Month: June 2020

Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged assault. Today’s episode of the N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN-hosted Revolt podcast Drink Champs featured multiple guests discussing the Black Lives Matter movement. One of those guests was Russell Simmons, who faces multiple allegations of sexual assault. Following the episode’s release, TIDAL—which promoted Simmons’ interview on social media, presumably
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Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who made a killing this year by nailing the market bottom, on Monday disclosed plans for an initial public offering of a $4 billion blank-check company, which will target so-called “Mature Unicorns.” The new investment vehicle named Pershing Square
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Since the global pandemic has already cleared your schedule for July, you might as well settle in for some quality bingeing on Amazon. This month brings a smattering of Amazon Originals including the highly anticipated second season of Hanna, which premieres on Friday, July 3. The action thriller centered on a young girl’s brutal journey
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M. Night Shyamalan’s next movie now has a release date. Universal said Tuesday that it will release the writer-director’s untitled thriller on July 23, 2021. The pic, details of which are under wraps, stars Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff and Vicky Krieps. On Monday, Deadline scooped that Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird and
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The hearing loss charity Action on Hearing Loss will move out of its London headquarters and ask staff to work from home for the foreseeable future. The charity started viewing new workspaces before the government-enforced lockdown, having sold its Highbury office in December and rented it back in the interim.  But working through the coronavirus
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You’ve probably heard a lot of people give you ‘insider tips’ on Barcelona for when you travel there. The problem is that those ‘insider tips’ are probably so widespread nowadays that they are no longer what they say they are. However, the first thing you need to know is that Barcelona is a city that’s
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As protests against racism and police brutality continue throughout the world, many artists have decided to join the conversation with new songs about the conditions that led to this sustained uprising. Some have been received better than others. Recently, a fan asked goth-rock legend Nick Cave, who’s revered for his lyrical nuance, why he’s refrained
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(CNN) — To say the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the hotel industry is something of an understatement. Countless big names were forced to close due to safety concerns and plummeting occupancy rates, with many yet to resume business again. However, some chose to open their doors to doctors, nurses and other
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Thunderball (1965) Several times in the history of the James Bond franchise, the cold open entails someone’s death or funeral; with Bond being “killed” several times himself. Thunderball uses a funeral for one Col. Jacques Bouvar as the grist for its adventure mill, as Bond attends the proceedings to bury this particular foe in this
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Please note our writer visited Manchester prior to the coronavirus pandemic Manchester’s city centre is strewn with attractive hotels, from five-star cocoons of luxury and hip aparthotels in former mills to budget beds and seductive hideaways. It makes things easier when you’re planning weekend of, say, exploring the high street shops of pedestrianised Market Street,
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Joel Schumacher, the veteran American director, died on Monday. He was 80. The world-renowned filmmaker was best known for directing St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), The Lost Boys (1987), Flatliners (1990) and Phone Booth (2002), among many other blockbuster movies. Schumacher established himself as a filmmaker of great flare, which also earned him much criticism in the mid-to-late 1990s after he claimed the
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