It’s Monday and it’s already been a busy week! Check out what’s on our radar. Spotify Has Stories Now? So it looks like the Internet is just giving away stories to everyone now! First Snapchat, then Instagram and Facebook, then earlier this month Twitter came out with their version called Fleets, and now, get this, Spotify is testing out their attempt at it. While the feature has not yet fully launched, the popular music streaming platform has quietly started trialing stories with influencers and music industry professionals. A few select playlists on the Spotify app, including Christmas Hits, feature a… Read more »
New decade, new Who: Doctor Who is starting 2020 off with a bang and the new trailer is about to get you primed and ready for action.
Time to get your passports stamped, ’cause this week on Geek Girl Riot we’re traveling all over the geekdom: The Good Place, Doctor Who, and Star Wars.
LOS ANGELES — The diagnosis on Dr. Jan Adams’ career: inoperable. The plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s mother the day before she died in 2007 has given up his license to practice medicine in California after the state’s Medical Board brought charges against him over two criminal convictions for driving under the influence. In court documents, Adams admits “the truth of each and every allegation,” thereby resolving the board’s allegations against him. “The mission of the Medical Board is pubic protection, and this action reflects the Board’s ongoing commitment to that mission,” Barb Johnston, the Medical Board’s executive… Read more »
Smith who will become the eleventh, and youngest, incarnation of the Time Lord was unveiled during a special episode of Doctor Who Confidential on BBC One. Steven Moffat, the producer of the forthcoming fifth series of the sci-fi hit said Smith was perfect casting because he was someone who was old and young at the same time. The announcement, which was heavily trailed by the BBC in the run up to the broadcast, ends months of speculation sparked by Tennant’s announcement in October that he will step down as the Doctor. Of his casting, Smith said: “I’m flabbergasted. I haven’t… Read more »
Geek Girl Riot is getting strange this week: We talk Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and the new Avatar: The Way of Water trailer, before throwing it back to our chats about Spider-Man: No Way Home and WandaVision (to help you brush up on your MCU knowledge).
Geek Girl Riot’s dynamic duo get together to talk Bel-Air, Doctor Strange, and Euphoria. Oh, and love is in the air for some rom-coms…
This week we chat with amazing Australian Singer Songwriter Gordi! Gordi tells us about how she got signed in the USA, her journeys through life including coming to terms with her sexuality, writing her album in country NSW, working with Troye Sivan, performing at the Sydney Opera House, tours with Bon Iver and Monsters & Men as well as her quitting being a doctor to pursue music full time, only to have COVID hit and go back to being an ER doctor to help in the crisis.
