#superheroes

#superheroes

In his velvet jacket, colorful scarf and longish, graying hair, David Dubal looks as if he might have emerged from a 19th-century daguerreotype album recalling the life and times of a lesser-known romantic poet, a Renaissance man from an era long gone.Yet his many accomplishments are decidedly modern.

"Forget Pat's, forget Geno's.Jim's.Jim's in the best cheesesteak in Philly."Shazam (Zachary Levi) and Hespera (Helen Mirren) have a sit-down.Warner Bros. The 2019 film Shazam!followed on the heels of Wonder Woman (2017) and Aquaman (2018) two DC superhero movies that had already managed to step out from under the grim-dark era of filmmaker Zack Snyder, with its muddy, grayish-brown color palette and even muddier, brownish-gray emotional palette.

I would try to find poetry that is fun and speaks to the child's sense of the world.There are poems about sports or superheroes or science.Let the young person explore on their own terms, (and) discover the music and the language.Poetry can be about anything that the child might be interested in or might discover a love for.

The cultural centre in Bethnal Green will replace the V&A Museum of Childhood when it opens July 1, following a three-year 13 million makeover - the biggest transformation in the museum's 150-year life span.Co-designed with children, the centre aims to support the next generation of creative minds, from artists and designers to performers and creative practitioners and will include an extensive range of voices amongst its initiatives, from Quentin Blake and Linda McCartney to the XR Families Group and voices from the early 1900s suffrage movement.

In the summer of 1897, 20 Black U.S. Army infantrymen cycled 1,900 miles on fixed-gear, state-of-the-art bikes from Fort Missoula, Mont., to St. Louis.The Army ordered the grueling expedition to see whether soldiers could form a bicycle corps.Newspapers chronicled their progress as they pedaled 50 miles a day in mud and sand, through Montana's snowy mountains and across Nebraska's burning plains.

Young adult superheroes are having a moment, and we're about to get one of the biggest surprises yet.Wonder Woman is getting a daughter.Yes, really.The artist behind DC Comic's upcoming new series has teased a design for the character, and fans are already falling in love.Writer Tom King and artist Daniel Sampere will introduce Trinity in an upcoming anniversary edition of DC Comics' Wonder Woman (issue 800) before developing her into a central character in a series to launch in September.

It's always a delight to see children being encouraged in their creativity through collaborations with artists, and Adobe's served up a fine example with some unique superheroes.To mark Earth Day last month, it invited children to draw ideas for climate superheroes with special powers to protect the planet.

Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter re-established her LGBTQ+ allyship recently by helping encourage a father to accept his transgender child.It all started when Carter posted a February 13 post mourning the murder of a bullied trans teen influencer named Brianna Ghey.Carter posted a notification from local police announcing the arrest of Ghey's suspected 15-year-old murderers.

From left: Ross Butler, Adam Brody, Grace Caroline Currey, Zachary Levi, Meagan Good and D.J. Cotrona in "Shazam!Fury of the Gods."(Warner Bros. Pictures) StarOutline StarOutline (2 stars) With its wisecracking hero and flippant tone, 2019's " Shazam!" arrived as a bolt of inspiration in the gloomy DC Extended Universe.

Catalina Crunch started off in 2017 as a purely direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand advertising ketogenic ("keto") snack products on search and social, including Facebook and Instagram.But, as product demand and Facebook CPMs concurrently rose, a DTC-only biz wasn't enough to scale the business, said CEO Krishna Kaliannan.

The Christmas season is officially upon us and kids have launched into their annual holiday interrogation: Why does Timmy get more toys?Do the elves make Nintendo Switches?Why do you hate our Elf on a Shelf?And then there's the inevitable question, which is also the hardest: Is Santa real?Even before they dare ask the question, little kids wonder, "Is Santa real, or is it my parents?"

When actor Chris Hemsworth, aka Thor, God of Thunder, agreed to host a National Geographic series about extending the human life span, he didn't expect to discover a genetic risk of his own.But that's what happened as Hemsworth revealed on an episode of "Limitless" that he carries a common change in the APOE gene associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is roaring into theaters on November 11, 2022.For kids and families who loved Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa, this will be a bittersweet moment, a moment of excitement, and catharsis.We don't yet know how it will address the death of both the actor and the character, but when it comes to the existing Marvel movies, we have a pretty good sense of how kid-friendly each movie is.

Most of the superheroes have one thing in common - they have a cool set of wheels that adds to their heroic presence.While we already went bonkers over the AI-generated helmets and footwear, deep down I wished there was a bike that would perfectly match popular superheroes.AI-generated mash-up of cars in the style of famous designers was consolation but I was always longing for more...

Sure, not every single one of them is practical, but I'd personally sell my kidney for the Bumblebee-themed helmet below.I can't help but reinforce my point that Midjourney and other similar AI art-generators are incredible ideation tools.In a matter of mere seconds, they spit up inspirational images that can sometimes directly and oftentimes indirectly be taken as design inputs.

Sports By day, Dempsey is a fifth-grade teacher in the Winthrop Public Schools.By night, she dons her skates as a professional hockey player.Like superheroes, Jillian Dempsey lives a dual life.By day, Dempsey is a mild-mannered fifth-grade teacher in the Winthrop Public Schools.By night - or to be honest, sometimes at sunrise as well - she dons her skates as a professional hockey player who is speedy and assertive, dangerous near the net, and dogged when she plays defense.