So when a carnival barker promises a crowd a good show it is easy to imagine del Toro nodding along as he murmurs, Step right this way, folks. As a filmmaker, del Toro likes to lay an overflowing table, and there’s a lot to take in at the carnival, like the pickled baby, baptized Cyclops […]
The wave of positive COVID-19 cases sweeping through the NFL hasn’t yet touched the New Orleans Saints, but head coach Sean Payton missed practice Wednesday while feeling “under the weather,” team officials said. And Wednesdays are typically low-impact sessions devoted to installing the game plan and opening script of 15 to 20 plays on offense, […]
In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 800-273-8255 and online chat is also available. …Read the full story
“In my mind I was like: “Man I wasn’t even trying to save nobody’s life,” he told Genius in an interview. …Read the full story
Rena Frazier, who was born and raised in Tampa, was Allure’s first real estate agent. …Read the full story
Sip your way through the century by enjoying cocktails from the 1920s, ’50s, ’70s, ’90s and 2000s and each cocktail will be paired with popular food from that decade. $10 bowling all night long, $20 champagne bottles, a masquerade photo wall with props, music from DJ Radical Grove, special NYE cocktails plus a champagne toast […]
One of the products, a giant massage chair, is something Shatner says he wishes he had on the Star Trek set back in the 1960s. “There’s nothing in the English language that can explain what weightlessness is because it’s just entered our experience,” Shatner says. “So people who’ve gone up, they’ve played games and all […]
So far this year, Sotheby’s has sold 57 pieces for more than $15m each, with a Botticelli painting of a young man holding a roundel selling for $92.2m being the top selling item. The most money changed hands in modern and contemporary art, which totalled a record $4.3bn across auction and private sales. The company […]
“That’s what I’m hoping for this community: Every time each and every person drives by the sign, they see Adolph Robert Thornton Jr. Smiley said the renaming and ceremony are a way for the community to celebrate the life and legacy of Young Dolph as a local and national icon. Through the IdaMae Family Foundation, through Paper Route […]
Your personal threshold for pandemic fiction, at this stage in our ongoing global kaleidoscopic bacchanalia of doom, may have dropped precipitously since the post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven became a sensation in 2014. In bringing the novel to the small screen, they have assiduously rounded off its sharper, more despairing edges, and amplified its moments of […]
A powerful flu virus rips across the globe almost overnight, killing most of humanity. John Mandel, “Station Eleven,” whose first three episodes arrive Thursday on HBO Max, focuses less on survival than on how the human spirit, as expressed through art, insists on thriving. Kirsten’s parents are unreachable, the reasons for which dawn chillingly that […]
No cause of death was reported, but Berea College in Kentucky, where hooks had taught since 2004, said in a press release that she had suffered from an extended illness. hooks, who preferred to spell her name with no capital letters as a way of de-emphasizing her individual identity, was born Gloria Jean Watkins as […]
“I think porn is a disgrace. “The first few times I, you know, had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good. The singer said her fame had made it hard to date. Things could have been much worse, however, if she had not been vaccinated. …Read the full story
Rather, it is the scene in Episode 2 of “And Just Like That,” when Carrie is at home getting ready for Big’s funeral. Signs of its cultural downfall are hard to ignore. She paid $1,895 for the original model, plus another $250 for the accessories package and $39 for monthly access to online classes. But […]
It was Sunday afternoon, and DeBose, 30, was in bed at her home on the Upper East Side, propped up on pillows, her rescue cats, Isadora Duncan and Frederick Douglass, occasionally parading through the Zoom call. In a video interview, they spoke about identity, fighting stereotypes and getting notes from Stephen Sondheim, the original lyricist. […]
The first is characterised by a kind of awestruck wonder over the beautiful symmetry of it all: Shatner starred in Star Trek, Star Trek inspired a generation of engineers, the engineers built a rocket, the rocket flew Shatner into space. Upon leaving the capsule on its return to Earth, Shatner tries to grasp at the […]
Anne Rice, who has died aged 80 after a stroke, was one of the foremost writers of supernatural fiction, and the author of more than 30 novels. She plumbed the depths of her own grief and terrors to write, saying in a Rolling Stone interview in 1995 that, “I think all my writing has been […]
Both parties are free, but for $5, there will be unlimited cake pops, cotton candy and popcorn for kids to dig into. As part of the countdowns, noisemakers, balloons and more will be handed out. …Read the full story
