When Lee Isaac Chung was announced as the director of the long-awaited sequel Twisters, many of us scratched our heads. Chung is, obviously, a talented filmmaker. His most recent film, Minari, had just come off multiple Oscar nominations including a win. But to go from that small, personal film to the big-budget sequel to a beloved, albeit admittedly dumb blockbuster seemed a little beneath him. In fact, it was the opposite. Twisters was a movie Chung had not only almost been born into but...
EGOT winner SZA has a nice ring to it, huh? The “Snooze” singer is now one step closer to achieving that lofty (but deserved, in this writer’s opinion!) goal. Per Deadline, the artist is set to make her film debut alongside Keke Palmer, in an upcoming “buddy comedy” film from the team behind Rap Sh!t. (R.I.P.) Issa Rae will serve as producer for the untitled project, which will be directed by Lawrence Lamont and written by Syreeta Singleton, both of whom also worked on the gone-too-soon Max...
In 2023 actor Sophia Bush made headlines when she filed for divorce one year after a storybook wedding. By the fall it was public knowledge that she was in a new relationship. With a woman. The internet seemed to be foaming at the digital mouth for a scandal, but to those who knew her, it was clear she’d never been more herself. Here, in her own words, Bush speaks to the power of finally learning to listen to her intuition. In April of 2022 I was close to calling off my wedding. Instead of...
Namibia’s strategic food reserves across the country are running dry at an alarming pace and on the verge of putting the country in an acute food shortage crisis at household and industrial levels.
Container Gardening - Think Outside the Pot will be held from 10 a.m. to
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, April 24, 2024--Ryan, a leading global tax services and software provider, has been recognized as one of the Best Workplaces™ in Canada for 2024 by Great Place to Work®. Ranking 41st on this year’s list and receiving the prestigious accolade for the 12th consecutive year highlight Ryan’s commitment to fostering a high-trust, high-performance culture that elevates both business outcomes and quality of life.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is warning that some ground beef products may be tainted with E. coli. The more than a dozen potentially contaminated products were produced by the Greater Omaha Packing Co., and include both patties and tubes of raw ground beef, according to the FSIS public health alert issued on Saturday. The agency said it was "concerned that some products may be in consumers’ and food service institutions’ freezers" and urged the public not to consume them due...
This summer Mi'kmaq Farms plans to break ground on a new 12,000-square-foot hatchery near their farm store on Presque Isle Road in Caribou.
Martin Chilton reviews the biggest books for May
Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights
There’s a need for more stringent, ethical research practicesto ensure our cultural artifacts are not misused or misrepresented
The Congress discusses the leading trends shaping the publishing world and creative industries, exploring new prospects for collaboration and growth. Abu Dhabi, UAE – Organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), the third edition of the International Congress of Arabic Publishing and Creative Industries (PCI) is preparing to host prominent figures in publishing, translation, digital content production, and entrepreneurship from around the world on Sunday, 28 April 2024, at Manarat Al...
Blyth Hall has been home to a series of colourful characters and is now open to the public for the first time
Tonight was the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, when America celebrates its most teeth-grittingest night of blazing-tepid comedy. Yes, the annual tradition that sees Washington D.C.’s funniest people prove that depressing reality in dismal detail, while a paid comedian prepares themselves to be compared unfavorably to Stephen Colbert, has come and gone again, producing upwards of two whole big laughs in the entire process. As people who watched the event—possibly because they were...
Luca Guadagnino’s new sexually charged sports drama Challengers—which might also, now that we think of it, be described as an athletically charged sex drama—is expected to triumph at the U.S. box office this weekend. That is , admittedly, with the caveat that this has been one of the sleepiest weeks at movie theaters in recent memory; Guadagnino’s film, which stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist as the members of a slow-burning ménage a topspin, is expected to bring in $15 million at the...
The Eco3 Urban Farm is a community space built at Lake Superior College for learning and connecting.
An artist with an eye for interior design has transformed her 'blank canvas' home into a dreamy visual masterpiece.
Teenagers binge on bottles of cheap vodka, six-packs and vapes if they can't buy cigarettes because it seems like fun to them, and prohibiting fun is never going to be easy to pull off.
The institution hopes to ‘shift the dial’ and encourage a more diverse range of students to applyA key obstacle in the path of poorer aspiring actors is to be removed at one of the UK’s leading drama schools, the Observer can reveal. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, one of the country’s top drama schools, where Dame Judi Dench, Andrew Garfield, Riz Ahmed, Jason Isaacs, Cush Jumbo and Martin Freeman all learned their craft, is to scrap audition fees for prospective students in an...