New shows are still emerging this spring. There are new movies on Hallmark and Lifetime this week, including the wedding we’ve all been waiting for on One Perfect Wedding and Danielle Brook’s magnificent portrayal of Mahalia Jackson on Lifetime. New shows include Kung Fu and Rebel, which we may not be covering here at TV
Month: April 2021
By Jill Kathleen Wenderott Women Supporting Women in the Sciences (WS2), an international organization unifying and supporting graduate and professional-level women and allies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), has recently been awarded an American Physical Society (APS) Innovation Fund to form international teams that will design and distribute low-cost physics and materials science
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 greatest thrills of reading a first-person story is in the tension between what the narrator understands about themself and
The Matthew McConaughey advice-giving role that seems most made for CNBC is his turn in “The Wolf of Wall Street” as broker and salesman Mark Hanna, and his “Fugazi” speech to the Leonardo DiCaprio incarnation of real-life “Wolf” Jordan Belfort. In the film, “Fugayzi, fugazi. It’s a whazy. It’s a woozie. It’s fairy dust,” is
by Trevor Kimball, April 3, 2021 (National Geographic/Gene Page) “The eagle has…” been grounded, at least for now. Disney+ has cancelled The Right Stuff TV series. It’s the first cancellation by the streaming service but season two is being shopped elsewhere. A drama series based on the bestselling book by Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
In this article .SSEC .SPX People walk past the headquarters of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, in Beijing, China September 28, 2018. Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — China’s central bank warned Thursday of financial risks in the country that have accumulated over the years, as well as shocks from overseas
Out of this world: a bottle of Chateau Petrus 2000, which spent 14 months aboard the International Space Station. (Courtesy: Space Cargo Unlimited) In November 2019, 12 bottles of Chateau Petrus 2000 – a wine from Bordeaux, France, which would set you back a few thousand pounds per bottle — hitched a ride to the
Taylor Swift and her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles both performed at the Grammys in Los Angeles tonight. They has a moment at the ceremony when Styles won the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance for “Watermelon Sugar.” Swift was in the audience, applauding for him, like the supportive ex she is. This content is imported from
Jerry Seinfeld will be first comic on the reopened stage of the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan tonight, the sitcom great confirmed in a tweet today. “I asked @GothamComedy if I could be the first on stage at 7:00pm,” Seinfeld wrote. “They said ‘Yes’. So that’s when.” The comedy club, like other live venues in
LeoStella can produce 40 satellites a year but designed its factory so it can increase capacity to 200 a year WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s space agency is taking an unusual approach to buying satellites. Rather than select a manufacturer to build the entire constellation, the Space Development Agency plans to buy batches of satellites from
Google Maps is relaunching the Compass feature for Android users. The feature was first removed in 2019 due to reliability issues but because of constant feedback from users, it is now returning. However, Google Maps for iOS didn’t lose the Compass feature and will still be available in the future. The Compass can be used
In this article UPS T KO HD DAL Protesters gather outside of the Georgia State Capitol to protest HB 531, which would place tougher restrictions on voting in Georgia, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 4, 2021. Dustin Chambers | Reuters Several major corporations in Georgia have criticized the state’s controversial new voting restrictions, signed into
News Omar Apollo Launches New Hot Sauce The recipe for Disha Hot has been passed down for generations in the artist’s family By Madison Bloom April 2, 2021 Facebook Twitter Omar Apollo, October 2019 (Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter First-generation, Mexican-American singer and songwriter Omar Apollo has launched his own hot
In this article GOOGL After five and half years guiding Waymo, Alphabet’s subsidiary developing autonomous-drive technology, John Krafcik has decided it’s time for someone else to run the company. Actually, it will be a pair of Waymo’s top executives, Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, who will become co-CEOs of the company. In a blog post
It’s easy to forget that Blue Bloods isn’t just a cop drama — it’s about politics. It isn’t quite like Madam Secretary, which was an overtly political show with a familial subplot. But it isn’t just about cops solving crimes, either. Blue Bloods Season 11 Episode 10 reminded us of that nicely when Frank had
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. In addition to all the other crises happening everywhere, we are in the midst of the worst refugee crisis in history. Many
The Battery is a lively venue featuring shops, bars and restaurants from local chefs at Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves MLB team as the facility is currently closed while sports are on quarantine during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Atlanta, Georgia on April 18, 2020. David J. Griffin | Icon Sportswire via Getty
At the beginning of 2020, before the pandemic forced most of the country into prolonged quarantine, Taylor Swift and her British actor boyfriend of three years, Joe Alwyn, attended their first awards show together at the Golden Globes. But tonight, Swift opted not to make the Grammys their second award show together. Swift performed at