I say “trying” to eat dinner because my appetite had decreased over the previous week to a point where I was eating purely for sustenance. Two of my table companions were charming friends I had known for years. I picked at what must have been excellent pasta without tasting it. For no particular reason, the sense of encroaching doom was especially powerful that night. But the demented stoicism that depression imposes on behavior caused me to register scarcely a flicker of this inner devastation....

Swimming and diving are the biggest new feature in Nintendo’s popular Switch title, but players won’t be able to just jump right in upon booting up the game. There are a few simple steps to take before you’re able to swim in the ocean. The first is updating your Animal Crossing: New Horizons game to version 1.3. Your Nintendo Switch will usually update your titles automatically, but if it hasn’t, you’ll need to press the plus button over New Horizons, then select “Software Update,” then “via the internet” to make sure you’re on the latest version....

What is Dashboarding? In order to fully understand what dashboarding is, you must first know how Apex Legends ranked mode works. Similar to the competitive offerings of other modern shooters, players are assigned a rank based on their performance in highly skilled lobbies. Accrue enough points, and you just might reach the highest rank, Apex Predator. But, while points are awarded based on gameplay aspects like kills, assists and match placement, you might lose points based on the entrance cost of matches even or incur timed penalties....

What a long strange trip it’s been, these past 18 months. After America’s sense of security was blown up in its two most important cities, its people became their best selves, or tried to be. Worshipers who had fallen away returned to churches. Comfort foods were back in vogue, potpies and macaroni and cheese. Flag sales tripled at Wal-Mart. Everywhere people vowed to hug harder, call more often, keep in touch, stay home....

I’ve been sick since New Year’s Day, but if Michael Jordan can score 38 points in the NBA Finals with the flu, I can answer some questions, right? Oh, is it arrogant to compare myself to one of the greatest athletes of all time? Do you even know how much Gatorade I’ve been drinking? Let’s do this. That’s an adorable dog! And Fenway is a good dog name. I like what’s going on here....

“It’s for you, Chrysta!” my husband yelled from the kitchen without having to look. It had been this way all morning: one perfect stranger after another, standing on my porch, luggage by their side, arms out-stretched to hug me, their older sister. As another sibling walked through the front door, a bit shy, I was struck by a familiar, loud braying sound from the back of the house. It was my own laugh, complete with the guttural gasps for air....

Why Is ‘Atypical’ on Netflix Ending? There is bittersweet news for fans of Netflix’s Atypical. Despite the show’s success and huge following, Atypical will not be returning for a fifth season. The news was announced via the official Netflix Twitter account in February 2020, long before production for the fourth season was underway. A montage of the show’s standout moments over the past three seasons was attached, hitting fans right in the feels, to a tweet that read: “Join Sam on one last expedition....

The follow-up to his 2009 film Avatar, which is the highest-grossing movie in history, opened this past weekend at No. 1 at the box office. Like its predecessor, the sequel centers on a story about colonizers taking over land from tribes. In Cameron’s telling, the colonizers are humans who need a new inhabitable planet because Earth’s resources are becoming increasingly depleted. Also like its predecessor, the new Avatar film is being accused of using an amalgamation of the histories of various Indigenous cultures for a film that features a largely white cast....

The date, which was supposed to film in front of a live audience on Tuesday, was allegedly canceled because Weber fell ill, according to Reality Steve. The spoiler site claimed Weber came down with food poisoning, or something similar. Because of the cancelation, the cast of women, as well as a studio audience, were left wondering when the date would begin. Spoilers say the idea of the date was for the women to share awkward sexual encounters from their past on stage....

The four-part series takes audiences on a wild ride through the rise and fall of Sarma Melngailis, a vegan food restaurant, Pure Food and Wine, and the crimes committed by her and her then-husband, Anthony Strangis. Across four episodes, Melngailis, who served four months in prison on fraud charges, shares her side of the story, recalling some of her darkest moments and explaining how Strangis was able to defraud her of almost $2 million....

Bale returned to Tottenham on a season-long loan on Saturday, seven years after leaving the club to join Spanish champions Madrid for a then-world record fee of £85 million ($110m). The 31-year-old has enjoyed unprecedented success on the biggest stage at Santiago Bernabeu, winning two La Liga crowns and four Champions League titles, while recording over 100 goals for the Blancos across all competitions. However, he fell out of favour after Zinedine Zidane’s return to the club in March 2019, and saw his commitment on the pitch and conduct off it called into question on multiple occasions throughout the 2019-20 season....

This, of course, left the show with a dilemma: how to deal with Kate Kane no longer being the main character and how to get the Batwoman cowl and cape to Wilder. In the end, Batwoman Season 2, Episode 1, streaming now on The CW website and app, the show dealt with Rose leaving in a way that explains what happened to Kate Kane while technically leaving the possibility open that Rose can return in the future....

To his friends it made sense. “He did this to stop the Israeli government from committing suicide,” insists Barbara Ginsburg, a fellow radical from the late Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Kach movement. “He was not insane.” Observed an elderly man in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood, where Goldstein was raised: “Benjie was always an extremist.” Goldstein’s parents, both school employees, raised three strictly Orthodox-and opinionated-children; Benjie used to argue with the local rabbi....

As a home-grown talent to have emerged from the academy system at Old Trafford, the former Red Devils defender spent much of his career enjoying the upper-hand over local rivals. Mou: Derby not about me and Pep The tide has turned somewhat in recent years, though, with the arrival of Sheikh Mansour at the Etihad Stadium having allowed City to become two-time Premier League champions. “When you talk about Manchester City’s best Premier League XI you have to talk about the last five years because before that the teams and players fell well short,” Neville told Sky Sports ahead of making his selection....

According to the official Emmys website, the AMC drama nabbed about seven nominations, including Best Drama Series. Although Giancarlo Esposito earned a nod for Supporting Actor, his co-stars did not receive the same recognition. This is a shame because Seehorn gave such a riveting performance in the season 5 episode, “Bad Choice Road.” In the suspenseful scene, the drug lord Lalo (Tony Dalton) drops by unannounced at Kim’s apartment. Lalo suspects Kim’s partner, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), of lying to him....

The video was first premiered on the show’s live feeds, which can only be accessed with a subscription on the CBS All Access website. It was not featured in the televised show, though outlets like TMZ have video of the comment. Viewers have been calling Matthews racist essentially since the start of the show, when it seemed he was involved in evicting only people of color from the house. So far, three people have gone home....

The new addition to the Blade Runner franchise stars Jessica Henwick in the lead role of Elle, a female replicant who has lost her memory and is searching for answers on how she came to be. Henwick spoke to Newsweek about the series, how co-directors Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama honored the legacy of Ridley Scott’s classic film, and her thoughts on being a lead alongside Will Yun Lee....

Cable news television pundits and journalists on Twitter kicked off the “shallow” analysis early Wednesday morning as Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said Mueller is entering his “TV stage” of bringing the 400-plus page written report to Congress under heavy live coverage. On Sunday, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff said he hoped Mueller would bring the Russia investigation “to life” for both Washington lawmakers and average Americans who never read the lengthy report....

The follow up to the 2006 hit—Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan—was reportedly shot during the coronavirus pandemic this year. The sequel is said to be titled Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan. The title has been submitted to the Writers Guild America but there is a chance it could change....

The eldest Bridgerton feels he must fulfil his duties as heir to the family name by finding a wife, and he does so by finally entering the marriage market. But when Anthony sets his sights on Edwina Sharma (Charithra Chandran) he is thwarted at every turn by her sister Kate (Simone Ashley), and their animosity soon turns into a fiery passion. Warning this article contains spoilers for ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2...