Month: April 2023

Like the garden at its center, poet Camille T. Dungy’s Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden blossoms in vivid hues, radiating love and illuminating the tangled roots of nature and ecology. Six years after she arrived in Fort Collins, Colorado, Dungy set out to reclaim a portion of her yard and convert it
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Or: Big tech companies are more cloud-dependent than you thought Alex Wilhelm 7 hours It’s earnings season, that time of the quarter when we get to judge how well public tech firms are fulfilling all the lofty promises they’ve been making. So far this week, we’ve heard from Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) and Meta (Facebook),
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Eightyseven North brought a stunt dance crew and motorocycles on stage toward the finale of Universal’s CinemaCon presentation for their 2024 movie The Fall Guy. Quite often the studios here at CinemaCon keep it confined to showing off 2023 product, but Uni wanted to give exhibitors in the room something more. Following the Fast X
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Bobbie Nelson and Amanda Shires, photo by Joshua Black Wilkins News Amanda Shires Announces New Album With Bobbie Nelson, Shares “Summertime” Cover: Watch the Video Featuring vocals from Nelson’s brother Willie By Matthew Ismael Ruiz April 26, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Amanda Shires has announced Loving You, her new album with the late Bobbie
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“We thought we’d give you a little taste of it,” said Universal Pictures boss about Wicked, which is in production in London with Jon Chu directing and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the respective roles of Glinda and Elphaba. The rough footage, which even some Uni execs haven’t seen, showed, Elphaba getting trained by
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Up-and-coming Los Angeles rapper MoneySign Suede was stabbed to death in a California prison … cutting his life short as his career was catching steam. Prison officials for the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, CA tell TMZ Hip Hop … they’re currently investigating MoneySign’s death as a homicide after discovering he was absent from a
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About two-dozen venture capital firms say they are teaming up to “build a robust movement” in the VC business to combat the climate crisis. The group calls itself the Venture Climate Alliance, or VCA. The coalition counts well-known tech investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global and Union Square Ventures as members, and said in a
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A pre-taped message from Harrison Ford introduced an extended action clip from Lucasfilms’ highly anticipated Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny during Disney’s CinemaCon presentation here in Las Vegas this morning. Said the veteran actor, “Hello CinemaCon! Playing Indiana Jones all these years has meant the world to me. (The movies) have adventure and heart — and
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Barnes & Noble is taking 25% off certain pre-order books, ebooks, and audiobooks with the code PREORDER25. The list of eligible books and audiobooks include popular series and books by bestselling authors. You can pick up the Bridgerton prequel Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhines, the cozy fantasy sequel to Legends & Lattess
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Multi-award-winning German actress, screenwriter and producer Niki J. Borger and multi-award-winning Israeli producer and director Roy Shellef have been named judges in the newly instated Legacy International Film Festival.  As the first ever crypto-funded film festival, Legacy International Film Festival stands for accessibility, transparency, and fairness. They want to give up-and-coming artists not only the
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Another Panic Fest winds down, bringing a hybrid model that offered in-person screenings and virtual premieres including early screenings of Evil Dead Rise and Sisu. The fest offered a slew of premieres, including nihilistic horrors like Beaten to Death and introspective docs like King on Screen. While the packed schedule ensured we couldn’t catch it
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