Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View All posts by Kelly Jensen What begins in the public schools bleeds into the public libraries. This has played out again and again throughout the last four years as right-wing players attempt to destabilize and defund public institutions of democracy. Public library attacks have, like…
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It’s Friday the 13th and you know what means: a bunch of new horror movies have been unleashed today to make us forget that it’s been 15 YEARS since we last saw Jason Voorhees. Here’s all the new horror that released Friday, September 13, 2024! For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar. First up, In a Violent Nature is the next best thing to a new Friday the 13th movie, a unique slasher told from the perspective of the Jason-like killer. It’s now streaming on Shudder. In the film, “When a locket is removed from a collapsed…
Smile blew audiences away in 2022 when the creepy horror film introduced us to a new threat- a fatal curse that brings a terrifying upside-down frown to your face. But the frightening looks take on a new level of disturbing in the next chapter, Smile 2, when a pop singer gets her share of scary stares and other disturbing events ahead of her tour. Outside of the upcoming horror film, MTV’s VMA viewers got a glimpse of their own Smile curse seeing a woman’s creepy look during LL Cool J’s performance and I’d like to believe it’s a marketing campaign…
Joan Vassos doesn’t want her Bachelorette season to be a repeat of Gerry Turner’s season of The Golden Bachelor. She wasn’t expecting an engagement at the end of her season. Keep reading to find out the goal she set instead. Joan Vassos Talks Dating Apps Joan Vassos was happily married to her husband, John, for over three decades until his death in 2021. She hoped to find love with Gerry Turner on The Golden Bachelor but left the show early due to a family emergency. She got a second chance when she was cast as the Golden Bachelorette. Joan opened up…
Popcorn is being recalled due to a risk classification issued by the FDA.According to Newsweek, Kester Foods LLC, based in Oregon, issued the recall for the Butter & Yeast Popcorn manufactured by Yummy Monkey Organic. The recall is due to the labels of the food not declaring milk being in the product. The recalled products only stated that the food contained butter and ghee.The popcorn recall was issued on Aug. 8, and impacted 365 units that were shipped to both California and Oregon. Affected batches of the food had “enjoy by” dates of 9/21/24 and 10/13/24. They can also be identified with the UPC code 9 96692…
‘Sister Wives” Star Christine Brown Reveals “Feeling Stuck” In Her Relationship with Kody BrownAs the rest of the family moves on, Kody Brown is feeling more left out than ever. In E! News’ exclusive sneak peek clip from the season 19 premiere of Sister Wives, airing Sept. 15, the Brown family patriarch is still struggling with adjusting to the new normal of his estranged family. After his second wife Janelle Brown separated from him in 2022, she is now considering moving away from Flagstaff, Arizona, where Kody and his only remaining wife, Robyn Brown, still reside. “We’re just going to look at property in Montana,”…
Over the past few years, shoes like Hoka are positively everywhere. From patrolling city streets to holding court in the gym, these sneakers are having their moment with their unmistakably massive foam soles, curved design, and neon colorways. They may be comfortable and great for running, but hey, Hokas aren’t for everyone, and if you fall into that camp, I can’t say that I blame you (I find them positively hideous, myself). Although they may be ugly, they’re certainly practical. And if you’re looking to emulate all of the best features of Hokas but with a few key changes, I’ve…
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.How Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary CanonThe central data point in this piece on the rise of historical fiction is this: between 1950 and 1980, “about” half of novels that win award-winning novels were contemporary fiction. Of late, only 3 of the last 15 winners of these same awards were contemporary. So a move from 50% to 30%. Is it just or does that…
To the chagrin of many Stephen King fans, Salem’s Lot — the latest movie adaptation of the horror master’s 1975 bestseller — will bypass theaters and debut on Max. So we’ll be deprived of the big screen experience, and non-subscribers will have a hard time accessing the film. That’s the bad news. (Max (YouTube screenshot)) The good news is that early buzz about the project has been ecstatic, and a new trailer released today promises a suitably spine-tingling experience. Over the familiar strains of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown,” author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) “returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot…
“I’ve always been the underdog, and I’ve always respected the underdog, and I just didn’t think I’d be the underdog for this long,” Nemah Hasan, the artist known as Nemahsis, tells Rolling Stone in the latest episode of The Breakdown. In an emotional pause, she adds: “I’m just gonna take a moment. I’m so sensitive. I’m such a Pisces.” In early October of last year, Nemahsis had flown to Los Angeles and signed a record deal. A few days later on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel, marking the beginning of a brutal war between Israel…
Authorities are shedding light on the gruesome death of Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic. The 38-year-old was found dead in her Swiss home this February, with her husband, 41, arrested on accusations of her murder, according to BBC. In a recently released autopsy report, investigators said Joksimovic was strangled before her body was dismembered in the laundry room with a jigsaw power tool, knife and garden shears, per local news outlet BZ Basel. Her remains were then “pureed” with a hand blender, the report said, before being dissolved in a chemical solution. A federal court ruling stated that Joksimovic’s husband—whose…
If you’d told a weather-beaten, American scaffolder from the 1920s that in 100 years time he’d be a style icon to men of the future, he’d probably have spat his chewing tobacco out at you in disbelief. Yet here we are, writing about his coat. The chore coat (also referred to as a chore jacket) perfectly encapsulates everything that makes workwear great: it’s functional, comfortable and rugged. Plus, like denim jeans or the best men’s boots, the people who designed it weren’t concerned about whether it became the next runway phenomenon or not, so you’ll still be able to pull it out of the wardrobe…
Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves mysteries, gothic lit, mythology/folklore, and all things witchy. Vanessa can be found on Instagram at @BuenosDiazSD or taking pictures of pretty trees in Portland, OR, where she now resides. View All posts by Vanessa Diaz Sourcebooks LandmarkTeresa Sanchez hopes to mourn her husband and get…
Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests. The Shrouds, Cronenberg’s latest, is even less of a genre film than Crimes of the Future, though it does share its predecessor’s same dark sense of humour, as well as the director’s tendency to revisit or reconsider his previous work. The film is ostensibly set in…