Month: September 2024

The Transit of Venus (15.5 hours), Shirley Hazzard’s 1980 novel and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, tells the story of two Australian sisters, Grace and Caroline Bell, from their arrival in postwar England to their middle age. It is a nuanced and richly detailed exploration of love, power, fate and remorse that
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Concerns about whether their children will be able to have kids of their own someday appear to affect parents’ attitudes toward the possibility that their children may come out a lesbian, gay, or bisexual according to new research. Researchers Danielle J. DelPriore, Olivia Ronan, and Pamela Lantz of Pennsylvania State University Altoona’s Division of Education,
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Danny Elfman was sued, last year, by a woman who claimed that the composer sexually abused her between 1997 and 2002. The lawsuit has now been dismissed, Rolling Stone reports. In court documents, viewed by Pitchfork, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lisa K. Sepe-Wiesenfeld ruled in favor of Elfman and his company, Musica de
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Candace Owens Photo: Screenshot Candace Owens’ conspiracy theories have continued to grow ever more unhinged since the former Daily Wire pundit lost her gig at the far-right website over her overt antisemitism in March. Most recently, she combined some of her greatest hits — antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, global elite pedophile rings, and, of course, French
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The 1980s was not just a great time for movies but for the people in them. Many of our all-time favorite actors got their start in ’80s movies (or at least started to hit it big during that time). The question is, in what film did these stars hit their peak of cinematic brilliance during
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