Month: July 2022

Since December 31, 2021, HarperCollins Publishers employees, part of the United Auto Workers Local 2110 (UAW) union, have been working without a contract as negotiations continue. These union members come from across HarperCollins (owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp), from marketing to editorial. Initially, the contract was set to expire a year earlier but was extended
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Manny Charlton, the founding guitarist of Nazareth who played on the Scottish rock band’s best-known records, including “Love Hurts”, its LP Hair of the Dog, and also produced early Guns N’ Roses demos, died today. He was 80. His grandson, Jamie Charlton, posted the news on social media with the caption “RIP Grandad.” Charlton cofounded Nazareth
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Minimalists and muted palette-lovers, look away now, because this summer’s biggest fashion trend is bright, unapologetic and brilliantly saccharine. Enter: barbiecore.   Ever since first-look stills of Margot Robbie as the titular character in the upcoming Barbie movie dropped, the nostalgic doll became this season’s unlikely style heroine. But even before the BTS snaps of
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was a treatise on marriages—ones that fail, reduce, deplete, or transform. Twenty-three years after it was published, transformation remains a recurring motif in Lahiri’s work.  Language, one such source of transformation, is rarely a choice and rather a default, something we seldom deliberate. When
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Marvel‘s latest coming-of-age series, “Ms. Marvel,” represents a whole lot more than the classic superhero origin story. The action-packed series, which premiered on June 8, puts its own spin on Kamala Khan‘s character — the Muslim and Pakistani American teen superfan-turned-superhero from the Marvel Comics — with a refreshing push around mainstream Muslim representation. “I
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View gallery Image Credit: Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock No better time to get engaged than the summer! Eddie Van Halen’s  son Wolfgang announced that he’s engaged on his social media on Wednesday, July 6. The “Don’t Back Down” rocker shared the exciting news with a selfie alongside his wife-to-be Andraia Allsop with her ring on full display. Naturally, he captioned
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EXCLUSIVE: Sports content studio game1 has optioned film rights to attorney Rachael Denhollander’s memoir  The film will follow Denhollander, recounting her life from the time she met former USA Gymnastics Team and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar, through the subsequent fight to bring justice for his serial abuse of young girls seeking medical care. Despite
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K Last week, Travis Barker was rushed to the hospital under mysterious circumstances. The situation appeared to be serious, but it wasn’t until the following day that we had any reliable information about Barker’s condition. It turned out that Travis had suffered an attack of pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas that, in addition to
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Illumination Entertainment/Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru didn’t stop making money just because it wasn’t a holiday. The pic’s gross yesterday saw $18.9M, which is easily the best Tuesday ever for an Illumination Entertainment title at the domestic box office, besting the $17.5M made by the animation studio’s Sing on Dec. 27, 2016. Rise of Gru‘s Tuesday
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Play video content TMZ.com A scary moment for Carlos Santana and his fans, as the legendary musician collapsed onstage during one of his concerts. Santana was performing at Pine Knob Music Theater, outside Detroit, Tuesday night, when a concertgoer tells us the medical emergency happened. We’re told Santana was bout 4 or 5 songs into
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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead. REVIEW: Can you imagine being the person who ultimately convinced Sony that, after months of shuffling the release due to the pandemic and other issues, “Morbius” (2022) should
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