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What Is Jim Breyer’s Net Worth? Jim Breyer is an American venture capitalist who has a net worth of $2 billion. Jim Breyer is best known as the founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a […]
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Entire Arnold Schoenberg Musical Archive Lost in LA Fires
Photo Credit: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra The entire musical archive of Arnold Schoenberg was lost during the Pacific Palisades fires, confirms Belmont Music. “Unfortunately, Belmont Music was a victim of the Pacific Palisades fire,” the publisher […]
J.R.R. Tolkien was fine with leaving War of the Rohirrim’s story untold
For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, screenwriter Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Fran Walsh took on the task of translating three expansive novels into three live-action movies. With the anime movie The Lord of […]
Italian pop superstar Mina drops her latest album — at age 84 : NPR
Italian pop singer Mina in 1961, Cremona, Italy. Sandro Rizzi/AP hide caption toggle caption Sandro Rizzi/AP Mina, one of the bestselling Italian musical artists of all time, just dropped a new album — at the […]
Best classical concerts of 2024 were from youth orchestras
Out of hundreds of symphony concerts I attended or listened to online this year, performances of three symphonies meant the most. Shostakovich’s Fifth, Schubert’s Ninth and Sibelius’ Second may be old chestnuts but not for […]
Yale University Plans a Course On Beyoncé’s Cultural Impact
Photo Credit: Beyoncé by Raph PH / CC by 2.0 Yale University is introducing a course dedicated to studying the cultural impact of Beyoncé, to kick off next spring. A course dedicated to studying Beyoncé’s […]
Fans Can’t Stop Talking About Jeopardy!’s Hot Priest — Best Life
Attractive religious leaders are having a moment right now, from fictitious Rabbi Noah in Nobody Wants This to the very real, very good-looking Father Steve Jakubowski on “Jeopardy!.” Jakubowski, 29, recently won the hearts of […]
How Marwan Kaabour Wrote the Definitive Guide to Queer Arab Slang
Marwan Kaabour, photographed by Michael Bullock. When Marwan Kaabour was growing up in Lebanon, a mean kid called him “foofoo”—the English equivalent of “sissy,—a word he had never heard before and didn’t understand. Even at […]
Bruce Lee’s Fight Scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Became the Film’s Most Controversial Moment
Bruce Lee’s Fight Scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Became the Film’s Most Controversial Moment ( Photo Credit – YouTube ) In the summer of 2019, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in […]
Robert Aramayo Talks THE RINGS OF POWER’s Finale, Elrond and Durin, and His Current Favorite Tolkien Tale
In celebration of The Rings of Power‘s final episodes, Nerdist had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat with Robert Aramayo, who plays the noble elf Elrond. In part one of our interview, Aramayo […]
The 11 Best STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Episodes
Star Trek: The Next Generation boldly hit the airwaves over 30 years ago — the show had huge shoes to fill and was marked for failure by many. But after all this time, TNG ultimately […]
Country Superstar, Oscar Nominee, Rhodes Scholar, Army Pilot… The Amazing Life Of Kris Kristofferson
Forget the Dos Equis guy. Kris Kristofferson might have been the real-life “Most Interesting Man in the World.” How many other people, living or dead, have been a Rhodes Scholar, Army pilot, country music superstar, […]
Adam Brody and Kristen Bell on playing lovers in ‘Nobody Wants This’
Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are lounging in a dining booth of a restaurant, nearly swallowed up by an array of oversized pillows, contemplating the premise for a potential podcast they could co-host. “What do […]
You can learn Lord of the Rings’ Elvish — just not Tolkien’s version
On Nov. 29, 1931, J.R.R. Tolkien introduced the world to Middle-earth — the most important part of it, anyway. The Hobbit wouldn’t be published for six more years. The Lord of the Rings was still […]
Teachers panic after finding student’s ‘Death Note’ at LeBron James’ I Promise school
Teachers and staff at an I Promise school in Akron, Ohio were left panicking after an instructor found a homemade ‘Death Note’ on the floor of a classroom. Death Note is one of the most […]
Netflix’s ‘Heartstopper’ Drops Season 3 Trailer
Just two days after his swoon-worthy appearance at the Emmy Awards, Jonathan Bailey is setting fans’ hearts aflutter once again. The “Bridgerton” actor can be spotted in a trailer released Tuesday for the third season […]
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice pads out half a story with a lot of in-jokes
“I swear, the afterlife is so random,” Jenna Ortega’s angsty teen character Astrid Deetz grouses, deep into the action of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It’s meant as a tossed-off line, one of those “Well, that […]
Rings of Power just introduced some deep Tolkien lore around hobbits
This week, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power expanded significantly on its depiction of ancient halflings, and in doing so gave me a great gift. By introducing the concept of Sûza-t, The […]
5 Gross Ways Our Ancestors Used Animals
If you’re munching on some turkey jerky while reading this, fear not: We’re not here to protest every possible killing of an animal, or to say you can never use animals parts for anything. Meat […]
Watch: HAGAR, ANTHONY, SATRIANI And BONHAM Perform VAN HALEN Classics In Clarkston, Michigan
Silver Stallion Videos has uploaded video of Sammy Hagar‘s entire August 2 show of his summer 2024 tour at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan. For “The Best Of All Worlds” tour, Hagar and […]