A Broadway jukebox musical about “Weird Al” Yankovic is in the works, Deadline reports. Titled Dare to Be Stupid, its soundtrack will be comprised of parody songs from throughout Yankovic’s extensive spoof oeuvre, including “White & Nerdy” (his take on “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire), “Amish Paradise” (Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”), “Eat It” (“Beat It”), “Like a Surgeon”
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Every few years someone makes a movie where a desperate person takes the money and watches his conscience become negotiable. I am always there for it. Cheap Thrills. Would You Rather. The whole subgenre of moral erosion for cash that does not have a name but absolutely should. Self Driver walks directly into that territory
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Mystery Jets have returned after a six-year absence with the raucous single ‘Black Sage’ – check it out below. The Twickenham band last released a studio album in 2020 in the form of ‘A Billion Heartbeats’, their seventh LP, but it appears that they are embarking on a new era. ‘Black Sage’ is out now, via Fiction Records, and it has been made in
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There’s very little you can scratch off your bingo card in the age of AI, but one thing seems pretty certain: you won’t see an AI-generated ear of corn or romanceable NPC in any of Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s games. That comes straight from the man himself, who explains his hardline stance against AI in a
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Running parallel to the events in Kennedy Ryan’s first installment of her Hollywood Renaissance series, Reel, second-chance romance Score is a powerful companion piece that shines on its own. Like Reel, most of Score’s narrative centers on the making of a biopic about the (fictional) Harlem Renaissance singer Dessi Blue, retelling the story behind the
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Overmono, the Welsh electronic duo of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, have announced their second album, Pure Devotion. Due out August 7 on XL Recordings, the follow-up to their 2023 debut Good Lies features Ruthven, Kindora, Rock Floyd, and John Joseph Holt. Today, the duo released a lead single, “Lockup,” which retools Birmingham post-punk group
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We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan. This involved using satellite aerial imagery to systematically and painstakingly search for archaeological features in Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan, a small part of the much larger Sahara. Our team – which includes archaeologists from Macquarie
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Rod Stewart has told King Charles that he “put that little ratbag” Donald Trump “in his place”. Stewart made the comments to the monarch at an event in London yesterday (Monday May 11), which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the King’s Trust, formerly the Prince’s Trust. At the event, the ‘Sailing’ singer praised King Charles
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Indiana Jones is a multi-generational icon, and the weight of developing a new entry in the franchise must be as intimidating as a rolling boulder. He’s a character that has permeated every facet of media since he first found the Ark of the Covenant back in 1981. The impact of his legacy in video games
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Rostam Batmanglij produced Clairo’s 2019 debut Immunity, and together they crafted the masterpiece (and third best song of that year) that is “Bags.” Seven years later, the pair has reunited for the latest single from Rostam’s forthcoming album American Stories. Titled after the late French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, “Hardy” is built around a sample of
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WASHINGTON — NASA plans to continue exchanging International Space Station crews about every six months after considering longer stays. NASA announced May 1 that the next commercial crew mission to the ISS, SpaceX’s Crew-13, will launch in mid-September rather than November. A Crew Dragon spacecraft will bring to the station NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and
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Announced to be “coming soon” over a year ago, Nintendo has finally given us a proper release date for the Mineru’s Construct amiibo. The amiibo, which unlocks a new design for Link’s paraglider when scanned in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, launches on 17th September 2026. Given the larger size and posable
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My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “Twinkle, Twinkle” Nova, the Herald of Galactus, has been destroyed during the planetary explosion of Tumbla V. The inhabitants of that world chose to sacrifice themselves in order to starve the planet eater and bring about his final demise. Now desperate, Galactus travels to Earth seeking the
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A Reader Broke Up With Her Boyfriend Because of Sarah J. Maas’s ACOTAR If reading that headline makes you grimace a bit, let me flesh it out. In a TikTok video, 27-year-old Kaeli Dance describes
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