Month: May 2024

Merry MerMay! MerMay is most known as an art challenge, where participants make a mermaid-themed piece of art every day based on prompts. Here are the 2024 daily MerMay prompts, including #Kaiju #Feline #CoastalGrandma and so many more. While I love to see mermaid artwork in my feed, I’ll admit that visual art is not
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As the weather starts to warm up and we spend more time outdoors, we should start thinking about pest control in our homes. From ants invading our pantries to cockroaches scurrying across our floors, pests can quickly become a nuisance and disrupt the comfort of our living spaces. Apart from being unsightly, they can also
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May 13, 2024 First, some quick announcements: The latest episode of Our Opinions Are Correct is about America’s proud tradition of psychological warfare. Promises Stronger Than Darkness, the final volume in my young adult trilogy, is out in paperback. It’s nominated for the Locus Award for young adult fiction, and the Lodestar Award! (If you
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After sharing a year with Mouse in Mouse’s Wood, young readers can now enjoy a day on the river with Mouse on the River: A Journey Through Nature, a quiet picture book full of charm. As the titular hero spends the day rowing down a river that eventually meets the sea, the most dramatic event
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In honor of the NBA playoffs and our overall love for ‘Star Wars,’ we will be choosing our own basketball starting five within the world of Star Wars Disney/LucasFilm In honor of the NBA playoffs and our overall love for Star Wars, we will be choosing our own basketball starting five within the world of
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It’s no wonder she kicked off her DSW collaboration in Los Angeles May 9 with her closest friends, including costar Katie Maloney and former cast member Dayna Kathan. And in true Ariana fashion, her new springtime collection was made with intention behind it. “There’s such a great range of shoes because that’s something that was really important to me,” she said. “As
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 My Wall Street Journal review of Kurt Jensen’s new Rouben Mamoulian biography takes stock of a unique near-genius, perhaps the least known and appreciated American theater and film director of consequence.   I came to Mamoulian (1897-1987) while writing my book on immigrants in the performing arts: Artists in Exile. The juxtaposed magnitude of his successes and failures confounded comprehension. Because
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Put those “Golden Popcorn” statues back in storage. The MTV Movie & TV Awards have been put “on pause” this year, and “will return with a reimagined format in 2025,” according to a spokesperson. The show, originally dubbed the MTV Movie Awards, was a yearly fixture from 1992 to 2019, but has lost some momentum
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