Month: March 2021

Margaretha Hönin had a bad reputation. Even though she lived in the late 16th century, we know that her neighbours, the people of Coburg in Thuringia, despised her for being a parvenu and a money-grabbing miser. Hönin was also said to be a witch who met regularly with a dragon. For her neighbours, her economic
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Langdon is on the move. Peacock has ordered the gripping drama thriller Dan Brown’s Langdon to series, based on the world-renowned author’s international bestselling novel “The Lost Symbol.” The series is produced by CBS Studios, Imagine Television Studios, and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie will serve as
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National CineMedia, operator of the nation’s largest cinema advertising network, saw sales plunge and it swung into the red last quarter as more than half of all theaters were shuttered. On a conference call, execs noted recent agreements to expand outside of cinemas and said the company will be announcing another, a big one, in
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Phoebe Bridgers has shared two new tracks as part of the Spotify Singles series. The first offering is a new version of Punisher single ‘Kyoto’ featuring Jackson Browne on backing vocals; the second is a cover of John Prine’s ‘Summer’s End’, where she’s joined by Maria Taylor. Listen to both songs below. This is not
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez for $1.99 Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff for $4.99 Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys for $2.99 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova for $4.99 The Banks by Roxane Gay, Ming Doyle, and Jordie Bellaire
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Before John Carpenter’s Halloween there was Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, an early slasher film that helped lay the foundation for the eventual arrival of horror movie icons like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. After two remakes, we’ve learned this week that Black Christmas is next getting a behind-the-scenes book, set for release next
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In 1965, the Grammy Awards began honoring country artists for their albums with an award designated specifically for vocal and instrumental country records. The first trophy, then for a category designated Best Country & Western Album, was given to Roger Miller at that year’s 7th Annual Grammy Awards, for Dang Me / Chug-a-Lug. Miller would go on
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Courtesy of Dior / @Elina_Kechicheva Dior’s magic is the stuff of fairytales. From its embrace of the feminine mystique to an international, all-star fanbase that includes its newest face, Jisoo of Blackpink, to supernatural growth in sales in 2020 despite a global pandemic, the fashion house knows the power of storytelling. For its fall-winter 2021
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Can’t get over that WandaVision finale? Me neither. But the good news about a series based on comics is that the end of the season doesn’t mean the end of the story. You can still catch up with Scarlet Witch, Vision, and all the other characters we’ve gotten to know in Westview. Whether you want
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Casey Affleck, Sam Claflin, Michelle Monaghan, Veronica Ferres and India Eisley star in the thriller Every Breath You Take, which has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Deadline reports today that Vertical will release the film, directed by Vaughn Stein, in both North American theaters and at-home via Premium VOD on April 2nd, 2021. “Every Breath You Take
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Oxford-based artist Jaya Mansberger spent her formative years in Nepal and Kauai, an island in Hawaii. Having graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, she produced psychologically charged portraits before delving into abstract artwork. Jaya also teaches art to young people in Oxford. The painter has always felt compelled to make art;
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Dolly Parton is many things to so many people: singer-songwriter, actress, humorist, icon. But to nearly 2 million kids around the world, she’s their librarian. Since 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program has delivered meticulously chosen, personalized, age-appropriate books every month to children up to five years old — all free of charge. Parton’s charitable
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“Oh, no,” said Steven Yeun, his register hushed, like he’d just been enlisted to steal the Declaration of Independence. Some of Yeun’s friends had told me, specifically, to ask the actor about his fondness for something called primal astrology. Primal astrology is a quasi-evolved version of its more popular zodiac cousin, with a little more
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Acquired by Shout! Studios this week, Bella Thorne (Girl, The Babysitter: Killer Queen) stars in the upcoming home invasion thriller Masquerade, Deadline is reporting today. Shane Dax Taylor wrote & directed the film, being released by Shout! later this year. Deadline details, “The film follows 11-year-old Casey (Alyvia Lind), who must survive the night after
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