Beloved

For six years, and with the help of two supervising chefs, Comal Heritage Food Incubator has worked with nearly 40 immigrant and refugee entrepreneurs, training them to start their own food businesses. But coming out of a long stretch of pandemic setbacks, the nonprofit lunch restaurant needs help securing a longer future in Denver, starting with the hiring of a new head chef. “We’re looking for a really special person who can both manage a non-profit training program and run a full-fledged lunch restaurant,” said Matthew…

BioWare games have developed a reputation for producing some of the finest player-driven romances in video games. In service to that reputation, the BioWare store is filled with all sorts of bits and bobs designed to entice players to buy things that’ll display their love for a certain character. In its latest merchandise drop, the brilliant bastards at BioWare are capitalizing on that devotion in a genius way with a “Romance bundle” dedicated to Dragon Age Origins’ cheese-loving heartthrob Grey Warden, Alistair…

The late Bernard Cribbins’ career spanned seven decades, ranging from memorable roles in The Railway Children and Fawlty Towers to narrating several stories for the classic children’s series Jackanory.One of the most familiar faces on British television, he became famous for a new generation of viewers as recurring character Wilfred Mott in the revamped Doctor Who – more than four decades after he appeared in the movie Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD alongside Peter Cushing.As well as finding time to make novelty records…

Reese Witherspoon is back at it again. She turned readers onto “Where the Crawdads Sing” by selecting it in her Hello Sunshine Book Club in September 2018, helping to turn the page-turner into a best-selling phenomenon. Now she’s hoping to further broaden its reach with a film adaptation, on which she is a producer. But will “Crawdads” the movie appeal to those who haven’t read it (myself included) as well as satisfy legions of fans? We’ll find out this weekend when it and another film based on a lesser known novel, “Mrs.…

Stranger Things was first introduced back in 2016, but a lot of things have changed since then, including the cast and monsters. Stranger Things season 1 gives fans a lot of favourite characters and for sure fans also hate Joe Keery’s Steve then. Often seen as the babysitter of the cast’s main group of kids, he looks after his friends with a genuine faithfulness that has now captured the hearts of millions. Harrington may be fictional, but the actor who plays him, Joe Keery, is very real and fans loved him a lot.…

Every technology user is different, and even in an era where large displays and swipey gestures are the norm, there are still users who believe “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Movie star Chris Evans was not ready to part ways with his iPhone 6S in an Instagram post he published with his beloved 2015 iPhone. “I’ll miss your home button”, writes Evans in his Instagram post’s heart-felt ode to his six-year-old iPhone. “I won’t miss the nightly battle of trying to get your charge. Or your grainy pictures. Or your…

This week in the Small Press Spotlight we have a new one-shot by Natasha Alterici (Heathen) and Literati Press Comics & Novels entitled Haunted, Beloved. Set to release on July 20, the comic is “a story about love, death, grief, and closure.” The one-shot also marks Alterici’s return to drawing a full issue after developing a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome.  Read details from the publisher about the comic here: “The characters in Haunted, Beloved grapple with loss and loneliness in this sweet, supernatural…

Remember Duke Nukem? The original video game and its two sequels were all the rage in the early-mid ‘90s, and along with a variety of spinoff games that followed at the end of that decade and into the 2000s, the property made a major comeback in 2011 with Duke Nukem Forever. Additionally, a Duke Nukem movie has been in and out of development for more than two decades, and today brings word that this project is back on track, this time with some Cobra Kai talent guiding it along.Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz…

Michael J. Fox, one of the most iconic actors of the '80s, is notable for a number of the roles he’s played in his lifetime, from Alex Keaton on Family Ties and Scott Howard in Teen Wolf, to later projects like The American President, Stuart Little, Spin City and The Good Wife (where he enjoyed playing “such a dick”). But you can’t mention his highly regarded career without conjuring images (and quotes) from likely his most well-known role — Marty McFly in the Back to the Future saga. Fox starred in three movies for the…

First things first, I know that no review can ever affect a juggernaut like Jurassic World Dominion. No matter what the critics of the world write about this film, it will end up a blockbuster, earning over half a billion dollars worldwide and further cementing Chris Pratt’s status as a bankable leading man. But that would not change the fact that Jurassic World Dominion is a tired, half-hearted attempted at creating nostalgia. It is a shallow, predictable film packaged as a visually-spectacular tentpole blockbuster. It…