It took Lloyd Devereux Richards 14 years to write his first novel. But it was his daughter's 12-second TikTok video that finally turned it into a hit. Richards, 74, wrote Stone Maidens on evenings and weekends, in between working a full-time job as a corporate attorney at a Vermont insurance company, and taking care of his children. When he finally published it in 2012, it only sold a few dozen copies here and there.

One that manipulates objects and everything.

A piece by the artist Banksy that appeared in Margate, Kent, on Valentine's Day is to be moved to the town's Dreamland theme park. The mural, called "Valentine's Day Mascara", shows a 1950s housewife with a swollen eye and missing tooth, apparently shutting a man in a freezer. The real-life freezer was removed and returned twice in the days following the mural's appearance.

Finding and figuring out which is which is not the easiest thing to do, and many people spend all of their days being content with not knowing the difference. For me, it took a lot of death to find what keeps me alive.

Tom Brady said on a recent episode of his “Let’s Go!” podcast with Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray that Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was “probably a good thing for the NFL.” Brady led the New England Patriots to victory that year over the Carolina Panthers, but it was the halftime show that had the nation talking.

The 10th annual Marilyn Jetty Swim has reached a fundraising milestone, raising $1 million for cancer research.

Playboi Carti was arrested in Georgia for allegedly choking his pregnant girlfriend following an argument over a paternity test. According to the arrest affidavit, obtained by TMZ, the woman told police the rapper grabbed her by her throat and pushed her, holding her neck until she could barely breathe. She even told cops she thought she was going to die.

In between star-studded advertisements and a whole lot of football, this year’s Super Bowl watchers are being taken to church. “He Gets Us,” a campaign to promote Jesus and Christianity, is running two ads during the game as part of a staggering $100 million media investment. To many, the spots will be nothing new: “He Gets Us” content has been peppering TV screens, billboards and social media feeds since a national launch in 2022.

There’s a reason that Mandalorian armour became such a big deal in the Star Wars galaxy: simply put, it looks cool as hell. That distinctive helmet and breastplate made Boba Fett an instant hit with fans everywhere for decades – and Din Djarin has more than picked up that mantle in The Mandalorian, bringing serious swagger and slick, stoic stature to the tradition Mandalorian get-up. This really is the way. But while Mando looks undeniably awesome from the outside, the reality of being inside that suit is altogether different.

The hallway outside of the engineering classroom at Stillwater High became a runway on a recent morning for a special guest testing out some new gear crafted by students. With some encouragement, Sadie, a three-legged brown and white Brittany Spaniel took a few hesitant hops before taking off down the corridor in a makeshift cart of PVC pipe, swivel wheels and a few sponges for added padding.

Get out your membership cards. The last Blockbuster store in the US is planning to run an ad during the Super Bowl. No, a bunch of late fees didn’t suddenly appear in its bank account. The store, located in Bend, Oregon, won’t be buying a seven-milliion-dollar TV spot. Instead, it’s streaming on Instagram. It will also play it on a VHS tape at the store, then will make the tape available for rent at $2 per day.

The Ford Bronco is as all-American as Coca Cola and McDonalds. Its sturdy, utilitarian design kept America moving from the 1960s to the ‘90s, battling with Jeep and Toyota for the 4x4 crown. It was originally the smaller underdog, with a short wheel base and removable roof, but it eventually morphed into a bigger, bolder wagon like its competitors. It outdid them in the celluloid stakes though, featuring in numerous TV shows and films over the years.

Many Apple users have complained that their older iPhones were losing battery life, heating up, and becoming slower with each new iOS update. It was speculated that Apple was intentionally slowing down older devices to encourage users to buy new iPhones. Back in 2017 Apple confirmed that they were indeed slowing down older devices, but for a different reason. They claimed that they were doing it to prevent unexpected shutdowns caused by aging batteries, which was actually doing exact opposite.

Two Spanish officials were fired this week after the country spent $276 million on trains that were too large to fit in the rail network's tunnels.

For the most part, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s recent new-gen patch is everything fans could’ve wanted. The detail I don’t remember anyone asking for though was the inclusion of realistic vaginas but that’s seemingly what we’ve got because we live in a truly cursed world.

It's a story that became one of Hollywood's most intriguing mysteries, got fact-checked by Snopes and entered "East Coast lore" (according to Q host Tom Power): on the final day of shooting for Titanic in Dartmouth, N.S., dozens of the film's cast and crew were drugged with PCP-spiked chowder.

Rape jokes, racism, bullying - if you've picked up a controller, or scrolled a mouse, to dabble in some online gaming then you've likely come across plenty. The gaming industry, like others where people interact online, has been trying to figure out how to get to grips with behaviour like this for years.

If you’re thinking about retiring abroad, you’ll need a lot of information to find the best places to retire around the world. But, more importantly, you require guidance on how to interpret that data. That is why the experts at internationalliving.com created the 2022 Annual Global Retirement Index: to assist you in the exciting business of determining where in the world will best suit your needs.

The furor over a Chinese spy balloon that flew over U.S. airspace has further chilled D.C.-Beijing tensions, but the entertainment industry already has been swept up in the heightened atmosphere of American hawkishness. Hollywood studios and producers are poised to get a new level of scrutiny over their dealings with China — reflecting a bipartisan hardline toward Beijing and escalating concerns over its influence.

Singers Sam Smith and Kim Petras delivered a devilish performance at the Grammys on Sunday night, and it has many conservative commentators in a Satanic panic. During the awards ceremony, Smith and Petras performed their song "Unholy," with Smith clad in a top hat featuring red devil horns and surrounded by red-robed female dancers.