Month: January 2023

News Jeff Beck, Grammy-Winning Guitarist, Dies at 78 The esteemed musician—who played with the Yardbirds and helped popularize jazz fusion—died after contracting bacterial meningitis, his family said By Madison Bloom January 11, 2023 Facebook Twitter Jeff Beck, October 1984 (Michael Putland/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter The Grammy-winning rock guitarist Jeff Beck has died, his family announced.
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Canadian “Jeopardy” champion Mattea Roach will face off against other elite players in a new spinoff picked up by ABC. “Jeopardy! Masters” will pit six recent super-champions against each other. A different combination of competitors will play two “high-stakes games” in each hour-long episode. The first class of “masters” will also include Matt Amodio, Sam
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Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Abbott ElementaryBarryThe BearHacksOnly Murders in the Building Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series  Christina Applegate, Dead to MeRachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselQuinta Brunson, Abbott ElementaryJenna Ortega, WednesdayJean Smart, Hacks Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Anthony Carrigan,
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Broadway box office took the expected drop last week, declining nearly 30% (to $37,394,931) from the previous week’s holiday-pumped $52M figure. Attendance for the 32 shows was down about 12% (to 275,834), but remained at a solid 92% of total capacity. The reason for the decline, of course, is the previous week’s New Years week
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While Merriam-Webster declared 2022 the year of “gaslighting,” hundreds of linguistic scholars from the American Dialect Society voted in the suffix “-ussy” as their word of the year. First, there was “bussy,” a portmanteau of “boy” and “pussy”. It was added to Urban Dictionary in 2007, and that entry claims it’s been around in LGBTQ
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When Henrietta Weldon’s parents decide that she should switch from private to public school for seventh grade, Henri is excited—and determined to hide her nerves. Between her messy bedroom and her struggles with math, Henri’s family of competitive overachievers treat her like “a problem to be solved.” Her older sister, Kat, refuses to answer Henri’s
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The second season of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” will premiere on March 24, 2023 – with a third season already ordered – and Vulture shares a brand new first-look image this week. Up above you’ll find your first look at Elijah Wood as a brand new character in the world of “Yellowjackets,” of course standing alongside returning star Christina Ricci.
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News Watch Alvvays Perform “Belinda Says” on Fallon The band rang in their late-night TV debut with the Blue Rev song By Nina Corcoran January 11, 2023 Facebook Twitter Alvvays on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, January 2022 (Todd Owyoung/NBC) Facebook Twitter Alvvays appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night
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In 2015, Alex Gino published George, the story of a transgender 4th grade girl learning to accept herself and to come out to her loved ones. In 2021, to remedy their mistake of deadnaming the main character, Gino re-released the book as Melissa. Regardless of title, Melissa has made the American Librarian Association’s top ten
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Set in the isolated backwaters of Ljosland, an alternate version of Iceland, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries follows the eponymous Dr. Wilde in her quest to investigate and catalog the Hidden Ones, mysterious faeries that inhabit the land surrounding the town of Hrafnsvik. Solitary by nature, Emily is more at home making deals with brownies
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Is it just me, or are slouchy boots suddenly everywhere? Whether flat or heeled, mid-calf or knee-high, leather or denim, the options appear to be boundless—and omnipresent. The accessory’s sheer versatility renders it an infinitely wearable accessory for pretty much any occasion, complementing nearly every aesthetic, from indie sleaze to coastal grandmother. While scrunched silhouettes
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A flying ace, rampaging dinosaurs, Marvel, DC, Minions and battling blue aliens on a distant planet were among the highlights of 2022 for the Hollywood studios at the global and international box office. Still, it was yet another year of transition, with worldwide grosses reaching an estimated $26B — a 27% increase on 2021 but
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