The Pokémon Trading Card Game has hit its apex in some markets. It’s selling out instantly, and none of those purchases are from players. Speculators and investors have been buying up stock by the thousands in recent years, making it impossible to get some of the rarer sets. Take Ascended Heroes. That set (one of
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Femme Feral Ellie is counting the days to her boss’s retirement, when he’ll finally hand over the reins of the meditation app company they built from the ground up. After all, she’s running the place already. And she deserves something positive after taking care of her older father-in-law and teenage daughter with little help from
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The Broadway community is in mourning. Josh Grisetti, who was known for his turn in Something Rotten! and his role on season five of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, died by suicide on July 10, his agent Rick Ferrari confirmed to Entertainment Weekly. He was 44. “I’m absolutely devastated,” he told the outlet. “That’s all I can say.”
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Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose epic power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” became a definitive pop classic of the 1980s, died yesterday (July 8) at a hospital near her home in the Portuguese city of Faro, according to a post on her official Facebook page. She had been in the hospital since May, when
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A couple weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ queer books coming out in the second half of the year. You might notice that those are pretty different numbers, and that’s because I usually learn about
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These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Friday. Phia Accused of Wrongfully Claiming Sales Credits Phoebe Gates’ startup Phia has allegedly been wrongfully claiming credit for online sales it didn’t drive. Bloomberg, Capital One Shopping and independent researcher Ben Edelman tested the app and discovered that Phia silently opens a background tab and
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Texas Tech University System is facing a federal lawsuit over policies that faculty groups say silence discussions about LGBTQ+ identities, race and Black history while limiting professors’ academic freedom. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in El Paso, challenges two directives issued by Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton that opponents argue restrict classroom instruction
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While audiences have become very familiar with folk horror movies, some of the genre’s greatest examples actually come from the land of television. Folk horror has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in recent years, thanks largely to acclaimed films like The Witch and Midsommar. Yet while cinema often dominates discussions of the genre, television has quietly
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Sony Music has announced plans to shutter a Minneapolis warehouse that processes merch for punk bands, prompting its staff to accuse the company of union-busting, See/Saw reports. Workers at Kings Road Merch—which acts as a supplier for punk luminaries including Rancid, Descendents, Dropkick Murphys, and Converge—had unanimously voted to unionize on May 11 this year,
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Goose, a new gay dating app that launched last month, is using AI-generated Instagram “friends” to recruit members to the Grindr alternative, reporting from Wired alleges. “On one hand, I’m flattered that I’m their target audience,” Ryan Cheam, a PR professional and a mark in the fake friends’ campaign, says. “But the need to essentially
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Middle school can often feel like a fiery disaster, and that’s certainly the case for three students in Tae Keller’s marvelous new novel, When Tomorrow Burns. As with her Newbery Medal-winning When You Trap a Tiger, there’s a suggestion of magic. Years ago, the friends found an old book that seems to contain prophecies. Now,
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Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic, Sarah Morris/WireImage Connor Storrie may have just been revealed as the latest addition to the cast of The Bell Jar, the upcoming film adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s landmark 1963 novel. According to Entertainment Weekly, Ontario’s Parkwood National Historic Site appeared to accidentally reveal Storrie’s involvement in Sarah Polley’s upcoming adaptation of
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