Month: June 2020

June 22, 2020, 9:32am Around these parts, there are few things we love more than ogling beautiful book covers—and it turns out, even the “book” part is negotiable. Enter: designer and illustrator Matt Stevens’ ongoing project (and soon-to-be book) Good Movies as Old Books, which reimagines some of Stevens’ favorite contemporary movies—from Parasite to Gattaca to Do the
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Joel Schumacher, Batman Forever & Lost Boys director, dies at 80 ComingSoon.net is disheartened to bring the news (via The Hollywood Reporter) that Joel Schumacher, legendary director of the acclaimed vampire horror comedy The Lost Boys and Batman Forever, has passed away at the age of 80 after a year-long fight with cancer. RELATED: Iconic Batman Scribe Denny O’Neil
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TODAY: In 1903, Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild begins serialization in the Saturday Evening Post “I went quiet the very moment everyone else seemed to get louder.” Brandon Taylor on managing private anxiety during a very public pandemic. | Lit Hub What is an escapist read in 2020? Deborah Shapiro suggests some fiction for the unsettling moods
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Spotify is exploring the possibilities with video, which would allow the platform to compete with YouTube Music and more. As shared on Twitter (see below), Spotify is experimenting with a tabbed interface for its Now Playing screen. The new feature allows users to explore different visual options to their leisure — Canvas, Album Art or
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ljubaphoto Travel insurer Seven Corners has started two new products  tailored to vacations in the age of coronavirus: one policy specifically covers medical expenses incurred due to Covid-19 infection while traveling overseas, and another helps motorists as road trips replace flights and cruises as the preferred means of summer and fall travel. “Travel trends, in general,
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Happy Father’s Day, and nothing says “Thanks Dad” than sitting behind the kit and covering his music. That’s what Slipknot‘s Jay Weinberg recently did, covering the drum parts his father Max Weinberg laid down while joining a star-studded cover of Bruce Springsteen‘s “Candy’s Room.” In addition to Weinberg, Royal Thunder‘s Mlny Parsonz is on vocals
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