Juan Felipe Herrera / © UC Riverside / Courtesy of Blue Flower Arts For the 44th Annual Writers Week, the University of California, Riverside department of Creative Writing, in partnership with the LA Review of Books, honored three US Poets Laureate with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Rita Dove (1993–95), Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–16), and Joy Harjo
Month: April 2021
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Altimeter Growth (AGC) — Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing giant Grab is going public via a SPAC merger with Altimeter Growth, valued at nearly $40 billion. Grab says it intends to list on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol “GRAB” following the deal’s completion. Altimeter’s shares surged nearly 9%
From proton-based cancer therapy to small-animal PET scanners, US technology company H3D is seeking out growth opportunities in the medical imaging market Made to measure: H3D founder and CEO Willy Kaye (right) runs a product demonstration for workers at a nuclear power plant. Alongside its established customer base in defence, nuclear power and nuclear safeguarding
Sony’s Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson action comedy The Man From Toronto has set a release date of Jan. 14, 2022. The pic was taken off the theatrical release calendar as the pandemic took hold. At one point, it was scheduled to open on Nov. 20. Hart owns two of MLK’s biggest openings for Ride Along, ranked third
SAN FRANCISCO — Orbital Sidekick announced a $16 million Series A funding round April 13 led by Singapore investment giant Temasek that clears the way for the company to complete development of its first constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. “Temasek is a great foothold within the Asia Pacific region,” Daniel Katz, Orbital Sidekick CEO and
Will Smith’s slavery drama Emancipation will no longer be filmed in Georgia after the southern US state approved a voting rights law that critics say is intended to depress turnout in Black and other underrepresented communities. Georgia has become a major US movie industry production hub in recent years, but the Emancipation move follows mounting public
Michael Cohen exits the Manhattan district attorney’s office on March 19, 2021 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for ex-President Donald Trump, on Monday urged a federal judge to suspend his criminal sentence of home confinement while the judge weighs his request to declare his
News iLoveMakonnen Releases Surprise New Album My Parade: Listen His debut album is his first release following a departure from Warner Records By Evan Minsker April 13, 2021 Facebook Twitter iLoveMakonnen in 2019 (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Billboard) Facebook Twitter iLoveMakonnen has returned with a surprise new album. My Parade is his first release after
Minnesota law may save the police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop from being charged with a crime, Civil Rights attorney David Henderson said Monday. “I think the officer should have been fired immediately because there are points of no return with regard to making mistakes on your job, but
Things are really heating up now! On Debris Season 1 Episode 7, a little girl and her uncle were at the center of a case that revealed more about Bryan’s past in the military. While Bryan and Finola were otherwise engaged, Maddox got significant information from Ash, who was under great duress. Is there anybody
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. One of the things I try to drive home in my book, How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the
In this article CMG DRI CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday revealed a list of stocks he expects will benefit from the “last man standing scenario.” “After a year of carnage, big businesses with deep pockets are triumphing over their smaller competitors who didn’t make it,” the “Mad Money” host said. The scenario will play out
People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the morning that the music streaming service Spotify begins trading shares at the NYSE on April 3, 2018 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The New York Stock Exchange announced Monday it would launch “First Trade” NFTs, to memorialize the true first
Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla Vs Kong continues to dominate the global and international box office, now with a $288.3M cume offshore for $357.8M worldwide. It will soon cross Tenet globally and overseas. Domestically, it has overtaken Tenet to become the No. 1 grossing movie of the pandemic era. The full overseas weekend was
WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates doubled the size of its astronaut corps April 10 with the selection of two new astronauts, including the first woman, who will train at NASA starting later this year. The UAE government announced it picked Nora AlMatrooshi and Mohammad AlMulla from a pool of 4,305 applicants to join the
Realme has had quite the meteoric rise in India over a relatively short time span. The highly competitive company currently has a vast portfolio of smartphones, but the rate at which it’s going, I think it needs to pump the brakes a bit and take a more focused approach to its launches. I’m referring to
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 12, 2021. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The White House is using alternative methods to reach Americans who remain reluctant to get a Covid-19 vaccine: NASCAR, Country Music TV
Madonna just plunked down a small fortune, and now she’s proud of The Weeknd‘s Hidden Hills Estate. Madonna paid $19.3 million for the home, which is in Kardashian Country. It’s been on the market for a long time — The Weeknd listed it back in June, 2020, for $24,995,000, so there was a significant price
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