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News Flashes 9.8.21: The Matrix 4 Gets Personal, a Blue’s Clues Tribute, and a Win For Britney
Today we talk about The Matrix 4’s new interactive website, Steve from Blues Clues, and Britney Spears making a step forward.
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Today we talk about The Matrix 4’s new interactive website, Steve from Blues Clues, and Britney Spears making a step forward.
Photo: Steve Wilkie/Netflix © 2021 It’s a question you’ve likely wondered or heard: When is the superhero trend going to end? It makes sense to ask. Since trends are cyclical, they ebb and flow in the stream of pop culture popularity. Therefore the best answer to that question came from my good friend Martin Bosworth: “Superheroes are our modern myths.” Go ahead. Try to stop Greek mythology from infiltrating every aspect of storytelling. Superheroes are equally relentless. They have to be. It comes with the job. Much like Greek myths, our favorite supers have inspired multiple analogs that allow us… Read more »
Netflix’s Big Mouth season 3 returns right on time October 4, 2019. The popular show, created by Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg, dives deep into the awkward, gross struggle of adolescence. The show, which debuted on Netflix in 2017, has developed a massive following. Characters Andrew, Nick, Jessi, Missy, Jay and company, are subjected to the wonders and horrors of puberty while the audience has a laugh at the cringe. Voiced by the current varsity team of comedy, the show is probably the funniest thing you can watch right now. Season three promises to be equal parts shock and aww.… Read more »
We chat to our pal Maurene Goo about her new novel The Way You Make Me Feel, Sam gives us her latest YA roundup, then we explore the terrifying town of Castle Rock…
The 33rd annual CMJ Music Marathon will take place in New York City October 15th-19th. The event, which spans across 80 venues, aims to break new artists as well as feature established artists. Acts playing the festival this year include You Me At Six, The Sounds, The Dismemberment Plan, NGHBRS, Echosmith, Braid, and more. For more information and to purchase badges, head to the CMJ website. Check out the artists announced so far below! 2/3 Goat * 6:15 Jessica Caplan * 7:00 Lisa Blanco * Aabaraki * Aaron Lee Tasjan * Aaron Lopez-Barrantes * Absolutely Free * The ACBs *… Read more »
WEEK 6: We’re bringing you the WEEK 6 installment of “FAR BEYOND FOOTBALL” from the California leg of the CRUSH EM’ ALL TOUR. We have to mention, that this tour has been amazing so far and would like to thank everyone who has been fortunate enough to come out to any of the shows. If your WEEK 5 was any bit as frustrating for us as it was for you, you’ll hopefully be feeling optimistic about WEEK 6. There were quite a few curveballs last week, but we feel we can help your team bounce back… Read more »
Following in the steps of fellow Disney teen star Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers will star in a 3-D concert film. The movie, to hit theaters in 2009, will feature footage from the group’s upcoming “Burning Up” concert tour, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of bandmates Kevin, Joe and Nick. The production team behind the phenomenally successfully “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” will reprise their roles behind the camera, with Bruce Hendricks directing. The Jonas Brothers tour will kick off in Toronto on July 4; in addition, the band can be seen… Read more »
It’s New Year’s Eve in New York and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is headlining the buzziest indie rock bill in town. The eclectic quintet — which has risen to notoriety for selling more than 110,000 copies of its 2005 debut album in the United States without the help of a record label — has plenty to celebrate. The band is using the show at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom to preview a half-dozen tracks from its self-released sophomore set, “Some Loud Thunder,” due January 30. CYHSY’s most rabid fans don’t need much of an introduction to some of the new material.… Read more »
One sunny afternoon not long ago, Dick Copaken sat in a booth at Daniel, one of those hushed, exclusive restaurants on Manhattan’s Upper East Side where the waiters glide spectrally fro table to table. He was wearing a starched button-down shirt and a blue blazer. Every strand of his thinning hair was in place, and he spoke calmly and slowly, his large pink Charlie Brow head bobbing along evenly as he did. Copaken spent many years as a partner at the white-shoe Washington, D.C., firm Covington & Burling, and he has a lawyer’s gravitas. One of his bes friends calls… Read more »
The owner of a Detroit studio where Eminem purportedly cut his best-selling debut album, The Slim Shady LP, was found dead Tuesday, the victim of an apparent vendetta, according to local authorities. A business acquaintance discovered the body of Amjed A. Abdallah lying in a pool his own blood on the floor of Studio 8. Investigators said the 36-year-old Jordanian engineer was shot at least twice, most likely on Sunday, based on the bloated condition of the corpse. A bullet casing from a.357-caliber handgun was recovered at the scene. Police do not have a definitive motive in the slaying. Initially… Read more »
