‘The Last Laugh’ is a poem by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), drafted in February 1918 (as ‘Last Words’) but only first published after Owen’s death in November 1918, one week before the Armistice. Although not his most famous poem by any means, ‘The Last Laugh’ is one of his most stark and direct. Before we move
Burning Man 2020 would have taken place in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada from Aug. 30 to Sept. 7. In what is undoubtedly a second home to the approximately 80,000 people who attend every year, like the rest of us, COVID-19 removed a pillar of a community and its “residents,” so to speak,
Photograph by andrÉanne gauthierAt its core, she says, her online platform Sayaspora is “an act of resilience against a biased system.” By Pahull Bains Date September 7, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter At the age of seven, Djamilla Toure learned what it’s like to be “the other.” She and her family had just moved to Morocco from
The first reviews for Netflix’s Enola Holmes are now in, and the family mystery movie sounds like it could well be another big hit for the streaming giant. Centering on the teenage sister of an already famous Sherlock Holmes, and based on a series of novels by Nancy Springer, is Netflix’s take on Enola Holmes
How To Proceed is a bi-monthly conversation about writing, creativity and the world we live in. Author Linn Ullmann talks to some of the world’s most exciting literary voices about their books, their writing process, and how they view the world and current events around them. On today’s podcast, Linn Ullmann talks to Terrance Hayes,
Supercool rising rap artist Nate Soundz has released a new version of “Time Pivotal” (prod by SICKNESS) NFP Remix Which includes myself and Jimmy Star inside the rhyme. How awesome is that? It’s a hard riding message driven rap that all those in the music industry should listen to and dissect. It’s a poetry in
It seems that “Waiting For Adam: Interviews and Obsessions” by entertainment journalist Eileen Shapiro is the fun read of the summer! With glamorous pictures galore and behind the scenes secrets New Haven Publishing knew just what they were doing. The book is a light-hearted journey from star to star and country to country until Shapiro
Probably one of the funniest shows facing the nation is the hysterical cooking show that has been making people laugh through these crazy times. Pandemic Cooking is hosted, created and produced by Wendy Stuart Kaplan, an author, model, documentary master, and a spunky little New York Nightlife spark of energy….who by the way doesn’t cook!
The biggest publicist to have ever walked the face of this earth, Howard Bloom has recently released a culmination of his extraordinary experiences with those he represented in “Einstein, Michael Jackson and Me: A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll.” The question is who didn’t he embody? The list of
Chicago’s leading indie band, The PondHawks, have recently released one of this summer’ anthems, “Invisible Stranger”, a song bringing inspiration and hope to people whose lives continue to be shattered by COVID 19. During a time when many musicians have had to become even more creative than they were before it seems relevant and fitting
Tenet Reverses the Box Office, snags $20 million Labor Day weekend At long last, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet — a film many dubbed the box office savior — has made its way to some 2,810 U.S. theaters where it collected a not-too-shabby $20 million over the course of the Labor Day weekend, including $2.82 million from
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Tiffany Haddish wants to be just like Tyler Perry … because she’s ready to start her own production studio!!! The actress and comedian joined us on “TMZ Live” and we asked her if she’s got aspirations to be like Tyler and one day start a movie studio in her name.
It has been reported that the US government is thinking of putting SMIC on its entity list, which would confer similar restrictions to those afflicting Huawei. The news comes courtesy of Reuters, which cites an anonymous Defense Department official as the source. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that agencies are mulling whether to put Semiconductor Manufacturing
“The Flying V” certainly helped the guitar industry take off in a new direction, but can the “Flying V” actually fly? Dutch airline KLM has teamed up with researchers at Delft University of Technology to try out the “Flying V” design for future air travel. According to CNN, researchers recently conduced a successful maiden flight
Said The Sky has a new single forthcoming, “Worth Living For,” in honor of World Suicide Prevention Day. The inspirational teaser below shares a glimpse into the new concept and single, featuring Levi the Poet and Olivver the Kid in collaboration with To Write Love on Her Arms. The music is amplified with homemade videos
Ridley Scott has given a new Alien Prequel update. The director has returned to screens in his new series Raised by Wolves. Since the director is out doing some press for the HBO Max series, the questions inevitably lead back to the Alien franchise and whether or not another movie is on the way. Scott
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. His previous books include the poetry collections Middle Earth, Blackbird and Wolf, Touch, and Pierce the Skin, as well as a memoir, Orphic Paris. He has received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall
Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 4 Recap In the previous episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, Christina provided money to Leti for access to the Winthrop house, which was dangerously haunted. In Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 4, Tic, Leti, and Montrose search for Titus’ vault in Boston. The Orrery Christina visited Leti at the Winthrop