A menagerie of colors, a song as diverse as the sounds deep into the forest and echoing in the sun’s rays – “Into The Wilderness” is a soul-shifting journey courtesy of Los Angeles’ Phoebe Silva. This songstress weaves into her tale a pallet of several genres, not the least limited to folk, bluegrass and Americana.
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Peacock, the streaming app from NBCUniversal that launched in July, has finally brokered a deal with Roku, a popular gizmo that connects your TV to all these new platforms you suddenly can’t live without. Variety reports that an agreement was made late Friday, after NBCU threatened to pull its 46 other “TV Everywhere” apps from
Since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg yesterday, social media has been flooded with tributes to the liberal icon from both sides of the aisle. Even if you didn’t agree with RBG’s political leanings, a decent human would at the very least put out some statement of condolence. And then there’s Georgia
A Florida anti-masker compared himself to the hero of Pixar’s A Bug’s Life on Tuesday, when he was filmed misquoting the movie while facing off with security guards over coronavirus rules at Walt Disney World. Multiple videos captured from the scene show a maskless man denouncing the park’s COVID-19 safety measures, before characterizing himself as
Covid tried to take away our right to pay $16 a glass for a biodynamic pet-nat at a our favorite brunch spot, but some genuinely good wine subscriptions have stepped into the breach, ensuring the pours continue at home. Now that everything from alcohol delivery to your toothbrush has pivoted to subscriptions, you know the
Canadian actor Tatiana Maslany has been cast in the lead role for upcoming Marvel series She-Hulk, which will be streamable on Disney+. Maslany, born in Regina, SK, hasn’t had a leading role since sci-fi show Orphan Black ended in 2017. She currently stars on reboot Perry Mason. Kat Coiro, whose credits include It’s Always Sunny
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the trailblazing Supreme Court justice who advocated passionately for women’s rights, died on Friday, according to NPR. She was 87, and had survived cancer multiple times; the cause of death, according to her family, was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas. “Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature,“ Chief Justice
Buy less, dust off your reusables and re-engage with local movements Greenhouse gas emissions are once again surging worldwide after a brief decline this spring, and the concentration of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere reached a record high this year. The panicked onset of the pandemic saw many of the green habits that have come out of years
The pans are empty, save for the carefully placed parchment paper lining the bottom, and both cast long shadows on the edge of the wooden table. Barbara Pratt first took pictures of them a decade ago, when she was baking a wedding cake for her brother. “They looked so gorgeous, empty like that, and I
Time to kill, places to go, yet time goes fast, and pain so slow. You’re a dead man running. Oh, I can almost see the listeners’ eyes growing larger listening to Britain’s Got Talent alum, Dennis Demille singing those chilling words in the new track, “A Girl Too Far”. Demille is guest vocalist on Spanish-based
Sienna Miller: I was in New York. I’d been to a play or something at the beginning of March; I’d been on the subway. A friend of mine had a launch for this bag they were doing—it was for a charity—and I got a call saying that somebody from that party had tested positive. We
Two months away from the presidential election, Michelle Obama isn’t holding back her feelings about the current administration. She stopped by Phoebe Robinson’s podcast, Black Frasier, where she spoke about voting rights, quarantining with the family, and her favorite memory of the late civil rights leader John Lewis. Obama also had some choice words about
Queen Elizabeth has formally stripped disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein of his honorary award following his conviction for sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actor. “The Queen has directed that the appointment of Harvey Weinstein to be an Honorary Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the
Today at the White House Conference on American History (which is a thing, apparently) at the National Archives Museum, Trump announced an executive order to promote “patriotic education” in American schools. He has called his plan the “1776 Commission,” a play on the New York Times’ 1619 Project, the Pulitzer-Prize winning series from the New
As Barr surely knows, slaves were literally restrained in chains, while people told to stay at home this spring to avoid the spread of COVID-19 were actually free to leave their homes so long as they weren’t going to 500-person pool parties and spitting in people’s faces. Barr also made sure to slander the Black
Even if you’ve braced yourself for their limb-pinning heft, the first time you slip under one of the best weighted blankets is a bit of a surprise. Even the weighted smock of your once-annual dental x-rays can’t prepare you for the enveloping embrace. These heavy blankets, typically filled with plastic or glass beads, have a
NOTE: This article contains descriptions that some may find disturbing. Please read at your own discretion. Jerry Harris attends the Build Series to discuss ‘Cheer’ on January 29, 2020 in New York City. Jim Spellman/Getty Images Jeremiah Harris, better known as “Jerry” — one of the students followed in Netflix docuseries Cheer — has been
Jerry Harris, who won fans and acclaim for his energetic and inspirational speeches on the Netflix reality show Cheer, was arrested on Thursday in Chicago on a federal charge of producing child pornography. According to federal prosecutors, Harris, now 21, had allegedly contacted a 13-year-old boy via social media and had “repeatedly enticed him to
As if 2020 could get any worse. On September 14, reports emerged that immigrants in an ICE detention centre in Georgia are allegedly being coerced or tricked into hysterectomies without their consent. The revelation came from a whistleblower named Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center. According to the BBC, the
If there’s only one thing that matters to Giadora, its authenticity, and that’s more than obvious to anyone who hears her new single “One Last Thing” this season. “One Last Thing” has the stylish cosmopolitan construction of something that you might expect to find in a trending playlist online, but perhaps its best feature happens
You could say that Maya Moore, 31, and Jonathan Irons, 40, found love in a hopeless place. The WNBA star, who left professional basketball two seasons ago to focus on criminal justice reform, announced her marriage to Irons, the wrongfully-convicted man who she helped free from prison earlier this year. He was released in July
Matt Drudge, the mysterious media maven, conservative kingmaker, and arguably the most influential news aggregator in history, has officially found himself on Donald Trump’s “no longer hot” list. It’s a club that includes just one other member: Vanity Fair, whose Oscar party the president declared “no longer ‘hot’” before he took office. For someone who
There’s a new Biden in town and he’s pretty familiar to comedy audiences, and, well, everyone else. After Woody Harrelson played the candidate during the primaries, and Jason Sudeikis took on the role during the Obama administration, Jim Carrey will take on the part of former VP and current Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden
Chilleano knows the mainstream narrative, and judging from the sounds of his new single “That Shit,” he doesn’t have any time for the parameters it sets for a rapper like him. He’s got confidence when he approaches the mic in his latest studio cut, and while there’s no shortage of swagger in the hip-hop game
Jim Carrey has opposed U.S. President Donald Trump on social media and now he can do it as Trump’s main opposition, Joe Biden. Carrey will portray the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate on the upcoming season of Global’s Saturday Night Live, when the show’s 46th season premieres on Oct. 3. Showrunner Lorne Michaels explained the casting
After Britain’s lockdown first lifted in early July, the members of the royal family were slow to embrace mask wearing, as the rest of the U.K. was. But eventually Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Kate Middleton realized that they could be a great way to stay safe and accessorize, and both women were spotted wearing
Earlier this summer, talking about his fall 2021 show, Jonathan Anderson said that fashion should be a little quieter at the moment. I get that. I love the idea of a wardrobe that serves a person just trying to live with a bit of dignified glamour, like Anderson did at Loewe in July with his
Bill and Kris Reap of R.E.A.P. Investigations as guest speakers R.E.A.P. Investigations Mission to educate and make the public aware of the paranormal and to help those being affected by researching and investigating possible paranormal activity and the legends of haunting’s across the country. Their primary focus is private residences and local business but sometimes
Regina King is earning rave reviews for her directorial feature film debut One Night In Miami, playing as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Based on Kemp Powers’ play, the story follows a fictional meeting of Black icons and real-life friends, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), football star Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), newly crowned
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