Month: May 2026

It’s hard to overstate the contributions DMX, who died in 2021 at 50, made to New York hip-hop history during his lifetime. This week, the city recognized that impact by naming the corner of School Street and Brooke Street in Yonkers, where the MC was born and raised, “Earl DMX Simmons Way.” Per the Yonkers
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The blood, gore, and visceral terror of Mario Cerrito’s highly anticipated underground sequel have officially taken top honors. Practical effects artist Charmaine Cerrito took home the prestigious Best Special FX award for her outstanding, stomach-churning work on Human Hibachi 3 at the New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival. The victory solidifies the third installment
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Every month, the American Booksellers Association put together a list of the top 25 new book releases of the upcoming month as their
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How far into The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch must one wade before feeling qualified to review it? About 900 pages, probably, which is awkward because the novel itself is only 747 pages long. It resists quick judgment, obviously. Its conclusion refuses tidy answers to its tangled weave of philosophy, neo-noir, metafiction, and literary
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This week delivered a remarkable collection of character-driven moments, with familiar favorites revealing new layers of themselves and scene-stealers reminding us why we love them in the first place. From fierce loyalty and heartbreaking vulnerability to impossible decisions and unforgettable performances, these are the TV characters who stood out from the pack this week. Dive
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Big Thief have debuted a trio of new songs, “Carry,” “Forgive the Dream,” and “Space and Time.” They introduced the tracks to the world in an appropriately dreamy fashion: during an acoustic performance on Belgium’s Radio 1, recorded in a sun-drenched field between the Irish cities of Dublin and Limerick. Watch the set below. During
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Following the streaming success of the hit independent horror anthology film At Death’s Door (2025) on Tubi, indie filmmaker and rock musician Frank Palangi has officially launched production and a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe for the highly anticipated sequel, At Death’s Door 2. Distributed in partnership with Cinema Epoch, the sequel aims to deliver an
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $2.99 Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler Get This Deal $2.99 Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami Get This Deal $2.99 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh Get This Deal $2.99 Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer Get This Deal $1.99 Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews Get This Deal
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Radio-Activity (50th Anniversary Edition) Kraftwerk Warner / Parlophone 15 May 2026 Kraftwerk, founded in 1970 in Düsseldorf, Germany, by Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider, didn’t just bring electronic music to the masses with their groundbreaking records. They imbued their synthesizers, vocoders, and electronic percussion with an occasional pop sheen, making them more acceptable to mainstream
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Absolute Wonder Woman boasts the same strength that fellow comics Absolute Batman and Absolute Superman have in that it is fascinating to see new interpretations of classic characters and villains. Absolute Wonder Woman’s Zatanna Zatara, for example, was treated to a magnificent and understated redesign, and Circe being Diana’s adoptive mother in the Wild Isle
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Joanna Newsom’s hometown of Nevada City has declared May 27 “Joanna Newsom Day.” On Wednesday, a City Council meeting was held at Nevada City’s City Hall where mayor Adam Kline, a longtime friend and early supporter of Newsom (who also plays in the band Golden Shoulders), made the announcement. He presented her with the honor,
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Dragon Studios has officially announced the production of THE BAT, a gothic World War I horror epic currently filming on location in the United Kingdom. The ambitious feature serves as the official launchpad for the DRagonSTUDIOS Dark Universe, an interconnected cinematic world where literary monsters, occult masterminds, and legendary villains collide in the shadows of
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TL;DR Emerging, indie, and multicultural designers in NYC, LA, Miami, Chicago, and Las Vegas still cast NYFW‑style shows via open calls, DMs, Backstage, and Model Mayhem, which often leads to messy, risky, last‑minute lineups. Treat casting as infrastructure instead: keep those discovery channels, but centralize verification, matching, and payments in a model booking platform like
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Stephenie Meyer Reveals She Has More ‘Twilight’ Books Outlined—But There’s a Catch Here’s one big little truth: There are a lot of must reads making their way to bookstores this summer. Chief among them, Big Little Truth (out August 25), which not only marks Liane Moriarty’s first sequel but also checks back in with Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie a decade
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I must have fallen asleep in 2026 and woken up in 2010; She & Him are performing on Kimmel and Gold Panda just announced a new album. Derwin Dicker has kept plenty busy since then, but the point stands. He’ll share Ton Up, described in an Instagram post as “eight rough-hewn dance tracks and two
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Get This Deal $1.99 Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson Get This Deal $1.99 The Missing by Sarah Langan Get This Deal $2.99 Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Get This Deal $2.99 One of Us Knows
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