In a flour mill, a young girl in pigtails winnows wheat when her manager drunkenly stumbles into frame. The camera cuts to his shoe sinking into soft mounds of fine grain. Against those same piles, he rapes her while wheat rains down on their bodies. This is how Julie becomes a society girl.Society Girl, Sangeeta’s 1976 directorial debut, stars Sangeeta herself as Julie, a sex worker pushed into the trade by circumstance and violence. Already an established actor before becoming one of Pakistan’s earliest woman filmmakers, she directs herself here without vanity. Julie is not a courtesan in the tragic-ornamental style of Anjuman (1970) or Umrao Jaan Ada…
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It’s been a minute since Rachel Chinouriri last played a headline show in her home city, something she noted onstage at Shoreditch Town Hall on Wednesday night (June 3). “I realized I hadn’t done a London show, I think, in over a year. I was worried that maybe nobody would come tonight,” she admitted with a laugh, acknowledging her time away. “Thank you so much for being amazing, and reminding me that you guys are so special.” Performing in the music program for 2026’s SXSW London, the show provided the British star a moment of reconnection with her Darlings —…
The dress-over-pants trend has recently made a major comeback. However, don’t worry. The look has evolved significantly from its early 2000s roots. Forget the era of embellished halternecks paired with bell-bottoms and ballet flats, or tight minidresses with skinny jeans and knee-high boots. Today, the style set is prioritizing a more sophisticated, timeless take on the look and emphasizing that elevated sandals are the shoe trend that looks best with the outfit formula. Take Olivia Munn’s recent ensemble, for example.Spotted in New York this week, Munn showed the most chic way to pull off a dress-over-pants outfit in 2026. She…
“Factoring out the deepfake image itself—as it will remain under seal—there is nothing inherently stigmatizing about revealing the fact that a deepfake image was created of South Carolina Doe without revealing the image itself,” the lawyers wrote in one of their May 15 filings. “As a result, this case simply does not involve the types of compelling privacy interests traditionally recognized as requiring pseudonymity.”Neither xAI nor lawyers representing the company responded to WIRED’s request for comment about the case.Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who has specialized in tackling digital abuse, says civil…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? I’ve always been fascinated by the quiet ways people change each other. Not the dramatic, world-ending moments, but the tiny conversations that settle into your life before you realize they matter—a message, a habit. Someone becomes part of your evenings without permission or ceremony. Nothing Important, Everything Important began with that feeling—the strange intimacy of being known slowly. It’s a story about loneliness, timing, connection, and the ways people can become emotionally significant long before they understand what’s happening. I wanted it to feel soft and aching…
Waves supercharged by El Niño hit the California coast in 2016Eliason/Zuma Wire/Shutterstock A “Godzilla El Niño” is coming, according to some newspaper headlines. The actual story is that there is an 80 per cent chance of an El Niño developing by September. Most models forecast a moderate event – but some suggest it could be very strong, perhaps even a so-called super El Niño. That said, the bigger picture isn’t at all reassuring. However strong this El Niño turns out to be, we can be sure that even more damaging El Niños will occur in the coming decades. Even if…
MoviestillsDB “Outlander” may have shouted its final “Tulach ard!,” but that doesn’t mean we’re done obsessing over all things related to Starz’s time-travel drama. To wit: The series finale has us thinking about how various characters’ exited the series permanently over the years, from the accidental (sorry, Mrs. Bug!) to the truly sad (Old Ian, we’re still not OK). To that end, we’ve looked back over the show’s eight seasons and selected the five deaths we found most tragic. Before you get to the ranking below, though, a few notes:…
Sony Pictures’ Shania Twain movie has finally found its director. The biopic will chronicle the life and career of the five-time Grammy Award-winning and renowned country pop star. Plot details are still kept under wraps at the moment. Who is directing the Shania Twain movie? Leah McKendrick has been confirmed as the writer and director for the Shania Twain movie, reports Deadline. The official title for the biopic is Shania. Speaking of McKendrick, she’s an actor, screenwriter, director, and singer. As an actor, she’s appeared in movies such as Say Yes, All I Need, M.F.A., and Scrambled, which also saw…
During a new interview, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil named the metal bands he listened to in the ’80s when his band was first starting out.The guitarist appeared as a guest on the Turned Out a Punk podcast to discuss his upcoming new memoir A Screaming Life: Into The Superunknown With Soundgarden and Beyond. Because Soundgarden formed in 1984 before the term “grunge” had been used to describe the sound of the bands in the Pacific Northwest — and because their music was more eccentric and progressive than the rock that was popular at the time — they were sometimes referred to as a metal band,…
Bloomberg: Analysis: 10 Trump officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, reported holding stakes in SpaceX or xAI collectively worth $9.9M+, ahead of SpaceX’s IPO — SpaceX’s initial public offering will likely make President Donald Trump’s already wealthy administration even richer. View Original Source Here
Happy June, my fellow comics fans! You’ve got a lot to look forward to this month. In addition to the expected slate of special anthologies “coming out” (lol) for Pride Month — including those published annually by DC and Marvel, not to mention this year’s Adventure Time Pride Special and Star Trek: Celebrations — you can enjoy these graphic novels about lost or directionless characters finding their way, dark secrets being forced into the light, and, of course, queer characters overcoming both ordinary and extreme challenges on their way to a well-deserved happy ending. Billy Bat Volume One by Naoki…
Galactic collisions are events of breathtaking proportions. The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers plunge into a chaotic orbital dance that eventually coalesce into a single remnant. On their way to that point, they could eventually get “kicked” out of the center of their galaxy—and finding these “recoiling” black holes has been a challenge of cosmology for decades. A new paper, made available on the arXiv preprint server by an international team, used a novel idea to track down these fast-moving behemoths. View Original Source Here
Prime Video “Off Campus” isn’t the first time Belmont Cameli has played a student athlete on TV — he appeared in the “Saved by the Bell” reboot prior to portraying hockey star Garrett Graham on Prime Video’s new romance series. Airing for two seasons in 2020 and 2021, the reboot followed the premise of the original 1990s “Saved by the Bell” series and introduced a new generation of Bayside High School students alongside several returning characters. Cameli portrayed Jamie Spano — the quarterback of the school’s football team and son…
The Russo brothers revealed they are not currently working on any other future Avengers projects aside from Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.Doomsday, out December 2026, and Secret Wars, scheduled for release in December 2027, are currently in post- and pre-production, respectively, but that’s all Joe and Anthony Russo have on the docket MCU-wise at the moment.The End of An Era for Joe and Anthony Russo and the MCU“When we did Endgame we were like, we’ve completed it. It was our fourth Marvel film, though. We had completed a story arc that we began in the Winter Soldier and for…
With The Hills star Spencer Pratt now heading to a runoff in the Los Angeles mayoral race, fellow early-aughts reality TV figure Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is apparently considering his own foray into politics with a run for New Jersey governor in 2029. The Jersey Shore star teased his very lofty ambitions during an appearance in Wall Township for the launch of Vue Magazine, where he said a political career would be the next logical step after he launches his drug and alcohol rehabilitation center business, Archangels “I’d like to have an Archangels center in every 50 states [sic],” Sorrentino…
While the Princess of Wales strongly favors wearing British fashion brands as a diplomatic gesture, her wardrobe has never been completely confined to UK labels. On her wedding day, for instance, she famously wore a tiara by French maison Cartier, and she routinely wears brands based in Spain (Zara and Massimo Dutti), Italy (Superga and Aquazzura), and the U.S. (Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors). Today, Kate Middleton threw her fashion fans for a loop and debuted an American brand she’s never worn before: Rodarte.Based in Los Angeles, Rodarte has been in the business since 2005. It’s led by sisters Kate…
A bipartisan group of UK politicians is sounding the alarm over the country’s partnership with the data analytics company Palantir.In a report published Tuesday, the 11 members of Parliament’s Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee warned that the country’s ballooning reliance on Palantir’s technology “represents an unacceptable point of weakness” that could hand the company overwhelming bargaining power in future negotiations.“We know that with vendor lock-in, over time, we’ll get more expensive and worse services,” Dame Chi Onwurah, chair of the committee and member of Parliament, tells WIRED. “It’s a trap that has to be avoided.”In a worst-case scenario, a deeply…
Palm Beach Confidential by Susannah Marren A sharp, insightful novel about women who build beautiful lives over compromises and buried truths — and what happens when the ground finally shifts beneath them. In Palm Beach, a family can look flawless from the outside and still be coming apart behind the hedges. The trick is knowing how to smile through it, where to sit, what to wear and which rumors to pretend not to hear. Lucinda Barrows has spent decades perfecting that art. In Susannah Marren’s Palm Beach Confidential, the fourth book in her Palm Beach Novels series, Lucinda…
Ötzi the Iceman’s skin and stomach are teeming with yeasts that infiltrated his remains shortly after his murder 5,300 years ago — and some may still be active, a new study reveals.The yeast strains covering his body are adapted to cold environments, having stemmed from the Alpine glaciers Ötzi once called home. This means the spores have continued colonizing his mummified remains despite being stored in a refrigeration chamber at 21 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 6 degrees Celsius) following his discovery in 1991. Scientists revealed their findings in a study published June 3 in the journal Microbiome.Intriguingly, some of these yeasts…
Presley Ann/Getty Images for SeeHer Sorry, “Saturday Night Live” fans: You probably won’t see Tom Holland swinging into Studio 8H anytime soon. The “Spider-Man” star has been approached to host the NBC sketch comedy institution several times, he told Amy Poehler on her podcast “Good Hang” this week, but he has turned them down each time. The reason? “I’m heavily dyslexic,” he admitted, and since “SNL” often uses hand-written cue cards to make last-minute changes to the sketches, “I’m just petrified at the concept of, like, trying to read something” live on the air. Holland added…
A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2 On Truth & Movies this week, Hannah Strong reports live from the Cannes film festival with Rafa Sales Ross and Mark Asch, discussing Minotaur, La Bola Negra, Na Hong-jin’s Hope and more… On Truth & Movies this week, Hannah Strong reports live from the Cannes film festival with Rafa Sales Ross and Mark Asch, discussing Minotaur, La Bola Negra, Na Hong-jin’s Hope and more… Club LWLies Little White Lies is committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Join the club and support our independent journalism to unlock a host of…
Actress, comedian, and noted Kylie Jenner BFF Meg Stalter has released a dance-pop track just in time for Pride. It’s called, yes, “Gay,” and Stalter shouts out everyone: lipstick lesbians, the dolls, bisexuals, “the they (period),” all while claiming “Everything we do is slay.” Listen to her “gaying up and down” below.Stalter, who rose to fame through roles in Hacks and Lena Dunham’s Too Much, has spent the last month teasing her upcoming album Crave and its debut single “Prettiest Girl in America,” which she premiered at a Meg Stalter lookalike contest in Bushwick’s Maria Hernandez Park.Though “Gay” is Crave’s…
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Looking for some new business and finance books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from Ben Carlson, JiHao Xingmeng, Laura Vanderkam, and more. Enjoy your new business and finance books. Happy reading! View Original Source Here
The drug daraxonrasib is being put forward to treat people with advanced pancreatic cancer in clinicsREUTERS/Danielle Villasana A daily pill doubles the survival time of people with pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat forms of the condition, even after they have stopped responding to chemotherapy. What’s more, the convenient pill has fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy. “It’s a transformative treatment,” says Pilar Acedo at University College London, who wasn’t involved in the research. “For decades, [survival outcomes] haven’t changed for pancreatic cancer. [The new treatment] gives you double the amount of time to enjoy your life,…
Jaylynn Nash/Getty Images Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized below by release time and alphabetically within each slot. On TV this Tuesday: Ariana Madix returns to “Love Island,” Mindy Kaling launches a “Not Suitable for Work” comedy, and the Stanley Cup Final gets underway. If you’d like a recommended watchlist delivered to your inbox each morning, you can sign up for TVLine’s free What to Watch newsletter here.…
Zack Snyder reminisced over his 2013 Superman movie on Instagram, sharing some concept art and an image of himself alongside Henry Cavill on the film’s set. The image he shared on the social media platform gives fans a fresh glimpse into his vision for the iconic hero. The posts have once again sparked renewed discussion among his fans about the film’s legacy. Zack Snyder shares last day of filming Man of Steel with Henry Cavill as Superman Zack Snyder recently took to Instagram to share two photos from the 2013 DCEU film, Man of Steel. The Justice League director posted…
Fans of BTS, Cardi B, Lainey Wilson and more aren’t going to want to miss this year’s iHeartRadio Music Festival, which announced its 2026 lineup on Tuesday (June 2). Taking place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the two-day event will also feature Benson Boone, Zara Larsson, Goo Goo Dolls, Kenny Chesney, Major Lazer, Muse, Snoop Dogg and Weezer. More acts will be announced leading up to the festival on Sept. 18-19. “The iHeartRadio Music Festival is all about bringing together the biggest artists across every genre for two unforgettable nights, and this year’s lineup truly reflects the incredible…
Here comes the bride, all dressed in Schiaparelli.Over the weekend, singer Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner tied the knot during an intimate ceremony in London, where the pair are based, ahead of their star-studded summer 2026 wedding.While her couture wedding suit, designed Schiaparelli’s Creative Director, Daniel Roseberry certainly turned heads, it was what sat atop it that sparked the most conversation on social media. Instead of a traditional cathedral veil, Lipa opted for a sculptural bridal hat to wear to her civil ceremony at the Old Marylebone Town Hall, a staple for chic British couples saying ‘I do.” Dua…
Anthropic submitted confidential paperwork for an initial public offering on Monday, the first step in what could be a blockbuster debut for the $965 billion company. The filing with US regulators is another entry in what looks to be a historic year for IPOs as artificial intelligence labs vie to fund their expensive research.Anthropic announced the filing in an unsigned, two-paragraph blog post, noting that the amount of money it is seeking to raise—and at what valuation—has not been set. The company said that the timing of the IPO would “depend on market conditions and other factors.” The announcement comes…