Month: February 2022

Picturehouse is set to release the pre-hiatus final concert film of the Japanese boyband pop sensation Arashi exclusively in AMC Theatres for one night only on March 22. The Arashi Anniversary Tour 5×20 Film Record of Memories was released by Shochiku on Nov. 26, 2021, and grossed $39.5M, making it the highest grossing live-action film in Japan in
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Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel’s book, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, warns in its prologue: “China’s pressure on Hollywood and its own entertainment industry have the potential to challenge the American film industry as the chief narrator of the twenty-first century.” The book overall looks at the history
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With the city’s status as an art capital increasingly secure, its restaurant and bar scene—from Hollywood to Echo Park—is rising to meet a new kind of demand. Jay-Z and Beyoncé may have already even crowned a winner. All that plus the great NFT sale that wasn’t, the burgeoning art bona fides of…LaGuardia, and more in
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In Xochitl Gonzalez’s novel, Olga Dies Dreaming (11.5 hours), successful wedding planner Olga navigates the world of wealthy New Yorkers while pursuing answers about her Puerto Rican heritage, her mother’s history and her own future love. Olga attends her cousin’s wedding while in love for the first time, but the ominous reappearance of her mother’s
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Sure, the Plantagenets fought each other for a couple of generations, and the Tudors had wives and dynastic rivals beheaded. But if you think their reigns were bloody, just wait until you meet the Merovingians, the riveting royal family in Shelley Puhak’s The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World. The violent
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Do you remember PostSecret? I was delighted to find out that it’s still going strong. Now powered by WordPress, the original PostSecret was a Blogspot blog run by Frank Warren, started in 2005. Visitors were invited to send an anonymous postcard to a post office box. On the postcard, they wrote a secret. Every Sunday,
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Madeline has been a staple of children’s literature since it was first published in 1939. Despite that, and despite knowing exactly what the cover looks like, I had never read this work, and was intrigued to discover that Ludwig Bemelmans’s signature work is, in fact, a short story in verse. As such, Bemelmans leaves us
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Looking for the best books for starting a business this year? A study in 2016 revealed 25 million Americans were starting or already running their own business and the number has only gone up since then. Easily accessible marketplaces like Etsy and Amazon are saturated by people with the know-how selling their products and content
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Satellite imagery of the Chuhuiv Airbase outside of Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 21, 2022. Planet Labs PBC Satellite imagery gives another perspective on the developing situation in Ukraine, as Russian troops move into the country and strikes occur in multiple Ukrainian cities. Russia launched an unprecedented invasion early on Thursday, with reports showing attacks by
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In this article CRWD CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC on Thursday he’s been speaking with U.S. bank executives, and they’re worried about potentially being the target of Russian cyberattacks. Kurtz’s comments on “Mad Money” came after Russia invaded Ukraine, intensifying geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West. The U.S. and European nations on Thursday
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Loading chart… Switch Inc.: “Data center, red hot. If you understand the company, [insiders who were buying the stock] probably feel like, ‘Let’s take matters into our own hands and buy the stock.’ I think it’s a very inexpensive stock. It’s the kind of stock that can work.” Loading chart… FS KKR Capital Corp.: “I
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