This week, Oklahoma Attorney General announced an investigation into obscenity in books throughout the state’s schools and libraries. Fifty one titles were presented for review, the bulk coming from complaints by the group Reclaiming Oklahoma Parent Empowerment and the Tulsa chapter of Moms For Liberty. The entire list of titles under review are available here. Though Oklahoma legislators are still pushing for reforms in school curriculum and oversight into the books in classrooms and school libraries, Attorney General John O’Connor dropped his investigation. “I received complaints from several parents about books in public school libraries which the parents found obscene.…
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After getting some action movie experience under her belt with the RED movies, Helen Mirren expanded this corner of her acting career by joining the Fast & Furious franchise. She debuted as Magdalene “Queenie” Shaw in The Fate of the Furious, and reprised the role in Hobbs & Shaw and last year’s F9. While Vin Diesel said back in 2017 that Mirren asked him if she could appear in the Fast & Furious movies, the actress has admitted that it was actually a matter of her begging to get in on this brand of blockbuster entertainment.Back in early 2015, Helen…
Rauw Alejandro has been teasing Trap Cake Vol. 2 for months, promising to build on the sludgy, trap-soul sounds from his first iteration of the project, which he released back in 2019. The EP finally dropped last night and while it’s a quick, 33-minute ride, it refuses to be limited by brevity. Rauw does a lot with a little time, churning out music that’s more grim and provocative than his last full-length album, Vice Versa, but he’s great when he’s lurking in darkness. There’s a bleak disaffection in the guitar-drenched “Gracias Por Nada,” and he lands a steely, down-tempo coolness…
Of all the iconic killers in horror, few are as terrifying as Leatherface. First seen in Tobe Hooper’s horror masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, he is the former slaughterhouse worker who continues his trade butchering humans to feed his psychotic family. Leatherface earns his moniker with his trademark mask made of human skin, one of countless repurposed body parts from his many victims. The actual makeup of these faces changes throughout the blood-soaked franchise, but each mask comes from a unique person and has been chosen for a specific purpose. With the release of a new sequel and with…
How much time do you get with your father when you’re one of 18 children?Apparently, not a lot. It’s no secret 23-year-old Paedon Brown had an unconventional upbringing, and in an interview on the Reality Life with Kate Casey podcast, Kody Brown’s son opened up about what it was like growing up as part of a polygamist family with Kody as the patriarch. The Sister Wives’ star has been a regular on the series since its premiere in 2010 and is the son of Christine, who recently announced her split from Kody back in November. When host Kate Casey asked Paedon if…
Photography by Imaxtree.com Including lower lash liner, spiky updos and the ultimate solution to next season’s bad hair days. By Megan Kirkwood Date February 22, 2022 Facebook Twitter In a surprise move, one of the most noteworthy beauty lessons to come out of London Fashion Week Fall 2022 was that you may not have to worry about styling your hair at all next season. The prolific parade of headwear that was seen in all forms on the runways, from jovial extra-wide brimmed hats to moody hoods and balaclavas, practically guaranteed that bad hair days need not be feared any longer.…
Texas country icon Pat Green and rising country artist Abby Anderson have teamed up for an uplifting new song, “All in This Together.”Co-written by Green with Sean Michael Giddings, the euphoric track offers listeners encouragement and lyrical pearls of wisdom to help them get through life’s challenges. While it acknowledges the inevitability of hardship, it also celebrates the gift of friendship and camaraderie.“We’re all in this together, we can make it through / Been down at the bottom too many times, now I’m holding onto you / We’re all in this together, through the wind and through the rain / You bring me hope…
“I believed in her,” chemist Ian Gibbons (Stephen Fry) says of tech mogul Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) midway through the Hulu docudrama The Dropout. “I looked in her eyes and I thought… I thought I could see the future.” Ian is far from the only person to believe this of Holmes, whose company, Theranos, promised to revolutionize health care with a device, the Edison, that would run multiple tests from a single drop of blood. The cult of personality around the black-clad young woman helped attract heavyweights like former secretary of state George Shultz (Sam Waterston) to the company’s board,…
It was never just a phase! The emo kids are alive and thriving in this current punk resurgence that includes Twilight fans binging the saga again, Robert Pattinson’s emo eyeliner Batman and artists like My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne and Paramore coming together for a sold-out festival later this year. That being said, fans are absolutely not here for Machine Gun Kelly covering Paramore’s “Misery Business.” MGK has carved a place for himself in the pop punk world after previously establishing himself as a rapper prior to his 2020 album Tickets To My Downfall. Within the platinum-selling album, Machine Gun Kelly…
Bonnie Raitt will release a new album, Just Like That…, April 22 via Redwing. The musician has unveiled the LP’s first single: a bluesy, self-produced song titled “Made Up Mind.” Raitt recorded Just Like That… in Sausalito, Calif. last summer. The musician produced it herself alongside mixing engineer Ryan Freeland. She tapped a collection of musicians for the songs: bassist James “Hutch” Hutchinson, drummer Ricky Fataar, keyboardist and backing vocalist Glenn Patscha, and guitarist Kenny Greenberg. In December, Raitt announced her Just Like That tour, which runs from March through the summer. Special guests Lucinda Williams and Mavis Staples will join…
As you may recall, The Sexton Single Malt became an official partner of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” last year, and this year we’re getting a “Walking Dead”-branded whiskey! In collaboration with AMC Networks and “The Walking Dead,” The Sexton® Single Malt has unveiled an exclusive, co-branded bottle to commemorate the final season of the show. “Featuring a decaying silver label and a walker’s head in the place of the brand’s trademark skeleton logo, the packaging melds the post-apocalyptic show with the bottle’s most distinctive qualities. Quotes from cast members Daryl, Herschel, Rick and Michonne adorn the bottle, describing the harsh realities of…
“It’s something that, as actors, in the end, that is what we want to do,” he told E! News. “It’s why we’re part of the arts because we want to inspire, we want to influence, we want to bring out the potential in people.”In addition to his new role as SAG Awards ambassador, Butler has also been working on Swimming with Sharks and Shazam! Fury of the Gods after wrapping his time as Trevor in To All the Boys. In fact, he recently celebrated some happy news with his TATB co-star Lana Condor, who got engaged last month to actor Anthony De La Torre.…
Photography courtesy of Knix FASHION exclusively shares Knix’s new film, released at the AdWeek Challenger Brands Summit ahead of International Women’s Day. By Jillian Morgan Date February 23, 2022 Facebook Twitter A chorus of celebrities — namely Chrissy Tiegen, Serena Williams, Halsey and other public figures — have reframed the conversation around pregnancy in recent years, getting real about grief, the joy of childbirth, body image and maternity style (take Rihanna’s bejewelled baby bump as proof of these shifting norms). In December, supermodel Ashley Graham (then pregnant with two boys, born earlier this month) notably shared a photo of the…
Although Bill Monroe deserves the “Father of Bluegrass” moniker for popularizing a new interpretation of very old folk sounds, one game-changing bandleader does not a genre make. Bluegrass doesn’t become its own thing apart from country music over time without other ground-setting pickers following Monroe’s lead. That first wave of Monroe devotees included his former bandmates Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers, a groundbreaking duo featuring future legend Dr. Ralph Stanley.Beginning in 1946, Stanley played alongside his brother Carter (Aug. 27, 1945-Dec. 1, 1966) as leaders of the Clinch Mountain Boys. On some of their most memorable…