News Shaboozey Announces North American Headline Tour The “Bar Song (Tipsy)” singer and Beyoncé collaborator will play shows in September and October By Matthew Strauss June 24, 2024 Facebook X Shaboozey, photo by Daniel Prakopcyk Facebook X Shaboozey has announced a headlining tour of North America. The shows take place in the United States and
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For those keeping track of such things, nearly 10% – or $3,239,838 – of Broadway‘s total $36.8 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Taymors: The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor and her niece, The Outsiders director Danya Taymor. And that’s before The Outsiders‘ big Tony-winning night on Sunday. Two of the
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Paramount went all in on Gladiator II at CineEurope today, showing off an exclusive extended look at Ridley Scott’s sequel to his 2000 Best Picture Oscar winner. Introducing the footage in a video clip, Scott promised that Gladiator II, coming nearly two-and-a-half decades after the original, is “well worth the wait”; the audience today agreed.
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In the wake of Inside Out 2’s massive $295M worldwide debut last weekend, Disney Head of Global Theatrical Distribution Tony Chambers kicked off the studio’s CineEurope presentation this evening thanking exhibitors in attendance for their part in the historic start — and was met in kind by enthusiastic and clearly appreciative applause. He noted too that midweek numbers have been
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Whoever wrote that the theatrical business is dead may want to run a correction as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is potentially headed to a historic second weekend for an animated movie, topping Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie‘s $92.3M. Rival projections see $95 million for the second frame of the Kelsey Mann-directed sequel, while insiders see
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There is an immediate richness to the historical fiction of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures), one that goes beyond carefully researched details and evocative prose, and into deep emotion. In her 12th book, The Glassmaker, Chevalier weaves a tapestry of character and conflict, change and stability, to create a story that
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When little Afia can’t sleep, her mind as active as a summer night, she and her papa travel in their imaginations to find love. And find it they do—in the sun-warmed sand, on a snowy mountain top, in the ocean’s friendly waves and even in the darkest night sky. Before she finally drifts off to
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Diane Marie Brown’s Black Candle Women tells the story of three fierce Black women united by the spells and elixirs that have been passed down in their family. Willow, Augusta and Victoria Montrose lead a quiet existence in California until Victoria’s teenage daughter, Nickie, becomes involved with Felix. Unaware of the family curse—that anyone a
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Both Same as It Ever Was and your debut, The Most Fun We Ever Had, are lengthy novels that examine family dynamics over the course of decades. What draws you to this type of story? I’ve always been drawn as a reader to big, meaty novels that stick with a cast of characters over a
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For so many of us, the refrigerator is an appliance we’ve interacted with daily for as long as we can remember. It’s also one we take for granted, rather than viewing it as emblematic of the world-changing innovation Nicola Twilley explores in Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. As readers will
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With its near 500-page count and robust endnotes, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq might at first glance scare off readers who haven’t sniffed a textbook in years. But thanks to Steve Coll’s crisp and dynamic prose, what’s between the covers feels little like an academic
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There’s nowhere that quite measures up to Venice. Just ask Henry James, Patricia Highsmith, or any of the writers who have set stories there. Today, Max Mara told its own Venetian tale, taking guests to the Floating City for its latest resort outing. Specifically, to Palazzo Ducale, or the Doge’s Palace, now a museum and
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Bridgerton isn’t the only project Nicola Coughlan is fronting this month. Just days after the show’s season 3, part 2 dropped, Kim Kardashian’s line SKIMS launched a new campaign starring Coughlan. Coughlan appears, wearing three different form-fitting dresses from the shapewear line’s Soft Lounge Collection. Elizaveta Porodina photographed the dreamy campaign, which leans into pastels
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “A lot of stylists that I know keep trunks” full of socks, says designer Jenni Lee. “They hoard them because they don’t know when they’re going to come across another really good one.” And when they do, they obsess over every
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While dresses and swimsuits usually garner the most attention from the fashion crowd in the summer, beach sandals deserve just as much praise. After all, the very best styles make trodding through the sand and tip-toeing around shore-crashing waves a stylish adventure. Of course, there are a dizzying amount of options to shop, but we’re
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