Month: March 2024

Millie Bobby Brown knows friends don’t lie. That’s why the Stranger Things star got straight to the point about when fans can expect to watch season five of her hit Netflix show. In fact, when asked if the final season of the Duffer Brothers franchise—which started filming in January—had finished shooting during a March 9 appearance on The Jonathan Ross
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News American Football Announce Debut Album Anniversary Shows U.S. concerts celebrating 1999’s American Football take place in the fall By Matthew Strauss March 12, 2024 Facebook X American Football, photo by Alexa Viscius Facebook X American Football are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their beloved 1999 debut album with anniversary shows in the United States,
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Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. I go away for a week and we get both a new online bookstore from RuPaul (didn’t have that one on my publishing bingo card) and a new publishing startup from some industry heavy hitters! If you’re in catch-up
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Every year, Muslim students from different Los Angeles high schools celebrate Independence Day together at Monarch Beach. But this year, while everyone’s waiting for the fireworks, an offshore explosion detonates, destroying the beach, injuring many and even causing death. Police detain six Muslim teenagers at the scene, calling it terrorism. Samia, Nasreen, Qays, Muzhda, Abdullahi
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News SXSW Addresses U.S. Army Sponsorship as Artists Protest 2024 Festival in Support of Palestine “We fully respect the decision these artists made to exercise their right to free speech,” the festival shared in a statement By Matthew Strauss March 12, 2024 Facebook X Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Facebook X Several musicians have pulled
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In the more than 100 years that Walt Disney Company has been making films and television. They have created some of the most iconic heroes. in the history of cinema and every good hero needs a good sidekick. Unfortunately, not every great hero gets a great sidekick. Some Disney sidekicks are incredible. They add something
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A slate of Broadway newcomers drew strong audience figures last week, with several – An Enemy of the People, The Notebook and The Who’s Tommy filling every seat and then some. Of the recent late-winter/early-spring arrivals, An Enemy of the People, the Ibsen revival starring Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli and Victoria Pedretti, was the top
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Shannen Doherty is making lemonade out of lemons. The actress opened up about the state of her mental health in a Q&A session on her podcast, candidly addressing whether she’s “happy” at the present moment.  “I am, I am happy,” she answered. “It’s been an interesting year and a half. 2023 did not start great
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Starting the Oscars earlier seemed like the right move for ABC! Just look at the ratings. The 2024 Oscars began shortly after 7/6c, and the three-and-a-half-hour show (it ended on time!) reached a four-year high (since the 2020 broadcast) in viewers, with 19.5 million tuning in. The awards show also received a 3.81 rating among
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In her latest spellbinding collection of poems, The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan renders rich, intricate landscapes of heritage and place that arise from her own experiences. A Palestinian American novelist, poet and clinical psychologist, Alyan is familiar with diaspora and displacement. Born in America, she moved to Kuwait with her Palestinian father
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News Pig Destroyer’s Blake Harrison Dies at 48 The grindcore band issued a statement commemorating Harrison, who played samples, noise, and other sound design: “You are etched into the bedrock of our lives” By Jazz Monroe March 11, 2024 Facebook X Pig Destroyer’s Blake Harrison, photo by Shane K Gardner and courtesy of Relapse Records
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