Month: March 2024

The TikToker shared a new music video. (YouTube/Dylan Mulvaney) Dylan Mulvaney has just released her song ‘Days of Girlhood’, and the music video is relatable af.  The trans activist is celebrating two years since publicly transitioning and marked the moment in pop culture history with a new catchy single and subsequent music video.  She documented
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Bill Skarsgård (IT) takes over the iconic role of Eric Draven in Lionsgate’s new reboot of The Crow, and we’ve learned that the official trailer will release tomorrow, March 14. While you wait, check out a short – and bloody – little teaser below… The Crow reboot will release in theaters on June 7, 2024. [Related] ‘The Crow’ Flies
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Last year’s Scorched Grace, my favourite book of 2023, introduced readers to one of the most memorable, sympathetic and unique private eyes of recent years. Sister Holiday is a tattooed, punk, queer nun, music teacher at New Orleans’ Saint Sebastien’s School, who is a member of Sisters of the Sublime Blood. Such a character could
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. When she was young and impressionable, Iris Apfel received a backhanded compliment that would change her life. She was told by a department store owner that, well, she wasn’t pretty. But the woman quickly softened the blow. “You have something better.
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In the more than 100 years that Walt Disney Company has been making films and television. They have created some of the most iconic heroes. in the history of cinema and every good hero needs a good sidekick. Unfortunately, not every great hero gets a great sidekick. Some Disney sidekicks are incredible. They add something
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A successful fantasy plunges readers into a world that feels removed from the ordinary, while still maintaining a familiarity or unexpected resonance. National Book Award finalist Traci Chee’s Kindling does exactly that as it takes readers into an unknown world ravaged by a war in which “kindlings”—teenage warriors trained since childhood to wield a dangerous
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News SXSW Addresses U.S. Army Sponsorship as Artists Protest 2024 Festival in Support of Palestine “We fully respect the decision these artists made to exercise their right to free speech,” the festival shared in a statement By Matthew Strauss March 12, 2024 Facebook X Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Facebook X Several musicians have pulled
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Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. I go away for a week and we get both a new online bookstore from RuPaul (didn’t have that one on my publishing bingo card) and a new publishing startup from some industry heavy hitters! If you’re in catch-up
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Bo$$, who famously was the first female rapper signed to Def Jam, has died. Rapper Bun B announced the news Monday evening, paying tribute to Bo$$ … whose real name was Lichelle Marie Laws. Bun posted a pic of Bo$$, and wrote, “Rest in peace to my big sis Lichelle Laws AKA Boss. One of
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Following the debate that sparked surrounding the AP‘s statement, Kate issued a follow-up post taking responsibility for the photo’s irregularities.  “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” the 42-year-old wrote on X, formerly Twitter, March 11. “I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused.
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON: As expected, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 is headed to the second biggest opening of the franchise with $52M after an $18.4M Friday (including previews) at 4.035 theaters. The first Kung Fu Panda in 2008 opened to $60.2M, that DWA title distributed by Paramount at the time. Legendary/Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two
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Every year, Muslim students from different Los Angeles high schools celebrate Independence Day together at Monarch Beach. But this year, while everyone’s waiting for the fireworks, an offshore explosion detonates, destroying the beach, injuring many and even causing death. Police detain six Muslim teenagers at the scene, calling it terrorism. Samia, Nasreen, Qays, Muzhda, Abdullahi
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