If Pottermore and Harry Potter World hasn’t scratched the boy-wizard itch for you, an upcoming London pub may just be your ticket to wizardly bliss. Image courtesy of Food & Wine Magazine The Cauldron, set to begin its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on June 26th, is no ordinary themed bar. Dreamed up by American designer Matthew Cortland and his team of engineers, The Cauldron will utilize cutting-edge smart home technology in order to give patrons the illusions that they are real witches and wizards with actual magical abilities. Each visitor will be given sophisticated wands that will allow them to pour …
While Wonder Woman is out kicking butt and saving lives on the silver screen, an organization of women writers is making sure that her lasso of truth reaches young women learning how to be their own kind of superheroes. Image courtesy of Her Agenda On May 31st, the Legion of Women Writers, an advocacy group for women in the media and entertainment industries, started a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to send 70 high school-age girls to see Wonder Woman—the first big-budget superhero film directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins—in theaters. Co-leading the effort was the NYC branch …
On Saturday, June 3rd, I woke up, threw on my well-worn To Kill a Mockingbird T-Shirt, and sat in sanity-testing NYC traffic in order to attend the book mecca of the month: BookCon. Established in 2014 by exhibition company ReedPOP, the two-day convention is to book nerds what ComicCon is to, well, comic nerds – with acres upon air-conditioned acres devoted to books, booksellers, book creators and everyone who loves them. My mom, book-savvy woman that she is, knew to purchase tickets for the two of us several months earlier, so off we went to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to get our …
Fans of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice have seen quite a few fresh takes on the classic over the years: a modern rom-com (Bridget Jones Diary), a millennial vlogger series (The Lizzie Bennett Diaries), and even a madcap zombie thriller (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). But for the first time this week, Austen-ites will be able to see their beloved Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy reimagined as a same-sex male couple. Image courtesy of IMDb Before the Fall, which premiered on iTunes and Amazon Tuesday, moves the setting from the English countryside to modern-day rural Virginia, where …
‘Making a Murderer’. ‘Mommy Dead and Dearest’. ‘Serial’. There’s no denying that people are obsessed with true-crime stories. While most viewers get their true-crime fix through movies, TV and podcasts, there also exists a trove of true-crime literature just waiting to be explored. Here are seven terrific works that shed light on the darker and stranger aspects of real human lives (and deaths). 1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Arguably the book that founded the true crime genre, In Cold Blood documents the 1959 murder of a well-to-do Kansas farmer and his young family, …
