Month: July 2021

Warning: The following interview contains some spoilers about Black Widow, opening July 9 in theaters and on Disney+ Premier.  After being delayed for more than a year due to Covid, Black Widow, the second feature movie in the MCU post the franchise’s pinnacle, 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, will finally see the light of day. Industry estimates project
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WASHINGTON — NASA is taking a slow and deliberate approach to restoring operations of the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been out of service since mid-June when a payload computer malfunctioned. Hubble stopped science operations June 13 when the payload computer, which runs the telescope’s instruments, malfunctioned. An initial investigation suggested the problem was with
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NBA player LeBron James and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles, California. Chelsea Lauren | FilmMagic | Getty Images The longtime white advisor to Black NBA superstar LeBron James was caught on tape telling a white ESPN reporter, “I’m exhausted. Between Me Too and Black Lives Matter, I got nothing left,” a report
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News Watch Courtney Love Cover Britney Spears’ “Lucky” Amid Spears’ conservatorship battle, Love offered a tearful tribute on Instagram By Evan Minsker July 4, 2021 Facebook Twitter Courtney Love (Pierre Suu/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Courtney Love took to Instagram yesterday to share a cover of Britney Spears’ song “Lucky.” In the middle of Love’s acoustic
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Spoilers for season 1 of Outer Banks below. Watching Netflix’s soapy teen drama Outer Banks left us longing for a tan, a fictional summer romance, and a sun-drenched vacation—especially after more than a year in pandemic-induced quarantine. But more than anything, it left us craving a second season to make sense of the show’s wild
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The Inmate Who Waves to Me After School 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. My Prisoner I was gathering sticks in the field when someone waved to me
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Questlove’s Summer of Soul is up to 753 theaters as the doc about the 1969 ‘Black Woodstock’ concert in Harlem that debuted in two locations last weekend crossed into arthouse, commercial and urban venues. Not that it was easy, said Frank Rodriguez, SVP General Sales Manager, Searchlight Pictures. “Exhibitors are eager to get back on
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City University of Hong Kong is seeking the ‘brightest and best’ early-career physicists with a breadth of international research experience Global scholar: adaptability is one of the key attributes that Denver Li (above) is looking for in would-be recruits to his research team in the CityU Department of Physics. (Courtesy: CityU Hong Kong) Cool heads
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American Airlines flight 718, the first U.S. Boeing 737 MAX commercial flight since regulators lifted a 20-month grounding in November, takes off from Miami, Florida, U.S. December 29, 2020. Marco Bello | Reuters Major U.S. airlines relaxed ticket-change policies for several Florida cities as Tropical Storm Elsa approached the state. Tropical storm conditions were expected
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