Best New TV Shows of May 2024

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1217 words  |  Martina Birk

With the Emmys eligibility deadline looming on the 31st, May tends to be a big month for TV. But 2024 has borne the brunt of 2023’s Hollywood strikes, so the number of prestige projects sliding in before the cutoff has been conspicuously low. Sure, this month’s highlights include Benedict Cumberbatch as a Jim Henson wannabe on the verge of a nervous breakdown and an action thriller whose hero is an icon of Black radical politics. [Read More]

Books: Super-Jesus in Surgery | TIME

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  685 words  |  Kelle Repass

HEARTS by Thomas Thompson. 304 pages. McCall. $7.95. Is there something special about the American way of life that tends to cause heart attacks? In a land afflicted with high-cholesterol diets and high-pressure lives, at any rate, heart attacks are a major cause of death. So it is only natural that the world’s two leading temples of heart surgery should be American: Methodist Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute, both in Houston. [Read More]

Cameron's Gamble | TIME

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2481 words  |  Kelle Repass

Shoes discarded, David Cameron pads down the aisle of a private charter jet with a chocolate-frosted cake. It is May 15, and he is returning from a four-night, three-city visit to the U.S. In London, more than a third of Conservative MPs have just refused to back his legislative program because it doesn’t enshrine in law his promise of a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union. Britain’s Prime Minister seems blithely unconcerned. [Read More]

Chris Pratt French Braids Hair During Interview

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  290 words  |  Patria Henriques

When you find a hobby that also helps others, you stick with it, and no action star enjoys gently styling women’s hair more than Chris Pratt, Hollywood’s most spontaneous hair braider. During a video interview about his new Western movie The Magnificent Seven, Denzel Washington, who knows how to showcase his co-star’s best gifts, gave Pratt yet another chance to bust out his hair-braiding skills, according to the Irish Examiner. [Read More]

David Oyelowo Worked With His Family to Write Music for His Directorial Debut The Water Man

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  828 words  |  Billy Koelling

The theme at the heart of David Oyelowo’s directorial debut, “The Water Man,” is the strength of families. Opening May 7, the feature revolves around Gunner (Lonnie Chavis), a boy who ventures out to find the Water Man — a mythical figure with healing powers who might be able to cure his terminally ill mother, Mary, played by Rosario Dawson. [Read More]

Detroit: 10 Things to Do 8. The Fisher Building

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  110 words  |  Tandra Barner

City Guide: Detroit This Art Deco office building is one of Detroit's architectural gems. Designed by architect Albert Kahn and built in 1928, the Fisher Building was supposed to have a second tower, but the Great Depression nixed those plans. At the time, the now defunct Detroit Times wrote, "The tower will be to Detroit what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris." Today, there are several restaurants, cafés and shops on the building's first floor, as well as the Fisher Theatre, which, at press time, was scheduled to stage productions of West Side Story and Mary Poppins. [Read More]

Elvis Stojko (Figure-Skater) - On This Day

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  372 words  |  Kelle Repass

Profession: Figure-Skater Biography: Elvis Stojko is a Canadian figure skater who achieved significant milestones in his career, including three World Championship titles, two Olympic silver medals, and seven Canadian National titles. Renowned for his technical prowess, Stojko was the first to land a quadruple-double jump combination in competition. He was born in Newmarket, Ontario, and was named after the famous singer Elvis Presley. His heritage includes a Hungarian mother and a Slovenian father. [Read More]

Everyone Loves a Good Etch A Sketch Meme

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  477 words  |  Patria Henriques

etchasketchmittromney.com On Wednesday, the popular conception of Mitt Romney morphed from a robot to an Etch A Sketch. And all it took was one errantly blurted out sentence of conventional political wisdom from a campaign adviser on CNN. “You hit a reset button for the fall campaign,” adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said, when asked how a campaign changes its tactics from primary season to a general election. “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. [Read More]

Everything you should know about edible gold

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  332 words  |  Tandra Barner

As surprising as it may sound, there is gold that can be eaten and there are some things you should know about this food item that is now becoming more common. What it is? Edible gold is a luxury food item commonly added to foods for aesthetics. It is made from pure, real gold (usually 22 to 24 karats) that has been pounded, rolled over and formed into sheet transfer leaf format or edible gold flakes. [Read More]

Fifty Shades of Grey Movie: Jamie Dornan Dakota Johnson Hardest Scenes

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  445 words  |  Patria Henriques

You might have heard that the movie version of the notorious book Fifty Shades of Grey is coming out on Feb. 13. In case you’ve been in away in another galaxy, this is the adaptation of the hit novel, released in 2011, that explores some, uh, non-standard boudoir practices. TIME got an early look at the movie, and a chance to talk to its stars, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, about which scenes were the most difficult for them to shoot — and it’s not necessarily the ones you might think. [Read More]