Month: May 2020

Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. (Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty) More than 3,500 same-sex couples have tied the knot in Taiwan since marriage equality was legalised almost a year ago. Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage on May 17, 2019, which also happened to be International Day
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The woman was arrested after setting herself on fire. (Tamaz Sozashvili/ Twitter) A trans woman in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, set herself on fire in protest against the country’s treatment of transgender people during the coronavirus pandemic. Madona Kiparoidze set fire to herself outside the capital’s city hall on Thursday, April 30. She was
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Check out our featured song: “Where Are You” by Spire Wolf! https://youtu.be/VNCFibqGhRI We’re sorry, but in the age of the MCU, we just cannot go back to these movies. For this list, we’ll be looking at superhero movies that don’t hold up today, whether because of shoddy visual effects or an outdated story. Our countdown
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Days after Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal spurred AMC boss Adam Aron to embargo the studio’s films, the NBCUniversal CEO acknowledged the company’s commitment to theatrical, but that PVOD will still be part of the equation. “The question is when we come out of this (pandemic), what is going to be the model?
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Not to deflate the rousing round robin of mudslinging between AMC, Cineworld and Universal, but this whole OMG melee between exhibition and studios over PVOD, theatrical-window crunching and hurt feelings is poised to calm down soon. Some industry insiders believe the situation has already eased, and the statements made Thursday morning on Comcast’s Q1 earnings
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Andy Cohensaid it best—this baby news couldn’t have come at a better time.  On Thursday night, Anderson Cooper announced the birth of his newborn son, Wyatt Cooper Morgan, on social media and his CNN show AC360. The surprise was met with an outpouring of support from Cooper’s famous friends and colleagues, but nothing was as heartwarming as Cohen’s
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The midseason ‘KUWTK’ trailer reveals the toll the coronavirus outbreak has took on the KarJenners, including Kylie Jenner. The billionaire admits she knows someone who contracted the lethal virus! The nationwide pandemic has made its way onto Keeping Up with the Kardashians. In a mid-season trailer for the E! show that dropped on April 30, fans
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What will theater look like after the pandemic? How will stage artists address the societal upheavals wreaked by COVID-19? Everyone’s asking, no one knows, but Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson and New York’s Public Theater offered up a much-needed and beautifully executed bit of hope last night with the era-suiting livestreamed world premiere of What
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Tony Allen, the iconic Nigerian drummer widely credited as one of the creators of the Afrobeat genre and arguably best known for his work with Fela Kuti, has died, BBC News reports. Allen’s manager confirmed that he died in Paris earlier today. The exact cause of death is not currently known, but was not linked
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