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The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for February Kirk Miller, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Note, due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, release dates are highly tentative.  Maybe, just maybe, John Oliver took a deservedly scheduled but still ill-conceived time to take a short break. And now we really don’t want to relive a coup or the last few months, so hey, expect lots of Gamestop and Covid talk! (Feb 14, HBO) Other returning TV series and specials: The Equalizer (Feb. 7, CBS); Su...

French Village Receives $2.4M Decades After Hiding a Man From the Nazis Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In 1943, Eric Schwam and several members of his family arrived in the French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon from Austria, where they had been trying to avoid capture by the Nazis. Residents of the town took them in and hid them from a horrific fate. As The Guardian notes in a recent article, they weren’t alone: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon gave shelter to around 2,500 Jewish peop...

Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92.2 Million, Setting New Record Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In 1982, real estate developer Sheldon Solow bought the Botticelli portrait “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $1.3 million. Much has changed in the years since then in the art world; Solow himself died last November. As for the Botticelli painting? The fate of Solow’s vast art collection was, until recently the subject of heated debate. Would it be auctioned off ...

This Winterized Nike Running Jacket Is 45% Off Today Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail One of Nike’s best wintry layers, the Aerolayer Running Jacket, is currently $55 off. The polyester/nylon jacket is 100% water-repellent, features a hefty hood and has multiple pockets for catch-all items. There’s also a “quilted chevron” panel on the front, which is meant to regulate temperature while you’re out running, but also just looks awesome. The Aerolayer is eligible for a d...

We Need to Talk About Bartenders and Mental Health Kirk Miller, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “As bartenders we are independent, creative, ‘people people.’ The pandemic has taken away our ability to connect with our guests and ply our trade.” That’s Raul Faria, the chair of the United States Bartenders’ Guild Health and Wellness Committee, explaining the unique challenges his industry and his own profession faced last year, and which are now continuing into 2021. Last year, Ins...

I Went a Month Without Drinking. Heres What I Learned. Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail He’s the star and co-writer of Amazon Prime’s Catastrophe, and came to fame in the early 2010s as one of the first comedians to publish jokes directly on Twitter. One of his best bits is a clueless husband pointing out to his followers that his wife seems to be getting quite close with her karate instructor. This particular message, though, was completely genuine. Delaney wrote: “Imag...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Lets Make Sure Were Mad About That Variety Review of "Promising Young Woman" for the Right Reasons Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Variety over a Promising Young Woman review that she believed implied she “wasn’t hot enough” for the role, and now the critic responsible for the review, Dennis Harvey, is speaking out and defending himself. , telling the publication that he feels he is being unfairly mischaracterized as a sexist. �...

Carey Mulligan Responds to Apology From "Variety" Over Sexist Review Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Variety issued an apology to her over the “sexist” language used in their review of her film Promising Young Woman, reacting to the apology in a conversation with fellow actress Zendaya as part of the publication’s “Actors on Actors” series. Mulligan initially called out the review in a profile for the New York Times, pointing out the way it focused on her looks ...

What Is Body Neutrality and What Does It Have to Do With You, A Man? Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Existing in a body is a 24/7 nightmare to which we are all condemned, from birth, completely against our will. We never asked to assume corporeal form; we were just thrust into the world one day because our parents forgot to use a condom or decided to create human life in a desperate attempt to fill up the gaping void at the center of their own existence, and now we’re forced to...

A Now Thats What I Call Dad Rock compilation exists, presumably much to the delight of rockin fathers familiar with the long-running Now Thats What I Call Music! series of hits collections. The 59-song, 3-disc Dad Rock release emerged in 2018 as part of a succession of special editions taking after the multi-annual flagship Now compilations, the popular joint venture between Sony and Universal that reached its 77th U.S. edition in 2021. Unlike those compendiums of up-to-the-minute char...