More than 20 years ago, best friends and fashion design students Catalina Álvarez and Mariana Hinestroza started cold-calling textile companies in their hometown of Medellín, Colombia, asking, “Do you have garbage?” Álvarez recalls. “‘We want to buy the garbage.’ And they were like, ‘What are you doing with the garbage?’” The scraps they were soliciting
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For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. The movie industry has looked to those same works to produce some of the best adaptations of his work almost from the beginning of the medium. There are dozens of excellent examples of almost all of The Bard’s plays. Some
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[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 11, “Three Fifty-Three.”] Another Yellowstone major player was just taken to the train station. The purpose of the Texas and Montana flashbacks with their confusing timelines was revealed in Season 5 Part 2’s third episode, which aired Sunday, November 24 on Paramount Network. They were to show
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Universal has been vindicated, thanks to the witches of Oz and the tenacity of studio chief and top NBCUniversal executive Donna Langley. Over the Nov. 22-24 weekend, director Jon M. Chu’s Wicked opened to an estimated $114 million domestically, the biggest box office launch of all time for a Broadway adaptation in a landslide victory,
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Here you have it, the most popular stories from this week’s installments of Today in Books. And the Winners Are… When He Was 42, Cormac McCarthy Began a Relationship With a 16-Year Old Girl That’s the headline. In 1976, when Cormac McCarthy was 42 years old, he began a relationship with a 16-year-old girl he met by
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It might seem simple, sitting on the couch with Netflix on and your belly full, to envision the heroics you’d accomplish if war broke out in your homeland: You’d join the armed forces, or whatever constituted the resistance. You’d break the chains of your oppressors, just like Star Wars, or go rogue, living off your
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Broadway musicals adapted to the screen are an erratic genre at the box office, despite Miramax’s multi-Oscar winning Chicago reviving the long-dormant Hollywood genre back in 2002 with $306.8M WW. Yet for every Les Miserables ($442.7M) hit from Universal, there were massive misfires like Dear Evan Hansen and Cats. This weekend, Universal defied the odds
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When it comes to holiday movies, Christmas may get all the love, but Thanksgiving has plenty of must-watch favorites. Although some selections may not be as obvious as others, we’re rounding up a ranking of delectable Thanksgiving films perfect for a post-feast binge this holiday season. Whether you’re into rom-coms like Holidate or dysfunction found
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Keira Knightley has long been a beloved figure in Hollywood, celebrated for her talent and elegance in rewatchable films like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. However, with her rise to stardom in the early 2000s came an intense level of public scrutiny towards the young actress. Much of this centered around her physical appearance and
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News Charli XCX Announces 2025 Arena Tour Dates The British pop singer is bringing Brat to a handful of American cities By Matthew Strauss November 22, 2024 Charli XCX, photo by Henry Redcliffe Save this storySave Save this storySave Do you wish Brat Summer would never end? Charli XCX is here to help. The British
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It’s a quiet but quality indie weekend led by documentaries and a few features in limited release as Gladiator 2 and Wicked storm in, other independents hold over, and ahead of anticipated specialty debuts next week like Queer, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig and Maria. Docs out today follow artists in Ukraine, women in
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Welcome to your Saturday edition of Today in Books, wherein we round up all the news Book Riot covered this week. 💰The Winner of the $100,000 Giller Prize Has Been Announced 🏅 The Best Debut Books of 2024, According to Debutiful And for All Access members, here’s a big ol’ list of links to other
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A hotly anticipated debut novel, complete with a princely advance and a dreamy move to Los Angeles, equals lifelong success, right? Not quite. Books flop, money dries up and the city’s bright lights conceal both its dark underbelly and what those in the limelight will do to stay famous. Pip Drysdale’s marvel of a thriller,
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