Anna Meredith is kicking off 2027 with new work. Darling is the contemporary classical composer’s first non-soundtrack album since 2021’s Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems, which followed 2019’s Fibs. The music video for the first single, “Dusky,” is out now. You can watch its surreal stop-motion visuals below before the LP’s release on
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The town commissioners of Livingston, Montana voted last Saturday to “immediately temporarily suspend” a filming permit for a movie tentatively titled Pawn Shop, a pro-ICE feature film produced by the anti-LGBTQ+, right-wing media outlet The Daily Wire. The pro-ICE film reportedly depicts ICE-shooting victim Renee Good — a queer, blonde-hair mother of three — as
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Fallout could release zero mainline games and still reign supreme in many gaming circles. That’s kind of how it’s coasting right now, given that Fallout 4 came out in 2015, and there hasn’t been a numbered core title since. Fallout 76 is picking up some of that slack, and, incredibly, is turning eight years old
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Hide by Carolina Ebeid “It adds up to a memorable and skillful excavation of identity and inheritance.” —Publishers Weekly “Carolina Ebeid interlaces American English, Palestinian Arabic, and Cuban Spanish as she excavates memories—of her Palestinian father and Cuban mother’s forced migrations—in order to reconstruct her own ancestry and chart her path forward.” —National Book Awards
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A long-running weekly tradition at a Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ venue came to a sudden halt this week after a drag performance involving black makeup provoked intense community backlash and a wave of violent threats. Blue Moon Bar, located on Butler Street in the city’s Lawrenceville neighborhood, called off its September 30 Open Stage night. Management stated
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Say it ain’t so, Joe! After 36 years and 15 novels (not to mention short stories, graphic novels and a TV series), Edgar Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale is retiring his indomitable duo, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.  At Petrified Dreams’ opening, the two are already retired from the detective business, or so they think.
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Justin Timberlake is taking a look in the mirror when it comes to his beatboxing passion.  After content creator Hannah Young jokingly questioned why Timberlake’s habit of using vocal percussion went largely unchecked during his early career, the Grammy winner apologized for his preferred music technique.  In the video shares to Instagram Oct. 5, Young noted how “we don’t talk
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Since Carly Rae Jepsen followed up 2015’s E•MO•TION with a B-side album, the pop singer’s fans have counted on a companion project for every new release. But when Day and Night, her latest, dropped as a double LP this summer, it was unclear whether the 24-track project would come with additional music. Sure enough, Jepsen
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is reaching its climatic conclusion very soon, and fans are, understandably, filled with all manner of emotions. On the one hand, the epic follow-up to Tite Kubo’s legendary original run has proven a smash hit and featured some of the best moments in the series’ history, many of which paved the
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