Lately, Book Riot has been covering a lot of book challenge and censorship news. We always have, but it’s skyrocketed recently. It’s necessary to shine a spotlight on this, but it’s also disheartening. It seems like bookish news stories are always about a beloved author’s death, library funding being cut, or book bans. It’s enough
Aaron Lewis is gearing up to release 4th-career country studio album in 2022. Titled Frayed At Both Ends, the new album slated for January of 2022 takes a bare bones, less is more, approach to recording. But that doesn’t mean he’s not bringing in top talent. “There’s so much great music in Nashville, which I think everybody
Chris Stapleton and Rage Against the Machine frontman Tom Morello have joined forces for a roots-rock epic, “The War Inside.” A sunset-tinged, animated music video, which follows a couple driving backwards in time across a disaster-ravaged American landscape, accompanies the song. Displaying Stapleton’s singular vocals and Morello’s famous blend of heavy metal and hip-hop guitar sounds, “The
Samsung Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A31 have reportedly started receiving the October 2021 Android security patch. The update is said to have stability improvements and bug fixes. Eligible Samsung Galaxy A51 smartphones in some Asian markets including India are receiving the update now, while the update for Galaxy A31 is said to be rolling out
This article contains massive Dune spoilers, as well as potential spoilers for Dune Part Two. House Atreides has fallen. That’s where we leave things at the end of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (or Dune Part One as the film waits until the opening title card to reveal). Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto lies dead, murdered by his
The gun handed to Alec Baldwin before the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set was loaded with a live round … according to a warrant from the ongoing police investigation. The warrant says an assistant director handed the gun to Alec and told the actor it was safe to use before the deadly incident
After Nic Cage appeared in two separate films as Johnny Blaze‘s version of Ghost Rider, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD also intended to use the character on the small screen in the show’s fourth season. As fate would have it, however, Blaze himself wasn’t in the cards, because he was a character Marvel Studios intended to
A director of photography was killed and a film director injured after actor Alec Baldwin “discharged” a prop firearm on a film set in New Mexico on Thursday. Authorities said cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and Joel Souza was injured on Thursday afternoon while filming the Western movie Rust at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe
WOODLAND HILLS — A multi-vehicle crash Friday morning left one person injured and prompted the closure of the southbound 101 Freeway in the Woodland Hills area, authorities said. The crash was reported near Valley Circle Boulevard about 4:40 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. The injured person was taken to a hospital. All lanes
Actor Alec Baldwin said his “heart is broken” and he is fully cooperating with police after a prop gun he fired killed a cinematographer on the set of his new movie. In a series of tweets, he said: “There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the
The government will not change the six-month gap between second doses of the coronavirus vaccine and the booster jab unless the UK’s vaccine advisory body recommends it, a health minister has said. Care minister Gillian Keegan told Kay Burley on Sky News that ministers will “do whatever” the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)
Random Media has acquired worldwide rights to The Kybalion, a faith-based documentary featuring appearances by Paula Roberts, Daniel Ryan, Bryan Contnoir, and Raymond Moody. The film directed by Ronni Thomas (AMC’s The Broken and the Bad) and hosted by occult historian Mitch Horowitz is set in 1908, examining an occult manuscript that would mystify those
A new malware campaign targeting Afghanistan and India is exploiting a now-patched, 20-year-old flaw affecting Microsoft Office to deploy an array of commodity remote access trojans (RATs) that allow the adversary to gain complete control over the compromised endpoints. Cisco Talos attributed the cyber campaign to a “lone wolf” threat actor operating a Lahore-based fake
Married during the pandemic, Joseph and Emily Ferlazzo were supposed to be celebrating their first wedding anniversary with a scenic Vermont camping trip. The couple left Northfield, New Hampshire, on Friday, October 15th, driving the converted bus that was also their home, which they lived in on Emily’s parents’ property. They traveled a little more
Green bonds offering savers the chance to back the government’s environmental projects are going on sale – but experts think the “paltry” returns on offer will see demand wilt. The bonds, described as the first ever green savings product issued by a country, go on sale online via the Treasury-backed National Savings & Investments (NS&I)
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Happy Friday. This week on the Whiskey Riff New Music Friday Playlist, we have new tunes from Dillon Carmichael, Parker McCollum, Wade Bowen, Read Southall Band, Pistol Annies, Brent Cobb, Randy Houser with Hardy and Lee Brice, Drew Parker, Carson McHone, Creed Fisher, Corb Lund with Terri Clark and Brett Kissel, Kassi Ashton, Jon Langston,
Ava Rowland currently finds herself living a life that she could previously only dream of. The Ohio native is continuing to climb the steps toward country music stardom in the future thanks to songs such as “He’s Like a Habit” and “Mama’s Favorite Song.” But with her new single “Ghost,” she’s taking a moment to look
Samsung and Google have become closer partners than ever before, working together on the new Galaxy Watch 4 series. Samsung was previously on its own, selling Galaxy Watches running its in-house TizenOS. Google on the other hand, has been trying to help manufacturers take on the Apple Watch with its Wear OS. Now, the two
Much has been said about GTA 3 in the twenty years since the open-world PS2 helped change gaming overnight, but one aspect of the title you won’t always hear people discuss are the times the game’s various myths and urban legends genuinely scared them. In the early internet age, it was easy enough to believe