Month: June 2023

An author never quite knows what we readers will take to and Olivia Kiernan‘s tough, compassionate protagonist DCI Frankie Sheehan of the Dublin Garda has garnered plenty of fans. With The End of Us, the author steps away from Frankie’s four novels of pain and triumph to produce something very different. This standalone feels like
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News Madonna Postpones Celebration Tour for Health Reasons The pop singer’s longtime manager said that “a serious bacterial infection” is delaying the tour’s July kickoff By Matthew Strauss June 28, 2023 Facebook Twitter Madonna, February 2023 (Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Madonna is postponing the start of her Celebration Tour, her longtime manager,
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Back in 1959, Colin MacInnes offered up the following description of a young gadabout-town in his novel Absolute Beginners: “College-boy smooth crop hair with burned-in side part, neat white Italian round-collared shirt, short Roman jacket, very tailored (two little vents, three buttons), no-turn-up narrow trousers with 17-inch bottoms and absolute maximum, pointed-toe shoes, and a
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Remember the season two premiere of The White Lotus when Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy) runs screaming from the beach? She’s just seen some corpses—R.I.P., Tanya; ciao, high-end gays—and between the dead bodies and filthy rich husband, she’s obviously distraught. But along with the corpses and cuckolds, there’s one less obvious reason to panic: Turns out,
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News James Safechuck and Wade Robson’s Lawsuits Against Michael Jackson’s Company Restored A tentative ruling in a California appeals court found MJJ Productions was not excused from their duty to protect his alleged victims By Madison Bloom and Matthew Ismael Ruiz June 27, 2023 Facebook Twitter Michael Jackson, May 2005 (Pool Photographer/WireImage) Facebook Twitter A
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We first met Sarah Hilary in 2014, with Someone Else’s Skin – her crime debut, which introduced us to London-based DI Marnie Rome and ended up winning Theakston’s 2015 Crime Novel of the Year. The series eventually ran to six books, but then Hilary turned her attention to standalones, with her first, Fragile, published in 2021. Now
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Six months after going missing in the Mount Baldy wilderness outside Los Angeles, it has been confirmed today that veteran actor Julian Sands has passed away at the age of 65. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said in an official statement today, “The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24,
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Alexis Marrero is releasing her new single “Floating Away” on Monday, July 3rd, 2023. “Floating Away” (produced by Two-Time Grammy Nominated producer/songwriter Rocky Byrd) is the follow-up single to her smash hit “Wake Me Up” that recently took the music industry by storm. Just like each star is unique yet makes the universe what it
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