TODAY: In 1933 Joseph Stalin orders the NKVD to “preserve but isolate” Osip Mandelstam, after having been informed of the “Stalin Epigram”; Mandelstam is then arrested. A protest by literary figures, including Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, prompts Stalin to declare that he might “review the case” (he never will). Because not everyone has extra
And, actually, has a LOT of the same features On April 15, Apple announced it would be releasing a new phone—but not just any phone. The company is upgrading the smaller, more affordable and mega-loved SE model, which is now available for pre-order and begins shipping later this week. I got a chance to try
(CNN) — Air travel complaints surged eight times the normal amount in the past two months, as passengers complained about airline refunds during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the US Department of Transportation. In March and April, the Department of Transportation received more than 25,000 complaints, many of which were refund-related. In an average month,
Courtesy of Edgewood Tahoe Resort The lakefront Alpine lodge, Edgewood Tahoe temporarily closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Now after carefully thought out sanitizing and safety protocols, the luxury resort set in the Sierra Nevadas is reopening. First to open was it’s world championship 18-hole golf course on May 4, 2020. Then it opened a restaurant,
Every decade has a signature haircut. The fifties had a neat short, back and sides, the seventies had long hair and sideburns, the eighties had mullets. In the nineties, it was all about curtains. Worn by everyone from David Beckham and Brad Pitt to countless boyband members and that guy from Dawson’s Creek, it was
Exclusive Frank Bielec, one of the stars of “Trading Spaces” has died … TMZ has learned. Frank’s wife, Judy, tells TMZ, Frank passed away Friday … a day after suffering a heart attack. He was taken to a hospital in Katy, Texas, and then transferred to a Houston hospital for specialized treatment. Frank died Friday
In a move which is more suited to an authoritarian state, the US Senate has voted to extend the powers of intelligence authorities to search browser history without a court warrant. Although the amended text still has to be agreed by the House of Representatives before heading to the Oval Office to be approved by
The interview took place in his living room, where he has a wine cellar, a cigar room, and you’re surrounded by six MVPs. It’s daunting. You realize that this is a very special man. The thing that blew me away was—and I have to go back to see how it came up; maybe I was
Photograph courtesy of Mikhael Kale. Design by Danielle Campbell. All funds raised from the sales of the T-shirts will be matched by an anonymous donor and donated to The Yellow Brick House. By Maddison Glendinning Date May 15, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter Today, Canadian fashion designer Mikhael Kale and philanthropist Sylvia Mantella are releasing a limited
The creative team behind Halloween 2018 is getting together to kick off Universal’s first Saturday Twitter Watch Party Series. Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, David Gordon Green, Jason Blum, Judy Greer, James Jude Courtney, and Nick Castle will all be on hand to tweet along with the movie and answer fan questions. The event is
Hans Zimmer has famously composed the score for some of our favorite movies of the past few decades, including Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” in 2010. The song “Time” from that score has become a favorite of that score, and is also Zimmer’s current most-played song on Spotify. Now, Alan Walker has come to give it a
There’s one thing every action star has in common, aside from a hefty paycheque, and that’s a set of boulder shoulders. Those Hollywood PTs bulking-up the likes of Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson understand that shoulder muscle is what bookends the V-shape of any all-action testosterone physique. When it comes to your designs on a
The coronavirus pandemic has left bands scrambling to fill suddenly wide open schedules. Anthrax know you have a lot of free time and want to help you become a better musician, which is why they’ve just launched a series of virtual classrooms. Each member will conduct a variety of online sessions ranging from something as fun
May 15, 2020, 2:30pm “I resisted. I would not die. I could not.” Katherine Anne Porter—the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of Ship of Fools and Pale Horse, Pale Rider—was born 130 years ago today in Indian Creek, Texas, and should, by all expectations, have died less than twenty-eight years later alongside 675,000 of
I’d wager that pretty much no one expected the summer of 2020 to be spent mostly indoors, but just because we’ll likely be hunkered down for much of the warmer season because of the COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t mean we can’t be heckin’ cute and cozy doing it. The sweatsuit inarguably became the go-to WFH uniform
Visitors to the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas are discovering blue dragons during their trips, and though it may not be the flying, fire-breathing creatures their name may suggest, it’s still “a rare find,” the park says. Hunter Lane, a 7-year-old from Mesa, Arizona, found four dragons within a few minutes on May 2
May. 14th, 2020 Once upon a time, Bali was a simple, yet exotic place known mainly to the adventurous traveler in search of natural places of serene beauty. This was the 70s and 80s and pre the Julia Robert’s Eat Pray and Loving her way around the world to land in Bali and find herself.
CS Unboxed: Mondo MOTU Faker & Mer-Man Figures Welcome to another edition of CS Unboxed -ComingSoon.net’s premium unboxing show- where today we’ve got two incredibly detailed deluxe Masters of the Universe action figures from Mondo! If you love these as much as we do then definitely snatch them up quickly, as some in the series