Month: March 2020

Written by Kathy Reichs — We’re at book 19 featuring forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance ‘Tempe’ Brennan, and as A Conspiracy of Bones opens, our heroine is at home in North Carolina recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm. It’s the first sign that this novel is a little different from all the rest. Tempe’s brain isn’t
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Diana Zurco made her debut on Televisión Pública in Argentina on Monday (YouTube/Televisión Pública Noticias) Argentina just reached a major milestone for equality with its first ever transgender news anchor Diana Zurco. This week, the 40-year-old journalist became co-anchor for the primetime news programme Televisión Pública, on the national public broadcasting station. She hopes her
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Kenny Rogers, the country music singer and actor, died Friday in Sandy Springs, Georgia at age 81. A statement from his family posted on Twitter read that Rogers “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family.” Known for hits including “The Gambler,” “Lucille,” and “Islands
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Despite the fact that I have lived in several cities that hold yearly book festivals, I have not attended many. On the bright side, I have really enjoyed the few I have made it to. They have also usually involved a serendipitous discovery or two, including discovering more Somali writers. The Texas Book Festival The
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A trans flag is waved at a protest against the Trump administration’s attacks on the LGBT+ community, California 2018. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty) Coronavirus is already highlighting the inequalities in our society. The first moments of pandemic panic – which, in the UK, meant British people panic-buying toilet roll and other essentials – showed the divide: in
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On March 15, Donald Glover released what seemed to be a new Childish Gambino album on a website called DonaldGloverPresents.com. The LP was subsequently removed, however. Now, 3.15.20, a full-length LP featuring 21 Savage, Ludwig Göransson, and others, is here. Find it on streaming platforms below. Glover’s last Childish Gambino album was 2016’s “Awaken, My
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Coronavirus or not, the members of the Crime Fiction Lover team are used to reading and writing in isolation. So an unexpected email from Denmark came as a welcome surprise. Sparpedia.dk has named our site as one of the Top 20 Novel and Books Blogs of 2020 and we’re thrilled and delighted! “I can feel
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Including how to treat those annoying little white bumps Let’s play a game. What looks like a whitehead, feels like a whitehead, must be a whitehead—but doesn’t go away, can’t be popped or squeezed out and is therefore much more frustrating than a whitehead? If you guessed milia, you’ve hit the nail on the (not
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Writer Roxane Gay attends the Feminist AF Panel at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles, California.(TARA ZIEMBA/AFP/Getty) Roxane Gay has restored everyone’s faith in humanity by offering to buy groceries for people in financial trouble because of the coronavirus pandemic. The bisexual feminist writer, professor and commentator wrote on Twitter: “If you are broke and need
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Amid dire shortages of surgical masks – vital for frontline medics – designer Christian Siriano has vowed to manufacture them for New York state. (John Lamparski/Getty Images/Screen capture via Instagram) In today’s edition of celebrity activism that does a lot more good than singing “Imagine” for no ungodly reason, designer Christian Siriano has vowed to
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The long-running British avant-garde music magazine The Wire has announced it has opened its online archives to the public for the next week. “We’re giving everyone one week’s FREE access to our online archive containing every issue of The Wire ever published,” a tweet reads. “That’s more than 430 issues to while away the time.”
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More than 50 years have passed since humans first stepped foot on the moon. It is a thing that most all of us are aware of, but it is not an event that gets us as excited as we were that day, crowded around our television sets. Until the Chinese landed a lunar rover on
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