Weekend Update covered the week’s big news and gave the spotlight to two potentially departing cast members during Saturday Night Live‘s Season 46 finale. “Well, it’s last Weekend Update, and I have to say, I think the country is in a better place than when we started this season,” co-anchor …
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By day — or at least what constitutes day on Mars time — Brendan Chamberlain-Simon is a member of a group called the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which currently is among a larger team overseeing the Mars Perseverance rover mission; stargazers likely read of Chamberlain-Simon’s recent exploits, as — in …
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& ldquo;We’ve known each other for so long,” J-Hope recently told BTS‘ youngest member, Jung Kook, 23. “And I love how you haven’t changed at all.” More than any other member, Jung Kook grew up in BTS; he was only 15 when the group debuted in 2013, and he’d been …
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I came face to face with the Doomsday Glacier (a.k.a. Thwaites glacier) in 2019, on a trip to Antarctica aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long icebreaker operated by the National Science Foundation. I had dubbed the Florida-sized slab of ice its nickname in an article I’d written a few …
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George Harrison, Marvin Gaye, the Who, and more icons appear in 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, an upcoming docuseries headed to Apple TV+ inspired by the book Never a Dull Moment: 1971 the Year That Rock Explodedby David Hepworth. The trailer opens with Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and …
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Olympia Dukakis, the Oscar-winning actress best known for her roles in Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, has died at the age of 89. https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/50-greatest-romantic-comedies-of-all-time-790068/moonstruck-1987-792329/ The actress’ brother Apollo Dukakis announced his sister’s death on Facebook Saturday. No cause of death was revealed. “My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning …
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Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch will write the music and lyrics for an upcoming musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Welch will compose the music alongside Thomas Bartlett. Bartlett makes music under the name Doveman and previously earned an Oscar and Grammy nomination for his collaboration …
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The first trailer for Questlove’s documentarySummer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), premiered Sunday during the Academy Awards telecast. The film will arrive in theaters and on Hulu on July 2nd. Summer of Soul focuses on the little-known history of the Harlem Cultural Festival, dubbed “the …
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Daddy Yankee has dropped the video for his new song “El Pony,” the reggaeton star’s second single of 2021. Keeping with the song’s title, the Daniel Duran-directed video features Daddy Yankee in a colorful stable with dancers dressed as jockeys, a neon merry-go-round, a virtual horse race, and other equine …
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If you listen closely, you can hear the subtle sounds of sirens in the background of “Small Things 2,” the final track on Nick Hakim and Roy Nathanson’s collaborative album, Small Things. Much of the album was recorded before Covid shut down the music industry, but Hakim and Nathanson weren’t …
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