These days, there are so many reasons to wake up in the middle of the night, bathed in your own cold sweat: the erosion of basic civil liberties, the rising tide of authoritarian rule (and lack of a rapid-response political resistance), the increasing number of goon squads conspicuously showing up …
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Stranger Things is going all out for its final season. Next month, the series will return one last time to bring its nearly decade-long adventure to an end. The grand finale is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on Dec. 31, but for viewers wanting to really take in the moment, …
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Eddie Murphy shows why he’s “not like anybody in this town” in the new trailer for his upcoming documentary, Being Eddie. Directed by Angus Wall, the film will offer a deep dive into the comedian’s singular career, offering both extensive interviews with Murphy, as well as footage of him at …
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When Ajike “AJ” Owens went to Susan Lorincz’s door on June 2, 2023, the confrontation was one in a series of years-long disagreements between the two neighbors. Lorincz, 58 at the time, and Owens, 35, lived in a housing complex in Ocala, Florida, a small community of duplexes filled with …
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I t’s late August, and Justine Lupe is driving in her black SUV through the winding streets of Woodstock, New York, nibbling on a chocolate chip cookie. Lily, her miniature 13-year-old rescue dog, is in her lap; in the backseat is her one-year-old daughter, Ellis. We just got in the …
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Many gambling addicts will tell you that it’s not the opportunity of winning a fortune that keeps them chronically hitting for another card, rolling another pair of dice, watching another little ball go round and round until it stops on the red or the black. It’s the thrill of losing …
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Lady Whistledown teases a new, lusty season of Netflix‘s hit series Bridgerton. The fourth season of the Shondaland show will premiere in two parts, the first of which will roll out on the streamer Jan. 29 followed by the second part on Feb. 26. Set at a masquerade ball, the …
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He’s inspired the fashion of Harry Styles, admired by Omar Apollo, and celebrated as one of the greatest songwriters to ever come out of Mexico. Now, Juan Gabriel will take centerstage — and narrate his own story — in a new Netflix documentary titled I Must, I Can, I Will, …
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For almost 30 years, the city of Wichita, Kansas was terrorized by a serial killer. He called himself BTK, a nickname patterned after the phrase “bind, torture, kill” —the signature way he would leave bodies for police to find. His victims varied, first a young family, then women of varying …
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Grew up with the dark nursery rhyme ‘Lizzie Borden took an axe/She gave her mother 40 whacks /After she saw what she had done /She gave her father 41’? This one’s for you: Monster, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s hit crime anthology series has begun filming its fourth season on …
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