Month: May 2021

Stark House Press does a grand job bringing classic American pulp novels to a new audience and occasionally publishes contemporary tales that catch the spirit of those mid-20th century originals. Timothy J Lockhart’s A Certain Man’s Daughter, the title drawn from a poem, is in that vein. It’s pacy, lean and peppered with cynicism but
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News Nine Inch Nails Announce September 2021 Concerts Pixies are supporting Trent Reznor and co. for “the only NIN headline shows of 2021” By Matthew Strauss May 7, 2021 Facebook Twitter Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, July 2017 (Scott Dudelson/WireImage) Facebook Twitter Nine Inch Nails have announced a pair of concerts, which are being billed
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Rob McElhenney with his family. (GLAAD/YouTube) Rob McElhenney has heaped praise on his lesbian mothers, describing them as a “great gift”. The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor spoke of his pride at having two mothers after both women appeared in a GLAAD video for Mother’s Day, where they reflected on their 37-year relationship. In the touching
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Welcome to Larval Ink, a recurring feature which will take a look at the earliest iterations of certain genre films as they existed in their early scripting stage, long before the transformation which significantly changed the original vision into its final form for the silver screen. Here, we will be chatting with the writers of
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Second Stage Theater has confirmed the post-shutdown Broadway productions of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s, Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out and Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Crazy, with the earliest – Clyde’s – set to begin performances this Fall. Take Me Out, the all-star Covid-delayed revival directed by Scott Ellis and starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse
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News Mac Miller’s Family Condemns Unauthorized Biography The family did not sign off on Paul Cantor’s Most Dope, but has sanctioned Donna-Claire Chesman’s The Book of Mac By Noah Yoo May 7, 2021 Facebook Twitter Malcolm James McCormick aka Mac Miller, July 2017 (Rick Kern/WireImage) Facebook Twitter Mac Miller’s family has issued a new statement
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No, no, we’re not talking about independence. This isn’t a political column. It’s Scots author Val McDermid’s new graphic novel, Resistance, which leads off our new books roundup this week. Her compatriot Denise Mina has previously adapted Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to the format, and now McDermid has her own original
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Horrors Elsewhere is a recurring column that spotlights a variety of movies from all around the globe, particularly those not from the United States. Fears may not always be universal, but one thing is for sure — a scream is understood, always and everywhere. Neither leprechauns nor banshees can be found in Paddy Breathnach’s Irish slasher Shrooms. Cinematic
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Roland Neveu/Courtesy of Netflix; Getty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Rachel Walsh recently traveled thirty years back in time. After costuming (alongside Adam Howe) the BBC series-turned-Netflix-hit The Serpent—based on the real-life hunt for a serial killer in Southeast Asia in the ’70s—she’s now speaking
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