After the lockdowns of 2020, Pantone chose two colors, Ultimate Gray and the sunny yellow Illuminating, to represent quiet reassurance and resilience in the face of difficult circumstances, as well as optimism for the future. Pantone’s primary product is the Pantone Matching System, a standardized color reproduction system with over 2,000 unique shades, each identified […]
And in a decision that shocked fans, the series opened by killing off Carrie’s longtime love interest Big after a TV romance that spanned six seasons, two movies, and 23 years. He could have suffered a heart attack after a run in Central Park, a stressful conversation with Carrie, or a glimpse at Miranda on […]
Prosecutors said the hoax was originally scheduled for the evening of January 28, 2019, but was pushed back to 2 a.m. January 29 when a flight Smollett was taking from New York back to Chicago was delayed for several hours. “There is one unsung hero in all of this and my clients really want to […]
Sixty years ago, Robert Wise began his film of “West Side Story” with a view of Manhattan from the sky. The period in which the movie is set could well be—get this—the time at which the original “West Side Story” was taking shape, ahead of its Broadway première, in 1957. It pleases Schrank to plague […]
Three years before it premièred, in 1970, Benjamin Braddock sprang Elaine Robinson from her wedding ceremony with the urgency of a fireman rescuing a baby from a burning building, only to ride into their joint future with a look of numb horror on his face. Have the marital pressures that the show examines changed in […]
There were creepy monsters to hunt each episode, some great comic relief in the form of an annoying bard, as well as steamy bath scenes and a full-on orgy. Season 2 attempts to up the fantasy stakes by focusing on some of the bigger, more existential questions about The Witcher universe, from the origins of […]
“Hearing the Apollo Chorus perform Handel’s Messiah — it should really be a bucket list objective for every Chicagoan because it’s really something special,” Alltop said. Alltop grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. “I had a pretty different approach to that music that the […]
The British creative director of Dior menswear, Kim Jones, is a collector of rare books and literary memorabilia. The book jacket of Jones’s early edition of Kerouac’s novel Visions of Cody, illustrated with two rugged James Dean lookalikes dressed for a road trip, came to life on the catwalk as models with gelled hair and […]
He was, after all, the man who wrote those feelings into a beautiful “Company” song — “Sorry-Grateful” — and, in so doing, introduced ambivalence at an almost cellular level to the American musical theater. Sure, the score remains great, and there are a few perfectly etched performances in supporting roles, especially Patti LuPone’s as the […]
Mikey arrives in Texas City, Tex., a Gulf Coast oil-and-gas town, with not much more than the tank top on his back, $22 in his pocket and bruises on his face and torso. Before long he is installed on Lil’s couch , using their modest yellow bungalow as a base of operations as he lays […]
In the witty and swift-moving biopic Being the Ricardos , Sorkin puts some of this insider knowledge to work in exploring the politics—global, sexual, and professional—behind the scenes of the smash 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy. Most of the events touched on in Being the Ricardos really happened, though not on the compressed one-week timeline Sorkin imagines, moving from I […]
With strict quarantine conditions largely over for most people, the time might have seemed right to get out of the house and go dancing in the streets. This is a crop that encompasses some of this year’s most exciting Grammy up-and-comers, too, from triple-nominee Allison Russell telling her harrowing but inspirational story to best new […]
Robbie Shakespeare, a Jamaican bassist who, as half of the rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, played with and produced some of the biggest names in music while transforming reggae with bold infusions of rock, blues and jazz, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Miami. Starting in the mid-1970s, Sly and Robbie were among the […]
Sitting in front of a big monitor that carried the signal live from the courtroom, Ola sat quietly, without expression, while the verdict was read. A disorderly conduct charge for a false crime report is a Class 4 felony and punishable by up to three years in prison and a $25,000 fine. The trial, which […]
Though a lot of shows on Netflix are not renewed, The Hollywood Reporter alluded to the show’s poor reception as the reason for its abrupt cancellation. Reviews of Cowboy Bebop generally criticized the show’s weak pacing and cheap-looking costumes and sets, while it also failed to capture the essence of what made the 1996 anime […]
At an untelevised show in Texas, Hardy was in the main event alongside Drew McIntyre and Xavier Woods against Roman Reigns and the Uso brothers, Jimmy and Jey. “I think he’ll be fine but once again, this isn’t my business and if he wants to go into it in more detail then he’ll do it […]
However, “Return To Hogwarts” will provide a behind-the-scenes look at making of the eight films through “in-depth interviews” and “cast conversations,” Variety reported. Meanwhile, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling also won’t be giving interviews in the special, but will appear in archival footage. …Read the full story
