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We know, there's been a lot of confusions about musicals these days, with all of those movies based on stage musicals and stage musicals based on movies and yada yada yada. Recent film releases like the Wonka prequel, the Mean Girls remake and The Color Purple musical got theatergoing audiences all in a tizzy when the movies' marketing seemingly didn't make it 100-percent clear that the projects were, in fact, of the musical variety. But color us extremely perplexed that the Internet is divided over what we considered a…

BYD’s answer to the Tesla Model Y is expected to begin rolling out in the first half of the year. Ahead of its official launch, the BYD Sea Lion 07 electric SUV’s specs have been revealed. BYD Sea Lion 07 specs leak ahead of official launch BYD unveiled the Sea Lion 07 in November at the 2023 Guangzhou International Auto Show. As its first mid-size urban SUV, the Sea Lion 07 is expected to rival Tesla’s best-selling Model Y. The EV’s design is led by former Audi and Lamborghini designer…

If you’ve missed the skeuomorphic design that went away in 2013 with macOS Yosemite, this app brings some of that back to the Menu Bar, and more.Called Lickable Menu Bar, you can download the app for free from the Mac App Store, which gives you the option to transform the Menu Bar into how it looked in three previous macOS versions. Furthermore, you can have the app launch once you log in, so the look of the MenuBar will stay that way without having to prompt it.Mavericks gives it a shadow, Catalina enables a flat style,…

By now Disney has adapted almost a dozen of its animated movies into stage musicals, but “The Lion King” is in a class by itself. Reconceived by visionary director Julie Taymor, who became the first woman ever to win a Tony Award for direction of a musical with this show, the 1997 musical is full of dazzling part-puppet animal costumes and a visual style heavily influenced by traditional African art. It’s a breathtaking spectacle that elevates the story into something much grander than the well-regarded 1994 film. You’ve…

China’s leading EV maker, BYD, revealed its first mid-size urban electric SUV Friday. BYD’s new Sea Lion 07 is poised to narrow the gap with Tesla as the brand takes on a new segment. BYD unveiled the Sea Lion 07 EV at the 2023 Guangzhou International Auto Show as it continues its dominant expansion. The company teased the new electric SUV’s design last week leading up to the release. Led by ex-Audi and Lamborghini chief designer Wolfgang Egger, the Sea Lion 07 almost resembles a combination…

The celebrity mountain lion known as P-22 was trapped and euthanised because of illness last year, after more than a decade stalking Los Angeles. P-22 was a metaphorical powerhouse: the American dream, human rapaciousness, immigration, fame, Hollywood masculinity – was there anything he couldn’t stand in for? His memorial service sold out in minutes; he kept many US journalists in gainful, precarious employment; and a version of him stars in Henry Hoke’s Open Throat.In Hollywood, cats have pronouns and this one’s are…

Over the past few years, non-human narrators have cropped up repeatedly in experimental fiction. There was the slowly decaying protagonist of Emma Glass’s Peach and, most recently, in Maddie Mortimer’s Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, the villainous voice of cancer spreading through a woman’s body, charting its journey with exquisite, sometimes menacing, lyricism.In Virginia-born Henry Hoke’s fifth book, Open Throat, Los Angeles’ much-adored mountain lion P-22 (so-called because it was the 22nd puma in a national park…

via Disney If Disney has its way – which hopefully it doesn’t – then The Lion King will continue to evolve and expand to the same level as Star Wars, which would sound ludicrous if those weren’t the exact words uttered by the guy who tends to oversee the majority of the studio’s live-action remakes. Following up Jon Favreau’s live-action blockbuster was cynical enough as it was, but well over $1.5 billion at the box office is going to embolden the Mouse House to squeeze just a little more juice out of a cash…

Image: DisneyThe Little Mermaid is only the newest of Disney’s animated adaptations. As live-action takes on Moana, Hercules, Lilo and Stitch, and Snow White are all churning their way through the Mouse House production factory, the man leading the “reimagination” is Walt Disney Pictures president Sean Bailey, who has at least 50 more projects waiting in the wings. Don’t Mess With Luthen and His Fricking Lasership | Andor ReviewThis figure comes courtesy of a new profile in the New York Times. Bailey—whose “division makes…

South African music is a confluence of paths; a plethora of hands, feet and voices crossing and moving ever forward, yet still interconnected. For that reason, attempting to unravel those strands and arrive at some singular core is a dizzying prospect, but the word “mbube” was at the heart of that inextricable weave during the earliest days of the country’s popular recorded music.Today, mbube describes a specific variety of South African choral music composed of multipart a cappella harmonies, usually sung by men, and…