Photography courtesy of The Sleep Shirt.It’s a big week for local fashion news. By Odessa Paloma Parker Date November 20, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter From a new line of cozy-chic nightwear to a Moncton-based pop-up and month-long virtual marketplace featuring Montreal brands, here are the Canadian fashion launches we don’t want you to miss. Vancouver’s Londre
2020 has been a year of great strain in the relationship between movie studios and theater chains. With almost every major movie either postponed by several months or released online, theaters have been on life support for months. AMC has been a particularly fierce opponent of studios wishing to release their movies online before a
November 20, 2020, 1:51pm Today The New York Times published their list of 100 notable books of 2020—and while plenty of our favorites made the cut, we were surprised to see there was only one short story collection on the list. Susan Minot’s Why I Don’t Write: And Other Stories, the lauded collection, is wonderful; but far
Lenovo has teased the launch of its new series that appears to take on the new Redmi Note 9 smartphones that Xiaomi is launching in China on November 26. The Chinese company has released a teaser image on Weibo that aims to take a dig at Redmi. Lenovo is speculated to bring its Lemon series
Play video content Lukas Gage just wanted to audition for a part in a new project, but he had to deal with a rude director who talked crap on his apartment in a Zoom fail. The video is equal parts awkward and, well, humorous … the director thinks he’s on mute as he starts picking
After a decade of false starts Rich Communications Service has hit the mainstream with Google making it available to all Android users. RCS is effectively SMS on steroids, which brings it closer to the kind of functionality we’ve come to expect from OTT messaging apps such as WhatsApp. In fact, one of the things it
Welcome back The Juliana Theory! After splitting up in 2006, the band has reunited and just released their first song in a little over 15 years. Have a listen to “Can’t Go Home” in the player below. The group resurfaced earlier this year and recently signed a new label deal with Equal Vision Records. “Making
Dillon Francis has truly mastered the art of remixing — and his latest for TikTok sensation Dixie D’Amelio keeps up his hot streak (not to mention, he whipped it all together in a week, just watch)! Packed with plenty of pop flavor, “Be Happy” (Dillon Francis Remix) takes the original loners ballad and transforms it for the
Here’s the final installment of our primer on cannabis beverages: what they are, what’s in them, and the products that match your personality By Truss Beverages Date November 20, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter In part one of our series, we gave you an introduction to the brave new world of cannabis beverages, and in part two,
SINGAPORE — The world will be watching closely to see if the quarantine-free travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong will succeed, according to one of the region’s major travel operators Klook. “All eyes are on this bubble, making sure that it’s going to get pulled off,” Eric Gnock Fah, co-founder and chief operating officer
Marvel Studios is looking to bring in Narcos: Mexico star Tenoch Huerta as the villain in the superhero sequel Black Panther 2 with production reportedly set to begin next summer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel is preparing to begin shooting the movie in Atlanta starting in July 2021. It was also reported that Huerta
TODAY: In 1955, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son is published by Beacon Press. “Art is made in the space between the artist and their early, chosen readers, a space that is filled with love.” Sheila Heti on the importance of finding your trusted readers. | Lit Hub Craft Rebecca Solnit: How are we supposed to
No matter where you get your beauty info from—whether it’s magazines, social media or good ol’ word of mouth—it’s safe to say that the abundance of sources and information available at any given time has made things, well, pretty confusing. With so much info at our fingertips, it can be tricky to differentiate between what’s
Exclusive Details Accused killer Kyle Rittenhouse got some help from a few famous people this week, and as a result, he’s free on bail. Ricky Schroder made a “significant contribution” which led to Rittenhouse posting $2 million cash bail … this according to Rittenhouse’s famed lawyer, Lin Wood. We’re told Schroder contributed $150,000 to the
Altice USA will not continue to pursue an acquisition of Canada’s Cogeco, having failed to win over its major shareholder before its C$11.1 billion (US$8.4 billion) offer expired. The revelation will come as no surprise to anyone following the saga. The Audet family were clear and firm in their rejection of the unsolicited bid; they
Death metallers can get in the holiday spirit too! Just take The Black Dahlia Murder for example, as the band has announced their “Yule ‘Em All” holiday variety extravaganza coming up next month. Frontman Trevor Strnad comments, “We in The Black Dahlia Murder have been hard at work assembling what will surely be the most
Avicii biography is due out in 2021. The highly anticipated book release was originally set for 2020, but has been confirmed for next year. Author and Swedish journalist Måns Mosesson says the biography celebrates Avicii’s life and music. Avicii, real name Tim Bergling, battled with his mental health throughout his career and lost his life to
The term “‘90s sitcom” has become white noise. Thanks in part to the fight to secure streaming rights to all the iconic, nostalgia-inducing titles of yesteryear, it feels like the term has been uttered to the point of semantic satiation. But like all cliches, there was and remains a specific logic behind the catchall. The