Month: March 2023

Six years after Denis Villeneuve’s feature film Blade Runner 2049, Blade Runner is headed to the small screen in Amazon’s Blade Runner 2099, and THR reports tonight that Jeremy Podeswa (“Game of Thrones”) has signed on to direct the pilot episode. Additionally, Podeswa will also “serve as producing director and an executive producer.” Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)
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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the controversial first lady of 28th president Woodrow Wilson, had some impressive predecessors. There was women’s rights advocate Abigail Adams, wife of second president John Adams and mother of sixth president John Quincy Adams. During the War of 1812, Dolley Madison, wife of fourth president James Madison, rescued the nation’s treasured
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A raft of Broadway’s recent arrivals led by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street helped push the industry’s total box office last week to $28,638,821, up 13.8% from the previous week. Total attendance was up commensurately to 229,771. Sweeney Todd, starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, contributed a whopping $1.8 million to the
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Metallica, December 2022 (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for P+ and MTV) News Metallica Have Bought Their Own Vinyl Pressing Plant The band now owns Furnace Record Pressing in Alexandria, Virginia, to keep up with demand for reissued LPs By Allison Hussey March 14, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Metallica have bought a vinyl pressing
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If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you know there’s been a flood of anti-trans legislation, bans of trans books, and a disturbing increase in anti-trans rhetoric recently. In response, Sim Kern, author of Depart, Depart! and Seeds for the Swarm, is hosting a Trans Rights Readathon next week!  This is a decentralized fundraiser, which means you can
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Australian–American actor Keir O’Donnell was 26 years old when he was cast as the hilarious Todd Cleary — the black sheep of the family who enjoys painting semi-nude portraits — in the classic comedy movie “Wedding Crashers” back in 2005. Joining Keir in the classic movie was Vince Vaughn as the wise wedding crasher and
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Hot on the heels of a largely positive critical response (see our own Meagan Navarro’s glowing review here) and an opening weekend performance that has broken franchise records, Scream VI‘s cast and crew are no doubt riding a high right now. The “sequel to the requel” follows the surviving “Core Four” from 2022’s Scream—Sam (Melissa
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Yes, the eponymous protagonist of Liz Nugent’s new crime mystery, Strange Sally Diamond, is strange. And for good reason. Sally lives a mile outside a small village in Ireland’s sparsely populated County Roscommon. Alone with her father since her mother died several years earlier, Sally is in her early 40s and has become her father’s
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Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro, November 2022 (Photo by Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy) News Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro Announce RR EP The three-song project arrives on March 24 By Allison Hussey March 13, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro have announced a new collaborative EP titled RR. The three-song
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Despite the spooky séance setup in Brooklyn 45, writer/director Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here, Mohawk) is less interested in exploring a literal interpretation of ghosts. Instead, the filmmaker connects the ghosts of our past as a metaphor for present-day national turmoil and paranoia. The period set chamber piece gives precedence to fraught tension among friends over
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Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel to be translated into English, the award-winning The Mountains Sing (2020), spun an epic family saga centered on the Vietnam War. Her luminous new novel, Dust Child, is less spacious but still focuses on reverberations from that war. Through intersecting stories of Vietnamese and American characters, Dust
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The Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburō Ōe passed away March 3rd of old age. His work has repeatedly been compared to William Faulkner, and Kazuo Ishiguro described him as “genuinely decent, modest, surprisingly open and honest, and very unconcerned about fame.” Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese novelist known for his fiction addressing social and political issues,
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