Month: August 2024

University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto Photo: Shutterstock In Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and other red states, state-funded universities and colleges are very publicly dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as state lawmakers threaten the state schools with legislation that hasn’t even passed. It doesn’t have to — the threats just need to earn administrators’
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The director of horror-comedies WolfCop and Another WolfCop, as well as this year’s pro wrestling horror movie Dark Match, Lowell Dean is back this Halloween with Die Alone. Quiver Distribution will release Die Alone in theaters and VOD at home October 18, 2024. Watch the official trailer for Die Alone below. In the film, “Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by
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How much time did Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana actually spend together? After that sad sojourn, Dodi picked Diana up in London and they helicoptered to Paris, where they spent the weekend at the Ritz Hotel, another property owned by Dodi’s father. That managed to be quite private, with Ritz security enlisted to keep photographers off the
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China’s Lanvin Group, a global luxury fashion company, has announced its financial results for the first half of fiscal 2024 (H1 FY24), reporting a revenue of €171 million (approximately $191 million), reflecting a 20 per cent decrease compared to the same period in the previous year. The decline is primarily attributed to global market softness
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Share Tweet Share Share Email The force wasn’t strong enough for The Acolyte. The highly anticipated Disney+ series set in the Star Wars universe has been officially canceled, and star Amandla Stenberg isn’t holding back her thoughts. Stenberg Breaks Silence on the Shocking Cancellation News of the cancellation hit fans like a lightsaber to the
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There Amanda Jones was, living in her hometown of Watson, Louisiana, working as a middle school librarian in the school she once attended—an unremarkable and happy life. Then, everything changed. On a mid-July evening in 2022, Jones gave a short, powerful speech against censorship at her local public library’s board meeting. Four days later, she
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You know it’s coming. That awkward stage between summer and fall where it’s too cold to wear a sweater but too hot for just a t-shirt. I can honestly say it’s one of my most hated times of year – I just don’t know what to wear to stay comfortable when the weather begins to
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The smartest people in the world are often featured in film, sometimes they are real, and sometimes fictional. They don’t always have anything in common, either, other than being geniuses. One might be a math wizard, another a musician who hears music no one else could conceive of. Here is our list of people like
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Alex Acks is a writer, geologist, and sharp-dressed sir. They’ve written for Six to Start and been published in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Shimmer, Daily Science Fiction, and more. Alex lives in Denver with their two furry little bastards,
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A$AP Rocky has shared a zany video for new song “Tailor Swif,” finally released after leaking in 2022. Directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, and filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine, two months before the Russian invasion, the video presents a surreal tapestry of bathroom hijinks, canine chaperones, airborne vehicles, and urban pandas and dolphins—soundtracked by
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In his bestselling 2020 novel, The Midnight Library, Matt Haig told the story of a woman, who, after deciding to end her life, finds herself transported to a new metaphysical plane in the form of a magical library. With his new book, Haig sticks to our ordinary world and makes it magical, which makes The
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