Month: October 2020

First Lady Melania Trump spoke to Trump supporters at a Make America Great Again event in Atglen, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2020. (GABRIELLA AUDI/AFP via Getty) While attacking Democrats at a Make America Great Again event, Melania Trump insisted that husband Donald “sees potential in everyone, no matter their gender or sexual orientation”. First lady
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones for $3.99 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell for $2.99 Broken Harbor by Tana French for $1.99 These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling for $2.99
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Brooklyn-based singer and producer KeiyaA has shared a new video for “I! Gits! Weary!”—a track off her excellent 2020 debut album Forever, Ya Girl. Directed by Ryosuke Tanzawa, the video follows KeiyaA in parks and in train stations. It features the Jazzy Jumpers Family—a professional double dutch jumprope crew from Brooklyn. She ends the video
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Warning! Spoilers for Batgirl #50 by Cecil Castellucci, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Aneke below! Although Dick Grayson’s memory has been restored, Barbara Gordon tells him their previous friendship and partnership as Batgirl and Nightwing isn’t there yet. The fallout of the Joker War illustrates that Batman’s allies still have plenty pieces to put back together. Dick and Barbara have
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Caroline Nokes, the Conservative chair of Parliament’s women and equalities committee. One month and five days after Tory equalities chief Liz Truss announced the government would not be reforming the Gender Recognition Act, the women and equalities select committee has launched a new inquiry into trans equality. The women and equalities committee is a cross-party
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This beguiling book by Mikael Niemi is a mash up of genres with historical crime, coming-of-age and literary novel tropes that manages to be reflective and page-turning. In Sweden in 1852 real life revivalist Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, and Jussi, a runaway Sami boy, turn detective and use pioneering forensic methods to investigate the death of a milkmaid
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Exes Jen Harley and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro are each making their new relationships Instagram official, and the timing is kind of eerie. About a year after their breakup, the Jersey Shore stars simultaneously debuted their new partners on social media while they were (coincidentally) each out boating on vacation this week. On Tuesday, Oct. 27, Ronnie shared a flaming hot photo of himself holding up his
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Studio Movie Grill, the in-theater dining chain with seven California locations has filed for bankruptcy, one of the first leading exhibitors to officially buckle under pandemic-related financial stress. The Dallas-based company filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. It will continue to operate but reorganize with the protections
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Transgender veteran Kelly Roser carried the shame of her discharge for decades (Tim Graham/Getty) The US airforce has finally granted an honourable discharge to a trans veteran whose life was marred by mental illness, homelessness, unemployment and drug use. In 1984 Kelly Katherine Roser’s exemplary military career was upended by a one-time positive drug test
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Kate Winslet played the Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer Dr. Erin Mears in the film among an all-star cast that also includes Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Marion Cotillard. Surprisingly, Winslet apparently has yet to see the entire movie herself, and she has developed a particular reaction to pestering from those close
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Like us, Yuna has spent her quarantine wearing her husband’s hoodie, watching Netflix home makeover shows, and buying weird stuff online. The Malaysian singer has spent the last six months in her hometown of Kuala Lumpur. “It’s just like being back to the teenager Yuna,” she says, “Where my mom has the privilege of just
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The rich vein of crime writing currently coming out of Australia continues with this debut by SR White – a Brit now living in Queensland – and it deserves its place among the best. Hermit is a dark and claustrophobic tale, with much of the action taking place in an interview room, where detective Dana
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Rina Sawayama appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (October 26). Making her U.S. television debut, she performed “XS,” the single from her debut album SAWAYAMA. Watch it happen below. Earlier this year, Sawayama opened up about being ineligible for the Mercury Prize and domestic categories of the BRIT Awards due to
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