Little Jimmy Dickens stood just 4 feet, 11 inches tall, but the magnitude of his contribution to country music was positively giant. Though the Grand Ole Opry star passed away on Jan. 2, 2015, his impact is still felt today — and the sweet memories of Dickens’ time onstage will not soon be forgotten. The singer made audiences laugh thousands of
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Jeremy Renner was seriously injured during a snowplow accident at a Nevada ski resort — and had to be airlifted to a hospital. The two-time Oscar-nominated actor was in “critical but stable condition with injuries suffered after experiencing a weather-related accident while plowing snow earlier [Sunday],” a rep told Deadline. Play video content The rep
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Because New Year’s was on a Sunday this year, we’re taking today off to recover. But don’t worry, we’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, we wish you luck in your 2023 reading goals, and we hope your year is filled with a fireworks display worth of five-star reads.
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From festivals to pool parties, the best canvas shoes have been the fail-safe footwear choice for many of life’s most joyous occasions. A true summer staple, they’re not only breathable but versatile and pretty damn cool—making them a no-brainer for all of your warm-weather escapades. But with so many options available, finding the shoe of
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Brandon Sanderson’s vast worlds, surprising plots, and wonderful characters have taken the sci-fi fantasy world by storm. However, even more authors like Brandon Sanderson are out there waiting for you to pick them up and read without delay. As a decade-long Sanderson fan, I have been recommending his books in the Cosmere, the Cytoverse, and
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Fireworks have returned with Higher Lonely Power, their first album in nine years. Surprise-released today (January 1) via the band’s own Funeral Plant Collective, the LP follows 2014’s Oh, Common Life as well as their 2019 comeback single ‘Demitasse’, which does not appear on the record. Stream it below. “We appreciate the opportunity to create
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I am a huge fan of entertainment, so I don’t like to play the game of pretending that books are better than television or vice versa. Stories can be told in many different ways and formats and personally I think the more the merrier — although all the streamers are really starting to test this
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If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next? Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with their powerful telescopes, they spot something that makes them gasp. Amid the feeble rays from distant
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Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel White Noise might seem odd now—but there’s a good chance it’ll age in wild and interesting ways. By Jason Diamond December 30, 2022 Photographs: Everett Collection; Collage: Gabe Conte I picked up Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise as a younger, more impressionable reader and thought, “Damn,
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