Even without a once-in-a-generation strike or a Twitter bombshell, next week would already pose a challenge to media companies making their annual upfront pitches to ad buyers next week in New York. An adverse economic climate and a number of existential questions are confronting those in the ad trenches. With live, linear tune-in continuing to
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FRAMELINE, the arts nonprofit that hosts San Francisco’s International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, announced a new partnership with the Colin Higgins Foundation entitled the Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant, a new initiative centered on providing young LGBTQ+ filmmakers with financial support to continue their work.  Eligible applicants must identify as LGBTQ+ filmmakers, be under the age
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “An accidental activist.” That’s how Phillip Lim describes himself. Later, he amends this: “I just call myself activated.” But the “accidental” part, at least, could apply to much of Lim’s life trajectory. He also considers himself to be “an accidental designer,”
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At long last, a blood moon is waxing and a deadly night awaits for fans of Norwegian author Jo Nesbo and his craggy Oslo detective, Harry Hole. It’s been four years since Knife, it feels like there’s some catching up to do, and Killing Moon is our lead book this week. Alongside it, we’ll look
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View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock After nearly 35 years of marriage, Michael J. Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan, are as in love as ever. In the actor’s new Apple TV+ documentary, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, he opened up about the relationship, and showed how supportive Tracy has been amidst his grueling Parkinson’s Disease. Michael
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It goes without saying that Amal Clooney, a political activist, powerhouse barrister in international law, and mother—who’s married to a very famous man—is a changemaker in her own right. To quote Tina Fey’s monologue at the 2015 Golden Globes, where Amal’s husband, George Clooney, received the AFI Life Achievement Award, she’s “worked on the Enron
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Geniuses seem to inhabit a world apart from mere mortals like us. But they don’t, as the irreverent and entertaining Edison’s Ghosts makes clear. Debut author and science writer Katie Spalding has mined history, biography and psychology to turn the cult of genius on its head, shining a sassy light on the idiosyncrasies of some
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Image Source: Getty / Michael Loccisano / Amanda Edwards John Travolta and Katherine Heigl are officially set to play lovers on the big screen. The pair have been cast in a romantic comedy called “That’s Amore,” Palisades Park Pictures revealed on May 11 ahead of the film’s sales launch at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival,
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