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Quincy Homere, who pleaded guilty, in July, to the manslaughter of Chinx in 2015, has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, Fox 5 New York reports. Melinda Katz, the Queens district attorney, said in a statement, “Homere fired numerous rounds into Pickens’ car while he was stopped at a red light in Briarwood and […]
The stars of Daredevil: Born Again on the connections to the original Netflix series: “Our history stands.” When it was first announced that Charlie Cox would be returning for Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, there was a question of how closely it would (or wouldn’t) connect to the original Netflix series. Cox, along with fellow […]
Sim racing is a lot more complex than playing Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit. You need buttons for all kinds of stuff, from headlights to brake balance to traction control. If you want to control all that in an intuitive and realistic manner, you’ll want to build yourself a decent button pad like [Chris Haye] has […]
Aside from my little micro-climate pocket of perpetually foggy San Francisco, August is blazing sunshine, sweaty days, and warm nights everywhere. This calls for quick, simple meals that allow you time to just chill out, preferably in the shade with an icy cold drink in hand. The abundance of fresh, peak seasonal produce like corn, […]
Louisiana’s public school system is ranked 49th out of the 50 states of our Republic. That’s 49th in quality, 47th in dropout rate, 47th in reading scores, 48th in math and 43rd in the percentage of threatened or injured high school students. Such egregious marks for the Bayou State’s quality of education cry out for […]
Charles, Mabel, and Oliver’s podcast is in no danger of running out of murder mysteries to solve. Just consider the Season 3 finale of Only Murders in the Building, which premiered on Oct. 3, 2023, on Hulu — it ended with another shocking demise, this time of a beloved character. Thankfully, viewers don’t have to […]
This week, Fujifilm made several announcements about its Instax brand of instant cameras and film. The first is that it’s producing two limited edition colors of its Instax Mini Evo hybrid camera to celebrate the company’s 90th anniversary, which occurred earlier this year. The bundle includes the camera, which can capture digital images and print […]
“When the pandemic began in March 2020, my freelance work went away, suddenly and completely,” writes recipe developer Caroline Chambers, aka “Caro,” in the introduction to her new cookbook What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking. Lucky for all of us, Caro, also a former caterer, decided to turn her attention to the […]
A friend of mine is pregnant and it’s reminding me how exciting it was to name our own kids. We love traditional names (aka: old-fashioned names, aka classic names) and both of our children are named after our grandparents – one on John’s side and one on my side. So I had fun putting together […]
