Month: July 2023

A Teenage Girl Is a Funhouse Mirror Amber Caron Share article Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction.
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The Priscillas are back with their brand-new digital single ‘Angela’ – and it feels like they’ve never been away! Blending crunchy guitar hooks, sweet harmonies and an infectious pop sensibility with searing social commentary, this bittersweet confection finds the band on roaring form on which they’ve built their reputation as one of London’s most exciting
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Pan Gongsheng was named party secretary of the People’s Bank of China on July 1, 2023. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — The People’s Bank of China announced Saturday that Pan Gongsheng, head of the country’s foreign exchange regulator, would become the central bank’s party secretary. In a country ruled by
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Fans of The Name of The Rose author Umberto Eco turned out in NYC, boosting the documentary on medieval scholar turned novelist and social commentator to over $9.1k on one screen – a nice showing by The Cinema Guild for a foreign language documentary on a solid weekend for some indie and arthouse fare. Umberto
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by Trevor Kimball, July 2, 2023 (Photo by: Apple TV+) Chances of a second season for Patricia Arquette’s newest show have dried up. Apple TV+ has cancelled her High Desert series, according to the actress and executive producer. The show was created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe-House. A single-camera dark comedy series, the
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WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking proposals from commercial launch companies that can provide “responsive and precise point-to-point delivery of cargo to, from, and through space.” The solicitation, published June 30, asks companies to submit proposals by July 17.  DIU, a DoD agency created to bring commercially developed technology into military programs, is
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News Tiny Engines Relaunches Label Under New Management Structure The indie label originally went on hiatus following an accounting-related controversy in late 2019 By Nina Corcoran July 1, 2023 Facebook Twitter Tiny Engines Facebook Twitter Tiny Engines, the North Carolina-based record label that gained a following for its indie rock roster in the 2010s, has
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By nearly every measure, buying a car has become extremely expensive. Not only are new vehicle prices near an all-time high, but the interest rate to finance a purchase has also jumped dramatically. Now, fewer affordable new cars even hit the market, according to recent reports. Today, new cars priced under $30,000 make up just
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Brother-and-sister duo Eugenia Viti and Ivan Viti ponder the limits of the everyday Have you ever stood in an apparently endless queue, or been trapped in an everlasting meeting, thinking to yourself “This is taking absolutely forever”? Have you perhaps pondered some other of the seeming “infinities” you might come across, outside of a calculus textbook? In this whimsical
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