Month: January 2026

9-1-1 finally does something interesting with Chimney’s (Kenneth Choi) captaincy — he fires Hen (Aisha Hinds). He’s been trying to live up to the specter of Bobby, feeling inferior to everything Bobby brought to the role. It hasn’t left him much time to really dig into the differing dynamics within the team he’s likely been
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Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir has died. Weir played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals for the entirety of the Grateful Dead’s 30-year tenure. He also founded and played in several bands during and after his time with the Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog,
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Critic’s Rating: 3.7 / 5.0 3.7 What did we just watch? Lifetime is known for its Ripped-from-the-Headlines stories, and Accused: The Karen Read Story is no exception to that, with a stylized, slightly modified, but all too real film that touches on the highly-publicized and purely insane murder trial of Karen Read. And the film
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In late 2024, Nimrod Shimrony, an emergency medical technician for the New York City Fire Department, tried to end his life. After completing an intensive outpatient treatment program, he and his wife searched for a therapist for months.  Valeria Calderón, a special education teacher with New York City’s public school system, suffered a miscarriage that
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Fire Force Season 3 Episode 13, “Unaware,” spends its duration catching both Shinra (Gakuto Kajiwara, Romantic Killer) and the audience up on the events that have transpired in Japan during the protagonist’s bizarre journey at the end of the first cour. New questions are raised in this sluggish start to the final run of episodes.  Much
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Last year, Salt-N-Pepa’s Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton filed suit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over the rights to their catalog, claiming that the label had pulled the duo’s songs from streaming platforms after they attempted to regain control of their masters. Lawyers for UMG subsequently filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit,
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We’ve seen so many exciting things when it comes to cinema in 2025. Whether it be returning to Pandora in Avatar: Fire and Ash, meeting Aunt Gladys in Weapons, or watching Ice Cube and Amazon Prime save us all in War of the Worlds, this year’s movies had a little bit of everything. Now, the
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Welcome to your weekend edition of Today in Books. Grab your coffee and catch up on all the must-read books of January. The It Books of January [Book Riot Podcast] The January 2026 Indie Next List 25 Books Coming in January [New York Times] Books Books of January 2026, as chosen by Amazon editors 10
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In a media landscape now overrun with superhero stories, it can be tough to do anything new and exciting in the genre. In Netflix’s latest KDrama series, Cashero, adapted from the webtoon by team befar, there’s a huge embrace of familiar genre tropes. Adapted by screenwriters Lee Je-in and Jeon Chan-ho, the KDrama plays things a
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Sault, the elusive R&B-and-funk collective led by producer Inflo, have returned with Chapter 1, their 13th album. The LP features contributions from R&B singer Cleo Sol, singer-songwriter Jack Peñate, and legendary hitmakers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Since Sault’s acclaimed 2019 album 5, the group has surprise-released more than a dozen projects under Inflo’s Forever
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