Month: December 2019

You can’t have Watchmen with Doctor Manhattan and while the HBO series incorporated no shortage of references to the all-powerful character, last week’s penultimate episode of Watchmen delivered the big blue god-like character himself. In a stunning twist it was revealed that Angela Abar’s husband Cal was actually Doctor Manhattan. The character soon shed his
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The ‘Popcorn’ composer was also a Tony-nominated Emmy, Obie and Clio winner. Composer, conductor and electronic music pioneer Gershon Kingsley, who wrote the top 10 hit “Popcorn” and played a pivotal role in popularizing the synthesizer sound, died Dec. 10 in New York. He was 97. The Emmy Award-winning composer recorded “Popcorn” in 1969, but it
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26 minutes ago For many Marvel fans, Avengers: Endgame felt like a once-in-a-lifetime event. Heck, what the studio pulled off across a decade and 23 movies into a culminating conclusion does too. It’s a cinematic accomplishment, no wonder the movie became the highest-grossing movie in all of history. As Marvel Studios starts to transition into
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Small groups of anti-government protesters gathered in shopping malls across Hong Kong on Sunday amid sporadic scuffles with riot police, with Chief Executive Carrie Lam away on a visit to Beijing. Police officers detain an anti-government protester during a demonstration inside a mall in Hong Kong, China December 15, 2019. REUTERS/Danish
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FILE PHOTO: Participants attend the official ceremony marking the debut of Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering (IPO) on the Riyadh’s stock market, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco’s (2222.SE) shares went up slightly to 37 Saudi riyals ($9.87) in a pre-market auction on Sunday, Refinitiv data showed,
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Photograph courtesy of HALMSustainable, standout designs are just one reason. By Maddison Glendinning Date December 13, 2019 icon-facebook icon-twitter On a blisteringly cold day in late November, we went behind the pink door at Yorkville’s Cabine to meet with Hanna Ransjö and Hannah Louise Brewer, the duo behind handbag label HALM. Having flown in from
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(Reuters) – With the first Democratic nominating contests less than two months away, former Vice President Joe Biden is already looking beyond to Super Tuesday in March, when some of the biggest electoral prizes will be up for grabs. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a
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