In fairness, Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn does look pretty different without the wig. Making his late night debut on The Tonight Show on Monday, the British actor who plays everyone’s favourite metalhead, Eddie Munson, explained that he’d had a little trouble getting into America. Quinn told host Jimmy Fallon his tale of being taken…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Of all the Netflix-distributed sci-fi/fantasy series featuring an ensemble cast, superpowers, a mysterious suited man experimenting on numbered children, and stand-out musical sequences, The Umbrella Academy is my favourite. Even so, the series’ third season raised a lot of questions that are difficult to ignore. I’m not talking about questions like “who is Jennifer?” or…
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, TBS’ late-night talk show, has been canceled after seven seasons on the air. The show’s seventh season came to an end on June 23, and it has now been confirmed that it will not return for an eighth run. Samantha Bee began her TV career as a correspondent on The…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has unveiled a new monetization feature that seeks to share revenue between music artists and content creators on the social media platform. Music Revenue Sharing is designed to make it easier for creators to monetize videos even when using licensed music, with Meta championing it as “the first of…
Regular readers will need no further fanfare from us on JLab’s Go Air Pop, the cheap $20/£20 earbuds that somehow managed to receive an unprecedented 4.5 stars out of five under intense review at this publication – leaving us with no option but to put them right near the top of our best earbuds buying…
A Taliban fighter secures the area as people queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Programme in Kabul, Afghanistan. Petros Giannakouris/AP The US and Taliban are negotiating the release of Afghanistan’s frozen billions, Reuters reported. $9.5 billion of Afghan govt. reserves was frozen over the Taliban takeover. Most…
Lufthansa ground staff are planning a one-day strike on Wednesday amid the travel chaos. Getty Images Lufthansa ground staff are planning a strike from 3.45 a.m. on Wednesday to 6 a.m. on Thursday local time. The union representing 20,000 Lufthansa ground staff are demanding higher wages. The strike will hit airports in Germany including Frankfurt…
Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Walmart is cutting the prices of clothing and general merchandise, it said Monday. This is because soaring food and fuel prices mean shoppers have less money to spend on other items. Stores are struggling to cope with excessive levels of inventory, Insider previously reported. Walmart is slashing the…
Education Sec. Miguel Cardona. GREG NASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Education Department unveiled new regulatory proposals to protect veterans and service members. It proposed reforms to a rule that has led to aggressive for-profit recruiting of veterans. The department also proposed expanding the Pell grant program for incarcerated people. President Joe Biden’s Education Department just…
Mortgage rates have fluctuated a bit over the past week, but they’ve overall avoided any major spikes. The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee is meeting today to discuss hiking the federal funds rate. On Wednesday, the committee will announce its decision. Most forecasters expect the Fed to hike rates by 75 basis points, or…