Longevity in rock music usually comes with one of two outcomes: creative exhaustion or comfortable repetition. GO TIME! somehow avoid both on 11, an album that sounds neither burned out nor content to coast on habit. Instead, the Chicago veterans deliver a record full of sharp-edged power pop, scrappy garage-rock attitude, and the easy confidence
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1899, French actress Sarah Bernhardt premieres an adaptation of Shakespeare‘s Hamlet with herself in the title role and in a theater named after here.  Everyone’s talking about Salome right now, and Leslie Baird has some answers about why. | Lit Hub Politics How the critical approaches outlined in George
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On Tuesday (May 19), Douglas Robinson joined Loudwire Nights to celebrate the debut album of his new band, Held. Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this article. “We’re not doing this for any other reason than it’s all we love, it’s all we know,” Robinson shared with Loudwire Nights
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In an unusual tie-up between two management companies, Excel Sports Management and WIN Artists are forming a commercial partnership that will give Excel’s vast roster of athletes access to WIN’s expertise in media and entertainment across broadcast, digital media and content creation. As the worlds of sports and entertainment continue to blur, with active athletes
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Students aren’t taking it quietly, either. Like their peers in Central York High School–a 40 minute drive south of Elizabethtown–students have been protesting the board’s censorship agenda. The protests began in the dead of winter, the weather far from amenable for being outside. But students showed up, their voices and beliefs in an education free
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Capital A formally exited its PN17 financially distressed company classification on Wednesday morning after receiving approval from Malaysian stock exchange operator Bursa Malaysia. With this the company closes a six-year restructuring chapter that began in the depths of Covid-19, and sets the stage for an ambitious twin-listing strategy across Hong Kong and the United States.
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Today, at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern, Natasha Brown, Chair of the 2026 International Booker Prize judging panel, announced this year’s winner: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King. The International Booker Prize celebrates “the best work of long-form fiction or collection of short stories translated into English and published
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Like any subgenre of music that had its moment, nu-metal certainly had a style that was all its own that is proudly on display in the nostalgic half of this photo collection. Baggy cargo pants, red baseball hats and all-black ensembles were as synonymous with nu-metal as drop D guitar tuning in the late 1990s
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I’m not a cord-cutter, yet — the economics of internet-only packages still don’t make sense — and I, like you (probably), abhor the fragmentation of sports that has exploded through streaming. The extraneous subscriptions required, never quite knowing what game will be on where, and sometimes even getting subpar presentations of games and matches —
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In today’s round-up of literary headlines, we look at The Guardian‘s picks for the best 100 novels of all time, the Barnes & Noble CEO’s stance on selling AI-written books, and more. The Guardian’s 100 Best Novels of All Time The Guardian has been rolling out its picks for the 100 best novels of all
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Key Points Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi questioned whether AI is truly improving people’s lives amid widespread industry enthusiasm. Both Khosrowshahi and Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin highlighted societal concerns, including public backlash and the environmental impact of AI infrastructure. Khosrowshahi discussed Uber’s strategy for driverless cars, noting their safety benefits but predicting widespread adoption will take
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Balenciaga‘s newly installed creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, won’t try to sugarcoat it. “This collaboration came to life for very personal reasons. I simply like Manolo. That’s it,” Piccioli said in a statement. Fair enough! “I know him personally and have admired him for a long time,” he continued. “To me, Manolo Blahnik is synonymous with
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1897, Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol after doing two years of hard labor following being convicted of “homosexual offences.”  “It turned her overnight into a symbol—­a heroic outlaw to some, an un-­American terrorist to many more.” Zayd Ayers Dohrn remembers growing up with a mom
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