TODAY: In 1908, Salvadoran poet Vicente Acosta dies on his birthday. Tarot reader Lisa Stardust examines Sylvia Plath’s relationship to her deck. | Lit Hub Criticism How the expectation that “books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as lifestyle objects” influences cover design in the social media era. | Lit Hub Design
Last night (July 23) and ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, The Coverups (the cover band led by Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong) played a show hosted by Z2 Comics and Fandom. The night even saw Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson take the stage as a surprise guest. The 26-song set kicked off with a cover
Phill Jupitus has accused David Byrne of excluding disabled people at his recent show in Scotland, saying he “effectively shat on a minority”. The actor, poet and retired stand-up comedian – known for being a captain on BBC Two’s Never Mind The Buzzcocks – went to see the former Talking Heads frontman at the Edinburgh
Married at First Sight Season 20’s weddings have come and gone. Thirty-four-year-old project manager Michelle Le and 37-year-old college basketball coach Cameron Mitchell are one of seven couples to meet each other at the altar. The Seattle-based participants had one of the more low-key ceremonies out of the bunch. There were no shocking speeches by parents or majorly
(L to R) Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in ‘Days of Thunder’. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Preview: ‘50/50’ director Jonathan Levine is making a deal to oversee the ‘Days of Thunder’ sequel. Tom Cruise will star in and produce the movie. Paramount is backing this latest revisitation of Cruise’s past career. It’s been a couple of
Facebook is going to begin testing whether users of its platform want to swap their newsfeeds for video feeds. The tech giant announced a slew of product updates Friday morning, and one of them is launching a full-screen “immersive video” player the moment a user opens the app. “People are showing us that they want
What’s also concerning is how many lawmakers and board officials desire to make–or have made–these “tools” necessary ones for professionals to use to do their jobs. York County Library in South Carolina, for example, cites RatedBooks as one of the reputable sources library workers should use to make collection decisions (something that the partisan-designed site
The Farnborough International Airshow wrapped with a firm order tally that edged past the 2024 gathering but fell well short of the 800 aircraft some in the industry had talked up beforehand. Firm commercial aviation orders totaled around 340, alongside more than 50 preliminary deals, options and purchase rights, with Boeing holding a narrow lead
Let’s get the awkward part out of the way first: Perhaps you’ve been hearing about friction-maxxing. We know, the term is, objectively, a little cringe, right? It sounds like something a 20-something podcaster would say right before trying to sell you a supplement. The -maxxing suffix alone is enough to make a reasonable person take
This month, a fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House on the Prairie arrives on Netflix. The reboot’s timing is auspicious. 2026 saw the apex of the tradwife discourse. And if the Brooklyn streets are anything to go by, a certain prairiecore aesthetic refuses to go quietly. Pioneer nostalgia has tended to spike when
You can now see photos from Jonathan Davis and Brittany Parisi’s Italian Renaissance-inspired wedding earlier this month. The Korn frontman and Parisi tied the knot at the Neighborhood Church of Palos Verdes in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. on July 3, according to Billboard. The couple started dating in 2019 and got engaged a little over a
The Kinks’ Ray and Dave Davies have said they are “getting on great” and have refused to rule out a future reunion. The brothers have spoken to The Times ahead of the opening of their new exhibition, The Kinks: Brothers, at the Gibson Garage in London tomorrow (July 24). It will run until September 6, and you can find out more here. The exhibition sees Ray and Dave collaborate with British
The multiverse is broken, reality is unraveling, and somehow the fate of existence falls to the least likely heroes imaginable. Brand new HBO Max show Stuart Fails to Save the Universe picks up sometime after the events of The Big Bang Theory. The series follows shy, socially awkward comic book store owner Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman)
(L to R) Emmy Rossum and ‘Furious’ series creator Liz Meriwether. Premiering on Hulu July 27th is the new crime drama ‘Furious‘, which is loosely based on the 1987 film ‘Black Widow‘, and was created by Liz Meriwether (‘New Girl‘). “There’s a thin line between hunter and prey.” Air Date: July 27th, 2026 The series
Mary Kate Golding, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel set decorator, has died after being found fatally stabbed. She was 34. Golding was found dead on Tuesday in her Astoria, Queens, apartment, having suffered a fatal stab wound on her back, an NYPD spokesperson told People. Police were called to her residence after midnight, and hours later at
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As the airline industry grapples with highly volatile fuel costs, carriers are either cutting capacity more aggressively or raising airfares. But American Airlines is taking a different approach. In the second quarter, capacity for American was up 5.4%, and in the third quarter, it projects capacity will be up between 3% and 5%. Cutting capacity
“Oh, they’re heavy!” “These are nice.” “I need a pair of those.” These are just a few of the responses I got when I brought a handful of ALO sunglasses boxes into the Who What Wear office in Los Angeles this week on the day the lifestyle brand debuted the category for the first time.
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