Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the formative girl group the Shangri-Las, has died, confirmed Miriam Linna of Norton Records, the label that released Weiss’ lone solo album, Dangerous Game, in 2007. “Mary was an icon, a hero, a heroine, to both young men and women of my generation and…
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Welcome, folks, to TechCrunch Week in Review (WiR), a digest of the past few days in tech happenings. As I write this, snow’s gracing New York City — an increasingly rare treat thanks to our changing climate. And that feels fitting in light of the Apple Vision Pro’s imminent launch.…
From the Little People, BIG DREAMS series by Lisbeth Kaiser ; illustrated by Marta Antelo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 7, 2017 It’s a bit sketchy of historical detail, but it’s coherent, inspirational, and engaging without indulging in rapturous… A first introduction to the iconic civil rights activist. “She was very…
In the pantheon of torture porn entries where shock value often reigns supreme, Soulmates carves out its niche. This Mark Gantt-directed film narrowly skirts the sub-genre but spins it with a fresh premise centered around the perils of online dating. Soulmates opens with a jarring scenario: Allison (Annie Ilonzeh) and…
Hallmark’s megahit The Way Home returns this week, continuing the time-traveling tale of the Landy family as they pick up the pieces after multiple family tragedies. The World War II drama Masters of the Air, from the same people who brought you Band of Brothers and The Pacific,…
Saturday Night Live has turned plenty of sketches into feature films — Wayne’s World, MacGruber, Coneheads, and unfortunately A Night at the Roxburry to name just a few— but the show itself has never been the subject of a fiction film before.At least, not until Jason Reitman’s SNL 1975. The Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Juno director’s next project is reportedly about “about the…
Marlena Shaw, the jazz and soul singer best known for her 1969 recording of “California Soul,” has died. She was 81. Shaw’s daughter, Marla Bradshaw, confirmed her death in a video posted on Facebook on Friday (Jan. 19). “It’s with a very heavy heart that for myself and our family, I…
NASA is trying to figure out how to reach its Ingenuity Mars helicopter after losing contact with the craft earlier this week. During its 72nd flight — a “quick pop-up” to an altitude of about 40 feet — NASA says Ingenuity stopped communicating with the Perseverance rover before it was…
The artist, a pontificating, grandiose soul calling himself Pietro Houdini, gives the boy, Massimo, an eye-opening education in art and survival. He shares his plan of painting over three undiscovered masterpieces by Titian and somehow sneaking them out of the abbey—“the first art heist inside an art heist in the…
“Curiosity killed the cat…but what it did to this man is more horrorble than a thousand deaths!” Available now from Fantagraphics, The Atlas Artist Edition Vol. 1: Joe Maneely is a gorgeous, oversized edition that features 256 pages of never-before-reprinted stories from the golden age of comics! Just for Daily Dead…