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Popverse’s top stories of the day With his work for both Marvel and DC over the past few years, Phillip Kennedy Johnson has demonstrated his ability to write about the best of us — Superman, in his Action Comics run — and the monster inside us all, with his current Incredible Hulk run. Now, […]

American Fiction is the directorial debut of Cord Jefferson The film follows a black professor played by Jeffrey Wright who makes his fortune with a novel parodying black stereotypes It has been earning rave reviews from the same white liberals it seeks to skewer A new MGM film forcing white liberals to confront their own […]

Why do we love Halloween? Is it that we all like to be scared? Or maybe it’s that we want to conquer our fears? I recently took my two young sons shopping for Halloween decorations. Halfway down an aisle stocked with hanging ghouls, misting cauldrons and spiders, my 8-year-old looked around, nervous and slightly trembling. […]

Koshersoul is the subject as the Berman Center for Jewish Studies presents a lecture by Michael W. Twitty, a James Beard award-winning author and culinary historian, Nov. 1 at 5:30 p.m. in the Wood Dining Room of Iacocca Hall. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is suggested but not required. Koshersoul […]

Born to an Irish mother and Senegalese father, Leon wasn’t a huge reader, but he always loved telling stories. “I still remember a moment of pride in fourth class when a poem I’d written was read out.”  He didn’t enjoy secondary school much, where, struggling with his identity, he was seen as a troublemaker, but […]

Bob Baldock (right) with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains of Cuba in 1958. Courtesy of Baldock’s family Bob Baldock, a longtime Berkeley bookman, KPFA events producer, poster artist and painter — and a combatant in the Cuban Revolution — died Oct. 22, 2022, at home in Berkeley at age 85. He was born […]

As reported by Word of Reel, the Borderlands movie’s co-writer Craig Mazin—known for his work on The Last of Us and Chernobyl—has pulled his name from the project, and will instead be listed under the pseudonym “Joe Crombie”. The report goes on to note that “Aaron Berg, Oren Uziel, Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Zak Olkewicz, […]

Accomplished Lacombe-based travel writer Debbie Olsen has landed a prestigious international award. She was one of three recipients of the award in the category for ‘Best U.S. Travel Destination’ at the IPW Conference in San Antonio, Texas this past May. Olsen, who penned a travel column for the Red Deer Advocate for about 20 years […]

MARTIN BOURKE Award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo. CNN  —  In a literary landscape where narratives of Africa have long been overlooked or distorted, award-winning British author Bernardine Evaristo is supporting emerging voices from the continent. With a career spanning four decades, Evaristo garnered international acclaim in 2019 as the first Black woman to win the Booker […]

You Are Here Produced by Colman and Raul Domingo’s Edith Productions Alongside ZeroPointZero and Johnnie Walker Blended Scotch Whisky   NEW YORK, NY – June 7, 2023 – AMC Networks announced today that its new travel/memoir series You Are Here, hosted by award-winning actor, writer and director Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead, Bottomless Brunch at […]


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