archiveJanuary 2021

Books

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 30, 2021

Today's Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday's most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Graceling by Kristin Cashore for $1.99 An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena for $2.99 A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris for $2.99 City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty for $2.99 The Broken Crown by Michelle...
Music

Watch System of a Down’s New Video for ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’

System of a Down premiered their new video for “Genocidal Humanoidz” Saturday following a charity livestream to provide humanitarian aid to Armenians affected by the conflict over the disputed area known as Nagorno-Karabakh. A mix of live performance and animation, the visual features System of the Down playing their first...
Music

Florida Georgia Line Almost Called Themselves Orange Peach

The states of Florida and Georgia are known for their oranges and peaches, respectively, and that's almost how Florida Georgia Line got their name. As this installment of Taste of Country‘s You Think You Know Country? series reveals, the country hitmakers almost named themselves Orange Peach."We lived together for two years in Nashville...
Film

Friday The 13th Is The Subject Of Another Lawsuit

As mentioned, this is not the first lawsuit that has been fought over Friday the 13th. Several of the people who worked on the original 1980 film, including screenwriter Victor Miller and director Sean Cunningham, have been locked in legal battles over creative rights of the franchise for years. In...
LGBTQ

Turkish students depict sacred Islamic site alongside rainbows. They’re detained and dubbed ‘deviants’ by ministers

Demonstrators wearing masks hold an LGBT+ flag during the demonstration at Boaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. (Tunahan Turhan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Four students were detained Saturday (30 January) and dubbed “deviants” by Turkey’s interior minister over a piece of artwork that reportedly depicted rainbows alongside the Kaaba. The Kaaba is the...
Music

Avant-Pop Producer Sophie Dead at 34 After ‘Sudden Accident’

Sophie, the avant-pop artist who produced singers like Madonna and Charli XCX and released the acclaimed 2018 album Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides, has died at the age of 34. The Scottish-born musician’s record label, Transgressive, confirmed Sophie’s death. “Tragically our beautiful Sophie passed away this morning after a terrible...
Pop Culture

Bling Empire Season 2: Everything We Know

If Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Crazy Rich Asians, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills had an eight-episode love child, it would be Netflix's Bling Empire. The series, which premiered on January 15, follows the lives of ultra-wealthy Asians living in Los Angeles. There are extravagant parties, blinding jewels,...
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