Month: January 2023

R. Kelly, March 2019 (JOSHUA LOTT/AFP via Getty Images) News R. Kelly Has Sexual Abuse Indictments in Illinois Dropped Due to Due to “Extensive Sentences” for Federal Crimes “We have a significant number of cases and survivors who are equally in need of the resources that have been expended on Mr. Kelly’s cases,” said state
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While a child’s disappearance can shock a community into coming together, it’s also the kind of event that can reveal fissures among residents, heighten conflicts within families and prompt reevaluations of relationships. Fiona McFarlane explores these possibilities and more in her leisurely novel The Sun Walks Down. In 1883, the potential tragedy of a 6-year-old
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Until recently, Konami had left the Silent Hill franchise dormant, leaving a huge hole in the survival horror genre. Since then, many indie developers have taken up the mantle. Games like Lone Survivor and Signalis each took the ethos of the series and put their own spin on it, creating personal works that reflected what
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The Smile, photo by Marc Ducrest News The Smile Announce Summer 2023 North American Tour Dates Plus, they’re releasing a new vinyl-only live EP By Nina Corcoran January 30, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter The Smile have announced 2023 North American tour dates for this summer. Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner will kick
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by Mark Oshiro 2:27 p.m. Sunday. The diner is packed. Not surprising. It’s off a long stretch of the 5. Lots of campers. Families heading out to hike or visit relatives. There  isn’t  a  big  city  for  hundreds  of  hundreds  of  miles  in  any direction. Even fewer places to grab breakfast. All of the booths
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On February 28, 2003, as President George W. Bush prepared to authorize military action, he turned to his advisers and asked if they had thought enough about “what they hoped to achieve in Iraq.” Plans were made and carried out, but in a short time, the Iraq policy went awry. Historian Melvyn P. Leffler explores
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While studios took advantage of expanding their Oscar nominated Best Pictures this weekend — it’s truly a post-apocalyptic, err, post-pandemic marketplace when it comes to reaping any huge box office afterglow from this year’s crop. And the irony is that there’s only one streaming title among the top 10 Best Picture bunch, that being Netflix’s
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Peacock has opted not to move forward with creators Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson’s planned adaptation of the comic book series “Dead Day,” exactly one year to the day after the streaming service announced the project.  Variety reports that despite the streamer’s straight-to-series order last January, Peacock is no longer moving forward with the adaptation. The outlet revealed that “the studio is planning to shop
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Daphne Du Maurier’s career was long and storied; her life was equally so. Her books were huge bestsellers when they were published, and many live on in edition after edition. Du Maurier was a novelist, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a literary critic, a nonfiction writer, and a biographer. In short, she was a
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Even on a specialty level, horror just works post-pandemic with the latest pop from a strong showing by a trio of films, Fear and Infinity Pool, released this weekend, and Skinamarink in week three. Fear hails from Deon and Roxanne Avent Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group, the all-Black production company behind cult hit Meet The
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Target’s Future Collective collection has returned with its second designer, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. “This is a full circle moment. When Target came to me to talk to me about the Future Collective, I was like, 1,000% yes,” Vogue’s global contributing fashion editor-at-large said of the partnership. “I’m very invested in doing projects that feel authentic to
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