Month: December 2021

News Did a Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Deceive Hundreds of Musicians? A musician’s claim that Outlaw Ocean author Ian Urbina misled over 400 artists about their contributions to a journalism-adjacent music project ignited a social media firestorm. “I apologize unequivocally,” Urbina responded. By Evan Minsker December 8, 2021 Facebook Twitter Ian Urbina, January 2017 (David M. Benett/Dave
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Mary Balogh’s fabulous Westcott series boasts some of the most memorable characters in her oeuvre and her latest installment, Someone Perfect, is a fitting addition. Despite coming from very disparate backgrounds, two people connect at an unanticipated and deeply emotional level in this historical romance.  Lady Estelle Lamarr was horrified when her close confidant, Maria,
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Just about every sort of accusation imaginable has been hurled at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in the years since the couple announced that they would be stepping down as senior members of the royal family. The British tabloid press and Meghan’s awful family have divided the task of denigrating these two for sport, and
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Lorne Michaels is ‘happy to allow’ Pete Davidson to ‘come and go’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as ‘he pleases’ as his reported romance with Kim Kardashian continues to make headlines. Lorne Michaels, 77, sees Pete Davidson‘s new reported relationship with Kim Kardashian, 41, as a great thing when it comes to publicity for Saturday Night
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HBO Max treated Potterheads with a glimpse at the upcoming Harry Potter 20th anniversary retrospective, Return to Hogwarts.  Stars of the Harry Potter franchise Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint reunite for a conversation about their time on the fantasy film series in the first-look image, dropped on Wednesday. The retrospective special—premiering Jan. 1—
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Jared Padalecki is simply timeless. The CW is developing a prequel series with the Walker actor that’s set to take him all the way back to 1880s. Series creator Anna Fricke will write the new spin-off, called Walker: Independence, along with Seamus Fahey. Independence centers on Abby Walker, “an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her
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Director/writer Igor Drljaca’s The White Fortress premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official submission to the International Feature Oscar race. In the film, two teens from very different backgrounds meet in post-war Sarajevo. Faruk (Pavle Cemerikic) lives with his ailing grandmother and forages for scrap metal while
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Rapper Vikki SOTA’s music career may have started out in Minnesota, but he is now well on his way to becoming a key player in the Hollywood music scene. Although he no longer resides in Minnesota, Vikki SOTA has obviously internalized many Midwestern lessons about practicality, but his hard-won adulthood likely played a much more
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After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and UK. All in, the global outlook is
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Released in 1984 and having just celebrated its 37th anniversary, Thom Eberhardt’s endearing sci-fi/horror comedy Night of the Comet tells the story of Regina “Reggie” Belmont (Catherine Mary Stewart) and her sixteen-year-old sister Samantha (aka Sam), two young women who find themselves surviving a comet-induced extinction-level event only to run afoul of zombies created by
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