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 day, when we are finally back to normal life, the Covid-19 epidemic will stay with us as a mosaic of images
Key 13 Films has launched an Indiegogo Campaign for their new feature film “Serious Profession.” A new kind of gangster film by a new team of independent filmmakers. Synopsis: (based on the award winning script) Kite and Winn are two collectors for a local crime boss. As they go about their day, we meet the
by Trevor Kimball, March 15, 2021 (Jordin Althaus/NBC) The dance is over at the peacock network. Though the show saw some growth in viewership during the pandemic, NBC has cancelled the World of Dance TV show. There won’t be a fifth season. A dance competition series, World of Dance is hosted by Scott Evans, with Jennifer
Marko Geber | DigitalVision | Getty Images Millions of Americans who collected unemployment benefits last year got a new tax break from the American Rescue Plan. Here’s how it works. $10,200 tax break President Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill Thursday that waives federal tax on up to $10,200 of unemployment benefits
Oscar season is upon us, and with that comes the anxious need to check all the nominated films off your to-watch list ahead of the ceremony. In the time of quarantine, most of the year’s nominated films are available to stream, meaning you barely have to move from your couch, bed, or pillow fort to
EXCLUSIVE: “That’s the first time I’ve seen the movie in a movie theater; I get chills,” beamed filmmaker Eddie Huang tonight watching his feature directorial Boogie at the AMC Century City 15. “My mother is in that first scene, and I just had to see how it looks,” he gushed. The director and writer of the
WASHINGTON — A NASA competition to launch a cluster of cubesats attracted a bid from SpaceX, who appeared to offer a vehicle other than its current Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy. NASA released March 11 the source selection statement from the competition to launch the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a
Justice League Snyder Cut — the heavily-anticipated four-hour director’s cut of Justice League from director Zack Snyder, assembled from hours of unused footage — is finally out this Thursday, March 18 worldwide. It’s become a reality primarily thanks to a dedicated years-long fan-driven social media campaign — one that has resulted in a mountain of
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), nominee for Secretary of the Interior, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee February 24, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Sarah Silbiger | Pool | Getty Images The Senate on Monday voted to confirm Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., as President Joe Biden‘s secretary
Exclusive Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez reaching a breaking point came as a total shock to their kids — and that’s one major reason the couple’s together right now in the Dominican Republic trying to patch things up. Sources close to the couple tell TMZ … neither of them expected news to break on Friday
Hill Ferguson, CEO, Doctor on Demand Scott Mlyn | CNBC The Covid-19 era has minted multiple billion dollar-plus online health companies as well as spawning one of the biggest acquisitions of 2020, when Teladoc acquired Livongo for $18.5 billion. Now, a year into the pandemic, two venture-backed health-tech companies — Grand Rounds and Doctor on
Killing Eve is coming to an end with its upcoming fourth season. The hit BBC America and AMC drama will begin shooting in the U.K. and places across Europe this summer, meaning that the series will be sitting the entirety of 2021 out. 2022 when the fourth — and now final — season will hit
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. Wrongful convictions are a particularly American horror story. In no other country is the possibility that you might one day be incarcerated
Larry Culp, CEO, General Electric Scott Mlyn | CNBC General Electric stock surged more than 5% Monday as bullish analysts defended the company’s decision last week to sell its jet-leasing business to rival AerCap and new financial guidance. On Wednesday, the Boston-based conglomerate announced of the sale of GE Capital Aviation Services, or Gecas, the largest remaining asset
by Trevor Kimball, March 11, 2021 (Photo: Danny Ventrella/NBC) One of the spin-offs of the long-running Access Hollywood TV show is coming to an end. All Access is ending its two-season run in June, reports Variety. The show is hosted by Mario Lopez, Kit Hoover, and Scott Evans with Sibley Scoles as a correspondent. The half-hour series launched in
Hot stuff: a polished cross section of one of the particles studied. (Courtesy: Satoshi Utsunomiya) New, large and highly radioactive particles have been identified from among the fallout of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. An international team of researchers has characterized the particles using nuclear forensic techniques and their results shine further
Credit Suisse’s Jonathan Golub is urging investors to get clever with recovery plays. He’s advocating a broad strategy that goes beyond reopening trades such as airlines and hotels. “It could be metals and mining companies. It could be machinery and industrial names. Chemical names,” the firm’s chief U.S. equity strategist and head of quantitative research
EXCLUSIVE: “Don’t be in a panic!” These are the sage words from Sony Pictures Classics’ Co-President Michael Barker about the future of independent films at the theatrical box office. While the pandemic and the proliferation of streamers has sent a number of awards season contenders into the home, he believes that arthouse fare will still