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Multiple wildfires burn in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Photo: Communications Nova Scotia/The Canadian Press (AP)Canada is in for a fiery summer. Hundreds of active fires are burning across almost every single Canadian province and territory this week. And officials worry that this year will see higher than normal wildfire activity through August, the CBC reported. “We are already seeing one of the worst wildfire seasons on record, and we must prepare for a long summer,” Steven Guilbeault,…

At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsExcellent, fast performanceHDMI passthroughDoubles as an Echo DotConsExpensiveAd-heavy softwareOur VerdictThe 3rd Gen Fire TV Cube is one of the most powerful media streamers around, and pulls double duty as an Echo Dot equivalent, but the steep price is hard to swallow. Best Prices Today: Amazon Fire TV Cube (3rd Gen) $139.99…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y274jZs5s7s Listen, we love you, Russo brothers.Your directorial efforts gifted us both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the crown jewels of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and unprecedented capstones of one of the most ambitious cinematic projects in history. Indeed, there are nary enough pats on the backs for the Russos. Unfortunately, we’re now in the 2020s; a decade that’s so far seen the Russo brothers go from the kings of Marvel to the kings of weirdly repetitive…

J.R.R. Tolkien's magical The Lord of the Rings universe includes hobbits, elves, wizards, and now, a new genus of butterflies called Saurona after the dark lord Sauron."Naming a genus is not something that happens very often," said Blanca Huertas, a senior curator of butterflies at the Natural History Museum in London, in a release from the museum that announced the new name on Sunday.One does not simply walk into Mordor - but you can name #butterflies after its leader! 🦋A new group of butterflies has been named Saurona…

Chinese-American comic book artist Chu F. Hing's The Green Turtle in Blazing Comics may have been the first Asian-American superhero.The featured star of the short-lived title Blazing Comics from Rural Home Publications in 1944-1945, the Green Turtle was the creation of Chinese-American artist Chu F. Hing.  The five-issue run of the character in Blazing Comics featured the Green Turtle's adventures take place in China. It depicted the Chinese as heroes fighting against the Axis, a rarity in American comic books and the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMel Brooks has revealed that he was seriously considering giving up on the film industry before Blazing Saddles ended up being a hit.The comedian, 96, would go on to be one of the most successful directors of the Seventies, but began his career with a number of low-performing projects.Appearing on the River Cafe podcast Ruthie’s Table 4, Brooks opened up about this tough period of his…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press NEW YORK — “John Wick: Chapter 4,” the fourth installment in the Keanu Reeves assassin series, debuted with a franchise-best $73.5 million at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Lionsgate film, starring Reeves as the reluctant-but-not-that-reluctant killer John Wick, exceeded both expectations and previous opening weekends in the R-rated franchise. Since first launching in 2014 with “John Wick” ($14 million on its opening weekend), the Chad Stahelski-directed series…

“I never tell people where exactly I am and I won’t tell you which city I live in either,” says the sceptical, sardonic narrator of Your Driver Is Waiting, Priya Guns’s debut about social precarity and solidarity. “In our current times, a city is a place, is a space, is the same everywhere minus the design of buildings, the demographics, and the weather.” Thus Damani Krishanthan, a ride-share driver, establishes two things early on: that she’s in control at the wheel – choosing what to reveal to the reader and what to…

For just the seventh time ever, astronomers spotted an asteroid in space hours before it came falling down to Earth in a blaze.In images taken at 20:18:07 UTC on February 12, the asteroid 2023 CX1, also known as Sar2667, was spotted by astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky of Konkoly Observatory's Piszkéstető Station in Hungary. It appeared to be "nothing special at first", Sárneczky noted on Twitter – just a normal object in near-Earth space.But then the telescope recorded the asteroid a second time, and the discovery was…

Fire in the disco! Homebrew games have come a long way, and it’s looking like they might actually be a viable, albeit limited, business model. Boutique publishers have been testing the waters for a while, and we’ve gotten some good ones that play on their intended hardware. It’s an exciting time for someone as affectionate towards old consoles as I am. Though perhaps not for someone as financially strained as I am. First Press Games was willing to help out and actually sent me a physical copy of one of their NES titles,…