Month: May 2023

Robert Common is the founder and managing partner of The Beekeeper House, a mental health and addiction treatment centre. He told me that to all intents and purposes, Tate’s most devoted followers have been radicalised. “It’s essentially an extremist view that parallels the types of tactics that terrorist organisations use to recruit individuals to their
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Dave Matthews at The Horde Festival in California, 1996.Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Essayist and screenwriter Samantha Irby is one of the biggest DMB fans on Earth—so much so that she devoted a whole section to Dave in her hilarious new essay collection, Quietly Hostile. By Alex Pappademas May 22, 2023 Samantha Irby is one of the funniest
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Work can be stressful for everyone—even Natalie Portman. Never mind that the actress and producer is a certified badass who has fought sexism and space invaders, earned a STEM degree from Harvard, and—perhaps toughest of all—danced for hours in pointe shoes while wearing some very bold eyeliner. All that said, she’s still just a girl…standing
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New Jersey’s democratic senators proposed new legislation May 22 which would ban book bans from public schools and libraries across the state. The bill, drafted by senators Andrew Zwicker and Teresa Ruiz, alongside Assemblywoman Mila Jasey was inspired by librarian Martha Hickson, who has been at the center of several attempted book bans and who
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What would humans do if they got ahold of alien technology? In Vincenzo Natali’s upcoming graphic novel TECH, they’d exploit it for profit. Releasing on September 22, 2023 from publisher Encyclopocalypse Publications, TECH furthers Natali’s passion for sci-fi horror into the realm of literary fiction. “We have been admirers of Vincenzo’s unique vision and imagination
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“When was the last truly f*cking nasty, nasty, bad pop girl?” This is the question posed in the teaser trailer to HBO’s The Idol, which promises the kind of lurid, adrenaline-pumping pop-culture exposé you’d see if Paul Verhoeven was ever allowed to make a film like Showgirls again. Said trailer also features copious quantities of
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Spoilers below. If you love teen rom-coms or romantic K-dramas—or better yet, both—it’s more than likely XO, Kitty is your latest Netflix binge. The To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before spin-off focuses on Kitty, the third Covey sister who infamously sent Lara Jean’s love letters, setting off the events for the entire trilogy. But
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Translated by Megan E Turney — From Ruth Galloway to Eve Ronin, if there’s one thing readers can’t complain about in recent years it’s a lack of strong female protagonists in crime novels. Now, debut Danish author Jenny Lund Madsen introduces Hannah Krause-Bendix, who is perhaps more she-devil than shero. Hannah is a Copenhagen-based literary
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the winner of American Idol Season 21. American Idol has crowned its new winner after finalists Iam Tongi, Megan Danielle and Colin Stough battled it out one last time for America’s vote. After all the votes, America crowned Tongi as their new Idol following performances onstage that included “Making
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VINCENT MUST DIESection: Critics’ WeekDirector: Stéphan CastangScreenwriter: Matthieu NaertLogline: Random strangers have suddenly started attacking Vincent with murderous intent. His life as an unremarkable man is overturned, and as things spiral violently out of control, he is forced to flee and change his life completely…Panelists: Stéphan Castang, Karim Leklou and Vimala PonsSales Agent: GoodfellasPremiered: Friday May 19, Miramar TheatreKey Quote: “I immediately wanted to do this
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