 1 of the Showtime show United States of Tara It was used in a US television advertisement for Belvita breakfast biscuits in May 2020.
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Sil would originally emerge from a DNA sequence manipulating human DNA, and constantly mutate as she used the human junk DNA to access "all the defenses of the entire animal kingdom that [humans] evolved through – including ones that had never developed, plus ones [Earth's scientists] don't know about that have become extinct." Among the research Feldman did for the script included going to sessions of UCLA's Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life (CSEOL), talking to SETI scientists, and visiting the Salk Institute for Biological Studies to talk with researchers working on the Human Genome Project. The Message was offered to several studios, but was passed up. In 1993, Feldman reworked his ideas into a spec script.
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Kolhatkar began 2017 by performing at the Mardi Gras Comedy Festival Gala in February. The gala, held at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre as part of the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, featured him alongside internationally-recognised comedians Hannah Gadsby, Stephen K. Amos, and Tom Ballard. After this, he presented his fourth solo stand-up comedy show #ObjectifyNeel. Performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Sydney Comedy Festival, Perth’s Fringe World Festival and in a number of regional Australian locations, the show received positive reviews from comedy critic Desiree Walsh of WeekendNotes and The Plus Ones, but only two out of five stars from The Sydney Morning Herald critic Dan Harrison. Kolhatkar ended 2017 by headlining The Comedy Store’s Christmas Spectacular, performed in Sydney.
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However, his permanent death and continuation of story in the following story "Death in Heaven" received mixed reviews, with Doctor Who TV commenting that how Danny kept a grip of his emotions following the turning of his inhibitor not being a sufficient explanation and criticising that Danny's backstory was not given sufficient screen time for emotional impact. Following his death, some fans campaigned to "keep Danny dead" following Steven Moffat's apparent trend to resurrect fallen companions including Clara, and Rory Williams. In 2015, Michael Hogan of The Daily Telegraph criticised the general portrayal of male companion figures in Doctor Who. He described Danny, alongside 2005-2006 character Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) and 2010-2012 character Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) as all "basically soppy, sappy, slightly annoying plus-ones to far superior females".
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Dan Panic joined Squirtgun as drummer in late 2016, first performing with the band on January 6, 2017 in Reno, NV, and again the subsequent day in Berkeley at the Lookouting Festival at 924 Gilman in Berkeley, CA. Panic first met Mass Giorgini in December 1991, while Rattail Grenadier and Screeching Weasel played some tour dates together. Mass later produced nine albums on which Panic performed, including albums for Screeching Weasel, Riverdales, the Queers, and the Groovie Ghoulies. Beyond these bands, Panic has also played in Pansy Division, the Avengers, Common Rider, the Plus Ones, and Beulah, with which he appeared on the Conan O'Brien Show. Matt Leonard (The Phuzz, The Maxies) was a member with Squirtgun from 1996 to 1999 and sang lead vocals on two songs on Squirtgun's Another Sunny Afternoon album.
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