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The long walk home
‘We Are Not Protesting Peace. We Are Demanding It’ Displaced Tigrayans call for the return to lands they never chose to leave, and a peace they’ve yet to see The morning sun rose over Mekelle to find them already there—displaced, grieving, but...

Crunchyroll Rolls Out Massive Summer 2025 Anime Series Lineup
Posted in: Anime, Crunchyroll, TV | Tagged: Crunchyroll Crunchyroll unveiled its massive Summer 2025 anime lineup of more than 40 titles. Here's a look at what's on tap over the next few months... It's that time of year again, the changing of the...

Happenings — what’s coming up in Northeast Ohio starting June 20
Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@morningjournal.com or entertainment@news-herald.com. You must include a phone number and/or web address...

Star students: The celebrities and royals who have studied at the world’s finest institutions
You know how it is - sometimes you think you know everything about someone, and they reveal something unexpected from their past. While we know the British Royal Family have plenty of hidden talents, they aren't the only ones who can shock with...

The Thackeray Truce
The Thackeray cousins circling each other again in public view feels like déjà vu soaked in nostalgia, but with a pragmatic edge. Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, scions of Maharashtra’s most emotive political surname, are no longer just...

Johnny Marr Net Worth 2025: The Guitar Genius Who Turned Down Smiths Millions
Johnny Marr Net Worth 2025: The Guitar Genius Who Turned Down Smiths Millions Few musicians possess the financial freedom to walk away from guaranteed riches, yet Johnny Marr embodies precisely this enviable position. The legendary Smiths...

TV tonight: how Serena Williams nearly became a punk guitarist
In the Arena: Serena Williams 11.10pm, BBC One The Williams sisters are almost always approached as a pair, sharing a destiny from early childhood. In this series, Serena tells her own story – though, of course, Venus chips in. The opening episode...

Crunchyroll Serves Up Jam-Packed Summer Anime Schedule with ‘Gachiakuta,’ ‘Dan Da Dan,’ ‘Kaiju No. 8’ & More
Summer is just around the corner, and things are heating up on anime destination Crunchyroll, which is planning a packed season of new and returning series. Fans can look forward to the premieres of Gachiakuta, Nyaight of the Living Cat,...

Seamus Heaney’s hidden spiritual life
This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. There will soon be a huge volume of collected Poems of Seamus Heaney (1,100 pages), to go with the hardback and paperback...

Star from Original Harry Potter Offers Advice for New Voldemort
With whispers swirling in the fan community, the upcoming Harry Potter TV reboot is already generating immense buzz. As the franchise endeavors to reclaim its former glory—particularly after the mixed reception of the Fantastic Beasts...

Russian Family History Comes to Life in Rich Historical Novel
A Family of the Old Russian Empire by Stanislas Yassukovich Yassukovich brings a lost world into focus — not as an abstract history, but as a living, breathing legacy. Some family stories are passed down in full color — told over dinner tables,...

The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Journalists & Their Shadows’
“Loyal to the orthodoxies imposed by employers” — Patrick Lawrence discusses the deterioration of journalism, the concern of his latest book. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Journalist...

Local chef Mawa McQueen makes her way to the grand stage for the first time at the Food & Wine Classic
The 42nd Food & Wine Classic returns to Aspen Friday through Sunday this week. Every year, vendors serve food and drinks in the festival’s grand tasting tent. For small businesses, there is a big price tag, and they have to weigh the pros of...

Paris’s largest hotel to open in 50 years marks its first anniversary
H4 Hotel Wyndham Paris Pleyel Resort marks a year since opening on 16 July 2024, days before the Olympic Games. With 697 rooms and suites, four diverse dining venues, a Skybar and pool with Paris views, and a 10,000 sqm convention centre, the...

12 Rare ‘Dark Shadows’ Photos: Barnabas Collins and More
For a generation of viewers in the late 1960s, Dark Shadows was a daily ritual of chills, romance, and gothic glamour accompanied by the common proclamation, “I used to run home from school to watch it every day.” Airing on ABC from 1966 to 1971,...

Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...6/19/254
By Danny Coleman originally published: 06/19/2025 "Reese Wynans, I came to know him when he joined Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble and then after Stevie Ray Vaughn was killed, he played with a lot of people but for the last few years he's...

Wes Anderson remembers to put humans in the dollhouses this time
In the 27 years since Wes Anderson made Rushmore, his movies have only become more deliriously decorative and ostentatiously ornamental. Among the things audiences will encounter in Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, are shoeboxes...

Go! & Do: Bend-area things to do for June 19-25
Go! & Do: Bend-area things to do for June 19-25 Published 9:00 am Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1/4 Swipe or click to see more Kate Hamberger will discuss her new book “Dances With Fire” on Thursday at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters. (Submitted...

Mahmoud Khalil Paid the Dollar Bond
The $1 bond was paid. But for someone so eager to torch the American house, Khalil is oddly determined to keep a room in it. On Friday, the only door that opened was the one back to his cell. Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia’s most litigious Gaza...

Anne Arundel to observe Juneteenth with music, parade
Across Anne Arundel County, groups are observing Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the enslaved people they were free — two years...