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Instagram Memers Are Performing in Sold-Out Live Shows
At 9:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night in a small Manhattan comedy club, Annie Rauwerda brought down the full house with a PowerPoint slide, a blurry picture of Vienna bread illustrating a Wikipedia entry. The baked good was enhanced with motion-blur, looking inexplicably like an oncoming car. The audience, around a hundred 20- and 30-somethings,…
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Black Adam’s Atom Smasher and Cyclone on DC Aspirations and Comic Book Inspirations
“I’d like to punch Aquaman in his face.” That’s Noah Centineo, one of the stars of this week’s mega DC film Black Adam, when asked which DC hero he’d like to share the screen with. His co-star, Quintessa Swindell, said Rorschach from the Watchmen, and those two answers, different as they may be, tell you…
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Ghostbusters Day Reveals Not One, But Two New Movies
Yesterday, for Ghostbusters day, fans saw a glut of new content and announcements from the beloved paranormal franchise, from toys to television to new movies. Ghostbusters day is recognised ever June 8; the day the original 1984 film premiered in theatres. For a long time it was just another anniversidate, but now, well… everything’s a…
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New Subway Map Just Dropped
New York may get a reboot of the iconic 1970s subway map, if it likes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is currently testing an update in nine stations, including Times Square and Grand Central; the MTA’s chief customer officer Sarah Meyer tells the Wall Street Journal that it’ll replace the current one if it goes…