Month: February 2023

In Rebecca Makkai’s engrossing novel I Have Some Questions for You, a successful podcaster and film critic takes a job at a New Hampshire boarding school where, 23 years ago, a white female student named Thalia Keith was murdered. The school’s athletic trainer, a Black man named Omar Evans, was convicted of the crime and
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Rutina Wesley plays Maria on HBO’s The Last of Us and she recently admitted that taking on the role was something terrifying. “It’s terrifying playing a character that’s been established, even though it’s a game,” she told Entertainment Weekly in an interview. “But I also was up for the challenge of playing her in my
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Three years into a pandemic, plenty of luxury houses are ready for us to get back to business. This season’s runways are no longer far removed from the classroom or the conference room. Academic prep style is back, albeit with an edge. Elevated capsule wardrobes—what some might call “real-world clothes”—are inherently chic. This New York
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War is coming in Guy Nattiv’s Golda, onscreen and off. But despite the media’s best efforts to turn the casting of British, non-Jewish actor Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir into an explosive example of cultural appropriation, both Nattiv’s direction and Mirren’s performance are low-key and careful enough to rise above the controversy.
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In very extreme cases however, top trichologist, Stephanie Sey, notes “the only treatment that is clinically proven to grow hair thicker and faster is minoxidil (commonly known as Regaine), however this medication is only used for those suffering with male or female pattern hair loss.” What causes hair loss? “Lifestyle factors like smoking, alcohol and
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. If you’re looking for quiet desperation in modern-day America, you’d be hard-pressed for a better place to find it than the “dubiously named” Oasis Mobile Estates in Riverside County, California, the setting of Asale Angel-Ajani’s debut novel, A Country You
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HBO’s “The Last of Us” takes place in a world forever changed by a cordyceps brain infection caused by the cordyceps fungus. The fungus turns people into powerful, mushroom-y zombies (though the show never uses the word “zombie,” instead using “infected”). The infected have ravaged through America, wreaking havoc on the country and the people
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At one point, the doctors overheard that the occupying authorities, appointed by the Russians in consultation with Ukrainian collaborators, had become unhappy with the arrangement of payments. So these authorities started pressuring Volodymyr Todosenko, the acting chief of the hospital, to reregister the facility, placing it under Russian jurisdiction. Todosenko’s saving grace: There was no
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Just after 5 AM ET on Monday, networks started to break in to regular programming for special reports that President Joe Biden had made a surprise trip to Ukraine. By then, the president was already in Kyiv, had traveled there during a long trip by train from Poland, with the news breaking when an embargo
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Play video content TMZ.com Quality Control co-founder Pierre “Pee” Thomas‘ decision to sell his label to Scooter Braun‘s HYBE platform for a reported $300 million was a great move, according to no less an authority on the biz than Russell Simmons. Pee was criticized for building up a Black-owned company only to sell it to
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In Bozoma Saint John’s upcoming memoir, The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, the award-winning marketing executive—who’s held high-profile jobs at companies like Pepsi, Uber, and Netflix—gives a raw, unflinching account of what it means to grieve. In December 2013, Saint John lost her husband, Peter, to cancer. By then, the couple
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CAV Distributing Corp – New Releases NewsletterMondo Macabro and CAV present DON’T DELIVER US FROM EVIL – U.S. Blu-ray premier of a film banned in France. Don’t Deliver Us From Evil1 Blu-ray discLabel:  Mondo MacabroPreorder:  12/13/22/22    Release: 1/10/23MSRP:  $29.95UPC:  843276026691Catalogue #:  MDO266Genre:  HorrorColor102 minutes in French, with English subtitlesMPAA Rating:  NRAnamorphic Widescreen 1.66:1PCM StereoRegion code:
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