‘In The Heights’ is Hollywood going Bollywood in the best way

'In The Heights' is Hollywood going Bollywood in the best way

On June 10, I went back to the movies.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jon M. Chu’s In The Heights hit theaters and HBO Max on Friday, but finally seeing it confirmed what I suspected since the very first trailers debuted online:  For In The Heights, Hollywood went Bollywood.

I have waxed about Indian movie musicals at length on this website and others, but in recent years — especially since Aladdin — my frustration grew with Hollywood’s failure to realize the same potential in its own live-action musicals. I’ve run into this in my own experience as a part-time dancer, creating videos with various other performers and companies. Performance is different for an audience than a camera, right down to singing live versus lip-sync. Video choreography is often more intense since dancers can rest in between takes and only perform small sections at a time. Read more…

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Educators rally to #TeachTruth as the GOP tries to silence lessons on U.S. oppression

Educators rally to  #TeachTruth as the GOP tries to silence lessons on U.S. oppression

On Saturday, educators all around the U.S. made it abundantly clear that legal maneuvers aren’t going to stop them from bringing truth to the students in their classrooms.

The nationwide protest was conceived as a response to ongoing efforts by Republican lawmakers to set rules on what is and isn’t OK in U.S. classrooms, particularly when it comes to lessons on U.S. history. Despite the very real and proven roles that racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression have played in the development of U.S. society, the GOP’s ongoing culture war calls for patriotism to supersede the importance of facts in schools. Read more…

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Vin Diesel says ‘Fast and Furious’ saga will end in 2024

Vin Diesel says 'Fast and Furious' saga will end in 2024

After more than 20 years, the story of Dominic Toretto is drawing to a close — but not any time soon. Vin Diesel told The Associated Press on Thursday that after two more films, his chapter of the Fast and Furious saga will end in 2024.

“Every story deserves its own ending,” Diesel said during a F9 press junket. “I know people are going to feel like it doesn’t have to end, but I think all good things should,” he said. “There are reasons for a finale. I think this franchise has deserved it.”

That isn’t to say that there won’t be more Fast and Furious films period. Other characters could get spinoffs — like we already saw with Hobbs & Shaw — or the films could maybe even reboot one day with new cast members entirely. As long as the cars go vroom, we’re in. Read more…

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The ‘queer aesthetic’ is deeper than rainbow merch

The 'queer aesthetic' is deeper than rainbow merch

Mashable is celebrating Pride Month by exploring the modern LGBTQ world, from the people who make up the community to the spaces where they congregate, both online and off.


As well-intentioned as Pride merchandise may be, mullets and cuffed pants capture the “queer aesthetic” far better than anything dripping in rainbow logos. But that doesn’t mean they’re safe from rainbow capitalism. 

In a TikTok posted in April, Giulia Beaudoin asked viewers why a mirror selfie of someone with green hair, wire rimmed glasses, and black high-top Converse is “so much more gay” than a photo of herself dressed in rainbow suspenders and a hat emblazoned with “PRIDE.”  Read more…

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How to delete your Tinder account

How to delete your Tinder account

Well, the time has come to delete your Tinder account. Maybe you’re a lucky user who’s found your person! Or maybe you’re just sick of the fire emblem staring back at you every weekend night when you don’t have a date.

Either way, here’s how to do it.

How to delete your Tinder account

To permanently delete your Tinder account, you must be signed in either on the app or the browser site (Tinder.com). Tap on the profile icon, then go to Settings. Scroll down and click “Delete Account.”

How to delete your Tinder account

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Deleting the app from your smartphone won’t delete your account — nor will it delete your subscription if you’re a paid user. If you bought a subscription with your Apple ID or Google Play ID, you must cancel the subscription separately. Here are instructions for how to cancel an Apple subscription and how to cancel a Google Play subscription. Read more…

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If you’ve never seen an E3 showcase from Devolver Digital, it’s time to treat yourself

If you've never seen an E3 showcase from Devolver Digital, it's time to treat yourself

For most publishers and creators of video games, E3 is a time for business. Yeah, it’s fun to meet with the community and get those exciting reveals out. But ultimately, there’s a job to be done.

That’s just as true for Devolver Digital as it is for all the rest, but gaming’s most punk indie publisher hides it so well. Where you’d normally expect a major publisher like E3 to trot out the news in the most widely accessible way possible, Devolver gets weird. That was as true in 2021 as it’s always been.

If you really want to get all the in-jokes here — it’s a legit cinematic universe at this point — then you’ll want to go back and catch up with Devolver’s showcases from 2017, 2018, 2019, and yes, even 2020. But the deranged 2021 showcase is a totally enjoyable watch on its own, too.  Read more…

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How to cancel YouTube TV

How to cancel YouTube TV

If you’ve “cut the cord” with a YouTube TV subscription, but now you want to actually cancel YouTube TV itself, here’s how to do it.

Canceling or pausing YouTube TV on browser

On YouTube’s website, click on your avatar on the top right corner. Choose Settings from the dropdown menu. Then select Membership from the left-side menu. Under YouTube TV, you’ll see an option to “Pause or cancel membership.”

The former allows you to stop your membership from four weeks to six months. Your YouTube TV account will pause after the next billing date, and you won’t be charged during the pause period.

By pausing, you keep current library recordings but you won’t have access to YouTube TV or new recordings. All family accounts will be paused, as well. When the pause period is up, you will be charged and have access to all features again, or you can manually end the pause early and resume the membership whenever you’d like. If you’d rather pause your account, just click PAUSE. Read more…

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15 best anime series on Netflix to watch right now

15 best anime series on Netflix to watch right now

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Avatar and Mario + Rabbids highlight Ubisoft’s parade of E3 2021 reveals

Avatar and Mario + Rabbids highlight Ubisoft's parade of E3 2021 reveals

Ubisoft kicked off its weird and wild all-remote E3 on Saturday afternoon with a stage-free version of its annual parade of reveals.

The French publisher laid out a tantalizing lineup that includes a bevy of new games as well as an assortment of additions to older ones. The presentation covered an awful lot of ground, so let’s get right into it.

Rainbow Six: Extraction debuts

The next iteration of Ubi’s esports favorite, Rainbow Six: Siege, is taking things in a decidedly different direction. First announced in 2019 (and now sporting a new title, since the original Rainbow Six Quarantine hits differently in 2021), Extraction skips competitive players-versus-player action in favor of a cooperative experience. Read more…

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James Cameron’s world of Avatar returns to video games in 2022

James Cameron's world of Avatar returns to video games in 2022

It’s OK if you forgot there was already an Avatar game released in 2009. James Cameron and Ubisoft would probably prefer it that way, honestly. But it did happen, and it wasn’t exactly welcomed with open arms. The filmmaker and French publisher are teamed up again for another crack at the idea, in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

Ubisoft delivered a first look at the 2022 game to cap off its E3 2021 press conference. The purely cinematic look doesn’t offer a sense of the gameplay, but Cameron’s alien landscape along with the wide-open trailer at least suggests that Frontiers will offer some kind of riff on the publisher’s more recent takes on vast and lengthy “open world” games (think Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla). Read more…

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