FANGIRL ALERT: Imagine Dragons Release New Album, SMOKE + MIRRORS

I was working on my thesis like a real student should when tweets started popping up on my Twitter timeline: Read our review of @ImagineDragons' new album "Smoke + Mirrors" http://t.co/cBJKNQekqL pic.twitter.com/guUgJKDqIM — billboard (@billboard) February 18, 2015 LISTENED TO SMOKE + MIRRORS LAST NIGHT DA HELL I CANT EVEN LIKE SHOTS AND FRICTION AND […]

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Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Is Getting a Sequel, And It Could Be the Best or Worst Thing

Harper Lee said it definitively 55 years ago: To Kill a Mockingbird would be her last novel. The heavens have smiled upon us, however, because Harper Lee has announced that she’s to publish her second novel… AND IT’S A SEQUEL TO TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. To Kill a Mockingbird — the American classic that is known […]

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Stephen Fry Lead Campaign to Overturn Gay Convictions

It’s hard not to fall in love with Benedict Cumberbatch these days, especially when he plays the gay card. In his newest film, The Imitation Game, Cumberbatch brings to life Alan Turing, the famous English computer scientist and mathematician who helped the Allied forces break the Nazis’ “Enigma” code during World War II. Despite his wartime triumphs, Turing’s […]

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Emma Watson Is “Belle” in the Upcoming Beauty and the Beast Live-Action Movie, and We’re Thrilled

For a while now, Emma Watson has been rumored to play the live-action version of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. While the speculations were there, it took 4 years to actually, finally, confirm anything. This was due largely to the film’s change of directors and film distributor. Finally, however, on January 27, 2015, Emma took to […]

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#UseMeInstead: Members of the Lutheran Clergy Use Social Media to Protest Racist Police Actions

The recent story of the North Miami Beach police officers using mug shots of African Americans as target practice has sparked national outrage, and it has inspired a number of human rights activists, Florida residents, and, most especially, members of the Lutheran clergy to speak out. In December, Sgt. Valerie Deant went to a shooting […]

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