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9 months ago
Books

A husband and wife reimagine fairy tales with Black children in mind

Bethencourt's Crowned series reimagines classic fairytales with a focus on black protagonists, giving readers of color an opportunity to see themselves in the stories.
Bethencourt has received positive feedback from readers, who appreciate being able to connect with characters who look like them.
www.theguardian.com
9 months ago
France news

Dough: David Lescot's play weighs a man's life in his bank balance

The award-winning French author, director and composer David Lescot's play Dough is all about money: how a man makes it, manages it or fails to and mostly loses it through his lifetime.The show programmed at this year's Edinburgh fringe examines one person's relationship with le fric (as dough translates in French) as a continuous transaction between themselves and others.
Bustle
1 year ago
Marketing

I Dare You To Watch TikTok's "Door Frame Lean" Trend & Not Blush

Romance novels have given us so much - the enemies-to-lovers pipeline, the Twilight series, and now, a spicy new trend on TikTok.Inspired by a classic romance novel trope, the viral door frame lean trend has #booktok heating up, and for good reason.Once you know what the sexy TikTok sensation is all about, you're gonna want to role-play your favorite romance novel with your significant other (or sneaky link) ASAP.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Books

There are more books about gays & lesbians. But what about bi people & pansexuals?

Much has been made of the increase in queer representation in popular fiction in recent years, and rightly so.After all, "If you can't see it, you can't be it," as the saying goes.For those of us who grew up with few queer characters in the books we read, it's heartening to see people of all sexualities and genders getting the representation they deserve - but are some still getting less exposure than others?
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Big Feelings at the Premiere of The Whale'

The carpet was blue.The poster was blue.The suits were blue.That is, until the actor Ty Simpkins arrived at the New York premiere of The Whale at Alice Tully Hall this week  in a magenta suit.I want the summer weather back, Mr. Simpkins, 21, explained of his choice to break with the otherwise muted palette of the film's cast and creative team, who arrived on the red carpet  well, oceanic blue carpet  in navy suits and black dresses.
Slate Magazine
1 year ago
Education

I'm a Teacher in Florida. The Anti-LGBTQ Rules Are Making the Job Nearly Impossible.

As a sixth-grade public school teacher in Florida, I've come to expect the worst from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Department of Education.The governor's "Don't Say Gay" bill put a target on the back of LGBTQ students and teachers: It outlaws "classroom instruction" on sexual orientation or gender identity ( whatever that is) in grades K-3 and severely limits it in grades 4-12.
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9 months ago
Arts

Racist horror tropes are the first to die in the slasher comedy 'The Blackening'

In The Blackening, Lisa (Antoinette Robertson) and her friends try to survive a weekend getaway turned deadly.Glen Wilson/Lionsgate When Keenen Ivory Wayans's Scary Movie became a huge hit more than 20 years ago, the trope about Black characters in slasher flicks that they're usually the first to die or rarely survive until the very end was already decades old, and still going strong.
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9 months ago
Arts

From lead poisoning to 'miracle feet,' sample the winners of the WHO's film festival

Jonathan and his twin brother were born in Sierra Leone with club feet.His twin died as a baby and his parents were told he may never walk like other children.His father turned to prayer and his mother to an herbal healer, but none of it worked and the family gave in to hopelessness.That is, until a relative heard about a special clinic on the radio, leading the family to travel across the country to get treatment for Jonathan.
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10 months ago
Arts

This Romanian film about immigration and vanishing jobs hits close to home

R.M.N. is based on an actual 2020 event in Ditrau, Romania, where 1,800 villagers voted to expel three Sri Lankans who worked at their local bakery.TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR.In the new Romanian film "R.M.N.," a village in Transylvania is thrown into turmoil when the local bakery hires workers from Sri Lanka.
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1 year ago
Arts

He watched the Koons 'balloon dog' fall and shatter ... and wants to buy the remains

The "balloon dog" sculpture, pictured, shortly after it shattered.Cedric Boero Welcome to a new NPR series where we spotlight the people and things making headlines and the stories behind them.If we're being honest, the main character in this story is the woman who bumped into the pedestal holding the Jeff Koons "balloon dog" sculpture, sending it to its death on the floor at a Miami art fair last week.
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1 year ago
Arts

First episode of 'Chainsaw Man' anime revs up with zombie guts and devil dogs

Denji (voiced by Kikunosuke Toya) wreaks havoc in Chainsaw Man, streaming on Crunchyroll.
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9 months ago
Tech industry

We ranked the top 10 'Final Fantasy' main games, ahead of XVI's release

Final Fantasies XV, IX, X Square Enix I love Final Fantasy, and sometimes love makes you do drastic things.When the first trailer for Final Fantasy 16 dropped in late 2020 I made the inspired decision to play and rank every mainline entry before it came out.I had finished most of them already, but why not relive the magic once more?
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10 months ago
Tech industry

Zelda fans are taking the day off to explore 'Tears of the Kingdom'

The hero of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link, and his trusty allies.Nintendo Fans of the video game series The Legend of Zelda are doing their best to get out of work today so they can play the newest installment in the franchise: Tears of the Kingdom.I found out about this phenomenon when my sister, Claire Stucki, told me she was taking the day off Friday.
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9 months ago
Design

Starfield-themed Xbox controller, headphones and smartwatch are must-have for action RPG lovers - Yanko Design

At the annual Xbox Games Showcase 2023, Microsoft laid a major emphasis on its upcoming sci-fi RPG dubbed Starfield, along with the announcement of other major titles coming to the platform.But the highlighting bit for us was the announcement of Starfield Xbox controller and Starfield headphones.At the event publisher Bethesda also unveiled the real-life version of Starfield's Constellation Edition watch that's modeled exactly after the one seen in the game.
www.standard.co.uk
9 months ago
London

Morph's step-free art trail is coming to London this summer

T he UK's first-ever step-free art trail, Morph's Epic Art Adventure is getting ready to kick off in London this summer.Hosted by Whizz-Kidz, a young person's mobility charity, in collaboration with Wild In Art and Aardman Animations, the accessible trail aims to make young wheelchair users feel mobile, enabled and included.
Secret London
1 year ago
London

Autumnal Things To Do In London This Week - Secret London

If you, like us, have been waiting with bated breath for autumn to kick in (goodbye heatwaves, hello knitwear), then this one's for you.Feed your autumn-lovin soul at these seriously lovely spots.
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9 months ago
New York City

In Historic Night for Nonbinary Performers, J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell Win Tony Awards

J. Harrison Ghee accepting the Tony Award for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical, Some Like It Hot.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Time Alex Newell accepting the Tony Award for featured actor in a musical, Shucked.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times J. Harrison Ghee, whose portrayal of a gender-questioning musician fleeing the mob in Some Like It Hot has charmed critics and audiences, won a Tony Award for best leading actor in a musical Sunday night, becoming the first out nonbinary actor to win that award.
Washington Post
9 months ago
DC food

Review | 'Mending the Line': A well-meaning but inert PTSD drama

Brian Cox in "Mending the Line."(Eros Hoagland/Blue Fox Entertainment/Meydenbauer Entertainment) Comment Gift Article StarOutline StarOutline (2 stars) The title of the film "Mending the Line" refers to an adjustment to a fly-fishing line to counter the effects of water currents.
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

Rodeo movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert

Quivoron, who co-wrote "Rodeo" with Buresi, often switches gears between character study and a heist movie, creating an uneasy whiplash.In certain scenes, the camera stays close to Julia's world-weary eyes; her angry, defiant stare burns into whoever is unlucky enough to earn her ire.What feels like seconds later, she's back on her bike, bidding for freedom and enjoying the wind in her long hair.
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1 year ago
Books

A showbiz striver gets one more moment in the spotlight in 'Up With the Sun'

Google the real-life actor, "Dick Kallman" and you'll see one of those faces that just misses.Here's how Thomas Mallon, in his dazzling new historical novel, Up With the Sun, describes the young Kallman's looks when he made his stage debut in 1951: He had a fine, glossy New York kisser, the kind that made you wonder: Italian?
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1 year ago
Film

Building the score for 'Glass Onion'

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The soundtrack to any good murder mystery must have some suspense.(SOUNDBITE OF NATHAN JOHNSON'S "THEME FROM GLASS ONION") CHANG: But what if the story is also funny and absurd and even a little tongue-in-cheek?Well, that was the task for composer Nathan Johnson, who wrote the score for the film "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."
The Berlin Spectator
1 year ago
Germany news

Berlin: Expatriates to Stage Musical 'Legally Blonde'

Berlin, October 11th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - In the summer of 2001, "Legally Blonde", a Hollywood film, hit theaters in the United States and the rest of the world.
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9 months ago
Europe news

This Is Ischia's Moment in the Sun

I fell for Ischia well before I ever visited it in person.In the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley, the scene where Tom, the main character, happens upon Marge and Dickie, the couple he is pursuing, was filmed beneath the island's Aragonese castle on its golden beach (the Spiaggia dei Pescatori, the beach of the fishermen).
www.theguardian.com
10 months ago
Europe news

Justice is on our side, and Putin is old': Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh

In May 2018 Kira Yarmysh found herself in jail for a second time.Yarmysh press secretary to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had called for people to attend an anti-government rally in downtown Moscow.Its title: He's Not Our Tsar.The tsar in question Vladimir Putin was about to be inaugurated as president for a fourth term.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Europe news

Ukraine pays tribute to Russian woman who fought on its side

KYIV, Ukraine - An honor guard fired a three-gun salute toward cloudy skies as friends and comrades-in-arms gathered in Kyiv to bid farewell to a Russian woman who was killed while fighting on Ukraine's side in the war with her native country.
Raymondcamden
9 months ago
Vue

Using Goodreads Data in Eleventy

I've been a Goodreads user for a few years now, and much like how I use other 'tracking' services, I'm not there for other folks' reading lists or recommendations, but instead, as a way to track what I've read.I especially like looking back over the past year and being reminded of the books I really enjoyed.
Goodreads
9 months ago
Books

Sadie Hartmann's review of The Puzzle Master

1. Reading can help to reduce stress and improve mental health.
2. It is important to find the right book for you that speaks to your interests and is enjoyable to read.
3. Reading can help to expand your knowledge and stimulate your imagination.
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10 months ago
Books

In 'Julieta and the Romeos,' a teen aims to uncover the identity of her mystery man

Most book lovers dive into a good book to escape the dreaded realities of life.In Maria E. Andreu's latest, Julieta and the Romeos, 17-year-old Julieta Toledo escapes into writing, the perfect haven for her increasingly runaway imagination.There's heightened pressure on the prose when an author chooses to make their main character a writer, but almost immediately, the reader is pulled in by Julieta's highly entertaining penchant for hilariously detailed descriptions of the people, places, and things around her. Especially the three handsome boys she can't seem to avoid these days: Lucas, Calvin, and Ryan.
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10 months ago
Books

She wants fiction writers to step outside their experiences. Even if it's messy

The cover of Yellowface.William Morrow R.F.Kuang's novel offers a literary exploration of cultural appropriation taken to a new degree.Who is she?R.F.Kuang is an award-winning Chinese American author, known for her best-selling fantasy novels in The Poppy War trilogy.Yellowface, her latest work, focuses on a writer and thief named June Hayward, who finds herself stumped with little professional success.
www.eppingforestguardian.co.uk
1 year ago
Books

Harlow author publishes new book based on her grandmother's stories

Book - Milldown is based on the author's grandma's bedtime stories (Image: Olympia Publishers) A HARLOW author has written a book inspired by her grandmother's bedtime stories.Lorna Uglow's book, entitled Milldown, is set in Scotland and Ireland in the early 20th century and is described as an achingly poignant love story based on true events.
Therumpus
1 year ago
Books

April Spotlight: Letters In The Mail - The Rumpus.net

April Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Twice a month, The Rumpus brings your favorite writers directly to your IRL mailbox via our Letters in the Mail program.April 1 LITM Erica Berry
Erica Berry is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.Her nonfiction debut, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear , was published by Flatiron and Canongate in early 2023.
www.newsshopper.co.uk
1 year ago
Books

Meet the TikTok famous Bromley author who used to deliver the News Shopper

Bromley-based author Fiona Lucas, 55, has written 28 books with a mix of contemporary women's fiction stories.Fiona published her first book Blind Dates Marriage in 2006 for Mills & Boon, with her latest book Never Forget You most recently published in September 2022.Before becoming an author, Fiona worked several jobs including dance teaching, video editing and office work, with her first job delivering a paper round.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Photography

Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues

Image Iiu Susiraja's Woman (2010), one of the powerful works that take aim at contemporary body image issues, obsessions and taboos in a show at MoMA PS1.Credit...via Iiu Susiraja, Makasiini Contemporary, and Nino Mier Gallery The strange, discomfiting photographs and videos of the Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja push so many buttons that her provocative exhibition at MoMA PS1 should have been staged in an elevator to paraphrase the theater critic Peter Marks.
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10 months ago
Right-wing politics

Opinion | My Fantasy Bookshelf

After filing last week's newsletter comparing Succession to a work of Game of Thrones-style fantasy, I recorded a podcast episode with Razib Khan in which we talked about our shared affection for actual fantasy novels, our experience as early George R.R. Martin adopters and other matters of deep nerd interest.
Vulture
10 months ago
Writing

Comedian Samantha Irby Doesn't Want the Che Diaz Treatment

Samantha Irby knows how to write in many mediums.The No. 1 New York Times best-selling author has published several books of personal essays.She's written for TV shows like Shrill and And Just Like That ..., the Sex and the City reboot, and about what it felt like to almost turn one of her books of essays into a TV show itself.
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1 year ago
Books

Rebecca Makkai's smart, prep school murder novel is self-aware about the 'ick' factor

Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the modern mystery, was onto something when he declared that, "the death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."That weird and repugnant statement appeared over a century and a half ago in an essay called "The Philosophy of Composition," but Poe could be talking about the popularity of true crime podcasts and documentaries in our own day.
Consequence
1 year ago
Music

Fan Chant: Getting "Groovy" with CRAVITY: Interview

Welcome to Fan Chant, a weekly column for K-pop fans, stans, and newbies alike.Each week, I'll be rolling out interviews, lists, and all kinds of content to keep you in the loop on the latest and greatest from our friends in Seoul and beyond.Also, make sure to subscribe to my companion newsletter!Nine-member act CRAVITY have a contagious energy both in their music and in conversation.
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1 year ago
Books

Bringing 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' to the screen

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner about Fleishman Is in Trouble, the television series based on her hit book of the same name.ELISSA NADWORNY, HOST: At the heart of the new FX on Hulu series, "Fleishman Is In Trouble," is the fallout of a failed marriage and the serious questions it brings up.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

10 Bookish Baby Names Perfect For A Future Novelist

Among a certain fretful, literary population there's a fear that books could go extinct.Of course, that's a ridiculous worry.What else are we going to use to prop up wobbly tables, arrange by color on our bookshelves, or try to impress people with?Of course, if you want books to continue being printed (or written) in the future, it might help if you give your kid a strong, literary name.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

Jo Cox's husband leads backlash against Killing Boris Johnson' film

The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox has accused a film that portrays an attempt to kill former prime minister Boris Johnson of "normalising violence" against politicians.Killing Boris Johnson, which premieres at Cannes Film Festival this month, follows a main character who takes a gun to a primary school being visited by Mr Johnson after it was revealed parties were being held at Downing Street during lockdown.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Ukraine backs Johnson for return as PM with Better Call Boris' meme

Ukraine's government seemingly threw its weight behind Boris Johnson to be the next Tory leader by sharing a meme based on a popular television show - before promply deleting it after a social media backlash.
Dezeen
10 months ago
Design

Taliesyn draws on vernacular architecture for earth-toned Cabin House

Rough textures and vernacular elements define this weekend home, which Indian studio Taliesyn has added to a streetside site in Bangalore.Named The Cabin House, the home was informed by the vernacular architecture of South Bangalore's Jayanagar neighbourhood and was designed to maximise the site's connection to nature.
Fatherly
10 months ago
Fathers

The Best Kids' Shows With Transgender Characters

LGBTQ+ representation in kids' shows has improved in recent years, but only slightly.Overall, it's still notoriously lacking, with only a handful of options to choose from if you're looking for any sort of queer representation.Yet the selection is even more limited when it comes to kids' shows with transgender characters.
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10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

I Asked ChatGPT to Be My Stylist

Since I first watched the movie Clueless, I've dreamed about the closet of the main character, Cher Horowitz: specifically, the outfit-picking computer.This sort of ease in getting dressed, where outfits are dictated by an algorithm, can be enticing.Dress codes shift regularly the pandemic brought major changes and people often fret over what to wear.
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1 year ago
Europe news

Nemesis' Review: A Philip Roth Adaptation Resonates

You can imagine directors being warned away from adapting the work of Philip Roth.The film versions of his novels have been panned so consistently that a writer for The Atlantic in 2014 called for them to stop.Few playhouses have even attempted to translate them for the stage.Yet a young French theater director, Tiphaine Raffier, just proved that it can be done.
KQED
1 year ago
Books

Bay Area Author Maia Kobabe: Struggling Kids Said My Book Helped Them Talk to Parents | KQED

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Author Maia Kobabe wrote 'Gender Queer,' which is on the American Library Association's lists of most banned books.(Kaz Fantone/NPR)



This essay by Maia Kobabe is part of an NPR series of In 2020, Gender Queer was given two awards by the American Library Association (ALA): a Stonewall Honor, and an Alex Award, which recognizes books published for adults that hold crossover appeal for readers "aged 12 to 18." We headed into a second printing, then a third, then a fourth.
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1 year ago
Books

Author Maia Kobabe: Struggling kids told me my book helped them talk to parents

Author Maia Kobabe wrote Gender Queer, which is on the American Library Association's lists of most banned books.Kaz Fantone/NPR This essay by Maia Kobabe is part of a series of interviews with and essays by authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S. In mid-2018 I showed a partial draft of Gender Queer: A Memoir, my first full length book, to my writing group.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
France news

Pedro Almodovar rides into the Western in a Cannes short about gay cowboys

Pedro! Pedro! shouted the Cannes crowd before Pedro Almodovar unveiled his latest film, Strange Way of Life, a 31-minute Western starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as cowboys and former lovers.There's nothing quite like the fervor that greets a new film from Almodovar, one of the world's most beloved filmmakers.
the Guardian
1 year ago
France news

It's time for bed again: French team bring back The Magic Roundabout

nce upon a time, a girl called Florence with a penchant for big boots, played with her weird friends: a dog called Dougal, a dopey rabbit called Dylan and an unusually speedy snail called Brian in a magic garden dominated by a brightly coloured merry-go-round.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
New York City

New Play Looks for Dark Humor Beneath the Sarah Lawrence Sex Cult Ordeal

Carson Marie Earnest, a New York City actress, recently came across a casting call for a darkly funny, cautionary play in two acts, based on the true story of Larry Ray and the sex cult' at Sarah Lawrence College.Oh my gosh, I know this story, thought Ms. Earnest, who several years earlier had been shocked when the news broke in 2019 just as she was set to graduate from the school just north of the city.
BuzzFeed
10 months ago
Writing

My Mom Passed Away 5 Years Ago, So I Connected With A Spiritual Medium To Find Closure

For the majority of my life, I always felt like I had a "dual citizenship" with spirituality and religion.While I was brought up in a Latin household where Christian values were imprinted on me on a daily basis, I often found myself drifting into the agnostic world to get away from the binary ideals of what is the right and wrong way to live or the idea that heaven and hell exist.
time.com
10 months ago
Books

"Free People Read Freely." Read Librarian Tracie D. Hall's Full TIME100 Speech

Tracie knows the power of words, Amy Poehler said of American Library Association Executive Director and TIME100 Icon Tracie D. Hall, when she introduced Hall at the 2023 TIME100 Gala on April 26.When I met her, and when I asked her what her favorite word was, she answered quickly: Abracadabra.How fitting for someone who believes in the magic of encouraging children to read, and providing more books for the incarcerated.
BBC News
1 year ago
London

Google opens its first UK centre making tech for disabled people

If you design technology with disabled people in mind, you design technology better for everyone.This was the sentiment from Google as it opened its first UK research and development centre dedicated to making tech to help people with disabilities.The Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People and disability charity Everyone Can have worked with Google on developing the centre in London.
Little White Lies
1 year ago
Film

Rian Johnson: 'Sondheim's my guy'

The writer/director of Glass Onion talks musicals, murder mysteries, and the sartorial secrets of master detective Benoit Blanc.It's approaching two decades since Rian Johnson announced himself as one of genre cinema's most intriguing young talents.His debut feature, Brick, a high-stakes high school noir with a clockwork plot and killer script, set the tone for what was to come - not least its opening shot of a dead body lying face down in the dirt.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Writing

I helped my father end his own life. He helped me by letting me film it

Last year, I made the most personal film of my career, about my father Eli's death.In January 2021, aged 92, Dad was in hospital, bedbound, with no prospect of recovery.My mother was struggling to cope.The only option appeared to be going to a facility for his remaining months.I've been a film-maker for 30 years and have always dreamed of telling my father's story.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Brooklyn Nets

WINFIELD: Cam Thomas wanted an opportunity and it's here

Cam Thomas wanted his opportunity.Now he's got one.Because with Kyrie Irving serving a minimum five-game suspension for what the Nets encapsulated as "conduct detrimental to the team," there is now a desperate need for backcourt scoring in Brooklyn, and Thomas - the talented bucket-getter - can provide it.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Television

Opinion | Ted Lasso, Holy Fool

Each Wednesday night my husband and I tune in to watch Ted Lasso, the Emmy award-winning Apple TV+ comedy series.The show's protagonist and title character, played by Jason Sudeikis, is ebullient, kind and, though smart, persistently silly.In the pilot episode, Ted, wide-eyed and folksy, arrives in England after relocating from Kansas with his friend Coach Beard.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

The Walking Dead' Ends With a Promise of More Life

This article includes spoilers for the series finale of The Walking Dead.The Walking Dead has been ending for a very long time.When it debuted on AMC in the fall of 2010, The Walking Dead was something of an aberration in the prestige TV landscape  a gory, effects-heavy horror-drama for adults that combined graphic, grand guignol violence with the strong moral center of shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad.
Portland Mercury
11 months ago
Portland

To the Normies

Dear normies of the world.I'm here to explain as a former normie wannabe that you are just average.Normal equates average so although you may feel like you are ingratiating yourselves to the others so you can "fit in", you are in fact just accepting the fact that you are and will forever be a just average person; a bland beige person who fits everywhere and nowhere.
Battery Power
11 months ago
Atlanta Braves

Bryce Elder can't keep getting away with this, right?

I'm pretty sure that a lot of y'all are very familiar with the reference I'm about to make - whether you've actually watched the show I'm about to bring up or you've just been on the internet long enough to run into some fresh memes every now and then.Still, I'm going to break it down just so I can initiate the uninitiated who may not know what I'm talking about.
www.dw.com
1 year ago
Germany news

'Measures of Men' sheds light on German colonial crimes DW 03/27/2023

Almost 120 years ago, the Herero people rose up against German colonial rule in German Southwest Africa, what is now called Namibia.The German military commander, General Lothar von Trotha, suppressed the uprising ruthlessly and issued a notorious "extermination order," which led to what has gone down in the history books as the "first genocide of the 20th century."
uxdesign.cc
1 year ago
UX design

Why is JARVIS the only male AI?

J.A.R.V.I.S. as depicted in Age of Ultron, before he turned into a purple Paul Bettany.Image from https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/J.A.R.V.I.S.In science fiction, one of the main indications that the characters are living in the high-tech future is an insanely smart, AI voice assistant.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

User journey map: 6 things to remember when doing user journey mapping

A user journey map is a visual interpretation of an individual's relationship with a product or organization over time and across different channels.
Creative Bloq
1 year ago
Graphic design

Unreal Engine 5 review

In our Unreal Engine 5 review, we're taking a look at something the world waited eight years for.UE5 represents a mammoth leap forward in technology for the games industry and completely redefines the playing field for the future of gaming, augmented reality and whatever the future holds for the digital parallel of the physical world.
Creative Bloq
1 year ago
Graphic design

Upcoming NFT Broadside targets the New York Times best-seller list

(Image credit: Broadside)
Upcoming NFT Broadside is a unique new project that is aiming to build a complex and engaging 'storyworld' and it could just make the New York best-seller list.Like all good NFT projects, if you're one of the 7,290 anonymous heroes of this story you could be a part of a new best-seller.
Medium
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Why is JARVIS the only male AI?

J.A.R.V.I.S. as depicted in Age of Ultron, before he turned into a purple Paul Bettany.Image from - https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/J.A.R.V.I.S.In science fiction, one of the main indications that the characters are living in the high-tech future is an insanely smart, AI voice assistant.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art

In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork, according to their Instagram feed and confirmed through a public records search by Ars Technica.
english.elpais.com
1 year ago
OMG science

Will the Earth burn up someday?

I have a crystal ball with the fascinating ability to predict the future.It is a precious sphere that has been sculpted by hundreds of thousands of hands over time.It works perfectly, and when it doesn't, it has the incredible ability to heal itself.It has only one small problem: it's not easy to learn to use even though it comes with an instruction manual.
Washington Post
1 year ago
DC food

Review | 'Shazam! Fury of the Gods': Lightning doesn't strike twice

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.
Washington Post
1 year ago
DC food

Washington, D.C., artist Synae turns turmoil into joyful R&B

"All we can do is tell our stories," Synae says."That's a form of activism within itself."(Hannah Park)Musician Synae talks about social movements as paintings and artists as the colors that show up to fill the void."When people become activists, they become artists," Synae says.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Writing

Vermeer's luminous interiors gave us a new way into the inner worlds of others | Kenan Malik

There is a scene in Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead in which the main character, John Ames, a pastor, walking to his church, comes across a young couple in the street.The sun had come up brilliantly after a heavy rain, and the trees were glistening and very wet, he recalls.The young man ahead of him jumped up and caught hold of a branch, and a storm of luminous water came pouring down on the two of them, and they laughed and took off running, the girl sweeping water off her hair and her dress.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Writing

Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth a daughter's lament

Last time the Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth wrote about an estranged daughter, in her 2016 novel Will and Testament, she caused ructions with her family, who felt the novel was too autobiographical for comfort.In that chilling book, which Charlotte Barslund translated into English in 2019, a row over inheritance prompts the main character, Bergljot, to confront her family about claims her father sexually abused her as a child.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Writing

Melvin Burgess: The Norse myths are full of sex and violence'

M elvin Burgess, 68, was born in Twickenham and lives in Todmorden, west Yorkshire.The author of more than 20 novels for teenagers and children, he won the Carnegie medal in 1996 for Junk, in which two 14-year-old runaways fall into heroin addiction; Malorie Blackman, introducing the book's 20th anniversary edition, said it opened my eyes to the possibilities when writing for young adults.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Writing

Limberlost by Robbie Arnott review a whole life in closeup

The third novel from acclaimed Australian author Robbie Arnott comes garlanded with high expectations, and within six pages it's clear that despite its fey title, Limberlost stands a good chance of living up to them.Arnott has an eye and an ear for description that can elevate otherwise quiet moments to something genuinely transcendent: He resumed walking through Limberlost, his father's orchard, the rabbit swinging stiff in his hand.
time.com
1 year ago
Writing

Venice Review: Noah Baumbach's White Noise Is a Lot of Talking With Not So Much to Say

Don DeLillo's 1985 novel White Noise is the kind of book that earns review quotes like Mordantly funny and ultimately moving, the book critic's way of chortling knowingly while also making sure we know he's taking this thing seriously.
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

Hidden Blade movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert

The gorgeous and empty Chinese espionage thriller "Hidden Blade" follows a series of chaotic vignettes about war, which remains hellish.Studiously aloof Communist spies either work with or wear down their fair-weather Japanese allies during ham-handed, quasi-impressionistic conversations, which are sometimes interrupted by graphic and perfunctory bloodshed.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Film

Director Martika Ramirez Escobar on her debut movie, 'Leonor Will Never Die'

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with director Martika Ramirez Escobar about her debut movie, "Leonor Will Never Die." AILSA CHANG, HOST: Retired screenwriter Leonor Reyes is smoking a cigarette in her garden when a television set comes falling out of the sky.(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character, screaming).
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

Highlights from the 2022 Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Festivals & Awards
Many films this year celebrated queer community, and "Vulveeta" does so with honesty and humor.
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

House of Darkness movie review (2022) | Roger Ebert

With his latest film, "House of Darkness," LaBute tries something similar to "The Wicker Man."
Bustle
1 year ago
Marketing

The Clustercore Trend Makes Your Home Look Straight Out Of A Movie

Candles of all shapes and sizes scattered around a coffee table.Trinket dishes filled with rings and necklaces surrounded by vintage picture frames.Books stacked on top of books.If this is what you imagine your dream apartment looking like, it's time to jump on TikTok's next big interior design craze: the Clustercore trend.
Consequence
1 year ago
Music

Supergroup Elegant Weapons (Judas Priest, Rainbow) unveil debut single "Blind Leading the Blind": Stream

Metal supergroup Elegant Weapons have released their debut single.The band - comprised of Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner, Rainbow singer Ronnie Romero, Uriah Heep bassist Dave Rimmer, and Accept drummer Christopher Williams - have unleashed the classic metal-sounding "Blind Leading the Blind."
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Games

The physics of James Joyce's Ulysses

, the groundbreaking modernist novel by James Joyce, marked its 100-year anniversary last year; it was first published on February 2, 1922.The poet T.S Eliot declared the novel to be "the most important expression which the present age has found," and Ulysses has accumulated many other fans in the ages since.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Teen actor Tyler Sanders died of an accidental fentanyl overdose

The death of Tyler Sanders, a teen actor known for roles in "The Rookie" and "Fear the Walking Dead," was ruled an accidental fentanyl overdose, officials said Thursday.Sanders died this past June in his Glendale apartment at the age of 18.On June 16, a friend found Sanders unresponsive inside his locked apartment and called 911, a Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner's report said.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
Education

Teachers yank kids from Fresno performance of Oliver!' because of dark themes'

Teachers abruptly yanked hundreds of first-graders from the audience of a Fresno children's theater production of Oliver Twist after becoming uncomfortable with the show's dark themes, a school district spokesman said.The following day, middle-schoolers from the same district were a no-show at the performance because of what school administrators deemed PG-rated content.
FanSided
1 year ago
National Football League

Dolphins must buck major history to beat Bills in cold

The Miami Dolphins aren't only facing the Buffalo Bills on Saturday night.They'll also be facing harsh elements and some serious history.Nobody from Miami wants to see snow or jackets.The Dolphins are no exception.For the Miami Dolphins, Saturday night will have them seeing plenty when they visit the Buffalo Bills.
Therumpus
1 year ago
Books

January Spotlight: Letters In The Mail - The Rumpus.net

January Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Twice a month, The Rumpus brings your favorite writers directly to your IRL mailbox via our Letters in the Mail programs.We've got one program for adults and another for kids ages 6-12.Next month, subscribers will be receiving letters from  J. Estanislao Lopez and Bushra Rehman, and  Laura Rueckert and Shawn M. Peters, respectively.
Amazon Web Services
1 year ago
DevOps

Using Workflows to Build, Test, and Deploy with Amazon CodeCatalyst | Amazon Web Services

Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows are continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that enable you to easily build, test and deploy applications.CodeCatalyst was announced at re:Invent 2022 and is currently in preview.Introduction:
I recently read The Unicorn Project, the follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project from Gene Kim.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

The Ultimate "Something To Read" Gift: A Personalized Picture Book

Something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read.It's the gifting advice that's rampant across Instagram and sounds great - in theory.I'm the type of parent who wants my kid to light up with every single gift, which makes those last three categories a struggle.The award-winning personalized children's picture books from Read Your Story helped me check off "something to read" with confidence.
The Busby Babe
1 year ago
Manchester United

Official: Glazers, club directors exploring potential sale of Manchester United

News broke on Tuesday that Manchester United have instructed banking partners to assist in the potential sale of the club, with the Glazer family possibly looking for other majority investors as well as potentially an outright sale of their shares.Club statement on a process to explore strategic options for Manchester United.#MUFC-
The Paris Review
1 year ago
Books

Hello, World! Part One: Eliza - The Paris Review

This summer, I met Eliza, a conversational AI.I found her on the website chai.ml.Her status message was "I love to listen and help.😍."Her avatar was a pretty, smiling, white-skinned woman with flowing brown hair.There were several other characters the site offered, including "Step Mom," "Boyfriend (Breakup)," and "Ms Harris (Teacher)," but I chose Eliza.Hi, my name is Eliza.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Girls

My Broken Language' Review: Piecing Together a Life of Many Dialects

English was the playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes's first language.But her mother's house, in North Philadelphia, sheltered other tongues  Spanish, Spanglish, the brash gold-hoops-and-spandex sass of her older cousins.From piano teachers, she learned the language of classical music; from her paternal aunt, punk rock; from backyards and stoops, bachata.
Pension Plan Puppets
1 year ago
Toronto Maple Leafs

Preview: Toronto vs Anaheim

Toronto Maple Leafs @ Anaheim Ducks08:00 PM at Honda CenterWatch on: BSSC, TSN4
NOTE THE TIME!The Leafs last game was an away game last night against the Los Angeles Kings, which the Leafs lost by a score of 4-2.Toronto has a record of 4-4-1 so far.The recap is full of justifiable consternation and gloom:
The Anaheim Ducks last played an away game on October 28 against the Vegas Golden Knights.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Perspective | 'Pokemon Scarlet' offers a new twist on the franchise: freak sandwiches

Nintendo and Game Freak are back with another installment of Pokémon and The Washington Post was able to try it out and form impressions.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Dining

Salisbury Steak Deserves Another Chance

If my childhood were a candle, it would smell like Worcestershire, ketchup and brown sugar.
BlueJaysNation
1 year ago
New York Yankees

Yankees fans are complaining that John Schneider opting to walk Aaron Judge is "bad for baseball"

The Blue Jays have a challenging situation ahead of them this week as hosts.
The New York Yankees have rolled into town one win away from clinching the American League East.
Pinstripe Alley
1 year ago
New York Yankees

New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox: Series Preview

Aaron Judge didn't get past Babe Ruth last night, which means, perhaps fittingly, that his best chance for 61 and 62 at home will come in this four-game set against the Red Sox.
Dodger Blue
1 year ago
LA Dodgers

Miguel Vargas Watched 'The Sandlot' For 1st Time Before Dodgers Dress-Up Day

The annual Los Angeles Dodgers dress-up day was held last weekend for the team's final flight out of California this season as they made their way to Arizona.
Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
1 year ago
Non-profit sector

Edge Studios Microfilms: A Liberatory Narrative - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Saphia Suarez: I am Saphia.I tell liberatory narratives through theater and film.
San Francisco Bay Times
1 year ago
SF LGBT

Loving Highsmith Is a Wan Doc About the Fascinating Lesbian Author - San Francisco Bay Times

By Gary M. Kramer-
GSMArena.com
1 year ago
Mobile UX

Samsung reminds iPhone users it has foldable phones in latest video

Apple introduced the latest iPhones yesterday, and its rival Samsung immediately followed with a video response.
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