When the truth is stranger than fiction, stories that use fiction to explore the truth can get pretty weird. In Weird Black Girls, Elwin Cotman delivers seven short stories that go long on fantasy and supernatural phenomena to delve into the very real dangers and anxieties of contemporary Black life. We’ve got a town ruled by a punishing tree, old friends catching up as chaos unfolds at a Mexican joint, a couple of narcissists messing with an activist community, a dude living through his lover’s memories, and LARPing adventure that takes a wild turn. And that’s just a few of…
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Both a blessing and a curse, having thick hair truly is a double-edged sword. Sure, you have the volume and body that most people envy, but sometimes it has a life of its own. Thick hair can be dry and frizzy, make hot weather feel hotter, and turn sexy bedhead hair into a special kind of crazy. With so much volume, you really need the best hair products for men with thick hair to keep things under control. There are several products that men with thick hair need in their arsenal, but I believe thick hair care begins with a…
Technology has improved so many aspects of our daily lives, that sometimes it’s hard to imagine the unplugged world we used to inhabit just a few decades ago. Someone recently made a joke about how not too long ago, we once had to look up directions before a trip, print out a paper Mapquest route and try our best to follow it. And even that was an improvement over the crumpled, dusty map that languished inside the glovebox of our parent’s car. Those days are long gone. One 2022 survey by tire retailer United Tires, found that, in the top…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 21 Episode 7 “A Thousand Yards.”] For a milestone as major as the franchise’s 1,000th episode, NCIS pulls out all the stops, from guest stars (LA‘s Daniela Ruah as Kensi! Hawai’i‘s Vanessa Lachey as Jane! Joe Spano as Fornell!) to Easter eggs (like connections in the case to dead characters like Tom Morrow and Kate Todd and it all linking back to the mothership’s very first investigation). It also starts off by putting one of the agency’s own in the hospital. While visiting his late wife’s grave and then having an awkward, tense conversation…
(Left) Paul Walter Hauser in Netflix’s ‘Coba Kai’ season 5. (Right) Chris Farley in ‘Tommy Boy.’ Photo: Paramount Pictures.Preview:Paul Walter Hauser to is to play Chris Farley for a new biopic.Josh Gad is directing a movie based on a biography co-written by Farley’s brother.Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels will produce the movie.While many comedians and movie actors have been given the biopic treatment (though the current trend has been for musicians), it’s finally time for Saturday Night Live veteran Chris Farley to get his due.And there’s a package deal coming together that includes the adaptation of a biography co-written…
Siân Brooke is back on U.K. screens this week as Grace Ellis in the BBC‘s Belfast, Northern Ireland-based police drama Blue Lights season 2. Blue Lights, about three probationary police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland struggling with the general pressures of the job and crime and tensions in Belfast, has become a hit show for the BBC, which has already ordered seasons 3 and 4. One of the new officers is Brooke’s Grace, a single mother in her 40s who left her job as a social worker to join the police but must soon wonder if she’s made…
Heading into the 2024 election in the U.S. and major political contests around the world, internet companies are unprepared for the onslaught of misinformation that’s coming.That’s according to research out Tuesday from Mozilla and CheckFirst, which concludes that leading tech platforms are lagging in their ad transparency tools. The study, conducted between December and January, tested Alphabet’s Google Search and YouTube, Apple’s App Store and Microsoft’s Bing and LinkedIn, as well as services from Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, X and others.None of the results were great, and some were “a major disappointment,” according to the researchers.The ad transparency tools were…
A stationary bicycle inside of a Peloton store is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 25, 2022. Carlo Allegri | ReutersPeloton has quietly removed its unlimited free-membership tier on its fitness app less than a year after it debuted because the initiative was failing to convert users into paid subscribers, the company said. Peloton dropped the free option for new users, once a key part of the business’s growth strategy, within the past few weeks. People who signed up for the company’s unlimited free membership before it was removed will continue to have access to it, Peloton…
Menomena have surprise released a new EP titled The Insulation. It’s the Portland art-rock group’s first new music since releasing their fifth album, Moms, in 2012. Listen to the three-song EP below.While Menomena never formally broke up, original member Brent Knopf left the band in 2011 and remaining members Danny Seim and Justin Harris continued under the moniker for several more years. After releasing Moms, Menomena toured around the globe. They played their last show in 2014 in their hometown of Portland, Oregon.It’s unclear if The Insulation EP is comprised of previously unreleased material or new songs. However, it’s worth…
Dua Lipa has revealed that she has been planning for her upcoming album ‘Radical Optimism’ since before she released her debut record. READ MORE: Dua Lipa’s ‘Houdini’ hints at a Tame Impala-influenced era you won’t want to escape from Speaking to Time Magazine for a new profile, the ‘Don’t Start Now’ singer opened up about ‘Radical Optimism’, which is due for release on May 3 (pre-order/pre-save here). During her chat with the publication, she revealed that she believes in manifestation, saying: “Manifesting is a big thing for me. I stand very firmly in the belief of putting things into the world. Subconsciously,…
WASHINGTON — NASA will seek “out of the box” ideas in a bid to reduce the costs and shorten the schedule for returning samples from Mars. In an April 15 briefing, agency officials announced they would solicit proposals from NASA centers and from industry on “innovative designs” to reshape its Mars Sample Return (MSR) effort after an internal review confirmed the ballooning costs of the overall program. That review found that the current program would cost between $8 billion and $11 billion, the same range offered by an independent assessment completed last September. To fit that into the overall planetary…
The enormous mouth of a tiny nematode wormSara Wighard and Ralf Sommer / Max Planck Institute for Biology Tubingen Tiny soil worms called nematodes usually feast on bacteria or algae, and have tiny mouths to suit their diet. But give a baby nematode some fungus and its mouth can as much as double in size – giving it the ability to cannibalise its companions. That is what Ralf Sommer at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, Germany, and his colleagues found when studying the development of the predatory soil nematode worm Allodiplogaster sudhausi. When the young worms were…
Meta’s Threads app is often described as the company’s competitor to X. But Threads users, especially those once active on Twitter, are often quick to point out that Meta’s app is not yet a great source for real-time information. The app’s “for you” algorithm often surfaces days-old posts alongside fresh ones, and its recently introduced feature only shows five topics at a time. But for those holding out hope that the app may eventually become more useful for real-time information, Meta’s latest test may be good news.The app is testing a new search feature that will allow users to filter…
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the second part of the remake trilogy of the original game from 1997, was released in February. While developer Square Enix has not confirmed a launch date or the official title for the final game in the remake trilogy, the game should likely be released on PS5 sometime during the ongoing console generation cycle. Now, the studio has provided an update about the launch timeline for the third and final game in the Final Fantasy remake trilogy project.The information about the release timeline of the game arrives as part of interviews from the developers published in…
It was only appropriate that the 1,000th episode of the NCISverse aired on the Mother Ship. While NCIS Season 21 Episode 7 didn’t live up to all the hype (what could have?), it was still enjoyable and well-constructed. It also skillfully drew upon NCIS’s long history, going back 21 seasons. The spotlight fell on Rocky Carroll’s Director Vance, who has been too close to becoming a recurring character in recent seasons. The storyline hearkened back to one of Vance’s shining emotional moments when his wife Jackie was killed during an assassination attempt on Eli David on NCIS…
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., makes his way to the House floor on Friday, March 22, 2024. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion to vacate him from the speakership, later in the day. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Monday said he plans to move forward with four individual bills to fund Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, separating out key components of a foreign aid package that has been shelved in the House for months.Johnson held a Monday evening conference with House Republicans to lay out the four bills: one…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Compiling this bestseller list every week usually involves a lot of repetition from the week before: these lists are slow to change. But this week’s has some fresh blood to make it a little more interesting. Those include Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez, the newest release from the author of Part of Your World, along with other popular romance novels. It’s also a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. Another new book to the list is Table for Two by Amor…