Fans of the cult-classic film Jennifer’s Body, lovers of modern gothic fiction and those who studied abroad in Paris take note: Leslie Baird’s debut novel, Salomé, may be your next favorite book. Salomé is a feminist retelling of the biblical tale of the daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod in exchange for the head
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Reading Time: 2 minutes We have tragic news to report from the world of music. Rob Base — the rapper best known for the iconic party anthem “It Takes Two” — has died following a battle with cancer. He was 59 years old. Rob Base performs onstage at the Tailgate Party during IEBA 2017 Conference
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Gerard Butler as ‘Big Nick’ O’Brien in ‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’. Photo Credit: Rico Torres for Lionsgate. Preview: Gerard Butler will star in new thriller ‘The Nest’. He’ll play a sniper racing to stop a threat at the soccer World Cup. Aaron Benjamin wrote the script. The Cannes Film Festival is underway and with
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Reading Time: 2 minutes As you’ve likely heard by now, Stephen Colbert hosted the final episode of The Late Show on Thursday night. Many believe that CBS’ decision to cancel the show was politically motivated, as Colbert often cracked jokes at the expense of the White House, and the network’s parent company, Paramount, had recently
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Lewis Capaldi has opened up about his friendship with Sam Fender and Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten. READ MORE: Lewis Capaldi – ‘Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent’ review: overwrought and frustrating The Scottish singer-songwriter returned in November last year with an EP, ‘Survive’, marking his first new music since his 2023 album ‘Broken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent‘.
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Republican members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced H.R. 8705 on Thursday. The bill would ban federally funded civics and history programs from promoting “radical indoctrination” or “gender ideology” and “discriminatory equity ideology,” scare words that refer to transgender identities and anti-racist education. The bill — the Civics and History Advancement
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Detectives Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) forged their bond in Boston Blue Season 1. In the Season 1 finale of the Blue Bloods spinoff, that bond was forged in steel when Lena was thrown into a life-threatening investigation. What followed was a healing resolution, one that included a powerful scene between Lena
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(Left) Jason Clarke stars in ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’. (Right) Robert De Niro in 1995’s ‘Heat.’ Photo: Warner Bros. Preview: Jason Clarke may join ‘Heat 2.’ It would mark a reunion for the actor with director Michael Mann. Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale are also circling the movie. While we still don’t know who
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Rosalía used her Ivor Novellos acceptance speech to call for more voices in music who are not “white middle class Europeans”. The Spanish art pop singer and NME 100 alumnus received the International Songwriter of the Year Award at the ceremony in Grosvenor House in London last night (May 21), six months after the release of her acclaimed fourth studio album ‘Lux’. Accepting the
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Some memoirs swagger with the author’s self-importance. Not historian Ada Ferrer’s magnificent, aptly titled Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter. Ferrer, a habitué of musty, fragile archives and a brilliant writer, won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Cuba: An American History. In this memoir, she writes “as the strange daughter who loves
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When it comes to networks and streaming TV, some series already have an end in sight as the 2026-2027 season picks up. While cancellations are an unfortunate aspect of the TV landscape, some shows are given the due respect of a final season order, preparing fans for the inevitable end. As we kick off 2026,
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Paul McCartney closed out the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by duetting with the host on ‘Hello, Goodbye’. The long-running late night show aired for the last time last night (May 21), after Colbert announced on air last summer that CBS had cancelled it in what the network described as “purely a financial decision”. Many have speculated
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(L to R) Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall in ‘Tuner’. Photo: Courtesy of Black Bear. In theaters on May 29 is ‘Tuner’, a new crime drama from director Daniel Roher (‘Navalny’), which stars Leo Woodall (‘One Day’), Dustin Hoffman (‘Rain Man’) and Havana Rose Liu (‘Bottoms’). “Everybody has one hidden talent.” Release Date: May 29,
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