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by Ethan Shanfeld on 2022-06-18 in News, Kina Collins, The Strokes

The last time the Strokes played Chicago’s Metro was in 2001. The band’s debut album “Is This It” was just a few months old, but it had already launched Julian Casablancas and Co. to indie stardom. The now festival anthem and sports arena staple “Reptilia,” which would bring them to new heights, was two years

by John Hopewell on 2022-06-18 in Global, Markets & Festivals, News, Annecy Animation Film Festival, Guillermo Del Toro

“Little Nicholas – Happy As Can Be” scooped this year’s Annecy Animation Festival’s top Cristal Award for best feature in a 20 plaudit award adjudication which also saw Wes Anderson win a Jury Award for best commissioned film. The biggest winners at Annecy this year, however, was the Festival itself, animation at large and, when

by Wilson Chapman on 2022-06-18 in News, Tribeca Festival, What to Hear

Tribeca Enterprises will launch Tribeca Audio, a new podcast network dedicated to curating audio content year-round, this July. Jane Rosenthal made the announcement at the Tribeca Festival on Saturday during a special presentation of the upcoming Radiotopia podcast “My Mother Made Me.” Tribeca Audio will launch its flagship series, and Tribeca Enterprises’ first podcast, July

by Antonio Ferme on 2022-06-18 in News, Al Pacino, Heat, Timothee Chalamet, Tribeca Festival

After 27 years, the follow-up to “Heat” is almost here. Writer-director Michael Mann is releasing a continuation of his beloved crime epic on August 9 in the form of a novel, titled “Heat 2.” The book will trace the lives of master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and obsessive detective Lt. Vincent Hanna (Al

by Emily Longeretta on 2022-06-18 in News, Amazon Prime Video, Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Trending TV

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 1 of “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Those who read Jenny Han’s 2009 novel “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” and the two books that followed, knew a bit of what to expect from the series, which dropped its first season on

by Chris Willman on 2022-06-18 in News, Miles Davis, pearl jam, Prince, Record Store Day

If you think that this weekend’s Record Store Day Drop feels like a dribble, you’re not completely wrong. The June 18 event is an adjunct to the big collectors’ kahuna that happened back in April, with just under 80 exclusive vinyl titles being released for this bonus RSD, versus the roughly 400 shoppers got in

by J. Kim Murphy on 2022-06-18 in News, Netflix, The Chosen One

Two actors working on the Netflix series “The Chosen One” have died in a car crash after riding in a van near the city of Mulegé on the Baja California Sur peninsula. The incident left two other cast members and four crew members of the production injured. All six remain in stable condition. A source

by Cynthia Littleton on 2022-06-18 in News, Mark Shields, PBS NewsHour

Mark Shields, the longtime Washington Post political columnist who was a fixture of “PBS NewsHour” and a co-host of CNN’s “Capital Gang,” died Saturday morning of kidney failure in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 85. Shields’ death was confirmed through a message shared by “PBS NewsHour” anchor Judy Woodruff on Twitter. Woofruff praised her colleague

by Jordan Moreau on 2022-06-18 in Features, Karen Fukuhara, The Boys

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched episode 5 of “The Boys” Season 3, titled “The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies.” Despite playing Kimiko, the quietest member of the Boys, Karen Fukuhara is also one of the deadliest. “The Boys” star has plenty of fighting experience, having

by Tania Merlos on 2022-06-18 in News, Indeed Rising Voices Partner, Indeed Rising Voices Partner 4

When writer-director Leon Cheo was crafting his Indeed Rising Voices short “The 25th Filial Exemplar,” he drew inspiration from old Hollywood films with terrifying depictions of the parent-child relationship, both classic (“Psycho”) and unintentionally camp (“Mommie Dearest”). But his initial creative spark came from something much closer to home: an article he read about a