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2026-10-28 17:20:13 UTC

Russell Brand has no friends, the disgraced comedian revealed on the stand at his rape trial in London. Here's more from @nprofile…u9zs.
https://flip.it/_MAXbe
#RussellBrand #Celebrity #Law

2026-10-28 16:30:18 UTC

Rest in power, Dolores Huerta. The labour leader and cofounder of the National Farm Workers Association died today at age 96. Here's @nprofile…ayww's tribute to her.
https://flip.it/rXBqSr
#DoloresHuerta #RIP #News

2026-10-27 20:54:09 UTC

Noah Wyle has been crowned Sexiest Man Alive by @nprofile…8ma4. Here's what he had to say about fame, buying survival gear, and people who think he's a doctor.
https://flip.it/Ssi7IC
#Celebrity #PopCulture #NoahWyle

2026-10-26 16:58:06 UTC

Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov in "Star Trek," has died at age 90. Here's @nprofile…fjey with more.
https://flip.it/k4jxMP
#WalterKoenig #StarTrek #Television

2026-10-24 21:19:17 UTC

You can’t get enough Taylor Swift, one of the least-hyped artists of this era. OK, we joke, but it is fascinating that her self-titled debut album came out 20 years ago today. Who knew Swift would evolve into one of the most recognized stars the music industry has ever seen? @nprofile…0vr6 takes a look back at the talented musician’s illustrious career:
https://flip.it/PGVHnI
#Culture #Music #TaylorSwift

2026-10-24 21:18:21 UTC

You can’t get enough Taylor Swift, one of the least-hyped artists of this era. OK, we joke, but it is fascinating that her self-titled debut album came out 20 years ago today. Who knew Swift would evolve into one of the most recognized stars the music industry has ever seen? @nprofile…0vr6 takes a look back at the talented (Does that word even do her justice?) musician’s illustrious career:
https://flip.it/xVh4cQ
#Culture #Music #TaylorSwift

2026-10-23 22:54:20 UTC

Um, has anyone seen the Musk documentary? Movie theaters seem to have lost it. Showbiz 411 reports that after expanding into 472 theaters last Friday, it's now almost gone. Coincidentally, distributor Bleecker Street Films was sold in the last week to tech billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Here's the full story.
https://flip.it/JDz4rW
#Entertainment #Musk #Technology

2026-10-23 21:32:13 UTC

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are unionizing and the team has recognized them as a collective barganing unit, which gives them a green light to begin negotiating. Here's more from @nprofile…ayww.
https://flip.it/uR_R0O
#CollectiveAction #Unions #Sports

2026-10-23 20:46:05 UTC

In the early 20th century, Black communities across Texas helped finance hundreds of schools. @nprofile…8swk looks at how. "The method was the same each time: start with what you already hold, run it, put it on the record, and ask last."
https://flip.it/wB4AH-
#Texas #BlackHistory

2026-10-22 19:39:27 UTC

Actor Tom Skerritt, who appeared in movies like M*A*S*H, "Alien" and "Top Gun" and won an Emmy for his role in TV drama "Picket Fences," has died at age 93. Here's @nprofile…fjey's tribute.
https://flip.it/vbFSQB
#TomSkerritt #RIP #Entertainment

2026-10-21 23:17:12 UTC

Airbnb guests have long been baffled by how they're charged a cleaning fee and still required to strip beds and wash the dishes. Now, the company is limiting the chores hosts can ask you to do — and hosts aren't happy. Here's @nprofile…h0ra with more.
https://flip.it/jkPhKP
#Travel #Lifestyle #Airbnb

2026-10-21 22:12:44 UTC

20 years ago, Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" was released. @nprofile…xwnf talked to some of the people who worked on the album about the experience of making it.
https://flip.it/p8MaP3
#AmyWinehouse #BackToBlack #Music

2026-10-20 22:12:17 UTC

In Oct. 10's opening monologue for "Saturday Night Live," performer Shane Gillis made a misogynistic remark about women in the gym. On Saturday, "SNL UK" responded. @nprofile…svmp has the story.
https://flip.it/HkoVYv
#Television #SNL #Comedy

2026-10-20 20:44:31 UTC

“Let’s use capital punishment the same way we use sports and television in this country, to distract people and take their minds off how bad they’re being f**ked by the upper 1 percent,” said George Carlin in his 1996 special. @nprofile…cpv4 talked to Kelly Carlin-McCall about how her father's comedy has new resonance in 2026.
https://flip.it/JUZ_.w
#Culture #USPolitics #GeorgeCarlin

2026-10-18 21:51:29 UTC

You’ve almost certainly heard of “You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary that explores the life of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for the month before she was to start an 11-year sentence for fraud. Documentaries usually aren’t such a big draw. This one is, raking in $15 million at a limited number of U.S. theaters already this weekend. “The film‘s success is a testament to a clever marketing campaign that by revealing next to nothing, somehow made ‘You Can See Everything’ even more of an event,” Brent Lang writes. Read more from @nprofile…5qdh:
https://flip.it/VXj--E
#Culture #Film #YouCanSeeEverything

2026-10-17 22:37:32 UTC

Chip Thomas was born and raised in North Carolina. He then moved to the Navajo Nation in 1987 to work as a family physician in a remote, underserved region. "I had thought that because of the isolation I would be there initially for two years," Thomas said. "But my two years turned into 36." His career could be the center of any dinner party conversation, yet if that’s where the discussion ended, guests might not learn about another fascinating aspect of his life. For nearly two decades, Thomas has been putting up public art installations in rural places across the Navajo Nation. In September, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Thomas one of its "genius" awards for the social impact of his artwork. @nprofile…2qhs has more on Thomas’ story, including his ephemeral artwork:
https://flip.it/LUok2A
#Culture #IndigenousPeople #Art

2026-10-16 23:12:00 UTC

Los Tigres del Norte has been performing together for more than 60 years. Here's a Tiny Desk concert from them, opening with a moving introduction from @nprofile…2qhs's Felix Contreras. "For as long as I can remember, these gentlemen have been giving us back our humanity," he said before the norteño band played the immigrant anthem "Somos más Americanos" ("We are more American").
https://flip.it/S1plVZ
#Music #TinyDesk #HispanicHeritageMonth
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2026-10-16 20:59:32 UTC

Shane Gillis' sexist SNL monologue garnered headlines this week, but Contrarian News points out, it wasn't just offensive, it was also not funny. Meredith Blake gives a few suggestions of comedians who will actually make you laugh. Here's her list. Tell us in the comments who you recommend. We're on the SNL UK train!
https://flip.it/53wYoR
#Comedy #SNL #ShaneGillis

2026-10-16 17:24:19 UTC

Oopsie daisy! An AI agent that was granted access to the server of a Swedish TV production company has deleted the entire edited version of the upcoming series of reality show "The Challenge." It's now been pushed to 2027, weeks before it was due to premiere. Here's @nprofile…w6mj with the details.
https://flip.it/Vv2ErH
#Television #Technology #AI

2026-10-16 16:31:35 UTC

What was the best scary movie the year you were born? @nprofile…tx49 has the list for 1950-2005, as judged by Rotten Tomatoes. Tell us in the comments if you've seen yours, and what you think of it.
https://flip.it/GlxIC5
#Movies #Horror #Halloween

2026-10-15 23:29:23 UTC

Could a documentary win the Oscar for best picture? Possibly, if it's Nathan Fielder's "You Can See Everything," which tells the story of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes just before she went to prison. Here's @nprofile…u9zs with more.
https://flip.it/9LZcOs
#Movies #NathanFielder #Oscars

2026-10-13 20:37:30 UTC

Shane Gillis was fired as an SNL cast member in 2019 before he even started because of resurfaced racist remarks. Since then, he's hosted the show three times — most recently last Saturday, where he opened the show with a misogynistic monologue about what women wear to the gym. @nprofile…8ma4 reports on how actor/director Dan Levy responded. "Men need to be defending women more. This is not a women’s issue. This is an everybody issue. Because the more that men objectify women in the media, the more that other men see them as objects and treat them as objects. They are not objects. They are superior human beings to men, OK?”
https://flip.it/yCq-ta
#ShaneGillis #SNL #DanLevy

2026-10-13 19:17:08 UTC

Bryan Cranston has paid tribute to RJ Mitte, who played his son on "Breaking Bad" and whose death at age 34 was announced yesterday. His post highlighted how Mitte, who had cerebral palsy, became an advocate for performers with disabilities. "I loved him, and thoroughly enjoyed being with him throughout the years on the series, and after the spotlight on Breaking Bad dimmed… I’ll miss you, son.”
https://flip.it/W5szyA
#RJMitte #Television #BryanCranston

2026-10-12 23:08:50 UTC

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States. Some still call it Columbus Day, creating a debate every October that ends the same way: nowhere, says Jason Schlosberg, a Washington, D.C., attorney working on a book about the sacred and civic symbols that structure American public life. “This argument never resolves because it was never really about Christopher Columbus,” Schlosberg writes. “It's a theological dispute that both sides insist on conducting as a historical one, and history is the wrong tool for the job.” Read more in his guest piece for the @nprofile…8pem:
https://flip.it/OdqyNq
#Culture #IndigenousPeople #AmericanHistory

2026-10-11 23:56:18 UTC

The list of hilarious, sort-of hilarious and just-wrong-but-extremely-hilarious sketches on the popular sitcom “30 Rock” is long: Fart Doctor, Sports Shouting, Queen of Jordan, Dealbreakers, America’s Kids Got Singing, and the network-chaffing “MILF Island.” All to the delight of its hardcore fans who have “spent the past 20 years collecting its hyper-meta cutaway jokes,” Alan Siegel writes in his ode to the show’s 20th anniversary for The Ringer. “‘Mean Girls’ gets quoted back to me a lot — brag much? — but the ‘30 Rock’ people,” creator and co-star Tina Fey says, “they are the Elvis Costello fans of comedy.” Here's more on the story of "30 Rock":
https://flip.it/jYocuK
#Culture #TV #Entertainment

2026-10-10 21:29:49 UTC

Here’s a livestream actually worth watching: the cheetah cam at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute. Five cubs were born there on Oct. 5. @nprofile…nxdh has more, including a link to the little ones and their mom:
https://flip.it/852mv-
#Culture #Animals

2026-10-07 18:24:15 UTC

The new "Carrie" TV show, adapted from the Stephen King novel by horror director Mike Flanagan, is out now on Prime Video — and it's good. Here's @nprofile…u9zs's take.
https://flip.it/cM_-zG
#Television #Entertainment #Carrie

2026-10-06 22:10:30 UTC

Actress and film producer Eva Marie Saint, who starred in "North by Northwest" and "On the Waterfront," for which she won an Oscar, has died at age 102.
https://flip.it/sYeKmr
#Movies #EvaMarieSaint #RIP

2026-10-05 21:13:47 UTC

Lord Jeffrey Archer, the convicted perjurer, life peer, novelist and former U.K. Conservative MP, has died at age 86. Here's @nprofile…g2cq with more.
https://flip.it/GcLzwK
#UnitedKingdom #JeffreyArcher #RIP

2026-10-05 20:42:00 UTC

"Lanterns" concluded last night. Here's @nprofile…dyq2's review of the "superhero story as prestige procedural." "This finale gets an A, and the show a solid B-plus. I underestimated how true to its mission this show would hold," writes Dennis Perkins. Tell us what you thought in the comments.
https://flip.it/4rSh0Z
#Lanterns #Television #DCUniverse

2026-10-05 20:19:14 UTC

Director Aaron Sorkin unveiled a new skintone at a gala screening of "The Social Reckoning." Instead of mocking him, as most commentators did ("Aaron Scorchin'"), @nprofile…6ku5's Claire Guinan sees the terracotta hue as inspiration for her kitchen makeover. Here are the designs she's found, from hanging copper pots to actual bricks.
https://flip.it/jfgyNV
#Design #Art #Film

2026-10-05 17:11:46 UTC

Banned Books Week was launched in the U.S. in 1982 in response to a surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, schools and stores. The goal is and was to support the freedom to seek and express ideas. Here's PEN America's list of this year's most banned books, which is topped by Patricia McCormick’s "Sold," a novel about child trafficking, and includes Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale."
https://flip.it/S0oNja
#Books #Literature #BannedBooksWeek

2026-10-04 21:47:01 UTC

“From the outside world, we’ve been told who we are, constantly, and we’re sitting here, drowning, trying to be, ‘Please hear us!’” filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk recently told @nprofile…fjey. Innuksuk, born in Iqaluit, the capital city of the northern Canadian territory Nunavut, will hopefully be heard by a wider audience with “In The Heart of the South,” a supernatural thriller where themes of trauma and tragedy come painfully alive. Read more, including why Innuksuk remains drawn to the horror genre:
https://flip.it/qkASiB
#Culture #Film #Indigenous

2026-10-03 20:21:08 UTC

The first known pot of soup was prepared in a cave in 20,000 BC. And with Fall breezes cooling the northern hemisphere, it’s a perfect time to go out for a bowl of soup. In some cases, way out. Holyn Thigpen writes about the world’s 12 best places for soup, from Bangkok to Paris:
https://flip.it/ZTg0a2
#Culture #Food #Travel

2026-10-03 18:07:34 UTC

Can we all agree on the fact that chocolate is a gift from the heavens? OK, there may be a few dissenters, but the sweet treat is universally enjoyed. And a new archaeological discovery suggests that people in present-day Georgia have feasted on it for 1,000 years. Read more from @nprofile…nxdh:
https://flip.it/zor5fe
#Culture #Food #History

2026-10-02 20:20:25 UTC

Manchester City dominated the English Premier League for almost two decades, starting when the team was purchased by the Abu Dhabi United Group. Now, an investigation has found the club guilty of financial improprieties, "sham" contracts, and fraud. While City protests its innocence and is appealing the verdict, @nprofile…d63t writes: "The allegations are so extensive, clear, and damning that there can be no doubt that its present dominance was built on, and is inseparable from, fraud on a historic scale." How did it happen, and what's next?
https://flip.it/Dk_cyc
#Sports #ManCity #Soccer

2026-10-02 20:06:58 UTC

Eminem has worked with Kid Rock on a track for the latter's new Christian album, "Halfway to Jesus." Here's more from @nprofile…9730.
https://flip.it/AbUSip
#Music #KidRock #Eminem

2026-10-01 20:48:22 UTC

Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire is in Bozeman, Montana, shooting a pro-ICE movie that appears to dramatize Renee Good's shooting. Locals aren't happy. Here's what to know about "Pawn Shop," which is believed to star Danny Trejo.
https://flip.it/zJA9iv
#Movies #ICE #Montana

2026-09-29 20:04:10 UTC

In 2004, the reality TV show "The Swan" premiered. The premise: Self-proclaimed "ugly ducklings" — most of whom were in their 20s, some of whom had just had babies — were given extreme makeovers including personal training and cosmetic surgery. At the end of the season, they competed against each other in a beauty pageant. "In 2004... this publication (@nprofile…f0jp) called it the 'surgical interpretation of Cinderella,' which is definitely one way to describe cutting up a woman until the prince thinks she’s cute," writes Danielle Pergament. Here's her story about "The Swan: Behind the Mirror," a new documentary.
https://flip.it/GhoQhR
#Television #RealityTV #Women

2026-09-28 20:28:49 UTC

Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" was his 18th studio album and it's now 50 years old. @nprofile…xwnf talked to artists from Gregg Alexander of the New Radicals to Rico Nasty about the the record's enduring appeal.
https://flip.it/3mKLGQ
#Music #StevieWonder #SongsInTheKeyOfLife

2026-09-28 18:39:26 UTC

The Tragically Hip was one of four musical acts inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame this weekend. The three surviving members took to the stage to speak, with guitarist Rob Baker sharing lyrics from 1998's Songwriter's Cabal, which he described as a message from bandmate, the late Gord Downie. "I stood before the songwriters' cabal, bearing gifts of drugs and alcohol. That's not enough, and that's not all. Wait over there until your number's called. I stood before the songwriters' cabal, all wide-eyed and enthralled, just to be included at all." Here's @nprofile…v8ql.
https://flip.it/uj2l3a
#Music #Canada #TragicallyHip

2026-09-26 22:51:58 UTC

Update: Meta and YouTube say they will run ads the Musk documentary after all. Here's @nprofile…h0ra.
https://flip.it/8HLO-k
#Movies #Documentary #Musk

2026-09-26 00:11:31 UTC

Bleecker Street, the distributor releasing Alex Gibney's new Elon Musk documentary, says YouTube, TikTok and Meta platforms won't take paid promotions for the trailer. @nprofile…fjey has the full story. Watch the trailer at the second link.
https://flip.it/9p482e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf1lzcs28
#Musk #Documentary #Movies

2026-09-25 22:00:26 UTC

TV producer/director Ryan Murphy says a script for a reboot of "Glee," which he co-created with Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, has been finished. @nprofile…6ku5 has the details. What do you think — should "Glee" come back?
https://flip.it/sZmIdT
#Television #Entertainment #TV

2026-09-25 18:04:26 UTC

The fediverse has spoken, and "Nevermind" is its favorite (of four albums released 35 years ago). 52 percent opted for the Nirvana classic, with "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" taking 23% of the vote and "The Low End Theory" and "Trompe Le Monde" almost level-pegging with 13% and 12% respectively.
One question that came up via @nprofile…aymk is whether your opinion has changed over the years. " Finally I voted for #TribeCalledQuest but until 10 years before I would have voted for #Nirvana. Nirvana opened my mind for real good rock music as I was 14 years old. Tribe called quest defines how clever, cool and funky hiphop can be," Martin wrote.
Tell us about your evolving musical tastes in the comments!

2026-09-24 23:09:35 UTC

Ozzy Osbourne's final performance with Black Sabbath was in Birmingham, England, on July 5, 2025 (he died 17 days later). Now, a concert film of the Back to the Beginning show, which featured sets by Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Guns N Rose, Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer, is coming to theaters. Here's @nprofile…5zdu's story. Tickets are on sale now at the second link.
https://flip.it/RY2ij6
https://flip.it/17qHpN
#Music #OzzyOsbourne #BlackSabbath

2026-09-23 17:31:01 UTC

After clearing the way to its Warner Bros. takeover by settling with 12 U.S. states, Paramount is now tapping Elon Musk for investment. Here's more from @nprofile…4mur's Rohan Goswami.
https://flip.it/Qa30d7
#Media #Paramount #ElonMusk

2026-09-22 22:39:08 UTC

Freedom Fest, a pro-Trump event in Kentucky featuring Kid Rock, has been canceled due to low ticket sales. The concert was free to attend, but organizer Eric Deters hoped to offset costs with the $1,000 VIP experience. Unfortunately the failed House candidate sold only six VIP tickets. Here's the full story from Newsweek.
https://flip.it/ejtvM5
#LiveMusic #KidRock #MAGA

2026-09-22 18:23:25 UTC

🎶 "All I want for Christmas... is to have a record-breaking No. 1 song again..."
Mariah Carey's hit holiday tune, "All I Want For Christmas Is You," has been toppled as the all-time @nprofile…xwnf's Hot 100 Record by Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas," which just hit 23 weeks in the top spot.
https://flip.it/FS.Tar
#Music #EllaLangley #MariahCarey

2026-09-11 18:28:43 UTC

Five years ago, @nprofile…2qhs invited people who lost loved ones on 9/11 to leave a voice mail for them at an old phone booth set up in New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge Park — across from the new World Trade Center. Six people, like Matthew Bocchi, who was 9 years old when he lost his father in the attacks, shared their memories, often surprising themselves at how the experience moved them. Indeed, the footage is stirring.
https://flip.it/44PPKZ
#September11 #USA #MentalHealth

2026-09-11 18:06:53 UTC

We demand "The Muppet Show!" @nprofile…vt2w reports that despite February's Disney+ special picking up viewers (8 million within eight days) and Emmys (four!), and being intended as a back-door pilot, there is as yet no series order. Here's more.
https://flip.it/gxn6Sk
#Muppets #Television #Disney

2026-09-07 22:33:30 UTC

Palaka, the blocky, plaid textile that has been called the denim of Hawaii, represents the many different cultures that have come to create the Hawaiian Islands of today. It’s also currently making a splash in the fashion world. Read more from @Smithsonian@flipboard.com:
https://flip.it/er3Ptm
#Culture #Hawaii #Fashion

2026-09-07 18:48:54 UTC

Nathan Fielder fans got an unexpected surprised when an unannounced mystery movie at the Telluride Film Festival turned out to be “You Can See Everything,” a documentary co-directed by the cult comedian and Lance Oppenheim. The doc focuses Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos who is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors. “You Can See Everything” is “just about the furthest thing from a ‘pure’ documentary you’ve ever seen. That’s part of its appeal — it’s a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus,” Owen Gleiberman writes. Read more from @nprofile…u9zs:
https://flip.it/o8VGgb
#Film #Culture #NathanFielder

2026-09-06 18:45:09 UTC

Robin Morgan started out as a child star on TV and radio in the 1940s and ‘50s. She was only getting started. Morgan would go on to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, living a full and influential life until she died recently at age 85, just days after her friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem. @nprofile…wh5k has more on her life in the first link, while the second link points to a profile from @nprofile…84ud where Morgan was a longtime editor:
https://flip.it/OJJttx
https://flip.it/codnn4
#Feminism #Herstory #Culture

2026-09-05 20:36:02 UTC

At peak fandom, the Clash played before crowds that neared and even surpassed 100,000 amped up fans. It wasn’t always that way. @nprofile…0vr6 tells us about one of the band’s first shows, which took place 50 years ago today at London’s Roundhouse. Was the performance a sign of the popularity to come? Not according to one reviewer, and some in the crowd heckled Joe Strummer and the boys. But a few years later, they probably bragged about being there. Good, nostalgic read, if you have a few minutes.
https://flip.it/WnpFhL
#Culture #Music #Punk

2026-09-03 20:48:37 UTC

AI music generator Suno has pulled an ad featuring Mary J. Blige after discovering she had not approved it, and that the person they had made a deal with was not her official representative. The legendary R&B singer faced a barrage of online abuse after the release of the video, in which she appears to collaborate on an AI-generated song. Here's more from @nprofile…u9zs.
https://flip.it/nfdOdZ
#MaryJBlige #Music #AI

2026-08-31 17:23:19 UTC

The winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards have been announced. Here's Bookriot with news of all the winners in the book categories.
https://flip.it/dt1OU4
#Books #SciFi #HugoAwards

2026-08-30 21:11:37 UTC

Sounds like Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival was a complete hit. The one-day, all-women’s show saw the “Vampire” singer joined by her heroes Sarah McLachlan, Ananis Morisette and Stevie Nicks and donated $10 million to nonprofits benefitting women and girls. @nprofile…0vr6 has more on the Lilith Fair-inspired event:
https://flip.it/R3tC7_
#Music #OliviaRodrigo #DaisyChainFields

2026-08-28 23:49:08 UTC

Michael Wright, the American actor who appeared in "The Five Heartbeats," "Streamers" and "Sugar Hill," and — perhaps most famously — played Omar White in the HBO series "Oz," has died at age 70. Here's Matt Zoller Seitz's tribute to him for Roger Ebert.
https://flip.it/DHVlPn
#MichaelWright #Entertainment #RIP

2026-08-28 22:45:44 UTC

Whether it's Franklin the Turtle or the Magic School Bus, no beloved children's character, book or show is safe from the U.S. Department of Education's meme machine. Here's more from @nprofile…98l0.
https://flip.it/5SrYSe
#USPolitics #SocialMedia #TrumpAdministration

2026-08-28 22:42:05 UTC

Whether it's Franklin the Turtle or the Magic School Bus, no beloved children's character, book or show is safe from the U.S. Department of Education's meme machine. Here's more from @the74million@flipboard.com.
https://flip.it/5SrYSe
#USPolitics #SocialMedia #TrumpAdministration

2026-08-27 23:11:36 UTC

Oh la la! France has relaxed its rules on protected regional foods to ensure continued production of Abondance, Beaufort and Comté cheeses. Drought had led to a lack of the approved kind of grass to feed herds. Here's more from RFI.
https://flip.it/vo7jsi
#Food #France #ClimateCrisis

2026-08-26 15:57:55 UTC

Tim Curry, star of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "It," and "Annie," has died at age 80. Here's @nprofile…u9zs's tribute to the English actor, singer and voice performer, who won a Daytime Emmy Award and Tony and Oliver Awards, but was defined by his performance as Dr. Frank N. Furter, the “sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania.”
https://flip.it/XZiGp7
#TimCurry #RIP #InMemoriam

2026-08-25 18:09:43 UTC

Dolly Parton, the legendary singer-songwriter, actress and philanthropist has died at age 80. Here's a tribute to her from @nprofile…8ma4.
https://flip.it/yh1xdt
#DollyParton #Celebrity #Entertainment

2026-08-23 20:21:56 UTC

Here’s a cool, new term you can get out in front of: “indie slop.” While it might not be as common as the classic “AI slop” you've almost certainly heard, critic Alison Foreman explains that “it does carry the same sense of poisonous wholesale dismissal.” Read more about the video game insult that is gaining ground in indie-films from @nprofile…5qdh:
https://flip.it/KX70El
#Culture #Indie #Movies

2026-08-22 19:44:56 UTC

Today we kick off National Parks Week in the United States. The parks are a great way to experience getting outside, from Maine to Hawaii and Alaska to the U.S. Virgin Islands. But Mikaela Ruland wasn’t always a national parks person. They seemed kind of soft to a climber/skier who came from a line of mountaineers. So, what changed for her? Ruland gets into it in this national parks love letter for @nprofile…33mv. And the second link points to the National Parks Foundation's donation page:
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#Culture #Outside #NationalParks

2026-08-21 17:53:35 UTC

Look who showed up in NPR's Tiny Desk studio! Weird Al Yankovic, who performed a set including parodies of "American Pie," and "I Want It That Way." Listen here.
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#WeirdAl #Music #TinyDesk

2026-08-20 21:40:13 UTC

Steve Way appears in "Furious" as the character Alden who, like him, has physical disabilities that mean he needs a caregiver. He writes for his newsletter about the lie that disabled people are a burden, the fact that everyone needs care, and the economics of it all. "My care shows up as a line item. Yours is dispersed across a hundred transactions you don’t think about, most of them performed by people paid worse than they should be."
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#Caregiving #DisabilityRights #Television

2026-08-20 21:08:27 UTC

Where have all the public bathrooms gone, as Pete Seeger didn't sing? Here's JSTOR Daily on the appearance and disappearance of the pissoir, and how — in the U.S. — it's connected to the temperance movement.
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#History #Culture #Cities

2026-08-19 17:16:05 UTC

Tommy John, who died on Saturday at age 83, was best known for the elbow surgery named after him. @nprofile…vk2t's Thomas Boswell remembers the pitcher: Egoless, smart, dogged, and really, really good at baseball.
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#Sports #Baseball #TommyJohn

2026-08-18 21:29:18 UTC

"It's been galling to read so many fawning and glowing tributes when what was said about him in the Irish music scene for years suggested he was no saint." Music journalist Niall Byrne writes for his newsletter about what isn't being said about the late Glen Hansard.
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#GlenHansard #Music #Ireland

2026-08-18 20:53:04 UTC

Legendary web storyteller Felicia Day is resurrecting "The Guild," her six-season series, which ran from 2007-2013. Her Kickstarter campaign to make a 20th anniversary movie sequel, "The Guild: Ren Faire'd," has already raised millions. Learn more via @nprofile…5qdh.
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#Entertainment #TheGuild #FeliciaDay

2026-08-18 18:42:19 UTC

Come on, Dogue. The winner of Vogue's second annual Dogue Competition has been announced, and it's Sir Spud, a food-sneaking, squirrel-chasing pooch who for his prize, will grace the front cover of Dogue magazine. Here's an interview with him and his owner, Amina.
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#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #Photography

2026-08-17 22:33:17 UTC

Screaming Mad George, the practical-effects artist and filmmaker who worked on "Predator," "Poltergeist II," "Big Trouble in Little China" and "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4" died earlier this year at age 69, his family announced yesterday. Here's more from @nprofile…dyq2.
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#Movies #Horror #ScreamingMadGeorge

2026-08-17 21:08:53 UTC

"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" is getting a sequel and filming is underway. Here's @nprofile…8ma4 with a glimpse of the movie, which will come to Hulu on an as-yet-undisclosed date.
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#Movies #RomyAndMichele #Disne

2026-08-17 20:34:35 UTC

"It's over — but I'm keeping the bean club." Soleil Ho writes for @nprofile…7msc about hard-to-get-into food clubs (Rancho Gordo's waitlist has 33,725 names on it) and how subscriptions get divvied up in the event of divorce.
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#Relationships #Food #RanchoGordo

2026-08-17 13:09:26 UTC

Hayden Panettiere, actress known for "Heroes," "Remember the Titans" and more, dies at 36.
@nprofile…8ma4 reports "details surrounding her death are not immediately available."
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#HaydenPanettiere #TV #Film

2026-08-14 17:06:08 UTC

It seems like every man and his dog has signed up to take part in the new "Harry Potter" adaptation, but some people have turned it down because of J.K. Rowling's transphobia. Ally Pankiw, a TV director who has worked on "Black Mirror" and "The Great," and "Loki" director Kate Herron wrote on Instagram yesterday about saying no to the show, with Pankiw writing in her caption: "It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia." Here's more from @theavclub@flipboard.com.
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#JKRowling #HarryPotter #Television

2026-08-13 20:38:11 UTC

In the words of Rob Riggle: "Beat me, torture me — just don’t bore me." Here's @nprofile…fjey's breakdown of the movies that have committed the unforgivable crime of being dull. Tell us in the comments which film had you snoring.
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#Movies #Cinema #Film

2026-08-13 17:04:09 UTC

"Coyote vs. Acme," starring Will Forte and directed by Dave Green, was famously shelved as a tax write-off by Warner Bros. Three years after its completion, thanks to independent distributor Ketchup Entertainment, it's finally coming out. Here's Jarrod Jones' review. "The affirming message of Green’s movie is that perseverance in a world stacked against you is its own form of victory. With some effort, the underdog will get his day."
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#Movies #Cinema #CoyoteVsAcme

2026-08-12 16:38:10 UTC

"When I don’t write for a few days, I start to feel atrophied in probably the same way gym rats miss the pull-up bar if they don’t get in their training." Here's comedian, actor and writer Michael Ian Black on his love of books and writing.
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#Writing #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon

2026-08-12 16:32:33 UTC

The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and Josh Kushner (brother of Jared), for a record-breaking $12.5 billion. Here's @nprofile…6rjc with all the details.
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#Sports #Basketball #Business

2026-08-11 19:23:21 UTC

Lucy Davis, who played Dawn Tinsley in the original U.K. version of "The Office," has announced she has stage 4 breast cancer, which has metastasized to her bones and is now incurable. Here's more from @nprofile…vt2w.
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#LucyDavis #TheOffice #Television

2026-08-09 21:04:30 UTC

Hasan Piker is no stranger to brouhahas. The famous peddler of incendiary takes – “America deserved 9/11.” “Let the streets soak in .. red capitalist blood.” – has been suspended from Twitch, where he livestreams daily, more times than he can count. He recently had his travel visa to the U.K. revoked. He gets it. “I stream for eight hours a day, seven days a week,” Piker says, shrugging. “I’m gonna say some dumb sh*t.” But he adds that he mainly wants to make people listen. @nprofile…0vr6 goes in-depth with the self-proclaimed Marxist taking flak from both sides of the aisle.
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#Politics #Culture #HasanPiker

2026-08-08 22:01:16 UTC

Young people in the Maldives understand climate change in a way many of us might not have to: The sense of urgency is greater where inhabitability may soon be a reality. Read more from @nprofile…wh5k:
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#Culture #TheMaldives #ClimateChange

2026-08-08 20:57:08 UTC

On this day in 1935, The New York Times published an article about a female athlete who was excluded from the national championships ahead of the 1936 Olympic Games to be hosted in Berlin. The article includes a warning from Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbles, Germany’s Propaganda Minister, to Jewish athletic associations. You’ve probably already figured out why the girl was banned. Was 1935 that long ago? Read more from @NYT@flipboard.com:
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#Culture #Bigotry #Equality

2026-08-07 19:55:24 UTC

This may be a news anchor’s worst nightmare come to life: Dominique Dillon of “Good Morning Memphis” dozed off in the middle of a recent show. She went viral, of course, for her embarrassing moment, but when you hear her explanation, it all make sense: working mom, little ones at home, husband pulling a double, and a painfully early alarm. The best part of the story? Dillon’s composure in the aftermath. Read more from @nprofile…enhf:
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#Culture #TV #Motherhood

2026-08-07 13:31:53 UTC

RIP William Orbit, Grammy-winning producer for Blur and Madonna, who died at age 69. In 1998, he joined forces with Madonna on "Ray of Light," which won multiple awards.
@nprofile…q8e4 has his obituary: https://flip.it/A6kg8D
#WilliamOrbit #Music #Pop

2026-08-03 21:56:58 UTC

Zac Brown Band sold out another concert at Boston’s Fenway Park on Sunday. That’s more than 37,000 fans. The show may have been great but, man, did they ever receive a gift they never could’ve expected – a free cruise for each attendee and their plus one aboard Margaritaville at Sea. And who paid for all this? Brown himself. Who knew he had that much money to throw around? Read more from @nprofile…5zdu:
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#Culture #Music #ZacBrownBand

2026-08-03 21:05:13 UTC

Lollapalooza concluded Sunday after four days and nights at Chicago’s Grant Park. @nprofile…0vr6 shares its 11 biggest moments from the event, including the debut of P-pop boy band SB19, Olivia Dean’s heartfelt ode to immigrants, the Smashing Pumpkins/Olivia Rodrigo collab, and more:
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#Culture #Music #Lollapalooza

2026-08-03 13:06:04 UTC

"Ariana Grande is taking a break. After her Eternal Sunshine tour wraps in London on Sept. 1, the singer, 33, will be stepping away from the public eye, as scrutiny surrounding her health and body intensifies."
@nprofile…8ma4 spoke to her rep: https://flip.it/3dt2wn
#ArianaGrande #Music #Pop

2026-08-02 21:37:11 UTC

Where do Americans go to hang out? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the U.S. has lost a fifth of its movie theaters and nearly a third of its bowling alleys since 2001. A 2025 study found the same pattern holds true for coffee shops, libraries, rec centers and more. Catherina Gioino, a news editor covering behavioral economics at @nprofile…x8ng, explores the trend and why it’s unhealthy for us. Plus, how you can diversify your relational portfolio:
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#Culture #America #Health

2026-08-02 19:33:25 UTC

In the AI sphere, the word “singularity” refers to the moment tech’s intelligence surpasses humanity’s. When will this happen? Here’s what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast last month: “We are now, like, in the singularity. This is the moment.” Sci-fi writers have been imagining a post-singularity world for ages, and @nprofile…x3eu shares these seven books where it happens:
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#Culture #Books #SciFi

2026-08-01 21:41:46 UTC

Gregg Araki started making films in the early 1990s, often with a budget that today would cover about six weeks of rent in Los Angeles. So an intimacy coordinator to oversee sex scenes wasn’t really feasible. But Araki used one in his latest work “I Want Your Sex,” a provocative and funny movie about an inappropriate sexual relationship between a boss and employee that features what the director calls “HBO nudity (no genitalia, but plenty of boobs and butts).” How the inclusion of an intimacy coordinator may have influenced Araki’s process, from @nprofile…5qdh:
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#Culture #Film #Movies

2026-07-31 21:16:40 UTC

Shortly after the members of BTS returned from fulfilling their mandatory military duty early this year, the South Korean sensations released their critically acclaimed 10th studio album “Arirang.” Yet it won’t win a Grammy Award, not after the band opted out of submitting it for entry. Too cool for school? There's more to the story. @nprofile…0vr6 reports on BTS’s decision and why the Recording Academy’s new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category is stirring up a tempest:
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#Culture #Music #BTS

2026-07-31 17:10:23 UTC

When Argentina and England met in a World Cup semifinal match earlier this month, the potential for a political firestorm was clear. The 10-week war over the Falkland Islands in 1982 comes up every time the two nations play. And after a stunning comeback victory, the Argentine players wasted no time in unfurling a banner that read “Los Malvinas son Argentinas.” (Indirect translation: The Falklands are ours.”) Their fans back home took notice and turned the controversial political statement into a cultural juggernaut. Read more from @nprofile…wh5k:
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#Culture #WorldCup #Argentina

2026-07-30 23:07:19 UTC

Christopher Nolan’s new film “The Odyssey” is a box-office hit. But, oh, how the script is lacking depth, the food looks horrible — and there aren’t even any sex scenes! At least, that’s the view of Emily Wilson, a classics scholar and translator at the University of Pennsylvania, who came away disappointed with the Oscar-winning director’s adaptation. Read more from @nprofile…2qhs:
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#Culture #Film #TheOdyssey

2026-07-27 17:38:45 UTC

A self-proclaimed “gun-toting liberal,” Willow Avalon has a new album out aptly titled “Pink Pocket Pistol,” the follow up to her 2025 LP “Southern Belle Raisin’ Hell.” Avalon’s music has caught fire particularly among young women, but that’s not the only demographic listening in. “It’s been so cool to see the response of other Southern women,” Avalon says of the record, “how they love that it’s sweet and Southern and scary and sparkling, and how they resonate with it — and how their husbands resonate with it. I have grown men writing me being like, ‘This song about killing men is the best song ever.’” @nprofile…0vr6 has more:
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#Culture #Music #CountryMusic

2026-07-26 21:53:31 UTC

It’s not easy for an actor to take on the physique of a Greek hero. Even tougher when the actor is well into the middle-age stage of his life. Enter Matt Damon, who has battled injuries and a few well-meaning jests about his weight only to get warrior fit for his role in “The Odyssey.” @nprofile…g2cq talked to the trainer who took Damon from dad bod to Greek god:
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#Culture #TheOdyssey #MattDamon

2026-07-26 20:36:28 UTC

“Black Panther 3” won’t be out until December 2028 but we know that David Jonsson has been cast as T’Challa’s son. @nprofile…u9zs has more on the Ryan Coogler film:
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#Culture #Film #BlackPanther