Month: July 2024

Oh, balls. After concluding June with discussions of the wacky space antics (and commando drag queens) of Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen) and the underseen-but-very-good trans vampire film Bit (listen), we’re heading into grindhouse cinema with Robert Rodriguez‘s first half of the Grindhouse double-bill: Planet Terror (2007)! In the film, an experimental bio-weapon is released that turns the
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The pharmaceutical company Gilead has announced that its new pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) injectable medication has passed a Phase III clinical trial demonstrating its safety and effectiveness against other current PrEP treatments. The trial found that the medication protected cisgender women from HIV in 100% of cases. Clinicians found that the twice-yearly shot, lenacapavir, worked in
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The son of a librarian, Chris M. Arnone’s love of books was as inevitable as gravity. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. His novel, The Hermes Protocol, was published
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Italian fashion house Moncler has launched its Fall/Winter 2024 collection. For the Fall/Winter 2024 collection, the French actor Arnaud Binard stars alongside his daughter Maya Rose. Binard’s innate charm chimes with the collection’s effortless confidence – ton-sur-ton layers of beige and charcoal, tactile textures of corduroy and cable knit, smart accents of navy. Rose characterises
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Angel Marcloid’s latest as Fire-Toolz—one of her many aliases—collects 14 antsy compositions recorded over the past four years, during which time she sallied deeper into deathcore and death metal, she said in press materials. Infernal vocals crawl across her wondrously maximalist soundscapes, wraithlike interlopers in a euphoric swirl of jazz fusion, Midwest emo, and digital
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Thanks to the long Fourth of July holiday weekend ahead, it’s a light week for horror. But that doesn’t mean we’re not getting new releases to add to your watchlists. Here’s all the new horror releasing July 1 – July 5, 2024! For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar. A
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Get ready to fall in love with Max, the irrepressible elementary school narrator of That Always Happens Sometimes. He’s full of energy and enthusiasm that constantly erupts like a volcano. In Kiley Frank’s clever text, Max poses a series of questions that reveal his personality, such as “Have your electric pencil sharpener privileges ever been
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What About Francesca Bridgerton? Francesca Bridgerton (Hannah Dodd) is unfortunately sometimes considered the forgotten Bridgerton child, not because her family doesn’t love her, but because—as she does on the show—the sixth Bridgerton sibling prefers quiet and calm. In the book series, it’s casually mentioned that Francesca found her husband seven years before we pick up with Penelope and Colin. However, executive
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Tom Ford is one of the biggest names in men’s style in the 21st Century. Stylish celebrities wear his suits on the red carpet, and millions of men across the globe invest in the various fragrances he puts out every year. But there’s one scent that men return to repeatedly: Tom Ford’s Oud Wood. But
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Shay Youngblood, playwright and novelist, has passed away in Peachtree City, GA at the age of 64. Her friend, Kelley Alexander, said the cause of death was ovarian cancer. Youngblood’s works, which include the short story collection The Big Mama Stories (1989), the novels Soul Kiss (1997) and Black Girl in Paris (2000), and her
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