‘O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright’ is a famous speech spoken by Romeo in Act I Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But what does he mean by this speech? Although the meaning may appear to be straightforward, when viewed in the context of the play Romeo’s words shed some considerable
Photography courtesy of Ryerson University.“The fashion industry wouldn’t be anywhere it is today without BIPOC culture.” By Odessa Paloma Parker Date July 15, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter When Kimberly Jenkins, assistant professor at Ryerson University’s School of Fashion in Toronto, first launched The Fashion and Race Database website in 2017, it was part of a pedagogy
A member of a ground crew walks past American Airlines planes parked at the gate during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, April 5, 2020. Joshua Roberts | Reuters American Airlines‘ top executives on Wednesday backed an effort to extend billions in federal aid to protect aviation jobs through March
Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess is putting his talents on display, saluting one of film’s greatest composers, Ennio Morricone, who died at the age of 91 on July 6. Morricone was a legend in the film world, earning an Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight film. Metal fans most likely recognize
July 15, 2020, 4:08pm Over the years, Lydia Davis has gifted us with dozens of interviews chronicling her relationship to literature, laying out her writing process, and analyzing the many craft-related choices that writers make every day. Today is her birthday and a great time to re-read many of those interviews, with a few selections
Spoiler: You’ll recognize a lot of them There’s a joke doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment, something to the effect of: “As more and more photos of celebrities emerge looking chummy with Ghislaine Maxwell, I too begin to wonder: Did I also take a picture with her and just don’t remember it?” It’s
Everyone knows of Brownies & Lemonade’s last two live stream festivals, Digital Mirage, in partnership with Proximity. But the LA-based promoters are going back to their roots with a live stream Open Aux which is made to feature rising artists as opposed to the juggernauts they’ve been featuring in DM. The stream this time is
The 1950s house that served as the home for “The Golden Girls” just hit the market for the first time … and you can live inside a part of TV history if you’ve got the cash. The 4-bedroom home in the super-exclusive Brentwood area of L.A. is one of the most famous houses in TV
Xiaomi on Wednesday finally unveiled the much anticipated Mi TV Stick at this year’s Global Ecosystem Product Launch event. Similar to the Amazon Fire TV Stick, the newly launched Mi TV stick is a portable streaming device that connects to a television via an HDMI port. Users with the Mi TV Stick can stream movies
Starz horror-comedy pilot Shining Vale casts Greg Kinnear After casting Scream franchise vet Courtney Cox earlier this year, the upcoming horror-comedy pilot Shining Vale at Starz has found its leading male in Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear (The Stand), according to Variety. RELATED: Starz Acquires Sharon Horgan Horror-Comedy Pilot Shining Vale Written by Jeff Astrof on a story from Astrof
Four years ago the EC ruled Ireland broke the rules by letting Apple get away with paying hardly any tax. Now a European court has overturned that decision. Tax law is fairly soporific stuff, so we’ll keep this short and sweet. In 2016 the European commission said Apple had paid Ireland €13 billion too little
Exclusive Grant Imahara complained of migraines in the days before doctors discovered his brain aneurysm, and emergency surgery, sadly, couldn’t save him … TMZ has learned. Sources close to the “MythBusters” host’s family tell us … he’d been experiencing painful headaches for a few days before Saturday night, when he was having dinner with his
This morning I woke up, drank a glass of warm water with lemon, did 30 minutes of breathwork and my sun salut—okay, this morning I woke up, rolled over, checked my phone, saw a text from midnight that read, “just search Sqirl on the timeline,” searched Sqirl on the timeline, and spent 20 bleary-eyed minutes
Naya Rivera’s cause of death has been ruled accidental drowning by the medical examiner in charge of the case. The actress best known for her role on the Fox musical Glee went missing last week after renting a boat with her son. Her body was recovered from Lake Piru on Monday. The actress’ son had
Photograph courtesy of Twitter/Kensington Royal By Maddison Glendinning Date July 14, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter We’re into month four (five? six? seven thousand?) of our new ‘normal’ as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions are beginning to slowly ease across Canada just as the summer weather settles in for a few months. And with
Helane Becker discusses restructuring for Delta Air Lines, suggesting there is no need for Delta to receive additional government support, and instead will have to figure out how to make do with the capital markets. She also foresees that both domestic and international air travel will not recover any time soon. 02:23 6 minutes ago
Former Static-X guitarist Tripp Eisen has received the wrath of Dope frontman Edsel Dope after issuing a press release claiming he was responsible for inviting Dope to be included in Static-X’s reunion and seeking additional attention for songwriting credits on the band’s current Project Regeneration, Vol. 1 album. Eisen, who is credited under his abbreviated
TODAY: In 1779, Clement Clarke Moore, author of the Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (which later became known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”), is born. At first Moore had not wished to be connected with the popular verse, given his public reputation as a professor of ancient languages. Can the German path