NBC Gil Gerard, best known for playing the titular hero in the NBC sci-fi favorite “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” has died at the age of 82. Gerard’s wife Janet announced his passing on Facebook: “Early this morning Gil — my soulmate — lost his fight with a rare and viciously aggressive form of cancer. From the moment when we knew something was wrong to his death this morning was only days. No matter how many years I got to spend with him it would have ever been enough. Hold the…
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I still consider myself a film critic by trade. But more and more I eat movies and TV shows for a living.A slight exaggeration, perhaps. But consuming a bunch of weird Denny’s food inspired by Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four one time ten years ago has turned into a decade of devouring bizarre dishes, snacks, drinks, and treats all based on films and television series. Do I have any regrets? Are you kidding? Of course I do! It’s pretty much all regret! But I made my bed and now I have to lie in it while digesting a Little Caesars pizza with four different flavors on…
Nearly half of the most collected albums on Discogs’ 2025 most collected albums list came from the worlds of rock and metal.The music cataloging website is popular among collectors who enjoy keeping track of what they have on their shelves. Discogs acts as an online marketplace for buying and selling vinyl and CDs.Every year, the site looks back at which releases from the past 12 months were most often added to Discogs users’ collections. For 2025, four of the top 10 most collected titles were either rock or metal.2025’s Most Collected Rock + Metal AlbumThe most collected album from all genres in…
Founded in 2010 by designer Jonathan Simkhai, the Los Angeles-based brand Simkhai has released a Hollywood-inspired, holiday-themed short film starring actress Juliette Lewis to celebrate the holiday season and the brand’s new festive occasion wear collection.Titled Dear Juliette, the video features Lewis wearing the Dakota Gown and Love Knot Shoes from Simkhai’s 2025 holiday line as she narrates a letter from a secret admirer (it’s a missed connection with Santa Clause). The dress has an embellished halter neckline with a straight, sculptural silhouette, worn with low heel, pointed toe suede slingbacks that have a silver-tone knot detail.Throughout the montage, we…
Bloomberg: Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B — Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, is in discussions to raise more than $15 billion at a valuation near $100 billion … View Original Source Here
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Daughter of Fire? I’ve always been curious about what it feels like to grow into yourself as you get older—when you’re still strong and steady inside, but your body starts changing the rules. That idea is what sparked Daughter of Fire. I wondered what would happen if someone who’s been faithful and dependable her whole life—someone who’s guarded a portal and protected everyone else—became ill right when the world she’s been protecting finally opens… and she’s forced to step through. But the other side isn’t empty. There’s someone there.…
An artist’s representation of satellites in orbit around Earthyucelyilmaz/Shutterstock A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all satellites lost their ability to dodge each other, highlighting how crowded Earth’s orbit is becoming. In the past seven years, the number of satellites has more than tripled from 4000 to nearly 14,000. The main cause of this growth has been SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, which now numbers more than 9000 satellites in low Earth orbit between 340 and 550 kilometres above Earth. This large increase means satellites must constantly dodge out of the way of each other, known as a collision…
ABC “Grey’s Anatomy” has had its fair share of heartbreaking deaths, but one of the casualties hit so hard that it even upset series creator Shonda Rhimes. And no, we aren’t talking about the controversial death of Patrick Dempsey’s Dr. Derek Shepherd in Season 11 of the ABC medical drama. Though that one was especially tough for fans, considering Derek and Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) were the drama’s central couple, Rhimes remains haunted by a different demise. During an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Rhimes revealed that it was the passing of…
Despite its entirely digital construction and sometimes uncanny mix of 24 and 48FPS 3D, Avatar: Fire and Ash is full of messy human impulse which place it well above its big budget Hollywood contemporaries. As fellow Little White Lies contributor Mark Asch said, it’s funny to think of James Cameron as a traditionalist when his work has long-been technology-forward (“Recent years have seen so many former enemies upgraded to auteur status.“) but it’s those beats which make Avatar feel both old school and curiously new at once. Picking up pretty soon after its predecessor director James Cameron sticks to archetypical figures…
Seekers of knowledge, lovers of wholesome TV programming: The end is upon us. According to a new report from KNWA/KFTA (via The Hill), Arkansas will become the first state to end its affiliation with PBS beginning in July 2026. The end really began back in May, when Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to cease all federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Citing concerns of taxpayer money subsidizing what he called “biased media,” Trump’s order specifically targeted both NPR and PBS. The order not only meant no more funding for these institutions, but Trump even directed the…
One of my favorite things to gift is a digital photo frame. They’re a delight to all ages, whether it’s my parents enjoying old photos they uploaded or my 3-year-old shouting, “That’s me!” when his own photo scrolls onto the screen. Aura’s frames in particular are both beautiful to look at and easy to use.Aura’s digital picture frames come in a variety of styles, ranging from the affordable landscape-only Carver frame to the splurge-worthy e-paper Ink frame that can be wirelessly mounted onto your wall. Aura also has an entire mat-style collection of its frames that are my personal favorite,…
The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell This speculative novel follows an art appraiser named Eve in London in the early twenty-first century. There she meets an elderly gentleman named Max who seems so familiar to her. But then there’s also an Eve and Max a century earlier, a young couple lost in time, staying at The White Octopus Hotel in the Swiss Alps… When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory In this wild-sounding novel, two friends embark on a week-long bus tour to visit all the “physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles.” They popped up around North America several years…
Nepal launched on Tuesday a nationwide tiger census, a key step in conservation efforts to aid the recovery of the big cats that once faced near extinction in the Himalayan nation. View Original Source Here
NBC It’s only fitting that the two-part Season 28 finale of “The Voice” doubles as a holiday spectacular, because Monday’s broadcast kicked off with the ultimate present for two hopefuls: after tallying America’s votes, DEK of Hearts (Team Niall) and a braces-free Max Chambers (Team Bublé) are officially back in the competition. They joined Aubrey Nicole (Team Reba), Jazz McKenzie (Team Bublé), Aiden Ross (Team Niall), and Ralph Edwards (Team Snoop) at Universal Studios Hollywood, where each act performed two songs, one classic and one contemporary. Voting is now open…
HBO Max’s hit medical drama The Pitt is expanding its cast for Season 2. The upcoming season will not only feature several familiar faces in recurring roles but also four new cast members, including a star from Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer. The HBO Max intense, real-time drama The Pitt has reportedly added actors Meta Golding, Luke Tennie, Christopher Thornton, and Travis Van Winkle to its cast for recurring roles in the highly anticipated Season 2, according to Deadline. Golding will play Noelle Hastings, a nurse working at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Tennie takes on the role of Dr. Crus…
Joe Ely, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who helped spearhead Texas’ progressive country movement in the 1970s, has died, his representative confirmed to Rolling Stone. Ely died from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s, and pneumonia at his home in Taos, New Mexico. He was 78.As is true of the most revered country icons, Ely lived a long and storied life that was ripe with material for songs. Although his music career technically began with the Flatlanders, the country band he formed with fellow Texans Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock in 1972, Ely really found his audience with his self-titled solo…
If I hadn’t already known that the new season of Emily in Paris was coming soon, thanks to the little red notification on my Netflix account, the fact that the cast had arrived at Gare d’Austerlitz, a train station in Paris, wearing peak French fashion would have given it away. If it weren’t for the series’s signature out-there wardrobe choices, I would have questioned the outfit star Lily Collins was spotted in at the station, but because Emily Cooper’s been known to walk on the bold side sartorially ever since season one, her lingerie-esque ensemble fit right in.For the press…
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Part Three of BookTrib’s “Leverage Your Reviews” Series You worked hard to earn your reviews — now make them work just as hard for you. Strong reviews don’t just sway individual readers — they also influence the people who decide which books make it onto shelves. Librarians and booksellers constantly evaluate titles, often with limited time and budgets, and rely heavily on trusted third-party signals to guide their decisions. Reviews provide that signal. When a librarian or bookseller scans your email, pitch sheet, or catalog listing, review excerpts offer immediate reassurance. They help answer key questions quickly: Is this…
After a multi-decade-year mission to understand the nature of the universe, a telescope perched in the mountain plateaus of northern Chile said goodbye in 2022. Now, its final data release is revealing the telescope’s legacy: a field in tension.In October 2007, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) saw its first light. But it was not light from a star, or even a distant galaxy. Instead, ACT was designed to hunt for microwaves, especially the kind of microwaves left over from some of the earliest epochs of the universe. This “fossil” light, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), was emitted when…
Netflix “The Witcher” shocked viewers in Season 4 when Geralt of Rivia’s (Liam Hemsworth, taking over for Henry Cavill) mentor and de facto parental figure Vesemir (Peter Mullan, taking over for Kim Bodnia) returns after a lengthy absence … and promptly dies in a fight against uber-mage Vilgefortz of Roggeveen (Mahesh Jadu). Vesemir is a major figure in “The Witcher” franchise. As such, his brutal end in Episode 6 (appropriately titled “Twilight of the Wolf”) is one of the biggest deaths on the Netflix show so far. In an interview with Variety, showrunner Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich explained the…
With Disney rapidly running out out animated movies to remake in live-action, they’re apparently turning to … animated movies they have already remade in live-action.Deadline reports that Disney is currently developing a live-action film based on Gaston, the villain from Beauty and the Beast. Dave Callaham, whose writing credits include Mortal Kombat, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is working on the latest draft of the screenplay. (According to Deadline, “Kate Herron and Briony Redman penned a previous draft.”)Disney first made their animated version of Beauty and the Beast in 1991. Their remake followed in 2017. In that movie Luke Evans played Gaston,…
The president has a long history of angering artists, and this year was no exception. 12/15/2025 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks on during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 22, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. Rebecca Noble/Getty Images Donald Trump‘s first year back in office is drawing to a close, but not without several musicians voicing disapproval for his use of their music along the way. Though the twice-impeached POTUS has a long history of angering artists by featuring their songs in campaign materials without permission, 2025 was particularly marked by his administration getting rises out…
The physical space presents other technical challenges. One is the volume of people: Interstellar Arc can accommodate up to 170 participants at once, Raphaël says, quite a crowd even in a room this large.That can be an issue for typical VR headsets, which rely on cameras and sensors to triangulate their position within a room. Those devices lock onto fixed surfaces when you’re alone, but it’s much harder with more than 100 people roaming around. “You might start drifting in space and bouncing around, disappearing and reappearing somewhere else,” Raphaël says.F&P uses an intriguing workaround that utilizes an additional camera…
12 Dec 2025 Six Spine-Tingling Mysteries & Thrillers for Your Winter Break Whether you’re traveling, staying home, or hiding from family gatherings, these twist-filled thrillers are perfect companions. Each story hooks fast, hits hard, and leaves you breathless. Somerset Odyssey (The Elliot Todd Mysteries Book 3) by Lionel Ward Release Date: November 27, 2025 Following his adventures in Rome, Elliot is invited to present a copy of The Lyrical Ballads to the Coleridge Society in Somerset. He decides to combine it with a quiet walking holiday. However, things don’t quite go as planned, especially as his dynamic mother just happens…
The Gale crater on MarsZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a gravitational pull on the planet’s seas sufficient enough to create tides. Neither of the two moons it currently possesses are big enough for the job. Suniti Karunatillake at Louisiana State University and his colleagues have found that traces of tidal activity seem to be preserved in thin layers within sedimentary rocks in Gale crater.…
Film director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead in their Los Angeles home Sunday, TMZ reports. Los Angeles Fire Department reportedly responded to a call at the house around 3:38 pm. Firefighters found Reiner, 78, and Singer, 68, dead inside the home. Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department soon arrived on the scene. TMZ also reports that Reiner and Singer had knife-like lacerations on their bodies. Reiner was a prolific director, writer, actor and producer who helmed movies like “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally…,” “A Few Good Men,” “Stand By Me” and “This Is Spinal Tap.” He…
When 94-year-old Eleanor’s (June Squibb) best friend of 70 years and roommate Bessie (Rita Zohar) passes away, she decides it’s time for a change, and moves back to her native New York. In an attempt to get her out of the house and socialising, her daughter Lisa encourages Eleanor to attend classes at their local Jewish Community Centre, where she accidentally sits in on a group for Holocaust survivors. When they ask her to share her story, Eleanor (who is not a Holocaust survivor) panics, and recounts Polish-born Bessie’s story instead. She’s approached by journalism student Nina (Erin Kelliman), who wants to profile her…
Ever since drummer Josh Freese was let go by Foo Fighters back in May (two years after he replaced the late Taylor Hawkins), he – as well as fans – have been asking one basic question: “Why?” Well, during his recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk, Freese revealed that he still doesn’t know precisely why he was fired from Foo Fighters (but he has some ideas that he won’t share).What Did Freese Say About His Firing?Per Blabbermouth, the Dec. 10 episode of Eddie Trunk’s show saw the rock radio personality ask Freese if he’s had “any clarity” on…
There’s a reason why so many people only wear black leggings. They’re flattering, spill- and sweat-proof, and go with everything, whether that’s a mismatching sports bra, a cool leather jacket, or a bright pair of sneakers. Black leggings are the easy choice, but if you’re interested in branching out like Jennifer Lopez, Allison Brie, and Elsa Hosk have been lately, then brown leggings are a great alternative. They’re just as chic, with the same complimentary traits, and they create a bit of diversity in your leggings collection. Win, win, and win! The only issue is that they’re not quite as…