Month: February 2023

Green Hill School in Chehalis, Washington is, as described on its website, a “medium/maximum security fenced facility that provides older males sentenced to Juvenile Rehabilitation treatment with education and vocational training.” Graduate students in University of Washington’s Information School are holding a book drive to upgrade the books available in the Green Hill School library. Grad
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From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead. 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide
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It wasn’t until James Joyce left Ireland that he wrote Ulysses and Dubliners, classics that embed themselves in the topography of his island home. He did so, says Jonathan Anderson, “via not being there, but meticulously being there,” tracing Dublin’s streets like a palm reader delineating not the future, but the past. Sometimes, Anderson says,
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Gorillaz (J.C. Hewlett), Trugoy the Dove (Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns) News Gorillaz Reunite With De La Soul’s Trugoy the Dove on New Song “Crocadillaz”: Listen The Cracker Island (Deluxe) track arrives nearly 18 years after the smash hit “Feel Good Inc.” By Matthew Ismael Ruiz February 27, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Gorillaz have shared a new
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“‘Nobody likes to watch people getting eaten by lions.” Apparently this was the response by the late Sumner Redstone during his National Amusement exhibition days after he saw a screening of the 1981 Tom Skerritt lion movie, Savage Harvest, relayed to me by an exhibition source who overheard him. As funny as Redstone’s reaction was, it’s
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Nas (Max Montgomery), Wu-Tang Clan (Kyle Christy) News Wu-Tang Clan and Nas Announce 2023 Tour The rappers’ co-headlining NY State of Mind Tour returns in May By Allison Hussey February 27, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Wu-Tang Clan and Nas are embarking on a co-headlining tour, reviving their NY State of Mind billing for another
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Pakistani American author Reem Faruqi tells the fascinating story of her late grandmother’s life in Milloo’s Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women’s Education.  Faruqi, who was born in 1920 in Poona, India, was given the nickname “Milloo” by her father. Milloo loved learning from an early age: “When she read, her thoughts
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Refresh for latest…: Coming out of its second weekend, Disney/Marvel’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania has grossed $363.6M globally. Of that, $167.3M is from domestic and $196.3M from the international box office. The sophomore overseas frame was $46.4M in 52 markets with a slighter drop than in North America, coming in 57% behind last weekend’s
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The Quiet Girl, an Oscar contender for Best International Feature, opened to a robust $60k on six screens this weekend for a per-theater average of $10k. The film by Colm Bairead presented by SUPER LTD is based on the short story by Claire Keegan of a shy nine-year-old girl in rural Ireland. It led debuts
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And The Actor goes to… The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards is finally here and some of the biggest shows and movies—as well as some of the night’s honorees, of course—officially earned themselves another trophy during the Feb. 26 ceremony, which aired live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. As far as who led the night’s nominations,
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One Piece is one of the most popular anime series out now. It got its start as a serialized manga getting published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1997 and by 1999 it was made into an anime, and has since aired over 1,000 episodes. While it’s not quite the longest-running anime, there’s something to say about
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In 1999, author Kate Zernike, then a reporter for The Boston Globe, broke an enormous story: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology had admitted to a long-standing pattern of discrimination against women on its faculty. Zernike, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, tells the full inspiring story in The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins,
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