Month: June 2025

For Donald Glover’s debut Genius collection, the polymathic creative juggernaut reinterprets the brand’s elevated mountain codes for high summer in Southern California, fusing function, purpose, and elegant design in a self-assured assemblage of laidback pieces. Under the celebrated writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician’s stewardship, the brand’s alpine roots find unexpected common ground and a
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The Supreme Court disregarded the issue of precedent when it overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in 2022, unraveling the legal right to abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. The Court left it to the states to decide whether they would legalize reproductive autonomy. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court
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The Exorcist parody Repossessed will be released on Blu-ray on August 19 via Kino Lorber. The 1990 horror-comedy is written and directed by Bob Logan (Meatballs 4). Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Leslie Nielsen (Airplane), Ned Beatty (Deliverance), and Anthony Starke (Return of the Killer Tomatoes) star. Special features: Audio commentary by  writer-director Bob Logan (new) Theatrical
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It’s summertime and the living is easy in the Hamptons, a tony seaside community on New York’s Long Island. But despite the area’s resplendent mansions and beautiful beaches, high schooler Gabriel Nieves is anything but excited he’ll be spending school break there. In fact, as Ann Dávila Cardinal’s supernatural horror novel You’ve Awoken Her opens,
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German prosecutors have charged a teenager whom they believe was involved in the plan to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria, last year, The Associated Press reports. According to prosecutors, the young man—a Syrian national living in Germany who is identified as Mohammad A.—had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group
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To celebrate The Ultimatum: Queer Love Season 2, Netflix and Frameline took over SF’s first women’s sports bar for a night of reality TV, Pride magic, and community vibes. Netflix brought the drama — and the community — to San Francisco’s Castro district this week with a special Pride Month screening of The Ultimatum: Queer
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. What We Talk About When We Talk About Synergy Cynthia Erivo has announced a memoir of “powerful, personal
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Walter Scott, a co-founding member of the R&B group the Whispers, has died, the Los Angeles Sentinel reports. Scott had been living with cancer for six months, and he died in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to the report. Scott was 81 years old. Scott and his twin brother, Wallace “Scotty” Scott, co-founded
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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of a federal law that requires health insurers to provide coverage for preventative treatments recommended by a federal task force in Kennedy v. Braidwood. These treatments include PrEP, which a Christian company in Texas sued over, claiming that covering PrEP violates their freedom of religion because it “encourages
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Alfred Hitchcock’s influence over the horror genre is towering. “Hitchcockian” is one of the few namesake descriptors used to describe (typically lesser) copycats. Film courses teach Hitchcock’s catalog as epitomic examples of tension, mystery, and suspense, while filmmakers worship Hitchcock through tributes and facsimiles. Anyone would kill to have a Rope or Vertigo on their
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In her new hybrid work, The Möbius Book, Catherine Lacey sets a novella-length piece of fiction next to a memoir, calling them “Book A” and “Book B.” Book A, the fiction piece, follows longtime friends Marie and Edie through a long night as they try to comfort each other, both having suffered a bad breakup,
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Is the Decline of Reading Causing Political Dysfunction? Americans are reading less and scrolling more. Social media erodes critical thinking skills and contributes to polarization. As book people, it can be tempting to think everything
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