The sun is blazing in Taunton and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has his shirt sleeves rolled up as he leaflets in the Blue Wall town of Somerset. He’s here with local Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Gideon Amos and they are enthusiastically knocking on doors pushing pamphlets through letterboxes. And they are right to be
A stage adaptation of The Pianist, based on the Władysław Szpilman memoir that was the source of the Oscar-nominated 2002 film, is being developed by director Emily Mann with an eye toward Broadway. An industry reading is set for New York City this month with Tony Award winner Santino Fontana (Tootsie) starring as Szpilman. The
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed ToddyCat has been linked to a string of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The relatively new adversarial collective is said to have commenced its operations by targeting Microsoft Exchange servers in Taiwan and Vietnam using an unknown exploit to
By all reasonable definitions and standards, I am a Disney Adult. I have seen all of the movies multiple times, and enjoy most of them at least a little bit. I have strong opinions on various developments in the theme park ecosystem: the rebranding of Splash Mountain (staunchly pro!), the new exorbitantly priced Star Wars
Charles Wesley Godwin is one of the best, if not the best, singer/songwriters up and coming in the independent country music scene. The West Virginia native knows how to tell vivid stories about growing up in Appalachia, to the point where you can visualize it in your head like a movie. Although the man is
Play video content TMZ.com Priscilla Presley, the ex-wife of Elvis Presley, thinks Austin Butler did a stunning job playing the late performer … and says the internet should pipe down on the scathing critiques. We got Priscilla outside the Chinese Theater in Hollywood Tuesday — she was amongst other members of the Presley family as
Nokia X21 5G and a new G-series smartphone alleged renders and some specifications have leaked online. The Nokia X21 5G smartphone is said to be powered by a Snapdragon 695 SoC and a 5,000mAh battery. It will reportedly feature a 64-megapixel primary lens and a 13-megapixel camera at the back with Zeiss optics and PureView
Millions of people have been hit by severe travel disruption on the first day of the biggest rail strike for a generation – with passengers set to face more cancellations tomorrow. Although it is not officially a strike day on Wednesday, only 60% of trains are expected to run – mostly because of a delay
While many book lovers would find it hard to not finish a book over the course of 365 days, this is the reality of over half of US adults. In a new study conducted by WordsRated, an international research and data group focused on reading and the publishing world, 48% of adults finished a whole
When the Elton John biopic Rocketman opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, expectations were sky-high. Just months earlier, Bohemian Rhapsody, another rock-music biopic, this one centered on Queen’s Freddie Mercury, had pulled off a surprise box-office coup, raking in $911 million worldwide. Paramount Pictures had taken a big gamble with Rocketman, spending
The family of a 61-year-old certified public accountant shot and killed inside a multimillion-dollar Encino mansion in February is suing the alleged gunman. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges Ronald Kolodkin negligently handled a handgun inside a home in the 16800 block of Encino Hills Drive, resulting in the death
Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield were on site at the Texas school shooting within 19 minutes – but they didn’t breach the classroom and stop the gunman for another hour, new reports suggest. According to documents reviewed by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper and local KVUE-TV, officers with heavier
Ministers will change the law to ensure that the impact of “militant” union action is less damaging in future, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said as the biggest rail walk-out in three decades began. Mr Shapps told Sky News’ Kay Burley that nothing could be done to “change the reality” of the strikes that are taking
UPDATED: Beyoncé dropped her first single from her upcoming album Renaissance a little early. The song, “Break My Soul,” was supposed to drop at midnight ET, but instead went up on Tidal, the streaming platform once owned by her husband Jay-Z, just before 10 pm ET. You can have a listen to the House-inspired tune
A new kind of Windows NTLM relay attack dubbed DFSCoerce has been uncovered that leverages the Distributed File System (DFS): Namespace Management Protocol (MS-DFSNM) to seize control of a domain. “Spooler service disabled, RPC filters installed to prevent PetitPotam and File Server VSS Agent Service not installed but you still want to relay [Domain Controller
Numerous armed police officers managed to enter the Texas elementary school where 21 people were killed during a mass shooting last month just minutes after the gunman stormed the building — but it took authorities nearly an hour to stop the shooter, the Austin Statesman reports. Documents and bodycam footage reviewed by the publication revealed Monday that
I feel like speak-singing has gotten a little bit of a bad rap recently because many country fans are not in love with the pop and rap influences on radio country. Songs like “Dirt Road Anthem” by Jason Aldean and almost anything by Sam Hunt (though I will defend his music as having more substance
At first blush, it doesn’t make sense for country music and New York City to work. But Whitney Lockert makes it happen. A stalwart veteran of the New York country scene (such as it was) in the 2010s, Lockert returned home to California a few years ago. His upcoming album, Long Way to California (out
Paul Haggis — famous for writing/directing 2006’s Best Picture, “Crash” — has been arrested in Italy for sexual assault … this according to multiple reports. Local media say the Oscar-winning filmmaker — who also wrote “Million Dollar Baby,” among other hit films over the years — was busted Sunday in the city of Ostuni, where
Oppo Find X5 series including the vanilla Oppo Find X5, Find X5 Pro, and Find X5 Lite was unveiled in February this year. According to a new leak, the company is planning to launch a new variant in the Find X5 series in the second half of 2022. Oppo released the Find X3 Pro Photographer