Anyone else think that April Fool’s Day is a bit outdated? After the year we’ve had, who’s got time for pranks? Or a silly press release, or lame corporate tweet? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s get down to business, and to why you visit our site. Crime novels. Serious stuff. Even the humorous ones are serious
Month: April 2021
Taylor Parker-Dipeppe. (Pinellas County Jail) A trans man who threatened journalists as part of an interstate intimidation effort by a neo-Nazi ring against the press has been spared jail. Taylor Parker-Dipeppe pleaded guilty last year to federal charges over his involvement in a sprawling plot to harass reporters critical of the Atomwaffen Division. Atomwaffen is a small,
Quavo is speaking out for the first time since TMZ posted video of an elevator altercation between him and Saweetie — and he wants to make one thing clear — he’s never physically abused his former gf. Quavo tells us, “We had an unfortunate situation almost a year ago that we both learned and moved
As you may recall, James Wan had been developing an Aquaman spinoff that was set to be a full-on monster movie, centered on the ocean-dwelling race of creatures that made a memorable appearance in Wan’s 2018 superhero movie. It was to be titled The Trench, but unfortunately we’ve learned the news this week that Warner
Lil Nas X‘s “Satan Shoes” likely won’t be on the feet of any of his fans soon, because Nike got a judge to shut down the selling of the controversial footwear … at least temporarily. The court granted Nike’s request Thursday for a temporary restraining order against MSCHF — the company producing the shoe inspired
Play video content Breaking News Golden State Warriors Draymond Green says he’s “really tired of seeing [female athletes] complain about the lack of pay” — insisting the time for griping is over, and there needs to be more action. Maybe not the best choice of words — but ultimately, Green is arguing that women DESERVE
Amid the success of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Funko Pops for Darkseid and Superman have been revealed—and they’re in color. For years now, Funko has reimagined pop culture icons as caricature-like vinyl figurines that fans can collect. In the past, Funko has served up figures for everything from Friends to Iron Man. Staying on the superhero
Catholic women are calling on the Vatican to modernise its views on LGBT+ relationships (Envato Elements) Five Catholic women’s organisations with a million members are calling on the Vatican to reverse its position that priests cannot bless same-sex unions. The women, all from German-speaking areas, voiced their unhappiness in an open letter to the Vatican’s orthodoxy
News Radiohead Join TikTok, Reveal New Chieftain Mews Video: Watch Soundtracked by a clip from “Paranoid Android” By Noah Yoo April 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, July 2017 (ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter As of today, Radiohead are on TikTok. If you’re expecting a Thom Yorke dance challenge, you’ll be sorely
Brainchild of the rising Latin band Juliana, John Stewart and his writing partner and bandmate Madeleine Kaye have just released their highly anticipated new single “Tu Sabor” on SohoJohnny’s Tribeca Records. Juliana is comprised of singer/songwriter Madeleine Kaye, songwriter/guitarist John Stewart and drums/percussionist Bob Ross. John Stewart is no stranger to the entertainment business. Working
Even Snoop Dogg could learn a thing or 2 about marijuana from Greg Kelly — that is IF you buy the Newsmax host’s “don’t do drugs” story … but almost no one does. Kelly is telling what he views as a cautionary tale about pot, claiming “SMOKING WEED (aka GRASS) is NOT a good idea.”
Perhaps rightfully so, the live-action television adaptation of the famous R.L. Stine children’s horror books, Goosebumps, has become quite infamous for its next-level cheesiness and inability to provide even the most minor of frights to children. Quite the issue when your key demographic can’t bring it upon themselves to react as intended, but there is
Floyd Mayweather lost two Rolls Royces a Bentley and a customized Jeep in a horrible fire in the Arizona desert. Click ‘SHOW MORE’ for related content… Subscribe to TMZ Sports! https://www.youtube.com/user/TMZSports Floyd Mayweather — 4 Expensive Cars Up In Flames… In Trailer Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQped5GOwU Floyd Mayweather, 4 Expensive Cars Up In Flames In Trailer Fire
‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ star Jen Shah is out on bond from federal custody following her arrest for wire fraud … but there are some big strings attached. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ … Shah is banned from traveling outside of Utah without permission, had to forfeit her passport so
Dax Shepard paved paradise and put up a parking lot, according to Lauren Graham. During an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actress hilariously detailed what it’s like living in the same neighborhood as her former Parenthood co-star and TV brother. “Dax has been working on his new house,” Graham told host Jimmy Kimmel, “and the
Update: Screen Gems and Constantin’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is going to Wednesday Nov. 24, leaving its Labor Day weekend release. The zombie video game feature adaptation reboot will be up against United Artists Releasing/MGM’s House of Gucci and Disney animated feature Encanto on its new date. The move comes after Disney plopped Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the
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US vice president Mike Pence visits Rock Springs Church to campaign for GOP Senate candidates on 4 January 2021 in Milner, Georgia. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images) Former vice president Mike Pence is already winning support from prominent Republican voices as he courts the religious right ahead of the 2024 election. With the dust still settling
Quavo and Saweetie could soon be answering to the LAPD, because cops have opened an investigation into their elevator altercation … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us LAPD detectives have seen the video, obtained by TMZ, showing the now ex-couple fighting over a video game console box, and cops want to meet with
Who was behind a series of suspicious fires? On Chicago Fire Season 9 Episode 10, lives were on the line when the gang investigated the mysterious fires plaguing the city. Meanwhile, Mouch set out to make sure his long-awaited dream was in line to come true. Elsewhere, Casey continued his way down a troubled path,
As a general rule of thumb, inventory management is a necessary evil for video games, there only to prevent you from accumulating too much power at once. It’s not really intended to be fun in and of itself, unless you happen to derive great pleasure from sifting through long menus or calculating weight thresholds. Rather,
Ice Cube is about to melt — the dude is heated because he says Robinhood used his face to plug their services without his permission … so now he’s taking them to court over it. The rapper just filed suit against the financial services company — which a lot of people use to buy and
Oh yeah, and we’ll take Mary-Elizabeth Winstead’s Huntress too! By the end of Birds of Prey, Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya and had formed a girl gang crime fighting groupm and I bet it’s still alive and kicking even if Harley Quinn and Cassandra Cain ditched the ladies. As another Twitter user said using
Translated by Nick Caistor — In August 2020, we reviewed the first novel in Eva Garcia Saenz’s White City trilogy, The Silence of the White City. Set in Vitoria, in Spain, it was about the reopening of a historic serial killer case. Now, criminal profiler Unai Lopez de Ayala returns for the second instalment –
A transgender minister has made history in Australia as the first openly trans person to be inducted into a mainstream church. Reverend Josephine “Jo” Inkpin was already a priest when she came out to her Anglican community four years ago, making her Australia’s first ever transgender church leader. She broke barriers once more this month
News Songwriters Call on Artists to Stop Demanding Credit and Publishing for Songs They Didn’t Write The Pact—Emily Warren, Tobias Jesso Jr., Tayla Parx, and others—pledge to stop catering to recording artists’ “bully tactics and threats” in demanding publishing By Evan Minsker March 31, 2021 Facebook Twitter Musician recording an acoustic guitar (Neil Godwin/Total Guitar
Knives Out was a massive hit for Lionsgate back in 2019, pulling in over $300 million worldwide at the box office, so it was only natural that a sequel wouldn’t be too far behind. In fact, it was announced some time ago that a sequel was being developed, and now Deadline reports tonight that *two*