Month: November 2024

I have a few feelings going on right now that seem to be battling for the top spot. I’m disheartened, but I’m also feeling kind of riotous and want to dive deeper into some community building. Then there’s the sugar honey butter roll side of me that wants to cocoon for a minute first. Cocoon
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When US television shows in the 1960s turned their attention to LSD, the most notorious drug of the turbulent era, they often did so from the viewpoint of the preceding decade: the culturally conservative 1950s. Such is the case for each of the episodes discussed here. One of these, the earliest to focus on LSD,
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EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett is ready for another Mission, Deadline can exclusively reveal. In Mission: Impossible 8, Bassett reprises her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane from 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The plot of the new film, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance, remains under wraps. Most recently garnering multiple Oscar nominations and grossing over $567MM
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Former Okra Project executive director Dominique Morgan In a brazen betrayal of her colleagues and the transgender clients they were supporting, Dominique Morgan, the former leader of the Brooklyn-based Black trans advocacy group The Okra Project, allegedly stole nearly $100,000 from a bail fund she created to help trans defendants facing jail time, the Brooklyn
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Quentin Tarantino, 2007. ©Weinstein Company LLC/Courtesy Everett Collection I have become so disenchanted with Hollywood over the past 20 years. Since Wall Street got involved with film financing, we’ve seen safe IP-based films dominate multiplexes. There’s very little originality or creativity getting past the gatekeepers these days. Whenever we see something unexpected, it comes from
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Happy Sunday! This past Friday, I attended the Femme it Forward awards! Created by music industry icon Heather Lowery, the event awards men and women in music, giving them their flowers while they can smell them! Saweetie hosted the event, and kicked off the festivities in a dress by Valdrin Sahiti. Valdrin Sahiti was a
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Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. Here is what readers were most into this week. The It Books of November Every month, Rebecca Schinksy and I play a knockout
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The Justice Minister in Mali announced Thursday that the West African nation is moving forward with a law to outlaw homosexuality. The country’s ruling National Transitional Council adopted the measure by a nearly unanimous vote last week. The bill still needs approval from the country’s military leaders, according to Agence France-Presse. Related: The vote was 131 in
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Dating is hell and so are dating apps. In fact, dating apps may just be the ninth circle of Hell awaiting us all. Hyperbolic? Maybe. But not so much so in the new horror-thriller Love Bomb, directed by David Guglielmo and written by Kathy Charles. Three strangers just looking for a good time are brought
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Call it a snapback! New mom and songstress Ashanti sang the National Anthem at Yankee Stadium wearing a Daniels Leather Faux chinchilla fur coat, Rag and Bone denim leggings, and $2,095 Dolce & Gabbana Denim boots. She completed her look with a custom @neweracap fitted cap, styled by Styled by Timb. She sounded just as
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Therefore, the term kosmische Musik more narrowly relates to the specific direction of musicians who, as a medium, realize life’s molecular processes directly through their instrument of electronic vibrations. The music of cells is a song of flashes organically superimposed over each other, whose moments are eternities and whose eternities are moments. – Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser,
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Critic’s Rating: 4.4 / 5.0 4.4 On Tulsa King Season 2 Episode 9, unlikely alliances and shifting loyalties set the stage for a battle against a greater threat. Dwight Manfredi, ever the strategic thinker, partners with Bill Bevilaqua and Cal Thresher to tackle a new adversary — a move that’s as surprising as it is
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