archiveAugust 2024

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.My personal internet this week was chock full of adaptation news, reviews, announcements, teases,...

The Blair Witch Project has been back in the news big time, and this time, no one is questioning whether it’s real or not. You may have heard that the production company Lionsgate announced that they’re teaming up with Blumhouse to reimagine (read: reboot) some of their horror classics, starting...

I have been on a journey watching all the Studio Ghibli films. I am still getting through some of the best Hayao Miyazaki movies, but I assumed that I had already seen the really well-known ones, such as My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Howl’s Moving Castle....

After Sabrina Carpenter’s summer takeover with “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” the anticipation for Short ‘n Sweet was at an all-time high. On her sixth album, the pop singer keeps the surprises coming as she delivers a masterclass in clever songwriting and hops between R&B and folk-pop with ease. Carpenter...

"Josh has been given no choice but to prioritize his health and to receive essential medical care through the remainder of the year," band says in statement Queens of the Stone Age have canceled the remainder of their 2024 tour dates — including a string of North American shows and...

Nora and Nathan talk about the news and surprises that came out of Taylor Swift’s final slate of European shows in London (1:00). Then they turn to Post Malone’s first foray into country music: F-1 Trillion. They discuss how the rapper came to the genre (15:29), how seemingly every big...

Sabrina Carpenter released the music video for ‘Taste’ today (Friday August 23). (Sabrina Carpenter: YouTube) Sabrina Carpenter released her new album Short n’ Sweet today, along with a brand new music video for her new single from the album, titled “Taste.” In the new music video, Carpenter stars alongside Wednesday...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Would Anne and Emily be friends if they met? I asked myself as a young reader. Would Anne beat Emily in a bar fight? I ask myself today. I, like so many others...

Ahead of its Early Access exit this October, developer Offworld Industries has released a new Developer Diary for Starship Troopers: Extermination, as well as a new trailer exclusive to Gamescom. The trailer showcases the terrifying Tanker Bug in action, while the Developer Diary gives us an inside look at General...

Fifty Shades of Grey and its subsequent sequels are among Netflix’s notable sexually explicit films right now. I was watching the third movie recently and I was reminded of the fervor online when series lead Jamie Dornan didn’t go full-frontal nude. So I sleuthed around to answer the question fans...

The late-night host also addressed the speculation of an appearance by Beyoncé Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ nomination for president last night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but not without some commentary from Republican nominee Donald Trump. Jon Stewart had some thoughts about all of it as he...

Late Fox Business and CNN star Lou Dobbs' lavish Florida estate has found a buyer, shortly after the controversial political pundit's death in July.Dobbs listed his 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom, 5,111-square-foot mansion in West Palm Beach, Fla., for $3.1 million in April of 2024.The asking price for the estate reduced to $2.9 million on...

Jodi and Chelsea start out by going through the very last of the 2024 Olympics ephemera, including Stephen Nedoroscik (a.k.a. “Pommel Horse Guy”) getting cast for Dancing With the Stars and the famous chocolate muffins making their way to New York City (0:35). Then they talk through the widely anticipated—but...

MacKenly Randolph, daughter of two-time NBA All-Star Zach Randolph, was coached by Kobe at the Mamba Sports Academy (since renamed Sports Academy, the "Mamba" retired) and had made the same helicopter trip from Newport to Thousand Oaks with him and Gigi a week before they died. "He basically taught me...