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Dolly Parton’s favorite Southern dishes, from chicken and dumplings to banana pudding
Dolly Parton’s favourite Southern dishes reflected the Tennessee family cooking traditions she described throughout her career. – Chicken and dumplings, a recipe she associated with her mother and kept partly secret. – Biscuits and gravy, which she said she ate for breakfast at least weekly. – Banana pudding, made with vanilla wafers and sliced bananas…
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Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters
EDM producer Max “H4RRIS” Harris is publicly challenging musicians he believes are presenting AI-generated tracks as human-made work. He argues that generative music undermines artistic expression, obscures how genuine electronic music is made and may enable creators to profit from work derived from human artists. Harris says his own production involves hundreds of deliberate creative…
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Women’s groups plan to protest HSE-backed breastfeeding conference as ‘perverse’ details of controversial US male lactation expert’s previous talks revealed
Women’s rights groups in Ireland plan to protest an HSE-funded breastfeeding conference in Galway because it is due to host US speaker Jacob Engelsman, who will discuss lactation support for gender-diverse families. Critics say his previous talks and writings about male lactation, including for sexual purposes, make his appearance inappropriate and argue that the welfare…
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Netflix’s 2-Part Vampire Thriller Is One of the Best on Any Streaming Platform
AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, now available on Netflix, is presented as a richly expanded adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1976 novel. The series matters because its longer format allows it to explore the violent, romantic and deeply unhealthy relationship between vampires Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt in greater depth than the…
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3 Pop Songs From 1979 That Felt Like the Last Night of the 70s
The article selects three late-1979 songs that it argues captured the closing sound of the 1970s while pointing towards the musical direction of the 1980s. It presents power pop, new wave and punk as genres that were increasingly reaching mainstream audiences, making these songs markers of a changing pop landscape. – “My Sharona” by The…
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Pretty Metroidvanias, free Bomberman-style chaos and other new indie games worth checking out
A Gamescom-week indie-game roundup highlights several newly announced and recently released titles, alongside a trend for deliberately tedious “needle in a haystack” games. The selection matters as it points players towards smaller releases across genres, including Metroidvanias and multiplayer action games, while showing how novelty concepts are finding an audience. – Several viral games ask…
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Tyler-Marie Evans on her feature debut ‘Pretty Babies’: “There is so much greatness in women”
Tyler-Marie Evans discusses her feature directorial debut, Pretty Babies, which premieres at the Edinburgh International Film Festival after years of financial hardship and rejection. The film matters as a female-centred examination of friendship, ambition and Hollywood’s promises, shaped by Evans’s determination to make it despite expecting to wait decades for the opportunity. Starring Emily Alyn…
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HBO’s Near-Perfect 4-Part Sci-Fi Made One Genre Mistake It Could Never Undo
HBO’s Westworld is praised for its original blend of science fiction and the Western genre, but the article argues that it undermined itself by leaving its titular theme park in its final two seasons. With Warner Bros. developing a new film, the piece suggests the franchise has an opportunity to return to the setting that…
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FEAR FACTORY Releases First Single With New Singer MILO SILVESTRO, ‘Roboticist’
Fear Factory have released “Roboticist”, their first single featuring singer Milo Silvestro and drummer Pete Webber, signalling what guitarist Dino Cazares describes as a new era for the industrial metal band. The release matters because it is the group’s first new recorded material with musicians who have already spent nearly three and a half years…
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Men sought over £3m diamond necklace theft from Vienna museum
Two men are being sought after stealing a Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace worth more than £3 million from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts. The daylight smash-and-grab, captured on CCTV, highlights continued security concerns at European museums despite planned safeguards for high-value exhibitions. The platinum necklace contains 673 diamonds totalling about 200 carats and…