University of Oklahoma students Sophie Miller, Alexis Davis, Lucy Law (tie), and Evan Johnson (tie) have been awarded first, second, and third place, respectively, in the 2023 Neustadt Lit Fest poster design project. The students participated in the competition as part of an annual collaboration sponsored by World Literature Today and the University of Oklahoma School of Visual Arts.Miller’s winning design will be used in all the promotional materials for the 2023 Neustadt Festival, slated for Oct. 23–25 on the OU campus. The festival’s schedule of events and full list of featured writers, artists and scholars are available online. Renowned…
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In this articleWBDFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTTimothee Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson star in Denis Villeneuve’s remake of “Dune.”Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing investors for the effects of the writers’ and actors’ strikes if they continue through the end of this year.The company, in a Tuesday securities filing, said it adjusted its expectations, assuming the financial impact of the strikes will persist through the end of the year. It noted this isn’t a prediction of when the strikes will end, but instead shows the financial impact on its TV and movie studios as production is halted.Warner Bros. Discovery is…
In her column Untranslatable, Veronica Esposito considers why various words are so difficult to translate. Here, she looks at the famously difficult Tshilubà word ilunga and wonders what you think is the most difficult word to translate. Just what does “the most untranslatable word in the world” really mean? In 2004 a BBC article raised to prominence the Tshilubà word ilunga, citing it as “the world’s most difficult word to translate,” based on the opinions of a group of one thousand linguists. At the time, the word circulated in translation circles with some fanfare, and it still gets cited occasionally…
When I started reporting The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia, back in 2016, I had a strong hunch that by chronicling the back of house at a fine dining restaurant, I might be able to observe, in microcosm, the broader social, political and cultural dynamics in Mexico today. A restaurant, as I learned over more than five years of immersive reporting, is indeed a stage, where narratives about class and culture are performed at every service. I ultimately focused my book on the propulsive story of Chef Eduardo “Lalo” García Gúzman, whose odyssey from migrant farmworker…
Christmas Day is a game of two halves. There’s the eating and drinking, which everyone loves, then there’s the sitting round staring aimlessly at the TV, brain in a vegetative state, body in a food coma.The devil makes work for idle thumbs, so to help minimise the chances of boredom (at best) and full-blown rows (at worst), we’ve pulled together a list of boys toys that will keep him occupied on Jesus’ birthday and well beyond. All killer, no filler. View More on Mobilo We’re going to come out and say it: despite there being a theoretical cut-off point, no…
EXCLUSIVE: The Kingdom Studios and Lionsgate drama Ordinary Angels starring 2x Oscar winner Hilary Swank is departing from its Oct. 13 theatrical release date as AMC’s Taylor Swift: The New Eras Tour looks to open to at least $70M off a female-heavy audience. Universal’s The Exorcist: The Believer seeing the crazy amount of presales at $37M+ yesterday opted to go a week earlier on Oct. 6, which is much richer release date where Joker, and Venom have launched. No bother for Ordinary Angels which is TBD in regards to its release date. Lionsgate runs an entirely grass roots campaign on…
WASHINGTON — With its first 23 satellites in orbit, the U.S. Space Development Agency in the coming months will begin the demonstration phase of a data network in space designed to support military operations. SpaceX on Sept. 2 launched SDA’s second batch of satellites. The agency now has 19 communications satellites and four missile-tracking spacecraft in orbit. These make up the Tranche 0 portion of a projected network known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. “While the launch is very exciting news, it’s what we will demonstrate on orbit that really matters — the ability to provide the warfighter with…
Samsung Galaxy A54 5G will get a new colour option soon in India. The smartphone was originally launched in India in three colourways. Samsung has teased the new colour option on X(formerly Twitter). The Galaxy A54 5G price in India starts at Rs. 38,999 for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage configuration. The phone comes equipped with a 5,000mAh battery and sports a 6.4-inch AMOLED display.The South Korean giant has teased that the Galaxy A54 5G will soon be available in new Awesome White colour option in India. It confirmed the new colour via X (formerly known as Twitter). The…
Shakira’s hips don’t lie, and neither do these photos when it comes to how great of a weekend she’s having with her little ones … just take a look for yourself. The Colombian singer was down in Miami Monday with her two children, Milan and Sasha, and what appear to be a few friends of theirs … who got treated to a little jet ski excursion on the water, with Mama Bear leading the way. Check it out … you see Shakira taking a couple of the boys along for a ride — with everyone wearing life vests … and…
In this articleSNOWFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA banner for Snowflake Inc. is displayed at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the company’s initial public offering, Sept. 16, 2020.Brendan McDermid | ReutersBuried on page 280 of Instacart’s IPO filing last week was a paragraph that caused a brouhaha between two companies that have nothing to do with grocery delivery.One of Instacart’s board members is Frank Slootman, the CEO of Snowflake, a publicly traded company that helps businesses store and manage hefty workloads in the cloud. Slootman joined Instacart’s board in 2021 and, because of that relationship, the company has…
Did Kody come to terms with how he navigated his divorce? On Sister Wives Season 18 Episode 3, he opened up to a friend about the dire state of the family. As he tried to get through to his friend, he learned he a shocking secret about Janelle. Meanwhile, the rest of the family celebrated the holidays apart. Use the video above to watch Sister Wives online right here via TV Fanatic. Catch up on all your favorite shows and reviews and join in the conversations with other fanatics who love TV as much as you. TV Fanatic is your…
In this articleTSLXFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTTraders on the floor of the NYSE, August 29, 2023.Source: NYSEThe drought in the IPO market could be near an end, according to a big investor overseeing more than $70 billion.Alan Waxman, the CEO and co-founder of Sixth Street, believes we’re in about the seventh inning of the downturn in the IPO market as he sees a “real pickup” in the pipeline. His firm has exploded in growth, invested in everything from direct lending to growth companies to real estate to insurance to sports.”I think people are starting to look for capital and…
In this articleCHTRFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTIn this photo illustration, the Charter Communications logo is displayed on a smartphone screen.Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesCharter Communications CEO Chris Winfrey wants the pay-TV bundle to live.He also thinks the industry should get on board with a new model.The CEO of one of the largest cable companies in the U.S. on Friday put media content companies on notice that negotiations would look different after Disney-owned networks went dark on Charter’s Spectrum service.The so-called blackouts have gone on for decades and usually stem from a battle over rising…
An Archivist for the End of the World Christine Lai Share article An excerpt from Landscapes by Christine Lai September 1 I picture myself standing in the midst of a ruin. All around me there are mildewed canvases, rolled up crudely or crammed into drawers. The edges of the papers, mouse-eaten or worm-eaten, fall into heaps of dust. As I work through the disorderly archive and chip away at the mountain of responsibilities, my mind is drawn back to this image of Turner’s studio, left in a state of Pompeii-like destruction after the painter’s death. That same atmosphere of decay…
During the last week of August, Irina Shayk shared a number of sexy photos to her Instagram timeline supposedly taken during a vacation with her ex, Bradley Cooper. The images had people wondering if they were potentially back together. The two are friends and co-parent their daughter, Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper. They also have taken vacations in the past while officially split up.But sources told TMZ that Shayk is still seeing NFL star Tom Brady after the new couple have been seen on frequent dates this summer. They met in May of 2023 at the wedding of billionaire art…
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Lea Michele, the star of Funny Girl, ends her stay today in the Broadway revival. She noted the milestone with an Instagram post that touted thhe show’s recoupment of its $16.5 million capitalization. “For the past year, I’ve had the honor and privilege of playing the iconic Fanny Brice in Funny Girl on the August Wilson Stage,” she wrote. “An opportunity my younger self could have only dreamed of. And did.” The musical opened in April 2022 at the August Wilson Theatre, starring Beanie Feldstein in the title role of Fanny Brice. Although fans initially showed great enthusiasm and ticket-buying, critics and…
WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency plans to set a target launch period for the first Ariane 6 in October, with the hopes that vehicle can finally take flight “not too late” into 2024. At a Sept. 4 briefing, officials from ESA and other partners on the Ariane 6 said they should be able to announce a range of dates for the rocket’s inaugural launch after a pair of static-fire tests of the rocket’s core stage and its Vulcain 2.1 engine on the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The first of those tests, slated to last about four seconds,…