Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7H4 takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport on September 16, 2020 in Burbank, California. AaronP/Bauer-Griffin | GC Images | Getty Images Southwest Airlines is pushing into United Airlines‘ territory. Dallas-based Southwest on Monday said it plans to add service at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Chicago O’Hare next year, two United
This page will be continually updated as we learn more information about Amazon Prime Day 2020. Amazon Prime Day 2020 is officially happening tomorrow. The retailer announced on its site that the two-day event is happening from October 13 through 14 this year. The annual sale is exclusive to Prime members and is jam-packed with
Disney and Lucasfilm have revealed a new set of character posters for The Mandalorian season 2. The live-action Star Wars series is set to make its return later this month and, more than likely, the folks at Lucasfilm are going to keep the vast majority of the secrets under wraps until the episodes drop. But
TV shows are prone to being cut short when they are not performing as well as their networks hoped. In recent months, however, well-rated TV series are being canceled to the pandemic that has been present in our lives for over six months. Now, a new report from The Hollywood Reporter predicts that cancellations will
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . After we have finished and put down a book, when the dust has settled, once we have slept many nights, had dinners,
The 137 nations trying to hammer out a new global standard for taxing multinational tech firms will not secure a deal by the end of this year as hoped, the OECD acknowledged Monday. “The glass is half full: the package is nearly ready but there is still no political accord,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, head of
Snowy scene: the location in Vermont where the distribution of microfibres in snow was measured. (Courtesy: Rachael Miller) I grew up in Canada, which has two things in abundance: electric clothes dryers and snow. So, I was immediately drawn to a paper in PLOS ONE by Kirsten Kapp and Rachael Miller that quantifies the number
Dillard’s department store. Source: Zereshk | Wikipedia Shares of Dillard’s jumped 15% during premarket trading on Monday after one of Warren Buffett’s investing lieutenants disclosed a personal stake in the embattled retailer. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ted Weschler, who is an investment manager at Berkshire Hathaway, bought roughly 1.08 million
Ani Kokobobo is associate professor and chair of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Kansas and editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal. She received her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation on the grotesque and the body in late Russian realism. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as Balkan modernism.
As 101 Studios’ family comedy The War With Grandpa dominated the box office with an estimated $3.6 million in 2,250 theaters, Diane Paragas’ Yellow Rose starring Eva Noblezada, Lea Salonga and Princess Punzalan made its debut at theaters and drive-ins to earn an estimated $150K from 900 locations, bringing its total domestic cume to $170K through Sunday.
Gilead Sciences will have sufficient global supply of its coronavirus treatment remdesivir by the end of October, CEO Daniel O’Day told CNBC on Friday. The comments came shortly after the publication of peer-reviewed final data from Gilead’s large-scale trial of remdesivir. It showed the antiviral drug helped Covid-19 patients who are hospitalized recover five days faster on
COMPANY PROFILE: ENPULSION Today we present ENPULSION, an Austrian company developing cutting edge thruster solutions for small and medium satellites. Founded in 2016, it has delivered more than 130 thrusters and 50 of them are already propelling satellites of various size in space. How did the company achieve that? Milestones: 2017 – ENPULSION is founded.
US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, leaves after her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday dismissed the Trump administration’s latest coronavirus stimulus offer, continuing complicated negotiations between Democrats and Republicans that have stretched out
Fiona Apple appeared on The New Yorker’s virtual festival last night (October 10), where she spoke with writer Emily Nussbaum and gave a performance. During her set, Apple played tracks from her new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters live for the first time ever. Watch Apple perform “I Want You to Love Me,” “Shameika,” and
U.S. Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who has been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 30, 2020. Sarah Silbiger | Pool | Reuters The confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett will kick off Monday despite criticism from Democrats about the event possibly being unsafe because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prince WilliamsGetty Images Cardi B turned 28 years old today, and—because she can—she celebrated with friends in Las Vegas. Also in attendance at the big birthday bash was Offset, Cardi’s husband and the father of her daughter, Kulture. On his Instagram story Saturday, Offset shared many videos of Cardi, dancing in what looks like a
After The Boys star Aya Cash expressed her interest in playing Jean Grey in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, some awesome new fan art has been drawn up imagining how she might appear in the role. Very well known for her role as the villainous Stormfront in the popular Amazon series, Cash was asked in an
Call me cynical and unromantic, but the best thing Pandora Season 2 Episode 2 had to offer was the possibility of the Jax and Xander relationship actually going kaputs. I know it won’t last, but a reprieve from the bad pillow-talk and worse sitcom-esque lovemaking is welcome. Meanwhile, I’m rooting for the Zatarians and actually