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In Zavier Gozo, Crystal Palace land a US prospect living up to the hype
Crystal Palace have completed the transfer of 19-year-old American winger Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake, capping a rapid rise for one of US soccer’s most talked-about young prospects. The five-year deal, reportedly worth around £11m, comes as Gozo seeks to convert standout MLS form into a breakthrough with the senior USMNT, having narrowly missed…
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‘Lost Weekend’ In Space: How Artists Like Phoebe Bridgers Turn Planetariums Into Music Venues
Musicians are increasingly turning to planetariums as unconventional venues for launching and promoting new music, using their immersive domes to pair songs with striking visuals. Phoebe Bridgers is the latest example, partnering with Spotify to mark the release of her album Lost Weekend with listening events across 44 planetariums worldwide, following a similar approach taken…
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32 Years Later, The Single Best ‘X-Files’ Quote Of All Time Still Haunts Me
A Polygon writer revisits “One Breath,” a season two episode of “The X-Files” from 1994, to argue it contains the show’s greatest-ever line of dialogue. When Agent Mulder confronts the mysterious Cigarette Smoking Man at gunpoint over the abduction of his partner, Agent Scully, the villain calmly replies, “Don’t try and threaten me, Mulder. I’ve…
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The classic 1922 movie banned for blasphemy in the United States: “Absolutely unfit for public consumption”
Haunting. The post The classic 1922 movie banned for blasphemy in the United States: “Absolutely unfit for public consumption” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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4 Songs From 1970 That Give Me Instant Goosebumps Every Time
This is a curated list rather than a hard news story: a music writer at American Songwriter picks four songs from 1970 that they say still give them “instant goosebumps,” reflecting on how the era blended raw talent with imaginative songwriting to capture both personal emotion and social upheaval. The piece leans on nostalgia and…
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‘Live-service is a red flag for us’: Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and organic community
A PC Gamer article reports that one game publisher is deliberately steering away from the live-service multiplayer model, which it reportedly views as a “red flag,” in favour of older, more established multiplayer approaches. Instead of persistent online services requiring constant server maintenance and monetisation updates, the publisher is said to favour peer-to-peer connections, traditional…
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COVID is ‘growing’ in nearly every state, CDC reports. Here’s where levels are highest
Don’t be surprised if you start hearing some more coughing in the next few weeks. COVID-19 is once again on the rise in nearly every corner of the U.S.
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10 Thriller Book Masterpieces So Great They Became the Blueprint
Collider has published a listicle spotlighting classic thriller novels that were so influential they effectively created the templates other writers in the genre have followed ever since. – Robert Ludlum’s “The Bourne Identity” (1980) is credited with modernising the spy thriller, blending Cold War espionage with psychological tension, high-stakes pacing and an amnesiac protagonist. -…
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Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune “is rough around the edges,” ex-Naughty Dog designer says, and “went through a whole lot of hell during development”
A former Naughty Dog designer has spoken about the making of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, the 2007 PlayStation 3 game that launched the long-running action-adventure series, describing it as “rough around the edges” and revealing that the project “went through a whole lot of hell during development.” The remarks offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at the…
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How A Tray Of Bloody Oysters Helped ‘The Diplomat’ Find “A Real Spine” For Season 4 – The Backstory
The creative team behind Netflix’s political thriller *The Diplomat* has revealed that a dinner scene featuring bloodied oysters, filmed for season three, became the blueprint for season four’s central theme: how two political couples cope with the same crises in strikingly different ways. Showrunner Debora Cahn told Deadline that the scene, in which the Penns…