Chris Hemsworth celebrated birthday with his kids and a special cake
Actor Chris Hemsworth celebrated his 38th birthday on Wednesday and to make it special for the actor, his three children...
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‘Powerpuff Girls’: Chloe Bennet leaves the live-action pilot as Blossom
Actress Chloe Bennet has left CW network’s live-action pilot of ‘Powerpuff Girls’, based on Cartoon Network’s hit animation series by the...
Barenaked Ladies: how we made One Week
I joined Reprise Records in 1995, based in New York, and was assigned to help Barenaked Ladies make their fourth...
The best books about the post-human Earth
We humans have a profound impact on the world around us. Bob Paine, the groundbreaking American ecologist, once described us...
Mellow giallo: has the horror genre lost its ability to shock?
Giallo began as the trashiest of genres. Derived from pulp Italian novels (with yellow covers, hence the name), it was...
Dragons and Mythical Beasts review – watch out for the tooth fairy!
Something miraculous is happening. The sun is shining and the kids in the crowd are buzzing on sugar yet, somehow,...
Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand: the myth of their lesbian play
In the late 1950s, a 25-year-old struggling actor named Joan Molinsky – later to become better known as the acerbic...
Car crash TV: why Simon Cowell’s take on Top Gear is the last thing we need
Simon Cowell and Jeremy Clarkson. Sneery Si and shouty Jezza. Together they bestrode 00s primetime, the dad-jeaned embodiment of a...
Tennessee shelter for immigrant children opened under Trump
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee licensed a shelter for immigrant children a year before the state’s Republican governor and U.S....
Teen shoves bear that swatted family dog in California yard
BRADBURY, Calif. (AP) — Hailey Morinico didn’t hesitate when she saw a large bear facing off with her family dogs...