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. . Now that you’ve cut up every eggplant, lemon, pizza, and soap bottle in your house looking for hidden cakes, you may think
Saxaphonist Scott Page from Pink Floyd, Toto and Supertramp will be a featured guest on the Suck It Podcast on Wednesday 7/15/20 live on Twitch at 8 PM ET with host Derek Hanjora. Scott Page is the Saxophone player for Pink Floyd, Supertramp, and Toto aside from music he is an entrepreneur and technologist. He
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday outlined the criteria to reopen school districts closed this fall, stressing that he wants to keep kids safe: “We’re not going to use our children as guinea pigs.” School reopenings will be dictated by the state’s regional reopening plan, Cuomo said. Schools in regions that are in phase
Jumanji: The Next Level has crossed $800M worldwide through Tuesday, July 7. Currently, the film stands at $319.2M domestically and $480.9M at the international box office. From Columbia Pictures, Seven Bucks and Matt Tolmach Productions, the Sony release began its offshore rollout in 18 markets last December, before adding domestic and wider release the following
WASHINGTON — NASA has signed an agreement with the Japanese government that brings the agencies closer to finalizing Japan’s roles in the Artemis program. The agreement, called a Joint Exploration Declaration of Intent, was signed late July 9 in a virtual meeting between NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, in the United States, and Koichi Hagiuda, Minister
By now everyone expects that Congress will pass another stimulus package. The calculus is simple: we are in a recession in an election year. Lawmakers will pass something so that they have something to talk about when they head home to campaign in the Fall. A reasoned consideration of the matter would include acknowledging that
Judy Dyble, singer and early member of British folk band Fairport Convention, has died from a long-term illness. She was 71. Born in London, Dyble formed her first band, Judy and the Folkmen, in 1964; they played exactly one gig. She joined a nascent Fairport Convention—commonly considered to be the first British folk-rock group—in 1967,
Pepsi soft drinks are displayed at a convenience store in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images PepsiCo on Monday reported that its quarterly revenue fell as fewer consumers bought its drinks at restaurants or convenience stores amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company did report growth for its food items, such as Cheetos and oatmeal,
Sad news this morning, as the much-loved actress Kelly Preston has passed away at the age of 57. She had been privately battling breast cancer for two years. “On the morning of July 12, 2020, Kelly Preston, adored wife and mother, passed away following a two-year battle with breast cancer,” a family representative has said
Did Larissa lose her place in Las Vegas? On 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? Season 5 Episode 5, the controversial realiy star worried she was about to be deported. Meanwhile, Debbie and Colt arrived in Brazil and the drama quickly started when Jess asked about children. Elsewhere, Elizabeth and Andrei argued in Moldova over gender
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. . Until reading Quan Barry’s latest novel, We Ride Upon Sticks, I had no idea the 1692 Salem witch trials hadn’t actually taken
A pedestrian passes in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stock futures rose in overnight trading on Sunday as investors looked past a record spike in coronavirus cases in Florida. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
President Donald Trump criticized his top infectious disease advisor this week while Dr. Anthony Fauci separately admitted he hasn’t briefed the president on the coronavirus pandemic in at least two months — widening an apparent growing rift between the two. “Dr. Fauci’s a nice man, but he’s made a lot of mistakes,” Trump said in an
Insect inspired: a film of the highly reflective material. (Courtesy: University of Texas at Austin) A new flexible material for passive cooling that was inspired by a volcano dwelling beetle has been developed by scientists in China, the US and Sweden. The film reflects around 95% of solar irradiance, and can reduce the surface temperature
Universal is moving a group of Blumhouse titles deeper into the theatrical release calendar including Miramax-Trancas International co-productions Halloween Kills and its sequel Halloween Ends, and The Forever Purge. In addition, MGM-Bron Creative-Monkeypaw’s Candyman is moving three weeks later. David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills, which is in post, moves from Oct. 16 to Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 which is where
WASHINGTON — Cost overruns on three instruments for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft led NASA to consider dropping them from the mission and ultimately requiring significant changes to some of them. At a July 9 briefing to the Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences of the National Academies, NASA officials said they recently conducted “continuation/termination reviews”
Attorney General William Barr listens as United States President Donald J. Trump, unseen, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images Attorney General William Barr spoke with President Donald Trump about Roger Stone and recommended against granting him
Exclusive 3:57 PM PT — Lisa’s manager, Roger Widynowski, tells TMZ … “She is completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11 year old twins and her oldest daughter Riley. She adored that boy. He was the love of her life.” Lisa Marie Presley‘s son and Elvis Presley‘s grandson,