TODAY: In 1876, George Sand dies.   Xiao Hai remembers balancing brutal night shifts on the production floor with writing poetry. | Lit Hub Memoir “We can be demure and brat, sense and sensibility, sometimes in quick succession or all at once in a single day.” The timeless appeal of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
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Al Pacino in ‘…And Justice for All’. Photo: Columbia Pictures. Preview: Netflix is developing a TV adaptation of ‘…And Justice for All’. The 1979 movie starred Al Pacino. Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn are creating the show. Netflix recently announced that its popular, long-running legal drama ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ will be coming to an end
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What will one of travel’s most exclusive brands look like with a private-equity owner? The change for Soneva, which has three resorts in the Maldives, takes shape Monday with a rebrand: “Barefoot Luxury” becomes “Bare Luxury,” anchored by a new operational mantra, “Just What Matters,” and a new logo.   Soneva opened its first resort in
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Warning: The following story contains descriptions of sexual assault that may be upsetting for some readers. This past January, Loudwire reported on former Marilyn Manson personal assistant Ashley Walters “reviv[ing] her [sexual assault and battery] lawsuit against the musician after it was dismissed” late last year. Now, a California judge has rejected Manson’s latest request(s)
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Staff at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. have started to remove all references to Donald Trump. In December last year, the Trump-appointed board of the arts venue voted to rename the institution to the ‘Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts’, or the ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ in short. In May, however, a US district
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What To Know Brian Dietzen and Pauley Perrette, former NCIS co-stars, recently reunited, and he shared a photo. The long-running CBS drama continues to reference beloved former characters, including Perrette’s Abby in Season 23. For 15 seasons, Brian Dietzen and Pauley Perrette starred alongside one another on NCIS; she was with the series from before it
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Anna Faris plays Cindy in ‘Scary Movie.’ Photo: Paramount Pictures. © 2026 Paramount Pictures. Preview: ‘Scary Movie’ opened top at this weekend’s box office. ‘Masters of the Universe’ had to make do with second place. ‘Backrooms’ took a 70% drop. It might not exactly have the indie cred (or indeed the scare factor) of current
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United CEO Scott Kirby is still interested in merging with American, saying that he has heard interest in the tie-up from unions and customers. “We would need the unions, we need the customers, the shareholders, the regulators, and the management team,” Kirby said to reporters at the IATA AGM in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
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Nothing compares to the breezy, pretty, summer-in-the South-of-France look that you get with a white maxi skirt, but something also true is that nothing compares to how wildly popular they’ve been for the past few summers. So, it’s understandable if you’re ready for something different that’s just as elegant (if not even more so). And
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