While several of Kevin McCallister’s creative booby traps in Home Alone are very dangerous and potentially lethal, they don’t seem to fall outside of the confines of the law. On Twitter, defense attorney Mike Buresh did a deep dive into the legalities of the movie with a series of tweets to determine if what Kevin
December 26, 2020, 3:02pm Barry Lopez, whose writings offered a deep understanding and nuanced exploration of the natural world and human beings’ relationship to it, has died at the age of 75. Over the course of half a century, Lopez’s work transformed the field of environmental writing, opening new worlds of narrative possibility; his style,
UK-based Vodafone is prepared to pay up to €2.1 billion to end a long-running legal dispute with Kabel Deutschland Group’s (KDG’s) minority shareholders. The company disclosed on Tuesday that it has launched a €103 per share tender offer for the outstanding 23.2 percent of the cableco that it doesn’t already own. So far, shareholders representing
The bad blood between Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine and Metallica no longer exists — and hasn’t for years — but it remains a crucial part of metal’s history. After the band fired Mustaine in 1983, they retained his songwriting contributions and in a new episode of “No Fuckin’ Regrets,” the podcast hosted by Machine Head‘s Robb
A coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine is expected to be widely available to Americans by June 2021. Earlier this week, Pfizer and BioNTech announced the United States had agreed to purchase an additional wave of 100 million doses, bringing the total order of COVID-19 vaccines to 200 million. The government is prepared to pay $1.95 billion for
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a he iconic 1962 Cartier Tank watch. (Photo: Getty) Nathalie Atkinson discovers how to move forward with starting a watch collection. By Nathalie Atkinson Date December 26, 2020 Facebook Twitter Are you thinking about buying a watch? As a beautiful object and as a metaphor, the wristwatch may be the ultimate
After countless delays and dramas, the long, overstretched waiting is now over- Wonder Woman 1984 is finally here. Even before the film released, it was already known that the story would see Gal Gadot back as the badass Diana Prince a.k.a. Wonder Woman, Kristen Wiig becoming the “apex predator,” and Pedro Pascal’s Maxwell Lord at
TODAY: In 1894, poet and novelist Jean Toomer is born. 40 bookstores in 40 weeks: J. David Gonzalez on the habit-forming pastime of buying books. | Lit Hub Bookstores “What kind of jerk-off would want to go to a sentence festival, anyway?” Does Goodreads have a problem with books by women, about women? | Lit
Play video content Exclusive Piece of The Pie is a new TMZ franchise, showcasing amazingly talented people of color who have had trouble making their mark in the entertainment industry. Our goal here is to raise awareness on behalf of marginalized voices and creators — people who have great stories to tell — and make
Many of us have spent a lot more time in front of our computers in 2020 than ever before, thanks to lockdown conditions and completely changed dynamics around work, communication, education, and even leisure. Our technology has kept us all connected, and the industry has largely kept pace with these changes. In fact, we’ve seen
US telco Verizon Business has partnered with Deloitte in an effort to drive the rollout and adoption of mobile edge computing (MEC) services for enterprises. Together the companies will develop solutions targeted at specific verticals, beginning with manufacturing and retail. The thinking behind the partnership is that it brings together Verizon’s network know-how and Deloitte’s
TikTok sensation Zaria donned a Metallica T-shirt earlier this week in a couple of clips she shared on the trendy video-sharing social networking service. Subsequently, some TikTok commenters started giving her guff for rockin’ Metallica merch, and that’s when things got real. Because even though Zaria’s a singer with over 100,000 TikTok followers, she still got the
While the reality that Americans receiving only $600 in extra stimulus as part of the new COVID-19 relief bill passed by congress this week is disheartening, and honestly insulting, there is a silver lining in that the Save Our Stages relief bill has officially passed, as well. On Monday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Stella Tennant arrives at The Fashion Awards 2019. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/BFC/Getty Images) By Victoria DiPlacido Date December 23, 2020 Facebook Twitter British model Stella Tennant, 50, has died. A statement from her family, as per the BBC, reads: “It is with great sadness we announce the sudden death of Stella Tennant on 22nd December
For many years in cinema we thought of movies in a very linear way. Action movies were action movies, comedies were comedies, romantic dramas were… you get the gist. Sure, a comedy might have action here and there, but by and large you were laughing not seeing some heavy getting his face blown to bits.
Rose Macaulay was on the cusp of breaking through both as an author and as a witty participant in post-First World War London literary society when she wrote “Dedicatory” for her friend Naomi Royde-Smith. Placed prominently at the front of her book of poems Three Days (1919), “Dedicatory” evokes an exotic, mythically nurturing persona who
Emulating its strategy in France, the latest entrant to Italy’s 5G market undercuts its competitors with a €9.99 per month offer. Iliad is at it again, this time in Italy. A week after the group’s French business, operating under the “Free Mobile” brand, launched 5G in France, Iliad Italia announced that it is switching on
With the arrival of each holiday season comes, for better or for worse, non-stop music celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah and the general spirit of winter altogether. It’s enough to drive anyone completely mad, but this holiday medley of eight songs played in the style of Ghost just may be the one thing that maintains your sanity this