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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ might win the box office. Why Netflix won’t say
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA wave of purple and hot pink hair and cartoon K-pop bops is taking over multiplexes. With summer blockbusters in the rearview mirror and only a few new films out, …
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Cracker Barrel changes its logo. The right-wing media flips out
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesCracker Barrel’s new logo reveal is MAGA’s latest manufactured crisis. But what if a biscuit really just is a biscuit and not an LGBTQ+ gateway drug? Masked goons are terrorizing …
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Deftones’ explosive new album ‘Private Music’ meets the moment head on
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesNearly 40 years into Deftones’ career, the Sacramento-bred band are anything but a legacy act. As proved by the visceral allegiance from countless fans half their age thrashing at their …
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‘Katabasis’ review: R.F. Kuang’s dark academia thriller is set in hell
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesBook Review Katabasis By R.F. KuangHarper Voyager: 360 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. …
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‘Long Story Short’ review: A moving tale of a modern Jewish family
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“Long Story Short,” premiering Friday on Netflix, is the sweet, melancholy, satirical, silly, poignant, hopeful, sometimes slapstick cartoon tale of a middle-class Jewish family, told nonchronologically from the 1990s to …
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Millie Bobby Brown, Jake Bongiovi adopt a daughter: ‘beyond excited’
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMillie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi have started a family, welcoming their first child a year after they tied the knot. “Stranger Things” star Brown and Bongiovi (son of singer …
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Hairstylist’s lawsuit against Fox, Skip Bayless nears settlement
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe Fox Sports hairstylist who alleged that longtime sports talk show host Skip Bayless made unwanted sexual advances toward her has attempted to have her lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior …
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Sterlin Harjo’s ‘The Lowdown’ is a love letter to his hometown Tulsa
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesSterlin Harjo perfected the “art of the hang” with the co-creation of his first television series, “Reservation Dogs.” The FX drama followed a group of Indigenous teens living on a …
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Jimmie Allen liable of sexually assaulting woman in Las Vegas
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesJimmie Allen, the Grammy-nominated singer known for “Best Shot” and “Warrior,” is liable for sexually assaulting a woman in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2022 and filming it, a …