“There’s no place like the Ryman Auditorium for bluegrass music!” says bluegrass great Rob McCoury to the storied Nashville venue’s sold-out crowd. There’s always a palpable buzz in the air before shows at the Ryman. The onetime home of the Grand Ole Opry, it’s a veritable stained-glass museum of American roots music, rightly dubbed “The
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Deena Helm is the author of Our Cut of Salt, out today from Tor Nightfire. Below, she discusses the relationship between haunted house stories and haunted history. Haunted houses are alluring, in part, because we want to know why. It’s a terrifying concept, to live your life in one place for so long, to make
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Ozzy Osbourne’s 2025 death wasn’t entirely unexpected. He had been battling Parkinson’s disease for years, along with other health issues. However, his family took the loss hard. Kelly Osbourne was especially close to her beloved father. She lost a lot of weight from the grief of the heartbreaking loss. The Dancing With The Stars alum
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The following is an excerpt from the new book Healing Sacred Wounds: A Guide to Overcoming Religious and Spiritual Trauma by SC Nealy, available now from Bloomsbury. Drawing on empirical research, therapeutic practice, and the author’s own lived experience, SC Nealy explains how harmful religious environments can produce trauma symptoms comparable to those associated with
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Exes Ant Anstead and Christina Haack recently reunited while supporting their 7-year-old son, Hudson, at school. The Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic host, 47, and the Flip or Flop alum, 43, came together to support their 7-year-old as his classmates shared his best attributes during a special presentation. “Our not so little boy celebrated his ‘marvelous
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Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he never wanted to be one of Donald Trump’s “special ambassadors” to Hollywood and rejected the position contrary to the president’s public remarks. Speaking with The Sunday Times, the actor recalled meeting with Trump about the gig. “I said, ‘Thank you and ciao,’ because it’s impossible. Hollywood works, and it
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Belgian pop icon Kim Kay is back — and this time, she’s letting her wild side take over. The singer who became a European pop sensation with the unforgettable “Lilali” has released her provocative new single “ANIMAL,” a bold, sensual track that shows a completely different side of an artist who has spent her career refusing to be predictable. “ANIMAL” is
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Madonna and Charli xcx have finally taken their increasingly public mutual admiration into the studio. The pop provocateurs have joined forces for “Danceteria Afterhours,” a new track inspired by Madonna’s recent Confessions II album track “Danceteria.” It was produced by longtime Madonna collaborator Stuart Price and will be released Thursday (Sept. 24) via Warner Records.
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The success of Netflix’s One Piece has led many to celebrate the fact that the streamer has finally figured out how to make live-action adaptations of manga and anime work. Translating Eiichiro Oda’s larger-than-life characters, fantastical locations, and bombastic Devil Fruit powers into live-action once seemed like an enormous risk. However, despite the odds, One
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We’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of Book Riot entering the independent literary media scene this October, and you’re invited! All month, we’ll be looking back on the last 15 years in books and publishing. Our readers, listeners, and followers are invited to join us on the journey, sharing more than a decade of literary controversies
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Celebrities have shared heartfelt tributes in honor of Cindy Crawford‘s son, Presley Gerber, who died suddenly at age 27. News broke on Sunday, September 20, that Crawford and husband Rande Gerber‘s son died in a rehab facility. A cause of death has yet to be revealed. “The family is asking for privacy during this very
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For all of the rip-roaring set pieces in Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope, there’s ascene at the halfway point that encapsulates everything that makes it so wildly entertaining. After asolitary monster has just torn its way through asmall Korean mining town by the DMZ, an older ginseng farmer tells police officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) that, actually,
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“We can’t go backwards, Dad.” A young Adrian McElwee says this to his father, filmmaker Ross McElwee, while they’re catching crayfish together in the opening footage of Remake, his first project in 14years. Adrian’s talking about the way they have to move his homemade net through the water to yield the best catch, but the
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The day my grandmother died, an insouciant pigeon sat outside the window as the news broke, unmoved even as our existence grew bothersome. The same events transpired almost adecade later when my grandfather passed away, this time with double the near-divine avian presence, bolstering my family’s grief-induced hypothesis that perhaps they represented the existence of
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Chad Gilbert, guitarist and co-founding member of New Found Glory, has died at the age of 45. Gilbert had battled cancer since 2021, when doctors removed a rare tumor from his adrenal gland that was initially diagnosed as a pheochromocytoma. The cancer later spread to his spine, lungs, back, and brain, requiring multiple surgeries, chemotherapy,
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International treasure Isabelle Huppert is a singular presence. A frequent collaborator with controversial directors like Michael Haneke and Paul Verhoeven, the regal actress often chooses nuanced, complex roles, with nary a weak entry in the bunch. That’s what makes the idea of her portraying alleged historic serial killer Elizabeth Báthory so enticing. Huppert commands the
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Patience is greatly rewarded in director Jordan Downey’s The Cycle, a dour crime procedural that transforms into a thrilling practical effects-fueled horror movie. Downey, who co-writes with his cinematographer Kevin Stewart, dedicates quite a lot of its runtime to a methodical deduction of coincidences and the impossible, until only an improbable, exciting supernatural solution remains.
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Amidst the recent drama regarding Sony and Hideo Kojima‘s Physint (and Xbox gladly scooping up the game), Kojima has dropped a little update regarding his upcoming horror game, OD. Tacked onto the end of the video shown at the end of Xbox‘s Tokyo Game Show presentation, Kojima thanked Xbox for believing in his devteam’s vision
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