The 2023 PEN American Literary Award Winners have been announced! This year’s awards conferred $350,000 to writers and translators in eleven different categories that include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, literature in translation, and more. The winners were announced live at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, at The Town
Month: March 2023
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped back over 7% on Thursday, rising to 7.1%, according to Mortgage News Daily. Growing fears that inflation is not cooling off are pushing bond yields higher. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury. related investing news El-Erian says the Fed should go
Evidence strongly suggests it would have been “obvious” to Boris Johnson COVID rules were being breached at Downing Street gatherings he attended, an inquiry into whether he misled parliament has said. MPs on the cross-party Commons Privileges Committee were tasked with investigating whether Mr Johnson misled parliament over partygate allegations after Sir Keir Starmer tabled
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Source: Thomas Peter | Reuters Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers and a major manufacturer of iPhone components, will invest around $700 million to build a new plant in India’s Karnataka state, Bloomberg reported Friday. The report comes as U.S. companies continue to reevaluate their
Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses will join Sir Elton John in headlining this year’s Glastonbury Festival, meaning all the top-billed acts will be male. The Glastonbury line-up also includes Christine And The Queens, Fatboy Slim, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, Lil Nas X, Maneskin, Rudimental, Manic Street Preachers, The War On Drugs and Royal
UPDATED: Using data from iSpotTV along with internal CW and LIV results, CW says LIV’s opening weekend at Camaleón Mayakoba Golf Course in Mexico averaged more than 3.2 million total viewers across all linear and digital platforms from February 24-26. Day one of the tourney streamed on the CW app. Days two and three aired on affiliates,
Hello Insiders. The international biz descended on the UK for the London TV Screenings this week, and we were there to cover it in full. Jesse Whittock here to guide you through all the film and TV news. Cannes Contenders The buzz starts now: It might still be 10 weeks’ away but things are starting to
Mach-Hommy, photo by Erica Hernandez News Mach-Hommy Releases New Album Notorious Dump Legends: Volume 2: Listen Assisted by Tha God Fahim, the joint album is a sequel to the 2018 original By Alphonse Pierre March 3, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter A new Mach-Hommy album is out today. Notorious Dump Legends: Volume 2 is the
Solid perfumes elicit the same degree of excitement as holiday minis. Pocket-size versions of our favourite scents condensed into a small bar, solid perfumes are great for popping in your handbag should you need a top up during the day, or packing on holiday as they are significantly less weighty than a 50ml bottle. But
I think most of us are vaguely familiar with the bestselling fantasy books of all time. After all, to be bestsellers they have to be pretty popular. But I’ve also found that the most well-known fantasy bestsellers tend to be middle grade or YA. That means books like Twilight, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Little
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Disney‘s ESPN wants to be the hub for all live sports streaming — even for its competition. The sports network has held conversations with major sports leagues and media partners about launching a feature on ESPN.com and its free ESPN app that will link users
Sue Gray has been appointed by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to serve as his chief of staff. The senior civil servant became a household name during the partygate scandal, authoring the report which found “a failure of leadership and judgement” in Number 10 during Boris Johnson’s premiership. Conservative MPs and former cabinet ministers have
In this article ERIC.B-SE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ericsson recently announced it is planning to cut 8,500 jobs as part of its cost-cutting measures. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson agreed to pay a $206 million penalty and pleaded guilty to violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt
Pulp bass player Steve Mackey has died at the age of 56, the band has announced, paying tribute to a “beloved friend” who “made things happen”. The Sheffield band, who rose to prominence with their fourth and fifth albums His ‘N’ Hers and Different Class in the 1990s, said the musician died on Thursday. On
EXCLUSIVE: Skye P. Marshall has been tapped as a lead opposite Kathy Bates in CBS’ drama pilot Matlock, a new take on the classic legal TV drama starring Andy Griffith, which comes from Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman and NCIS: Los Angeles star Eric Christian Olsen. In Matlock, written by Urman and to be directed by Kat
Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts announced today that Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Two Popes) will become its next Marion Knott Distinguished Artist. Meirelles follows Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), Dodge’s most recent Distinguished Artist. He’ll spend three full days on campus (March 14-16) helping graduates and undergraduates develop
EXCLUSIVE: A musical stage adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, originally co-created in 2006 by Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical director Matthew Warchus, is headed to the English countryside. The Shire of Middle-earth, the inland area inhabited by the hobbits and Bilbo Baggins, will be re-created at the Watermill Theatre to allow a cast
Dilly Dally (Photo by Alex Carre). News Dilly Dally Break Up, Share Final Songs: Listen The Toronto indie rock band have also announced a May 27 farewell show in their home city By Madison Bloom March 2, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Toronto indie rockers Dilly Dally are breaking up. The band revealed the news
Recording artist and hip-shaking queen Shakira and football star Gerard Piqué announced their split in June 2022 after 11 years together. The couple met on the set of her music video for “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa),” which was the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. They began dating in 2011, and
At a heated school board meeting this week in Volusia County, Florida, two books under fire were retained. Both Ellen Hopkins’s Glass and Erika L. Sanchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter will stay on shelves. This is a sign of the process working, as books like these (and nearly every other book being