Netflixacquired the rights to C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, with the streaming service developing new series and film projects revolving around the beloved fantasy book series. The C.S. Lewis Company and Netflix announced the multi-year deal Wednesday, which gives the streaming service the rights to all seven Narnia novels. …
Read More »Subversion Gone Wrong: Inside 'Bumfights'
In the late 1990s, when Ryen McPherson was a teenager living in the idyllic San Diego suburb of La Mesa, California, he met two middle-aged homeless men named Donnie Brennan and Rufus Hannah. McPherson, an aspiring filmmaker, was always tooling around town with a video camera. Brennan and Hannah had …
Read More »How Our Air and Water Will Grow More Toxic Under Trump
On abortion, as with everything, President Trump has no moral principles. He’s happy to side with anti-abortion activists if it will help rev up his base. During the campaign, he called for “some form of punishment” for women who chose abortion; he revived the global gag rule that strips U.S. …
Read More »Cyndi Lauper's 'Kinky Boots' to Close on Broadway
Cyndi Lauper‘s Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots will end its Broadway run next spring, The New York Times reports. The final performance will take place April 7th, capping off an impressive six-year run that included 24 previews and 2,507 regular shows. Kinky Boots has grossed $297 million on Broadway alone and …
Read More »American Bar Association and Others Are Demanding More of the Senate for Kavanaugh
The most heated moment of Brett Kavanaugh’s emotional testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday came during Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) time to ask questions. Graham was practically frothing at the mouth as he decried the “unethical sham” he believes Democrats are trying to pull by calling for a …
Read More »Flashback: Kiss Launch Their First Farewell Tour Back in 2000
Kiss recently became the latest in a very long list of rock acts to announce a farewell tour this year. Many fans were probably a little skeptical when they heard the news since, well, Kiss already went on a farewell tour. It happened back in 2000 and kept them on …
Read More »Meet Alina Baraz, the Serene Singer Who Went From Isolation to Streaming Stardom
Alina Baraz has released just two EPs of her feathery, crazily calm music — like R&B buried under a layer of permafrost — but hasn’t produced anything that could be considered a mainstream hit. And yet she has amassed over 1.2 billion streams, many more than artists who are multiple …
Read More »Garry Trudeau on Trump, Satire and 'Doonesbury' at 50
Garry Trudeau marked Donald Trump as a con man early on. The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and illustrator ofDoonesburyhas mocked Trump relentlessly since the 1980s, homing in on the then real-estate mogul’s insatiable appetite for attention and penchant for lying, a body of work that was anthologized in Trudeau’s2016 bestseller,Yuge!: …
Read More »Kavanaugh Accusations: How Does the Brain Process Sexual Assault?
On Sunday, The New Yorker reported that a second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, Kavanaugh’s classmate at Yale, joins his high school acquaintance, Christine Blasey Ford, in publicly accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct and demanding an investigation …
Read More »On the Charts: Carrie Underwood Makes Country Music History as 'Cry Pretty' Hits Number One
Carrie Underwood made history as the first female country artist to score four Number One albums as the singer’s Cry Pretty debuted atop the Billboard 200. Cry Pretty also established 2018’s best-selling week for a female artist in any genre as the album sold 266,000 total copies in its first …
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