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It is December 2023, and Shabaka Hutchings has just played a gig at Saint John at Hackney church, London, performing John Coltrane’s 1964 album A Love Supreme. It was rapturously received, despite – or perhaps because of – Hutchings’ unorthodox approach to playing this revered text, the very cornerstone of spiritual jazz. There was no collective rehearsal – instead, Hutchings wrote “a really deep, long email” to his bandmates, ruminating on the meaning of the term spiritual jazz. “People say ‘spiritual jazz, spiritual…

Trash Can Children The Garbage Pail Kids are a bit out of my wheelhouse. I don’t particularly like gross-out humor. Even some of the stuff in Ren & Stimpy is too much for me. I respect gross-out humor. I think it’s probably healthy to find amusement in bodily functions that we all experience but, for some reason, choose to demonize. That doesn’t change things, though. It doesn’t tickle the atrophied humor muscle in my brain. Except for butts. Butts are forever funny. However, the NES is part of my domain. So when…

Cr. Sasidis Sasisakulporn/Netflix © 2022 Sometimes, audiences have no interest in watching anything groundbreaking, demanding, or thought-provoking, with the cinematic equivalent of comfort food and a warm hug taking precedence. Fortunately for those with a taste for the formulaic, Netflix released A Tourist’s Guide to Love at exactly the right time. Rachel Leigh Cook stars as a high-flying travel executive dealing with a breakup that came right out of the blue, which leads her to accept an undercover…

Last week, the Andrews McMeel Universal syndicate dropped Dilbert creator Scott Adams following racist statements he made on his “Real Coffee” YouTube show on February 22. The syndicate’s announcement came after Adams’ comments led several newspapers to drop his strip. While some outlets, such as The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, “decided to keep the space blank through March ‘as a reminder of the racism that pervades our society,'” per Associated Press, other newspapers have replaced Dilbert with a fresh,…

via XYZ Films Even the most hardened and scare-hungry of horror fans are well within their rights to roll their eyes should they happen upon yet another found footage terror, but last year’s He’s Watching ended up delivering a breath of fresh air into the lungs of a gimmick that had long since grown beyond stale. They say that limitations breed creativity, which certainly proved to be the case for writer and director Jacob Aaron Estes, who used what little resources he had at his disposal to craft a haunting…

The everyday puzzles keep the curiosity of the players guessing the word. Wordle can be paid for free on the New York Times website. The answers to the Wordle quiz on November 6 are here. Are you ready for today’s wordle solutions?Wordle is an online entertaining puzzle game that is owned by the New York Times. Everyday, a new word comes up, and players are given six attempts to guess the correct word. While guessing, the colour of the tiles changes to help players figure out the word. A grey letter indicates that it is…

via Sony There’s no denying that when it comes to sci-fi blockbusters, action comedies, or odd couple buddy cop capers, Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black is one of the finest examples we’ve seen since it first hit theaters 25 years ago. Trying to top it was a tricky task when the band got back together for a sequel, but MIIB always feels as though it’s content to do nothing more than go through the motions. Five years had passed by the time Will Smith’s Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K returned to the big…

When it comes to touchscreens and in-car entertainment, Aston Martin has not only lagged behind ultra-luxury rivals and Lamborghini and Bentley, it has trailed lower priced tech-forward models as well. Now, the automaker is preparing to catch up with a modern infotainment system that will be rolled out across its portfolio, starting this spring with the arrival of its next-generation of sports cars. Historically, infotainment hasn’t been a high priority for makers of high-performance cars. That’s especially true for…