Month: February 2023

Kyrie Irving got his wish — the NBA superstar has been traded to the Dallas Mavericks, according to multiple reports. News of Irving’s intentions to leave Brooklyn were made clear on Friday …with the 30-year-old telling the Nets to either trade him, or he’d leave in free agency in the offseason. Now, Uncle Drew will
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A powerful picture book about the transatlantic slave trade, Kwame Alexander and Dare Coulter’s An American Story opens with a question: “How do you tell a story that starts in Africa and ends in horror?” It might seem an impossible topic to teach children, and yet, as the book’s title suggests, it’s an essential part
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Viola Davis just joined an exclusive club in the world of entertainment … becoming the 18th EGOT winner in history, this after snagging a Grammy and giving a helluva reaction. The actress was up for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for the narration on her memoir, “Finding Me,” which was just selected as
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Jennifer Hudson brought the house down at Clive Davis‘s pre-Grammy party Saturday night, with a rendition of “Greatest Love of All” that would have surely left Whitney Houston impressed. Kevin Costner, Whitney’s “The Bodyguard” co-star, hopped on stage with a super emotional tribute to both Whitney and Clive. Speaking to Davis from the stage, Costner
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This week across the book banning social media world, a new guidebook to inappropriate books across the state of Iowa has been circulating. This 111 page guidebook, put together by Moms For Liberty in Polk County, reiterates that their quest to remove inappropriate books from schools is not about book banning. Indeed, they use the
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Play video content Real Time with Bill Maher/HBO The Grammys show promises to be endless, what with 91 categories, and now Bill Maher has exacerbated the problem by adding 10 categories to the list, and they’re f***ing hysterical. The ‘Real Time’ host mused about some of the actual categories, like Best Score Soundtrack for Video
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Journalist and Julia Child’s grandnephew Alex Prud’homme (My Life in France; The French Chef in America) has crafted a finely balanced, scrupulously researched account of gastronomy and culture, history and politics in Dinner With the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House. Even for those of us who paid
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