Batman #150 Kicks Off DC Comics' Bat-Solicits For July 2024 Only the top writ-ers and artists from each country can tell these stories about the world's best-known villain (who happens to have a movie coming out in October ... search for Barbara continues to ... 04/18/2024 - 9:59 pm | View Link
Critic’s Notebook: The Compellingly Packaged Cowardice of ‘Civil War’ Despite its sheen of boldness, Alex Garland’s film cowers in fear from the divisions that surely inspired the movie in the first place, missing an opportunity to say something important. 04/18/2024 - 3:10 pm | View Link
Amid the haters, the Trumpers and a virulent form of cancer, Nancy French just wants to make art After writing books for celebrities and politicians, French is telling her own stories as she undergoes treatment for cancer. 04/18/2024 - 3:15 am | View Link
California establishes nation's first drinking water limit in response to 'Erin Brockovich' contaminant California regulators have adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium, a chemical compound made infamous by the movie “Erin Brockovich." ... 04/18/2024 - 12:17 am | View Link
32 Hit Songs From Movies That Still Get Listened To Today A great song in a great movie can live forever. These are just a few of our favorite songs from movies that people still love today. 04/17/2024 - 9:33 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.