Baby, you can drive my carYes, I’m gonna be a starBaby, you can drive my carAnd maybe I’ll love you The Beatles Out of nowhere in the 1950s, over 100 companies in Japan started making motorcycles. The ensuing competition, now known as the Japanese motorcycle wars, was wild,
Louis Leterrier the director of Fast X and several Transporter action movies has been tapped to direct and produce the sci-fi horror film 11817, based on a script by Matthew Robinson. The genre pic produced by Leterrier’s Carrousel Studios, Rocket Science, Thank You Studios,
More than 100 years after it was first exhibited, art historians still debate whether Marcel Duchamp ’s “Fountain,” submitted to the 1917 Armory Show in New York, was a wry joke or sly commentary on modern art—or both. That’s because the sculpture, a urinal the artist signed
Jan Haag, who a half-century ago founded the landmark Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute, has died. She was 90. The remarkable Haag, who also was an actress, painter, poet, novelist, playwright, writer of travel stories and creator of needlepoint
King Princess has released a cover of Steely Dan’s “Dirty Work,” which appears on their 1972 debut Can’t Buy A Thrill . She recorded it for the third season of Hacks , which premiered on Max today. Her cover appears at the end of this season’s second episode. “ Hacks is
Turkey hasn't yet formally announced the move, which comes amid a straining of relations between the two countries amid the war in Gaza, but Israeli importers have already complained about delayed shipments
Why Bonnie’s last material was last year’s “ Apple Tree ,” which followed their 2022 album 90 In November . That LP landed them on our list of Best New Bands of that year, and today the project of New York’s Blair Howerton is back with “Dotted Line” and the announcement of
One of the students said Tesla informed her via a phone call that she no longer had a summer internship, a development she linked to cost-reduction efforts Tesla recently started.
SZA believes that her style of music is categorized as R&B because she is Black, which prevents her full artistic range from being recognized by her audience.
When you think about your favorite action flick, you probably can’t name the stunt performers behind the larger-than-life fight sequences and explosions. Nor can you identify the budget-conscious producers who keep the shoot on schedule or the harried personal assistants
After waging their own historic labor battles with the studios last year, SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are throwing their weight behind the Fashion Workers Act, which addresses the modeling industry’s exploitative working conditions and is making its way through New York state’s
A bemused fishmonger at a seafood market in Portsmouth, N.H., weighed and packaged a dozen filets of fish and three lobster tails for his unusually exacting customers, Dartmouth researchers Celia Chen, Guarini, a research professor of biological sciences, and Nathan Giffard on
Move over, “Anyone But You.” The summer’s sexy, new rom-com, starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in a whirlwind age-gap romance, is finally available to stream on Prime Video. The film, based on Robinne Lee’s novel of the same name, chronicles the relationship between
After donning ape fur for his upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Kevin Durand is now getting Naked. The actor, who is also currently on screens with horror movie Abigail, has joined Liam Neeson in Paramount Pictures’ untitled remake of Naked Gun, based on the crime
Artificial intelligence analysis of data gathered by acoustic recording devices is a promising new tool for monitoring the marbled murrelet and other secretive, hard-to-study species, research by Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service has shown.
In celebration of the seminal sci-fi horror movie Alien ’s 45th anniversary, Ridley Scott’s film is back in movie theaters. I saw it over the weekend, and even though it’s a movie I’ve seen countless times —on a laptop, on a plane, and on the TV, this was my first time seeing
A CNN panel of analysts and anchors broke out into laughter Thursday as Jake Tapper read a social media post from Michael Cohen, former President Trump's onetime attorney, using vulgar language to blast Trump. "Okay ... I apologize for this update ahead of time, but Todd
A POSTECH research team have crafted a material aimed at swiftly staunching kidney bleeding and facilitating wound recovery. Their research featured in the online edition of Biomaterials.
The Biden campaign on Thursday launched a seven-figure ad campaign focused on former President Trump's recent comments to Time Magazine in which he said states should decide whether to monitor women's pregnancies or prosecute those who illegally get abortions. The ad, titled
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A mixed diet including native algae gives Australia's prized cultured abalone the colors and appearance preferred by lucrative Asian markets, new research shows.
“A Man in Full,” the sprawling Tom Wolfe novel now adapted by screenwriter David E. Kelley into a limited series for Netflix, centers on a protagonist who, for all his resources, can’t bend the world to his will. Over six episodes, the show finds itself in a similar bind. “A
Two NASA pathfinding missions were recently deployed into low-Earth orbit, where they are demonstrating novel technologies for observing atmospheric gases, measuring freshwater, and even detecting signs of potential volcanic eruptions.
Players were excited at the prospect that Redfall might combine the fun co-op loot mechanics of a Borderlands with the bespoke environmental storytelling of a Dishonored. Ultimately, though, the day-one Game Pass blockbuster didn’t quite accomplish either of these things , and
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Mariska Hargitay gave a powerful speech on Thursday in New York during Variety‘s Power of Women event, presented by Lifetime. The two-time Emmy winner, who celebrated 25 years of “SVU” this year, was honored at the event for her work as
Amy Schumer was honored at the Variety Power of Women Presented by Lifetime luncheon in New York on Thursday for her work with Everytown for Gun Safety. During her speech, Schumer said it was sometimes difficult to keep fighting when “there’s a clear backslide to our equality.”
Dozens of overturned tents, "Free Palestine" signs strewn on the lawn, keffiyehs and flashlights discarded in haste: not much of the pro-Palestinian protest encampment was left Thursday morning at the University of California, Los Angeles. After a week of occupying a central
Early education programs are widely believed to be effective public investments for helping children succeed in school and for reducing income- and race-based achievement gaps. However, a new study conducted by a team of investigators from Teachers College, Columbia University,
For the first time, the developmental stages of the deadliest human malaria parasite have been mapped in high resolution, allowing researchers to understand this ever-adapting adversary in more detail than previously possible.
Stepping into the world of game programming can be daunting. This article explains the basics of game programming, as well as what tools and resources you can use to get started.