Kantemir Balagov made acritical and artistic breakthrough with his second feature,Beanpole, acontrolled and symbolic pageant of unresolved trauma and the wintry depths of the Russian soul, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. Amember of the Circassian ethnic minority from the Caucasian regions near the Black Sea, Balagov spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in
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As the Michael Jackson biopic Michael continues fueling renewed conversation around the King of Pop’s legacy, Netflix is preparing to revisit one of the most controversial chapters of his life. The streamer has announced Michael Jackson: The Verdict, a new three-part docuseries premiering June 3 that centers on Jackson’s highly publicized 2005 criminal trial, where
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View gallery Image Credit: Getty Aaron Rodgers announced he will retire following the upcoming NFL season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Last year, the New York Jets quarterback officially parted ways with him in February 2025. “Last week we met with Aaron and shared that our intention was to move in a different direction at quarterback,”
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 Listen via:Apple Podcasts|Spotify|Amazon Podcasts|More Platforms There’s a point in Jack Antonoff’s new Bleachers album, everyone for ten minutes, when you notice that it sounds like he’s tracing the map back to the band’s beginnings. Speaking with Kyle Meredith, Antonoff unpacked how the record accidentally became an origin story, starting with the DIY experiences of
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Students aren’t taking it quietly, either. Like their peers in Central York High School–a 40 minute drive south of Elizabethtown–students have been protesting the board’s censorship agenda. The protests began in the dead of winter, the weather far from amenable for being outside. But students showed up, their voices and beliefs in an education free
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Kids should be able to experience the vital rite of passage that is puberty without awar raging in the background and corpses littering the streets. Yet that’s not the case for the hapless Dua (Pinea Matoshi) a13-year-old whose burgeoning desires to trade sexless cheek pecks with boys and awkwardly shuffle at the local discothèque are
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Brooklyn police arrested 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez for allegedly stabbing his 41-year-old transgender fiancee Eryka Caldwell to death in her Bushwick, New York apartment on Sunday morning. Caldwell had reportedly tried to kick Fernandez out of the apartment before the slaying, The New York Post reported. Fernandez’s lawyer is now claiming that she attacked him with
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Did you know that more than 100,000 songs are uploaded to streaming platforms every day, with most never gaining traction? One reason may be that the majority of independent artists have no clear understanding of who their potential fans are. Beyond that, many lack the knowledge needed to effectively build and grow a fanbase. Rocketship,
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Book lovers with kids in their lives can’t help but be choosy about what books to place into the hands of young readers. We linger over fuzzy first memories of books, how they shaped our imaginations, how we thumbed through them time and time again, and how we lovingly and literally made our mark on
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Of all the qualities of adulthood, one line from the torch-poem ​‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling permeates the second feature by French actress-turned-auteur, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. Anchored by acommitted performance from the stalwart Léa Drucker, the film’s deceptively breezy tone is held down by the gravity of her mature grace. Drucker is the embodiment of this line:If
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Waymo, a ride service that uses self-driving “robotaxis,” recently changed its user policies after San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ rights activist Dr. Nasser Mohamed sued the service’s parent company, Alphabet. Waymo had banned and denied him service for years because his name resembled other Middle Eastern names on a government terrorist watchlist. When Mohamed registered his Waymo
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