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Channel Calendars This month, celebrate Noirvember with a dazzlingly dark lineup of hard-boiled pleasures: Columbia Noir pays tribute to the studio that made a virtue of pulp seediness; a retrospective dedicated to the tough-as-nails Ida …

Prolific British musician Andrew Johnson has started another solo project, under the moniker of The Savage Mercys, and it’s a welcome one. He calls it a love letter to early, pre-acid Beatles, Merseybeat and British …

After 7 long years, Linkin Park is back with their new lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, new song "Emptiness Machine", new album "From Zero" (out on November 15), and a new tour.

What to do after if you accidentally lock yourself outWhen messing around with my NixOS config, I managed to accidentally log myself out of my system by setting my hashedPassword to a string that was …

Google Maps “Location History” is now called “Timeline” and is no longer available on desktop. Gone as well is the method we all used to back up the Location History, which involved downloading the history …

Life has been even more hectic than usual for me these last few weeks, so my productivity has declined further. Sorry. I blame it mostly on the fact that I have eight foster animals in …

2015 Australian movie, All About E is a road trip, a comedy, and a love story. E, a beautiful, young Arabic Australian DJ seems to have it all. She is headlining at a top Sydney …

All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/01 BELOW DECK, PRINCE ANDREW THE MUSICAL, THE BEST OF COMEDY 2022 …

Yes, some of you may be shocked, taken aback, dismayed even- but your subjects needn't sport outrageous costumes nor dangling privates to create worthy environmental portraits. As we all know, indulging desperate characters and graphic …

I think every photographer who loves prime lenses knows that three lenses are often all they need. Each brand has so many of them -- so which ones do you get? Luckily, you're reading an …

Frankenstein Moved In on the Fourth Floor by Elizabeth Levy, illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein, 1979. Sam lives with his brother and mother on the 19th floor of a large apartment building. One day, when he …

On the face of it CDL, Controlled Digital Lending, sounds quite reasonable. If a library patron wants to read a book as an ebook rather than as a printed book, the librarian should, arguably, have …

Introduction On 25 September 2024, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly High-level meeting, Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands announced that they would take formal steps against Afghanistan for numerous violations by the …

I get asked this question a lot; so often, I will write a general response. This doesn’t replace the personalized advice that I have given and will continue to give, but it will add to …

I’ve been randomly scattering thoughts on TV shows and movies around online in recent months, as a way of gradually getting my reviewing brain working again. Before they evaporate into the ether I thought I’d …