Yesterday, in response to the increased number of book banning attempts across the country, the City of Chicago and the Chicago Public Library (CPL) have declared themselves safe spaces for endangered stories. The city of Chicago and the CPL have established “Book Sanctuaries” across 81 library branches and 77 neighborhoods. These sanctuaries are safe spaces
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The sleuthing pensioners of the Thursday Murder Club are back and better than ever in Richard Osman’s The Bullet That Missed. Life in the idyllic Coopers Chase Retirement Village is far from quiet, especially for the Thursday Murder Club. The group’s four members—Elizabeth, a retired MI5 agent with connections across the globe; Joyce, a former
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“Just don’t look.” Those three words mean many things to horror fans when put together in a short but sweet sentence. We utter the phrase when watching our favorite movies with someone squeamish. It’s sometimes what we tell ourselves when something gruesome is happening on screen as we play peek-a-boo from behind our fingers. And
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News Timbaland and Swizz Beatz Settle Verzuz Lawsuit with Triller They had sued the shortform video company for $28 million over unpaid royalties By Allison Hussey September 22, 2022 Facebook Twitter Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, December 2015 (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Bacardi) Facebook Twitter Timbaland and Swizz Beatz have settled their recent lawsuit
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Some cosmic joke must be afoot, because while I’m on the phone with Sarah Jaffe, Sheryl Sandberg announces she’s stepping down from her powerful perch as the COO of Meta. The on-the-nose death knell of the Lean In era is appropriate, because Jaffe and I are having an extremely real conversation about women and work.
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View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock Khloe Kardashian‘s newborn is only a month old and fans know more about his name than they know about Kylie Jenner‘s 7-month-old son, whose name she famously changed in March after announcing it as Wolf. Khloe, 38, welcomed her baby boy, and her second child with her ex Tristan Thompson, into
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Disney yesterday began overseas rollout on the remastered rerelease of James Cameron’s Avatar in five early markets with the Na’vi seeing a collective $877K gross. The 4K high dynamic range version was No. 1 in France at $513K, coming in 8% ahead of the comparable 3D rerelease of Titanic in 2012. In Korea, the 20th
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Worms… it’ll get you fucked up! After having its World Premiere at Fantasia, Alex Phillips’s avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is heading to this month’s Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas. It was announced ahead of the premiere that Cinedigm acquired the indie, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service SCREAMBOX this fall, followed
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Chad Kroeger, frontman for Canadian rock band Nickelback, has revealed that everyone has been pronouncing his last name wrong all of these years. Speaking to Loudwire on a recent podcast, Kroeger explained that his surname is often butchered; people have been saying Kroh-ger, like the U.S. grocery store chain. However, the Hanna, Alta.-born musician insists
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“Grandma’s been staying with us since she got sick,” reads the opening line of The Bird Feeder, which gently ushers readers into a difficult, necessary story. “That means now I can visit with her anytime I want,” reads the next line, letting the reader know that, while this story might be sad, there are also
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The footage will seem familiar to viewers, as parts of this scene were featured in season one’s June 9 episode, in which Khloe’s sisters learned about Tristan’s paternity suit before she did.  While on the phone with mom Kris Jenner, Kim sounded off, “His whole declaration is in this thing, which says, ‘I, Tristan Thompson,
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It looks as if Universal Pictures is already igniting the hype for M. Night Shyamalan‘s forthcoming Knock at the Cabin, his adaptation of Paul Tremblay‘s “The Cabin at the End of the World” that won’t release until 2023. Still, the studio is teasing something that will reveal itself at midnight. The official Uni account on Twitter is running a
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