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Daily Mail accused of stalking woman they mistakenly identified as The White Stripes’ Meg White in a “secret new life”
The Daily Mail has been accused of stalking a woman it wrongly identified as former White Stripes drummer Meg White, after the newspaper covertly photographed her and published more than a dozen images claiming she was living a “secret new life”. The now-deleted article, published on 6 August, presented the photos as the first public…
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Executive Turntable: Valeisha Butterfield Joins Guitar Center Music Foundation As CEO & Executive Director
Valeisha Butterfield has been named CEO and executive director of the Guitar Center Music Foundation, taking on the role as part of Billboard’s regular “Executive Turntable” round-up of music industry appointments. The move marks a return to a familiar sphere for Butterfield, who previously held senior leadership roles at The Recording Academy and Google, and…
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Call Of Duty’s Most Controversial Item Is Back In Modern Warfare 4, But With Some Major Changes
One of the most infamous and controversial items in Call of Duty is the Riot Shield. Some love it. Some hate it. Well, it’s back in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, but with a few key changes. With MW4’s beta now live, we’re seeing the game in action and learning more about it. This…
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Marvel Is Officially About To Destroy One of the X-Men’s Most Iconic Universes
Marvel is set to pit two of the X-Men’s most iconic alternate realities, House of M and Days of Future Past, against each other in a new comic that will destroy at least one of them. The story appears in X-Men: Incursions #1, the first of five one-shots revisiting the period before 2015’s Secret Wars,…
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‘Task’ Star Tom Pelphrey on Finding Himself in His Devoted Dad Role — and Nearly Playing Professor X
Actor Tom Pelphrey has opened up about how becoming a father shaped his performance as struggling single dad Robbie Prendergast in Brad Ingelsby’s HBO series Task, the follow-up to Mare of Easttown. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Pelphrey explained that he read the early scripts shortly after his daughter was born, and drew directly on…
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3 Marvel Movies Definitely Missing From Disney’s Official ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Watchlist
– Disney’s official Avengers: Doomsday watchlist on Disney Plus, released this week, includes 14 films and TV entries meant to prepare viewers for December’s multiverse-spanning blockbuster, but Polygon argues at least three significant titles are conspicuously absent – Missing is Captain America: Civil War, which explains the Avengers’ fractured relationships between The Avengers (2012) and…
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Noomi Rapace’s Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Hot Spot’ Is Like ‘Dune’s Deranged Cousin
Director Agnieszka Smoczynska has discussed her new science-fiction thriller “Hot Spot”, starring Noomi Rapace, in an interview with Polygon. The film, which blends detective-mystery elements with surreal, psychedelic imagery, is being described as a stranger, more fragmented cousin to films like “Dune”, prioritising mood and metaphor over a clearly followable plot. Set in a world…
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Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver legend Scott Weiland on his 10 favourite Scott Weiland songs: “For me, it’s absolutely essential not to get stagnant creatively and to keep re-inventing things”
The late Scott Weiland, best known as frontman of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, once picked out his own ten favourite songs from his extensive back catalogue, reflecting on a career defined by frequent reinvention. The piece revisits his journey from being dismissed early on as a grunge-era imitator to becoming one of rock’s…
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The problematic history of America’s first successful ballad from 1825
Written about 200 years ago. The post The problematic history of America’s first successful ballad from 1825 first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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The Best Games To Play When Your PC Is Basically A Potato
Gaming has never been more expensive. We’re here to investigate why, and help you play more while spending less. Welcome to GameSpot Cheap Week. It’s no secret that PC gaming has gotten extraordinarily expensive in recent years, with components reaching record-high prices due to a perfect storm of factors. The days of solid-state drives and RAM being…