Month: March 2024

Tierra Whack – World Wide Whack (Interscope)Philadelphia rhymesayer Tierra Whack can still pack a cheeky punch via bite-sized songs. She showcased that skill on her 2018 debut mixtape, the 15-minute Whack World—followed by three 2021 EPs, R&B?, Pop? and Rap?, that proved her deftly mutable among those genres. Nearly three years later, on debut album
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The new documentary Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians aims to show a new, pioneering perspective on Black librarians, and the great influence they’ve wielded, which reached outside of libraries and into moments like the Civil Rights Movement. Rodney E. Freeman Jr. is the executive producer of the documentary, and a
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After decades of being publicly ridiculed, shamed and scrutinized for her fluctuating weight, Oprah Winfrey said she is “really excited” about the availability of weight-loss medication. The media mogul’s latest one-off TV program, An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame, and the Weight Loss Revolution, aired Monday night. The hourlong broadcast saw Winfrey, 70, candidly discuss obesity
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If you ever wanted to watch Triumph the Insult Comic Dog face off with “Weird” Al Yankovic, Rob Schneider, and Mythbuster Adam Savage, good news: Comedian Robert Smigel, famous for a number of projects but perhaps best known as “the hand up Triumph’s ass,” has just released an edited version of Let’s Make a Poop,
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Participation is pretty straightforward: both public schools and libraries are able to take part by registering by the end of February; making available at least 12 of the 20 master list books to students; participants must read or listen to at least three of the titles on the master list; then opening up rules and
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Shortly after Katie Britt delivered her “parody-level terrible” State of the Union response this month, fellow Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville attempted to defend his colleague and the kitchen-table nightmare that had just occurred by telling reporters: “She was picked as a housewife, not just a senator—somebody who sees it from a different perspective…. I thought
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Legendary’s epic-sized Monsterverse returns to the big screen on March 29 with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and tickets for the Kaiju smackdown are on sale now! While you wait, browse the full image gallery below. Rebecca Hall is back as Dr. Ilene Andrews with Brian Tyree Henry also returning as Bernie Hayes, and they’ll be joined in Godzilla x Kong by Dan Stevens (The
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last year, I wrote about the first Trans Rights Readathon, a decentralized fundraiser that went on to raise over $234,000 for transgender aid organizations. Since then, unfortunately, anti-trans legislation has continued to sweep across the country, and the
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Kristen Stewart burst into the pop culture zeitgeist when she took on the role of Bella Swan in Twilight and its subsequent sequels, but perhaps the biggest source of intrigue was her relationship with co-star Robert Pattinson. While the two went their separate ways in 2013 after four years together, KStew’s relationships still remained under the spotlight
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K-pop stars TOMORROW X TOGETHER have announced a new US tour that’ll kick off in May 2024. As of now, the American leg of the “TOMORROW X TOGETHER WORLD TOUR <ACT : PROMISE>” spans 11 shows in eight cities, including Tacoma, WA; Oakland, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Houston, TX; Atlanta, GA; New York, NY; Rosemont,
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Let’s Get Critical In advance of the National Book Critics Circle Awards coming up this Thursday, members of
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