Offstage, and sometimes on, David Mamet can be infuriating and exasperating, as anyone who has witnessed his recent nonsensical, offensive media blitz can attest, and then along comes something like American Buffalo – possibly his greatest work, all due apologies to Glengarry Glen Ross – with a cast so in sync with the playwright’s “profane
As many as five security vulnerabilities have been addressed in Aethon Tug hospital robots that could enable remote attackers to seize control of the devices and interfere with the timely distribution of medication and lab samples. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause a denial-of-service condition, allow full control of robot functions, or expose sensitive
What Else Can She Do is everything I hoped it would be and more. Kaitlin Butts’ brand new album is out today, and she packs a whole lot of life into the short, 7-song tracklist. The Oklahoma native doesn’t hold back, either, as she tells the stores of women from all different walks of life, many of
Birmingham, Ala. natives Banditos recently announced their new record Right On, due out May 20, and have given listeners a sneak peek of what to expect with their lead single “Here Tonight.” Right On marks the band’s third career album and their first new music in four years, although the project was finished prior to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The band
Australian actor Adam Garcia was 28 years old when he was cast as Kevin O’Donnell — the love interest and male lead who is struggling to make ends meet living in New York City and holds numerous odd jobs including a comic book collector — in the 2000 bar-stomping cinematic masterpiece “Coyote Ugly.” Adam Garcia
Vivo X80 series is expected to arrive in China in the coming weeks. The global rollout is expected to follow soon. Now, the two handsets from the Vivo X80 lineup have been allegedly spotted on the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certifications site, which suggests that its launch in India may be inching closer as
Elon Musk is “not sure” whether his attempt to take over Twitter for $41bn will succeed, he has told a conference in Vancouver. The meme-posting billionaire added that he had a “Plan B” if his offer to buy to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share was turned down – and criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s model of
David Cronenberg’s new film, Crimes of the Future, will premiere at Cannes as part of the film festival’s official competition and a new teaser trailer hints at a return to the director’s formative body horror. The trailer features Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and Viggo Mortensen as characters who are living in not-so-distant future where humans
An Arizona man was arrested and charged with animal cruelty after a menagerie of pets — including snakes, lizards, birds, dogs, and rabbits — were found in his freezer. Michael Patrick Turland faces 94 counts of animal cruelty after Mohave County deputies uncovered his frozen collection of dead animals, including some that — Turland allegedly
Jason Tharp is a picture book author who was brought in for a visit to an elementary school in Buckeye Valley School District in Ohio. Over the phone, though, the school principal told him not to read from his book It’s Okay To Be a Unicorn! after a parent complained. The book is about feeling
The Port of Los Angeles is projected to bring in $632 million in operating revenue next fiscal year, with expenses expected to increase 6.5% to $326 million, based on the port’s proposed 2022-23 budget, which officials rolled out late Thursday, April 14. The budget discussion, during Thursday’s Los Angeles harbor commission meeting, came two days
IS “Beatle” El Shafee Elsheikh has been found guilty of hostage-taking and conspiring to murder journalists and aid workers in Syria. The 33-year-old former British national was found to be part of an Islamic State terrorist cell that operated in Iraq and Syria, and whose members were nicknamed “The Beatles” because of their UK accents.
Coming two days after the prime minister was fined for breaking his own lockdown rules, today’s eye-catching asylum announcement has been greeted by many as a cynical attempt to change the subject. In reality, this unveiling has been in the offing for a while, with details of the home secretary’s trip to Rwanda pencilled in
A new state study suggests the number of people in Los Angeles County who have been infected with Covid-19 during the pandemic is far greater than the number confirmed through standard testing. That’s due largely to the number of people who never developed symptoms and so never got tested, or who couldn’t access tests, L.A.
Google on Thursday shipped emergency patches to address two security issues in its Chrome web browser, one of which it says is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-1364, the tech giant described the high-severity bug as a case of type confusion in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis
What if I told you that Jason Aldean’s first record wasn’t his self-titled album featuring hits “Hicktown” “Amarillo Sky,” “Why,” and more? Now, what if I told you that his first record was actually almost decade earlier. Jason Aldean broke on the country music scene in 2005 with the aforementioned self-titled album, and it actually
Gina Venier “Nora Jane” Gina Venier‘s stellar new track “Nora Jane” tells the relatable tale of the nervousness and worry that can bubble up when introducing your signficant other to loved ones for the first time. But for Venier, who happens to be queer, the honest and heartfelt song is especially personal. With “Nora Jane,” Venier looks back
Batman ‘89 is a comic that hits a certain section of bat-fandom so squarely where they live it’s almost impossible to believe it even exists. The series, part of a line of DC Comics that serve as sequels to beloved live action superhero movie and TV shows, is a direct sequel to Tim Burton’s two
Quavo‘s hopes to ball up with Jack Harlow again — after their NBA All-Star Weekend victory — are officially dashed. 20th Century Studios says it’s picked a costar for Jack in its reboot of “White Men Can’t Jump” … and it won’t be Quavo filling the role of hustler Sidney Deane, which Wesley Snipes played
WhatsApp on Thursday announced Communities as a new feature to help users have multiple groups together under one roof. The announcement comes months after the feature was spotted in testing on the Web. Communities on WhatsApp will enable admins with new tools, including the ability to send a single message to everyone and control over