Month: May 2021

The man has balls, but they’ve suffered. A lot. By Danielle Cohen May 25, 2021 Steve-O and Johnny Knoxville, 2002.Theo Wargo / Getty Images Johnny Knoxville is intimately familiar with every body part he has—probably because he’s spent the last two decades fracturing, splitting, concussing, and smashing them thanks to the results of his infamous
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May 25, 2021, 2:46pm Some literary award news from across the pond: the winners of this year’s Jhalak Prize—an annual award for a British or British-resident writer of color—have been revealed. At last night’s virtual ceremony, Ugandan novelist and short story writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi—the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and 2018 winner
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There are signs that bulk censorship and state surveillance may have reached their high-water mark, at least in the West. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a Senate Bill designed to allow Florida residents to sue social media platforms if they feel they have been unfairly censored. It specifies greater transparency regarding content moderation practices
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‘The Metamorphosis’ is a short story (sometimes classed as a novella) by the Czech-born German-language author Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It is his best-known shorter work, published in German in 1915, with the first English translation appearing in 1933. ‘The Metamorphosis’ has attracted numerous interpretations, so it might be worth probing this fascinating story more closely.
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Film features commentary from leading representatives of the region, including Chief Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem for Foreign Relations Economic Development, Diplomat Ruth Wasserman Lande, and others   Los Angeles, May 25, 2021 – Filmmaker Eva Lanska, highly decorated with awards and distinctions for her work in the feature and
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Back in 2013 at the DICE Summit, director J.J. Abrams mentioned that he intended to work with Valve on a movie based on the uber-popular physics puzzler Portal. Since then, things have been somewhat quiet, with many assuming that the movie has joined the ranks of the hundreds of proposed media crossovers that have ended
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May 24, 2021, 1:03pm Looks like Boris Johnson was inspired by Shakespeare’s quarantine productivity: according to The Sunday Times, Dominic Cummings—former aide to the prime minister, Brexit leader, and COVID-positive road-tripper—plans to claim in a COVID-related parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday that Johnson skipped numerous critically important meetings on the coronavirus response because he was working
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Flux Pavilion welcomed a child into the world this past weekend, as he shared the news on social media. The named they gave is Boudicea, which, based on a quick Google search, probably comes from the British folk hero who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or
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