Alison

Amy Sussman/Getty Images) The Marvel fandom has powers of its own. When enough fans make it known that they want something, the studio sits up and listens. Demanding more Daredevil? Here’s an 18-part revival. Want to see John Krasinski as Mr. Fantastic? Doctor Strange 2‘s got you covered. So it’s no surprise that one wannabe MCU star is hoping to utilize the community to get themselves a part in the franchise. Yes, Alison Brie wants you to get her in the MCU. The GLOW actress has revealed that, although she has…

Preparing for SQL interviews?Photo by Agê Barros on UnsplashBetween timestamp, date, and time data types, SQL date/time functions can be quite confusing. In this blog, I will attempt to map out the common data/time commands in SQL interviews using PostgreSQL syntax.Before we start to code, let’s first pause and think about the elements in date/time representations. We know that time is linear, goes one way, and can be represented mathematically as a vector.Image by AuthorThe two key elements on the time vector t are…

Lizzy Stewart’s first full-length graphic novel reminds me both of the kind of novels I read when I was young (think early Margaret Drabble and Edna O’Brien) as well as some I’ve loved more recently (it has echoes of Tessa Hadley’s Clever Girl). It will also appeal to those who were stirred by Self-Portrait, Celia Paul’s memoir of her early life as an artist and of her relationship with Lucian Freud. But there is, of course, one crucial difference: Stewart uses pictures as well as words to tell her story, a tale that is…

‘You fascinate me, Alison,” says Patrick, “with your big eyes and that wretched jumper.” Patrick Kerr, who visits Alison’s Dorset town in the late 1970s to teach an art class, is the former enfant terrible of portraiture known as “the last great painter”. Alison is a newly married young woman baffled by adulthood. Kerr’s portraits of her – including Alison Reclines, Alison and Aspidistra and Alison Sleeps – will be highlights in his glittering career. But this isn’t his story. Instead, Stewart’s affectionate and…

My earliest memory? When my grandfather was ill in bed and I was taken upstairs to see him. I was really young, maybe two or three years old. I remember him holding my hand; I think he died the next day. For months, when I went back to my grandma’s house I’d ask to go and see him. I thought he was still in bed.I do enjoy a gin and tonic in the evening. I see it as a relaxing thing, particularly if I’ve been busy working. I look forward to that, and olives. My boys send me up rotten about the olives. They know I can’t have…

Caleb and Maeve team up again in season four.Photo: John Johnson/HBOWith Westworld now two episodes into its fourth season—and its seven-year time jump established—it’s clear that the HBO Max sci-fi series is navigating some fresh terrain as far as its setting goes. But for all the newness, there’s no escaping a certain... familiarity that hovers over certain scenes.As part of a recent press roundtable interview, io9 got a chance to ask Westworld executive producer, writer, and showrunner Alison Schapker about how season…

Singer-songwriter and actress Alison Sudol has released her new single ‘Meteor Shower’. Available to download and stream now courtesy of Kartel Music Group, ‘Meteor Shower’ is the follow-up to ‘Peaches’. The second single to be taken from Sudol’s upcoming new album, ‘Meteor Shower’ captures the starkness of the first morning after loss. Comments Sudol, “We had been up all night. When we came back from the hospital ,it was morning, that first powdery light just before the sun. The hills were silver and there was a…

Alison Cotton has long wuthered on the wilder fringes of folk music. She played the viola in folk-rock revivalists the Eighteenth Day of May (signed to Joe Boyd’s Hannibal label) and still performs in the Left Outsides, her duo with husband Mark Nicholas, casting traditional music’s spirits and sounds in uncanny colours. Her recent solo work has been even more eerie and filmic, a mood her latest album sustains, tightly lacing her voice and harmonium around influences from her native north-east England.Alison Cotton: The…

| Comic book artist Alison Sampson is best known for drawing comics such as Hit-Girl In India written by Peter Milligan, Steven King's Sleeping Beauties written by Rio Youers and Winnebago Graveyard written by Steve Niles. she also has a bunch of playing card covers spread out over a number of upcoming titles from other creators. But she is also writing he own comic for the first time, as part of the Tori Amos graphic anthology from Z2 Comics, with her story The Pool, based on the Tori Amos song of the same name. She…