Month: November 2020

Announced just about one year ago, Universal Pictures has inked a “five-year exclusive production partnership” with Jordan Peele and his company Monkeypaw Productions, with the Get Out and Us filmmaker directing, writing and producing two movies as part of that deal. And this week we’ve already been provided with a release date for Peele’s third movie. The untitled movie will
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In a new YouTube vlog, Kylie Jenner revealed her dream occupation (if she wasn’t a multi-millionaire cosmetics entrepreneur, that is). It’s hard not to imagine Kylie Jenner as the fifth most-followed person on Instagram, or a multi-millionaire cosmetics mogul. But the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star could imagine an alternate reality in which she wasn’t running
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Toronto-based writer Souvankham Thammavongsa is the winner of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thammavongsa received the $100,000 honour Monday night for her fiction debut, How to Pronounce Knife, published by McClelland and Stewart. Thammavongsa smiled as she showed off the trophy to her two friends at her Toronto home. In her acceptance speech, she thanked
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Historically, when presidential administrations are winding down, either because they’re a few months from completing a second term or because they’re not getting one on account of being booted from office by the American people, low- to mid-level noncareer staffers start looking for new jobs. Why? If you’re so far removed from understanding the number
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A male couple have been found guilty of murdering and dismembering a lesbian in their flat filled with horror merchandise. Boyfriends Nathan Maynard-Ellis and David Leesley, 30 and 25, have been convicted of the 2019 killing of Julia Rawson in Dudley, West Midlands. The two men, who had already admitted perverting the course of justice
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Zoom has been there when we needed it throughout the pandemic, both allowing us to work from home and keeping happy hour alive and well. This year’s holiday season will shape up to be no exception, with many of the country’s celebrations taking place virtually. Whether you haven’t seen your family since the start of
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A police chief has resigned in disgrace after he called trans people “perverted” and threatened to kill “Marxist Democrats” on social media. Lang Holland, chief of police in Marshall, Arkansas, resigned from his position after journalists uncovered posts on Parler, a far-right social media platform, in which he endorsed violence against Democrats. In a post
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The internet can be a scary place. As a writer/journalist, I’ve already had my fair share of the online harassment experience. Since online bullying always happens, it can be a “normal part of the job” for some. In fact, the majority of online harassment cases that involve journalists are never reported. If you’re a journalist,
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