Month: October 2023

The world of jazz is mourning the death of Carla Bley. On Tuesday, Bley’s longtime partner and musical collaborator Steve Swallow announced that the jazz musician died at the age of 87 due to complications with brain cancer. Bley was diagnosed with brain cancer back in 2018. “Sometimes I don’t know the answer to a
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Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis, whose past films have been increasingly criticized, said he regrets his negative commentary about women’s bodies and lack of diversity in his work. During an appearance at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, per Today, he sat down with his daughter Scarlett Curtis, who is an activist and writer, for an interview. The elder Curtis
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Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until
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Patricia Thang is an educator located in Los Angeles. Though a native Angeleno through and through, her heart also belongs to Tokyo, where much of her family is from. Besides books, she is an enthusiastic devourer of many things, including podcasts, television, and J-pop. She realizes there’s not enough time in the world to consume
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R. Nassor may spend more time with books, tea, and ceramic mugs than recommended by professionals but it hasn’t failed her so far. Nassor has a MA in English Literature from Georgetown University, where she looked at the way medieval and early modern literature reappear in fantasy books today. She’s been writing about romance, fantasy,
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The UK has more than its fair share of looming infrastructure priorities. There’s a neglected water network that leaks sewage into rivers and clean water into the ground. A rail system in disarray after the last-minute scrapping of HS2. Not to mention roads filled with enough potholes to swallow fleets of electric cars there aren’t
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The changes at Showtime continue. Paramount Global confirmed Tuesday that the network’s sports operation will be dissolved by the end of the year. Showtime will honor its 2023 obligations, airing the remaining boxing commitments. “As we evolve our strategy to more efficiently allocate resources and align our content offering across the business, we’ve made the
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