China celebrated its Golden Rooster Awards this past Tuesday night in a glittering ceremony hosted inside the palatial Xiamen Strait Grand Theater in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China. The southern seaside city hosted generations of stars — from current hotshot Jackson Yee (Resurrection) to acclaimed auteur Zhang Yimou — for an event that is the highlight
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As Sam Spratford reports in Publisher’s Weekly, Alibris has inked a deal to make over a million books available on Temu’s massive digital marketplace. It’s not too shocking, as Alibris seems to be chasing a model of breadth and speed; the company partnered with fast fashion brand Shein last year. Temu already sell books, though
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There’s something inherently masculine about revving a car’s engines. No doubt a primal instinct that triggers our animal brain to recognize the roar of power. Driving, at its best, is a blend of science, art and athleticism, and it’s never felt more than when behind the wheel of a manual transmission car. Driving a stick
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The political project constraining American women, the one that gave us Dobbs, rests on a picture of motherhood as a woman’s entirety. Instinctive, total, self-abnegating, and therefore requiring no compensation, no consent, and no interior life. A reader of feminist theory may hear Silvia Federici’s “Wages Against Housework”: Housework “transformed into a natural attribute of
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Mathematicians are raising a major challenge to one of modern cosmology’s most widely accepted explanations: the idea that dark energy is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A presents mathematical findings that researchers at the University of California, Davis, say reveal a fundamental instability in
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Earlier Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters that Lutnick should appear voluntarily, though if he doesn’t, “He may need to be subpoenaed.” Blumenthal said one thing he wants to know is, “Were export controls relaxed?” Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said in an interview with Fox News that he’d like Lutnick to testify before Congress
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Quentin Tarantino is getting candid about his decision to fire Mélanie Laurent and Isabelle Huppert before production began for 2009’s Inglourious Basterds. The Oscar-winning filmmaker opened up in Jay Glennie’s new book, The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, about why he feels he doesn’t owe actors “shit,” but owes “my film the best actors
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Keanu Reeves in ‘John Wick’. Photo: David Lee for Lionsgate. Preview: Keanu Reeves will voice John Wick in an animated prequel. Chad Stahelski will produce. ‘Ultraman: Rising’s Shannon Tindle is aboard to direct it. Though it appeared that Keanu Reeves’ badass assassin had perished at the end of ‘John Wick: Chapter 4,’ you can’t keep
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A poster for Disney and Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: A New Hope” in shared reality at Cosm. Cosm The Force is strong with Cosm. On Thursday, the immersive entertainment technology company announced a new studio partnership with The Walt Disney Co. that will bring the original “Star Wars” to its domes early next year as part
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