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Myles Aronowitz/Netflix The highly anticipated new series Luke Cage premiered on Netflix on Saturday, which naturally resulted in countless binge-watchers indulging in all 13 episodes of the first season. Apparently Netflix crashed in isolated areas, leaving Luke Cage fans WITHOUT LUKE CAGE! As you can imagine, it was a nightmare for those people. Just so we’re all the same…
The New York attorney general has notified Donald Trump that his charitable foundation is violating state law — by soliciting donations without proper certification — and ordered Trump’s charity to stop its fundraising immediately, the attorney general’s office said Monday. James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’s charities bureau, sent the “notice of violation” to…
close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Video The Forger As a teenager, Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help children flee the Nazis. He spent his life helping others escape atrocities around the world. By SAMANTHA STARK, ALEXANDRA GARCIA, PAMELA DRUCKERMAN and MANUAL CINEMA STUDIOS on Publish Date October…
NBC YUGE SNL Debate: Alec Baldwin’s Trump Gets Trounced by Kate McKinnon’s Hillary As promised, Saturday Night Live’s 42nd season premiere opened with the highly-anticipated showdown between Kate McKinnon’s Clinton and Alec Baldwin’s Trump. If this past Monday’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was the most anticipated political event in modern…
As a divisive election tears Americans apart over questions of race and immigration, a CBC News poll suggests Canadians are right in believing they think very differently than their U.S. neighbours when it comes to multiculturalism. In fact, we’re more likely to think minorities should assimilate. In a national polling partnership between CBC and the…
(iStock) Dating is steeped in uncertainty. Sure, he looks cute in his pictures and is witty with the text messages, but will we have any chemistry in person? Sure, that first date was good, but with his travel schedule and my work schedule, will we find time for a second? We have fun together, but are we compatible…
NEW YORK (AP) — In his years as a reality TV boss on “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he’d like to have sex with. The Associated Press interviewed more…
.entry-header It should come as no surprise that reliance on canon creates an orthodoxy which harms and marginalizes perfectly valid queer readings. – Emma Houxbois, Comicosity (née The Rainbow Hub) The power of stories like these, whether it’s a deep and personal tale wrought with emotion, or some fun and flirty fan art, cannot be…
Oct. 2 I’ve been keeping track of these replies. This is what I have heard. First, let’s summarize the criticisms: These are the complaints journalists talk the most about. Not the only complaints that have been made — or the most apt — but the ones they tend to listen and respond to. Campbell Brown, formerly…
During a time of rising racial tension, ham-fisted tweets and in-app moments of silence don’t cut it. By Max Becherer/A.P. Images. Last weekend, protesters gathered to rally at the Baton Rouge police department, the Louisiana State Capitol, and the convenience store where, days earlier, 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man, was shot at point-blank range…