Hamilton actors Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom Jr. caught up with each other as part of Rolling Stone‘s Spoken Dialogue series. The duo kicked off the discussion by reflecting on the huge impact that Hamilton has had on their careers. Odom Jr. notes that while his latest role as Sam Cooke in Regina King’s One Night
The COVID-19 pandemic shook up the world as we know it, and book festivals were no exception. Whether large or small, in-person book fairs simply couldn’t happen in 2020. Luckily, authors, readers, and booksellers are a resourceful bunch – and with the help of programmes like Zoom, Teams, and other video conferencing platforms, digital book
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet whose San Francisco–based City Lights bookstore and publishing house served as a springboard for the Beat generation, has died. His daughter, Julie Sasser, reported his cause of death as interstitial lung disease, according to The New York Times. He was 101. The poet was known for stacking small fractured lines on
Hopefully March will bring respite from crippling snow storms and frigid temperatures for much of the globe. And if it doesn’t? Well, Hulu’s got some new streaming options at least! Hulu’s list of new releases for March 2021 are relatively slight on Hulu originals. Thankfully, one beloved original of note is coming back this month.
Los Angeles public health officials reported 1,838 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,189,232 as of Friday, Feb. 26. Officials said there were 144 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total 21,241 deaths since tracking began. According to official counts, there were 1,886 hospitalizations as of Friday.
Joe Biden has told Saudi Arabia’s King Salman that he will “hold them accountable for human rights abuses”. The president’s warning came after a newly declassified intelligence report concluded that the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is likely to have approved an operation to kill or capture a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate
As former first minister Alex Salmond waved to photographers on his exit from Holyrood, something else left the building. An email sent by the Scottish Parliament’s harassment committee that might yet breach the evidence impasse. For as long, detailed and explosive as six hours of testimony was from Mr Salmond, it’s not underpinned by available
With the Golden Globes just about here, Twitter erupted with shock and dismay Friday that the ceremony’s founding organization, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has no Black members and hasn’t for the past 20 years. After the weak acknowledgement of the problem put out yesterday by the HFPA, the reality of the situation did not
Researchers have uncovered gaps in Amazon’s skill vetting process for the Alexa voice assistant ecosystem that could allow a malicious actor to publish a deceptive skill under any arbitrary developer name and even make backend code changes after approval to trick users into giving up sensitive information. The findings were presented on Wednesday at the
Oppo Find X3 series is expected to launch soon and a fresh leak suggests that the lineup may include three phones – Oppo Find X3 Pro, Oppo Find X3 Neo, and Oppo Find X3 Lite. The European prices and colour options of the three phones have surface online as well. The phones are expected to
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned that Britain’s public finances will face “enormous strains” in the wake of the latest national lockdown. Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget announcement, Mr Sunak told the Financial Times a bill for the government’s £280bn investment in coronavirus support will eventually have to be paid, with low interest rates leaving the nation’s
Miranda Lambert and Elle King are at the center of a raucous wedding in the music video for their new collaboration, “Drunk (and I Don’t Wanna Go Home).” The twosome travel back to 1986, to King’s imaginary wedding day. King and Lambert kick off the special day with a cigarette and beer next to an old truck
Born to be a star. We all know Cody Johnson made his way to country music by way of bull riding and rodeo, it’s the entire subject of the documentary. But it wasn’t like Cody hung up the chaps and picked up a guitar for the first time. Cody was playing as a kid, every
The writer of WandaVision’s most recent episode addressed the emotional core of the story. Episode 8 ended up being a tour through the lowlights of Wanda Maximoff’s life. Laura Donney is the writer responsible for guiding viewers through that journey. Agatha decides to put the Scarlet Witch through her magical version of therapy by revisiting
Exclusive Details Ice Cube is just as pissed as you are that there hasn’t been a “Friday” sequel in nearly 20 years, and he’s blaming Warner Bros for blocking the franchise. Cube just fired a shot at WB on Twitter, claiming the media giant is refusing to hand him the reins on the “Friday” franchise
Even though WandaVision managed to answer plenty of questions with its most recent episode, the show introduced a much larger part of the mythos that likely won’t be examined that much further during the events of the Disney+ show. That mythos, of course, is the origin of Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) and the coven she
Donald Trump lost the presidential election. But some of his supporters have bought into a conspiracy theory that says Trump will be president again on March 4. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan reports. Producer: Richa Naik Supervising Producer: Logan Whiteside #CNN #News #Business
It’s a movie called The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, so you know there must be a battle at stake. And there is. Lee Daniels’ new movie, which stars a charismatically downplayed Andra Day as the titular, completely singular, and in many ways unknowable Lady Day, is set primarily in the 1940s. It tells the
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Speakers at CPAC praised former President Trump and pushed his election lies, showing the support Trump still has among the GOP’s most faithful. #CNN #News