The Hard Quartet “Six Deaf Rats” I’ve been enjoying The Hard Quartet’s debut record, but was having trouble digesting it as anything more than a late-period Stephen Malkmus album that happened to include some other songs by Matt Sweeney and Emmett Kelly. Seeing the band perform at Webster Hall last night made it all click […]

В мире литературы и кино зачастую происходит интересное взаимодействие между книгами и их экранизациями. Читатели нередко влюбляются в атмосферу произведений, персонажей и сюжетные линии, а затем с нетерпением ожидают, когда же их любимые истории будут адаптированы для большого экрана. Однако, как показывает практика, не всегда экранизации оправдывают ожидания поклонников. Но в этой статье мы рассмотрим несколько фильмов и сериалов, которые, по мнению зрителей, напротив, превзошли свои литературные оригиналы, добавив новые краски и впечатления.

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Submission deadline extended till 20 October...

Very limited edition of OB-4 Off-White... in collaboration with Virgil Abloh.

Amazing showreel as always...

Universal Favourite made a redesing for the Australian frozen meal delivery company, The Dinner Ladies...

A new supercapacitor design that uses only water, clay and graphene could source material on Mars and be more sustainable and accessible than traditional batteries

In the western US, the average maximum growth rate of fires has more than doubled over the past two decades

A lithium-ion battery made from three droplets of hydrogel is the smallest soft battery of its kind – and it could be used in biocompatible and biodegradable implants

Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along vast networks

A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old - and isn't that different from some modern species

An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's speaker, enabling an AI model to transcribe the conversation, even at a distance in a noisy room

Experiments where vampire bats were made to run on a treadmill have revealed how they extract energy from protein in their latest blood meal

Shapes created by vortices in water often fall apart, but an odd quantum fluid made from ultracold atoms could support vortex knots that never lose their knottiness

Blood tests have shown that about 7 per cent of workers on dairy farms that had H5N1 outbreaks had antibodies against the disease

In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma reservoir within the volcano, which could extend forecasts of eruptions from minutes to months

Toshiyuki Morikawa stars as titular dog in 12 episodes now streaming

Also: The Great Queen Victoria Winner Ostwen Has Arrived! launches in English

"Forest Spirit Party!" clip streams for film opening in N. America on Friday

Anime airs Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. EST

Gender bender comedy launched in March 2023

Both anime screen N. American premieres at Anime Frontier on December 7

Keiga Ōsawa's Rokunin no Usotsuki no Daigakusei: Plus One manga launched in 2022

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

In this week’s podcast episode, we’re looking at the glorious  ads and features for the October/November 1988 issue of RT Magazine. Thank you to Amy M. for this issue! You can also find all the RTRW content at our category page for Romantic Times Rewind.  If you want to listen and follow along with this entry, we have more detail in the audio, but you can click play and listen and read and absorb all … Continue reading Romantic Times Rewind: October 1988 Ads & Features →

It’s time for the Ads & Features of the October 1988 (!!) issue of Romantic Times Magazine. Y’all. We’ve got: Vintage gossip! Blind items that are very easy to guess! Danielle Steel’s two blue Mercedes! Fuchsia covers with giant flowers and startled animals! Riverboat gambler romance heroes! And a truly paltry obituary for an extraordinary author. It’s 1988. Fuchsia. So much fuchsia. Blanket content warning for romances written in the late 80s. Be ready for … Continue reading 637. RT Rewind October 1988 Ads & Features →

Happy Saturday and welcome back to Whatcha Reading! Here’s how we’re wrapping up October: Lara: To quote my psychiatrist, ‘pregnancy is a potent and unique stressor’ so I’ve temporarily abandoned my ARCs and I’ve started a reread of Murderbot. Ten out of ten! Shana: There’s no better comfort than a Murderbot reread. I just finished a m/m Beauty and the Beast retelling, Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray, where the father who finds the cursed castle … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? October 2024, Part Two →

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Welcome back to Whatcha Reading! This is where we talk about what we’ve been reading, if you couldn’t have guessed. Lara: Still Murderbot and I could not be more happy about it! May it last forever! Sarah: I mentioned this in the post for Election Day but I saved three Richard Osman books and didn’t know what I was saving them for. Now I know! I think I’m starting with the new one We Solve … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? November 2024, Part One →

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