Two decades in, the mission of the Tribeca Film Festival has come full circle. Launched just months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the festival will kick off its 20th edition Wednesday with New York City and the film world navigating extreme existential challenges. Normally held in late-April, this year’s fest was postponed until June
News Dawn Richard Announces North American Tour Dates With Purity Ring The artists will play shows together from September to December By Matthew Strauss June 9, 2021 Facebook Twitter Dawn Richard, photo by Nick Visuals Facebook Twitter Dawn Richard has announced a North American tour in support of her Merge debut Second Line. She’ll play
Recently I had to accept the news that I am in fact not the center of the universe, nor am I a youth. People my parents’ age like to tell me I’m still young, but the undergrads I teach assure me that I am not their peer. The time has come, the walrus said, to
If you were wondering what the future of fashion week might look like in a post-pandemic world, Demna Gvasalia’s ‘deepfake’ Spring 2022 Balenciaga show may have just provided us with some answers. In what appeared to be a very deep and layered commentary on the world of social media and its impact on society, the
Kendall Jenner played some pranks on her famous family during a game of truth or dare with her sister, Kourtney Kardashian, for the ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ star’s lifestyle site, Poosh. Not only did Kendall prank call her mom, Kris Jenner, claiming to be pregnant, but she also sent a photo wearing a diamond
Kevin Aluwi and William Tanuwijaya recently made Indonesian history. As founding members of GoTo Group, the 30-somethings are responsible for creating Indonesia’s newest and most valuable tech company after merging their ride-hailing and e-commerce start-ups in the country’s biggest-ever business deal. The combined entity contributes 2% to Indonesia’s GDP via its various business lines including
Boris Johnson is battling to avoid a sausage trade war with Brussels which could see chilled meats barred from shops in Northern Ireland from the end of this month. The PM’s Brexit minister Lord Frost is holding a showdown with a top EU official who is threatening to prevent sausages and mince produced in Britain
New research has found that it is possible for people to learn click-based echolocation in just 10 weeks. This worked for people at very different ages, and this was shown to be a skill anyone could learn, not just the visually impaired. For the longest time, bats and dolphins were the two commonly cited examples by
A banner with the logo of bitcoin is seen during the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images Bitcoin’s price slipped again Tuesday. The reason for the move was unclear, however it may be related to concerns over
Dua Lipa’s songs were played more than anyone else’s in the UK last year, after her multi-award winning album Future Nostalgia shot up the charts during lockdown. The 25-year-old rocketed to fame in 2017 with her track New Rules, and has now enjoyed a stellar year with her disco-pop record winning her critical acclaim, Grammys
Netflix has unveiled the titles of all 10 episodes to come in The Umbrella Academy‘s third season. The episode titles, in show order, are “Meet the Family,” “World’s Biggest Ball of Twine,” “Pocket Full of Lightning,” “Kugelblitz,” “Kindest Cut,” “Marigold,” “Auf Wiedersehen,” “Wedding at the End of the World,” “Six Bells,” and “Oblivion.” The titles were
IATSE and management’s Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers started their fourth week of bargaining today for a new film and TV contract covering the union’s 13 West Coast production locals, already having made substantial progress on diversity issues. It’s been tougher sledding on the economic side, however. One of the major issues in the
News 070 Shake Announces 2021 World Tour Dates in North America, Europe, and the UK behind her 2020 album Modus Vivendi By Evan Minsker June 8, 2021 Facebook Twitter 070 Shake, April 2019 (Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella) Facebook Twitter 070 Shake has announced a world tour behind her 2020 album Modus Vivendi that begins
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She Said is the title of the movie that will look into the investigations that took place around Harvey Weinstein, the now disgraced movie mogul. As details of the film are released, Deadline reported that Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are tipped to play the leading roles, starring as the New York Times reporters who
Phylicia Rashad will return to Broadway this December in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Skeleton Crew, written by Dominique Morisseau and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, producers announced today. The show’s opening date also was announced: Skeleton Crew will begin previews at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Tuesday, Dec. 21, with an opening night on Wednesday, Jan.
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A person skateboards past Biogen Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday, June 7, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Biogen on Tuesday faced tough questions from Wall Street analysts over the $56,000 annual cost of its newly approved Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm – a price tag executives are calling “fair” and “responsible.” Shares
Greater Manchester and Lancashire are to receive a “strengthened package of support” to tackle a rise in the Delta coronavirus variant, Matt Hancock has announced – with residents told to minimise travel. Addressing the Commons, the health secretary said: “I can tell the House that today, working with local authorities, we are providing a strengthened
A gigantic dinosaur discovered in Australia’s outback has been identified as a new species and recognised as one of the largest to ever roam the Earth, according to palaeontologists. The Australotitan cooperensis, part of the titanosaur family that lived about 100 million years ago, has finally been named and described 15 years after its bones