There Be Monsters: John Boyega & Darren Criss to star in sci-fi podcast According to Deadline, Star Wars alum John Boyega has signed on along with Emmy and Golden Globe winner Darren Criss (American Crime Story) for the leading roles in iHeartRadio’s forthcoming sci-fi thriller podcast series There Be Monsters. The 10-part narrative podcast is expected
Last month, an ambitious festival called Rave Family Block Fest attempted the impossible with a massive Minecraft virtual music festival featuring over 900 artists and 65 stages. The endeavor turned out truly too big to implement successfully, and it received harsh feedback across the internet. Now, Mat Zo’s label Mad Zoo has teamed up with
Do you think the “neutral platform” argument is made in bad faith? No. And I don’t want Facebook determining the boundaries of fair and legitimate speech. But we need to start breaking the problem down. I don’t really know what that looks like. But I think it’s a crisis that they can’t address without completely
A man looks at the website of Booking.com Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Booking.com’s plans to lay off up to 25% of its global workforce as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take a wide toll on travel, the company reported in a filing Tuesday. Booking.com has more than 17,000 employees, a company spokeswoman told CNBC.
The hashtag #ReplaceEllen is trending amid rumors and reports that Ellen host Ellen DeGeneres could be losing her daytime talk show. In recent weeks, trouble has been increasingly dramatically behind the scenes at Ellen following claims from former employees that they had been mistreated by either DeGeneres or her staff. WarnerMedia has since launched an
2020 has provided its fair share of challenges, and while Nashville may typically be a popular tourist spot, Paramore‘s Hayley Williams is hoping you’ll save that trip until travel is safe again. In a series of Instagram Stories posts, Williams delivered a plea to her social media followers, requesting that they not come to her
August 4, 2020, 10:45am Please watch this video of Curbside Larry from the Barbara Bush Public Library in Harris County, Texas as he takes us through a dizzying tour of all the library has to offer you, the fine member of the reading public, in these dark dark times: “Shelves and shelves of books!!” Great!
Three and Vodafone are both calling for the spectrum auction at the beginning of 2021 to be scrapped, but Ofcom has stated there are no plans to make alterations. With priorities being rearranged during the COVID-19 pandemic and budgets under severe strain as Huawei equipment gets ripped out of the network, Three has joined Vodafone
Clare Crawley‘s journey on “The Bachelorette” is a short one, it turns out, and now her replacement, Tayshia Adams, will be the 2nd black leading woman on the show. TMZ has confirmed the 39-year-old ‘Bachelorette’ (who was getting a second shot at love) apparently found her perfect match early on during taping. Sorry, spoiler alert
People gathered by the thousands over the weekend in Berlin to protest coronavirus (COVID-19)-related restrictions. The so-called End of the Pandemic – Day of Freedom protest took place at Brandenburg Gate on Saturday, August 1, as citizens gathered to boycott restrictions mandated by the German government. Approximately 20,000 people were in attendance. Although the protest was described as
“This shit has to be a hit and if it’s not, I swear to God I’m going to go crazy,” Aminé says, laughing into the receiver from somewhere in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. He’s talking about “Woodlawn,” a song named after the neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon, where he was raised,
An airline employee walks past empty American Airlines check-in terminals at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on May 12, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | Getty Images Airline executives and labor unions are pushing for billions of dollars in additional federal coronavirus aid as the threat of layoffs this fall looms for employees and
Last week we warned that the makers of Angry Asian Murder Hornets and 5G Zombies were up to something devious. It was later revealed that they will be closing out their summer 2020 trilogy of craziness with the ultimate dino-slasher Ebola Rex. Shot in the same amount of time it takes to get a bloodied
We’re still in the lead up to Corey Taylor‘s first solo album (CMFT is due Oct. 2 via Roadrunner Records), but the singer just dropped his plan for starting work on its follow-up. Speaking with KAAOS TV (viewed below), Taylor stated of his upcoming release, “The only thing I really wanted to do on this
On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Morgan Jerkins, author of Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, published by Harper. In this fascinating historical memoir, Jerkins explores her identity and heritage by tracing her ancestors’ paths out of the south during “The Great
Seven Stars Resort & Spa US travelers who are ready to get their travel fix without the need to fly to Europe this summer may now rejoice for the beautiful islands of Turks and Caicos await you with open arms. Currently, flights from the United States are up and running, so with just three hours
The gameplay trailer for FIFA 21 will be released Tuesday, publisher EA Sports has announced, (hopefully) giving us our first proper look at new gameplay features from the annual update to the world’s biggest football simulation video game, following a fancy but entirely unnecessary “reveal” trailer a week ago. If you’re keen on watching it
Mandatory Streamers: Star Trek Lower Decks Is Ready for Action Welcome to Mandatory Streamers, our column covering the best new streaming content coming your way every week! For the week of August 3, the support crew of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Lower Decks is ready for action in the brand-new animated comedy series from Emmy winner Mike McMahan (Rick