This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Leah Rachel von Essen reviews genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes regularly as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her blog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 dedicated followers over several social media outlets, including Instagram. She
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Apologies to the Queen Mary Wolf Parade Sub Pop 27 September 2005 With the seemingly ever-growing list of “wolf” bands circa 2005 (Wolf Eyes, Wolfmother, Superwolf), Wolf Parade could have been nothing more than a novelty act, especially considering their slapdash formation. This was a time when the indie apparatus felt compelled to churn out
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🎬 Hollywood-Stardom: Alessandro Garbagna 🎭 From the cobblestone streets of Italy to the bright lights of New York City, Alessandro Garbagna is a rising force in international entertainment—a magnetic performer whose journey reads like a screenplay. 🇮🇹 Born to Perform Alessandro’s love affair with the stage began early, earning national acclaim as a child in
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A grave injustice will finally be rectified on Saturday evening when Warren Zevon is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, even though he’s been eligible for more than 30 years. Sadly, Zevon isn’t around to enjoy it. He died from an inoperable form of lung cancer on September 7, 2003. But the
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The 2025 CFDA Awards presented my Amazon Fashion was extraordinary Monday evening with the most fashionable celebs and designers joining forces at the American Museum of Natural History. We know It wouldn’t be a BOMB award season without our Fashion Bomb CEO, Claire Sulmers on the scene interviewing celebrities about their fabulous ensembles. Sulmers arrived
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One doesn’t have to be a Buddhist to know life is full of pain and suffering, and then you die. Sure, there’s more to it than that, but the existential reality cannot be denied. How we deal with it reveals a great deal about our character. Singer-songwriter/guitarist Tommy Talton knew he was dying of cancer
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What To Know ABC’s midseason 2026 schedule begins January 4, featuring the returns of popular shows like Will Trent, The Rookie, 9-1-1, Grey’s Anatomy, and Abbott Elementary. New highlights include the Scrubs revival premiering in February. Notable schedule changes see American Idol moving to Mondays in January and The Bachelorette with Taylor Frankie Paul airing
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In particular, the title story “The Woman Dies” explores the common trope where Hollywood movies, TV shows, and comic books use the female character to propel the story forward. The bare-bone structure of the story really reveals how many stories require women as a prop or a tool for the male protagonist. It’s also fascinating
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W What did you hear? Really. Blonde on Blonde’s nasally whine or Nashville Skyline’s country croon? Which one is Bob Dylan’s real voice? Despite, or perhaps because of, Dylan’s vocal masks, his voice rings true. Or, according to Steven Rings, author of What Did You Hear? The Music of Bob Dylan, you believe it does.
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Blood harmonies: there’s magic in ‘em, literal and figurative — nature and nurture, love and rivalry, atmospheric alchemy born of living room dust and familial mishigas. Blood harmonies alone would be reason enough to cheer the surprise debut of Snocaps — Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and twin sister Allison Crutchfield of Swearin’ and P.S. Eliot, the
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The category is… another season of Celebrity Jeopardy! Confirmed to return for Season 4, Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars has officially set a premiere date for the highly anticipated new season, promising another round of star-studded trivia battles and unexpected moments from some of Hollywood’s brightest minds. Thethird season of the show ended with stand-up comic and
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Whenever George A. Romero’s name comes up, images of ghouls overtaking farmhouses, shopping malls, underground bases, and walled-off cities come crashing in. I mean, Romero, who died in 2017, is often considered the godfather of zombies, thanks to his highly influential Living Dead franchise. However, did you know that on top of making some of
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Richard Patrick’s story is one of rebellion, ambition, and fractured mentorship. Once the touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails, known as “Piggy”, Patrick left Trent Reznor’s shadow to forge his own path with Filter. His journey was far from a straightforward rise. It was a complex dance between admiration and defiance, control and chaos, loyalty
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Despite not fitting the tropical stereotype often attributed to (and intensely exploited by the Latin music industry, Argentina has always found ways to stand out. Historically known for tango and one of South America’s richest rock legacies (thanks to names like Fito Páez and Soda Stereo), the country is also an inexhaustible source of pop
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Swiss label Bongo Joe has been an unstoppable force of cosmopolitan post-punk gems this year, and perhaps no single-artist release encapsulates their 2025 sound more cleanly than 2, the trilingual sophomore release from Yalla Miku. The lineup has shifted since their first album. However, the sonic scope remains very similar, as the group trace their
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