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Jaehyun is one of the biggest superstars on the K-pop scene, and we want Just Jared readers to get to know him even better.

The 27-year-old Nct member and solo star recently made his solo debut with J – The 1st Album, led by the focus track “Smoke.”

The eight-track album features Jaehyun’s songwriting and composition skills throughout, and also includes R&b bangers, slow jams and ballads like “Roses” and “Flamin’ Hot Lemon,” as well as “Dandelion” and “Completely,” “Easy,” and “Can’t Get You.”

If you didn’t know, the talented singer is also part of the sub-units Nct 127 and Nct DoJaeJung.

Listen to J – The 1st Album and learn 10 Fun Facts about Jaehyun inside…

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10 Fun Facts About Jaehyun

1. A song that’s been on repeat for me recently is Jaehyun’s “Can’t Get You.”

2. One of my favorite childhood memories...

Great American Family Channel news reveals your ultimate guide to Great American Christmas movies. Here’s what to watch this 2024 holiday season

Great American Family Channel News – Two Candace Cameron Bure Holiday Movies And More

Great American Family is preparing for the exciting Great American Christmas 2024! This marks the fourth year of this festive celebration, featuring not just one, but two holiday films starring Candace Cameron Bure.

Additionally, the PenaVegas are making their debut with a holiday movie for Gaf and Mario Lopez has joined the network, adding to the star-studded lineup that includes Cameron Mathison. Plus, a unique holiday adaptation of Little Women from the co-creator of When Calls The Heart.

And Candace’s daughter, Natasha Bure, will also be appearing in at least one of the holiday films; fans of this network have some exciting movies to anticipate! Keep in mind that the holiday programming kicks off in mid-October,...

Update (5/7): The Podcast Academy has tapped Cameron Esposito to host their inaugural ceremony, held on May 16th. Rainn Wilson, Hank Azaria, Este Haim, Kenan Thompson, Darren Criss, Neil Strauss, Whitney Cummings, Ashley Flowers, DeRay Mckesson, and others will present awards.

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The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for their inaugural Awards for Excellence in Audio, a.k.a. the Ambies.

Matthew McConaughey, Tessa Thompson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malcolm Gladwell and Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the 164 nominees in 23 categories that include Best Performer in Audio Fiction, Best Podcast Host,...

Stars: Barbara Crampton, Sophie Stevens, Ludovic Hughes, Lukas Loughran | Written and Directed by Andy Collier, Toor Mian

[Note: With the film out digitally in the UK from Monday, March 15th, here’s a reposting of our review of Sacrifice from its screening last year at Frightfest]

Inspired not only by a short story called Men of the Cloth, Sacrifice is Very heavily influenced by the works of H.P. Lovecraft; a writer whose influence has always been felt on the genre but whom, it seems, looks to have a resurgence amongst independent filmmakers – with Sacrifice the second film in as many film festivals to have a direct link to the stories, and more specifically the mythos of Lovecraft’s work.

Sacrifice tells the story of New York-based Isaac who, after the death of his mother, returns, along with his pregnant wife Emma, to the Norwegian village on a remote island of his birth to deal with an unexpected inheritance. There they find themselves caught in a waking nightmare as an ancient frightening...

It's a super proposal for one fabulous supermodel. On Monday morning, Victoria's Secret Angel Josephine Skriver had some big news to share on social media. As it turns out, she's engaged to boyfriend Alexander DeLeon. "I Said Hell-freakin'-yes!!!! I'm Engaged," she wrote on Instagram with several photos from the romantic moment. "For the first time in both of our lives we got to see the northern lights decide to show their dance across the starry night!! It was a full moon... it was on the 23rd (23 is my lucky number).. and the same day as his song 'Aurora Borealis,' which was the first song he Ever wrote about me, came out to the world! Sometimes the universe just chooses to...

With Canada’s 150th birthday around the corner, the Canadian Mint has responded by issuing new special-edition $2 coins that depict a pair of people rowing in a canoe while the Northern Lights glimmer overhead. Even cooler: the Aurora Borealis part of the Toonie glows in the dark, a unique made-in-Canada feature you’re not going to […]...

Meghan Markle is meeting the family!

On Tuesday, Prince Harry introduced his girlfriend to sister-in-law Princess Kate and niece Princess Charlotte, The Sun reported.

Kate, who celebrated her 35th birthday on Monday, traveled from her Norfolk home Anmer Hall down to London on Tuesday for the meeting — which took place at the Kensington Palace apartment she shares with Prince William and their family. Prince George stayed behind for school, but 20-month-old Charlotte joined her mom on the trip.

Markle, 35, had already met William two months ago. In November, William sent a message of support about his brother’s relationship.

As for her meeting with Kate,...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's relationship shines just as bright as the Northern Lights.  As E! News previously reported, the redheaded royal kicked off 2017 by whisking his girlfriend away for a super private stay in Norway. The lovebirds spent a few days taking in the picturesque sights of the northern European country.  According to multiple outlets, Harry and Meghan traveled to the remote town of Tromso where they enjoyed whale-watching, spent the night under the Aurora Borealis and took part in a bevy of other winter-themed activities.  So how much did the romantic getaway cost the pair? Well, if the Suits star and her man did in fact...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have taken their first romantic getaway together.

The royal, 32, and the Suits actress, 35, recently traveled to Tromsø, Norway where they enjoyed “whale-watching, sunsets in the snow and watched the Aurora Borealis,” according to The Sun.

The couple, who departed from England on Monday after spending the New Year together, may have even bundled up in their matching beanies and worn their matching bracelets!

“Harry wanted to make this first holiday something will never forget. It wasn’t an obvious choice like a glitzy beach resort or tropical island,” a source told the publication. “He’d...

World Of Warships gets its first big content update this week, according to Wargaming. Two new maps, a new game mode and a bunch of tweaks are headed our way.

You can watch the video above to get an idea of all the new stuff coming with the substantial patch – including various tweaks to existing maps and balancing adjustments – or see below to get the hard details on the brand new content coming with patch 0.5.1.

New Maps:

Northern Lights, a re-imagining of a once-familiar locale, doused in darkness and the spectacle of the Aurora Borealis.

Land of Fire, inspired by South America.

The Trap, which is modelled on the fierce battles between U.S. and Japanese fleets, complete with an active volcano.

New Game Mode – Zone:

Pits opposing teams in contention of one giant base in the middle of a map. However, this base only becomes available for capture two minutes into the battle.

Whenever someone asks me whether they should be watching Heroes Reborn, my answer is always some sort of nonverbal groan-shrug, followed by a crucial caveat: It’s got a predetermined lifespan, at least. Knowing that we’ve got an end date, a set universe in which only so many things can happen, has managed to soften each blow whenever the show flaunts its dumber elements (video-game powers, L.L. Bean models controlling the Aurora Borealis) with the assurance that, “Shh, hush, now, it won’t last forever.” It’s actually kind of a consolation blessing, one that says that NBC and Reborn’s showrunners have a mature awareness of and respect for both the franchise’s completely batshit nonsense and the somehow-still-dedicated Heroes fanbase keeping the series on the air; in other words, if its writers want so badly to break all of their own narrative rules, they might as...

Read More: Watch: Here's How to Create the Magic Behind Cloud Tanks Joey Shanks has recreated supernatural weather using cloud tanks and has rebuilt the "Interstellar" black hole using in-camera elements, and now the special effects maestro is back with a new instructional video courtesy of PBS Digital Studios and Shanks FX. In the clip above, Shanks recreates the Aurora Borealis using nothing but colored sheets of fabric and a handful of small fans. The new video is one of four episodes highlighting the effects work Shanks utilized for his new film, "Spectrum." Find out more about the project at its Kickstarter page here, and check out all of Shanks' FX tutorials on his Youtube page. Read More: Attention, Filmmakers: Here's How to Create Holograms In Camera...

Aurora BorealisMy recent films are 3D images of nature and people in the environment. There is no narrative or no scripted work along with 3D images. I may call my films visual essays or poems.My approach to 3D films is to visualize and experience actual existences substances that are real in normally impossible ways without using any CG.I am originally a Holography artist. Holography is a totally different medium, and has different vocabulary. It invades our space yet co-exists. It creates an illusion and that is why holography is so special. But very few holography works are taken seriously by the world of art. I am afraid that 3D films might have similar fate. Amusement park-type 3D effects are still wanted by many.By contributing part of the technical side of my work, I hope you find my aesthetic intention. I also hope that by sharing technical methods...

On Unknown Mortal Orchestra's new single, "Can't Keep Checking My Phone," the New Zealand (now Portland-based) trio imagines a world in which we are all less dependent on our overpriced data plans and online-dating apps. Or, as lead singer-songwriter Ruban Nielson tells Vulture:"Cant Keep Checking My Phone" is about missing somebody and that point where you refuse to accept online "connectivity" as a substitute for being with someone Irl. When someone you love turns into texts and ideas delivered through a device, at some point, they’re competing with real things, like the Aurora Borealis, which is another thing that only really makes sense in the flesh. I also read somewhere that the universe might be holographic, and in that case, maybe the distance between us is just an illusion. So do you fall in love with the idea of someone? Or the chemicals they give off in person?...

There was once this show called Heroes. It aired on NBC and tapped into the superhero-obsessed zeitgeist long before anyone truly understood that such a market even existed. With half-a-dozen comic book-inspired TV series on the air right now, one might suggest that Heroes was ahead of its time, at least, before the show started its long death march to cancellation, declining in quality year after year till no one cared anymore.

Last year, NBC announced that they were planning on bringing back Heroes in 2015 as Heroes Reborn, and even though only two roles have been cast, and not a frame of footage has been captured, the network has used the occasion of the Super Bowl to tease the return of the show.

Though the preview is extremely brief, we see Jack Coleman returning as Noah “Horn-Rimmed Glasses” Bennet from the original series, and Chuck star Zachary Levi in a mysterious new role.

Rob counts down the top 50 episodes of TV's longest-running animated series, The Simpsons...

Since its debut in 1989, across 552 episodes and 25 seasons, The Simpsons has become one of the most revered and beloved TV programmes of all time. It’s a true cultural phenomenon that’s influenced not just animation, but all areas of TV comedy and sitcom. For so many of us, its quotes and catchphrases have permeated our everyday vernacular, from single words like “crisitunity” and “embiggen” to phrases “you don’t win friends with salad” and “everything’s coming up Milhouse.”

Personal opinions may vary, but for me the show’s peak years were from season 4 through to 10. They’re consistently funny, all killer and no filler runs with barely a dud episode to be found between 1992-1998. Past this point the standard becomes a little more mixed, and recent seasons have been distinctly average at best. The...

[As you probably already know, starting on Thursday, August 21, Fxx is running the Every Simpsons Ever Marathon, running through all 552 episodes of "The Simpsons," plus "The Simpsons Movie." To aid in your viewing process, Team HitFix is selecting our favorite episodes from each day, plus an episode or two that you can skip and use as a bathroom or nap break.] Day 4 of Fxx's Every Simpsons Ever Marathon really is where the show hits its peak. It's possible that it can't equal the heights of Day 2 and Day 3, but there's a depth to the episodes between "Round Springfield" and "Grade School Confidential" that no other day can top. How good is this day? I even like the big Abe episode, "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish.'" How good is this day? We didn't even consider "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" and it includes the immortal line, "To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." And we considered, but didn't write up "Homer's Phobia," with John Waters in one of the show's best guest vocal turns. And nobody even mentioned "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" even though Homer's Guatemalan insanity pepper hallucination is an aesthetic highlight.

Meet Earth’s cousin planet, Kepler-186f, discovered by Nasa’s Kepler Space Telescope in mid-April.

First Earth-Sized Planet Discovered In Habitable Zone

Located 490 light-years away from Earth, Kepler-186f is the first Earth-sized planet discovered outside our solar system that sits within the “habitable zone” of the star it orbits. The habitable zone is the area around a star “where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.” Other exoplanets have been discovered within habitable zones, but none of them have been Earth-sized.

“The discovery of Kepler-186f is a significant step toward finding worlds like our planet Earth. Future Nasa missions… will discover the nearest rocky exoplanets and determine their composition and atmospheric conditions, continuing humankind’s quest to find truly Earth-like worlds,” said Nasa’s Astrophysics Division Director Paul Hertz.

While Kepler-186f may seem a lot like Earth, many factors have yet to...

The success of Disney’s animated behemoth Frozen is something that was hard to imagine last November. The studio had not put a lot behind the film’s marketing campaign (save a misleading trailer that focused on comic relief characters Sven and Olaf) and sandwiched the release between two major box office guarantees, the sequels to The Hunger Games and The Hobbit. But, audiences of young girls and their parents could not get enough of the touching story of two sisters, as well as the delightful musical numbers. (We really need to let it go with all of the “Let It Go” videos online.) Word-of-mouth quickly spread and at the time of the film’s Blu-Ray and DVD release, it still lingers in the lower part of the weekend box office Top 10 – 16 weeks after it opened. Also, the film is the biggest animated hit in Disney’s history, internationally (although...

Featuring the Academy Award winning score by Steven Price, Mondo's Gravity Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2Xlp is pressed on 180 gram black vinyl (and randomly-inserted variant colorway vinyl) and comes in a deluxe gatefold jacket designed by artist Kevin Tong. This limited edition release is now available for pre-orderHERE. Track listing: 1. "Above Earth" 2. "Debris" 3. "The Void" 4. "Atlantis" 5. "Don't Let Go" 6. "Airlock" 7. "Iss" 8. "Fire" 9. "Parachute" 10. "In the Blind" 11. "Aurora Borealis" 12. "Aningaaq" 13. "Soyuz" 14. "Tiangong" 15. "Shenzou" 16. "Gravity"...

Source: Instagram user littlewicker Parts of the UK enjoyed a stunning view of aurora borealis this week, with people across the area taking to Instagram to share striking snaps of the northern lights. Pretty pictures of aurora borealis are regularly taken in parts of Norway and Greenland, where the spectacle can be seen more often, but this week's light show brought bright shades of pink, green, and purple to the skies over Scotland, England, and Wales, too. Aurora borealis means "dawn of the north," which refers to the lights in the northern hemisphere, but the physical phenomenon happens in the southern hemisphere, too, where it's referred to as aurora australis. Take a look at some of the most unbelievable pictures of this week's display. View Slideshow ›...

Not everyone can pull off a stunning mugshot. In fact, most can’t. In fact, only Jane Fonda, Suzanne Somers, and these 10 men can pull it off. In honor of Justin Bieber‘s photogenic brush with law enforcement, here are the 10 gents who do jail realness best. (I didn’t include the men convicted of actually maiming somebody else. Let this be a lesson to you, Sid Vicious.)

10. Hugh Grant

If you’re charmed by Hugh Grant on film, you can’t help but be wooed by his similarly impish, visibly uncomfortable work here. I love that his hair and choice in t-shirt prints are both divine and brown.

9. Justin Bieber

Look, Justin Bieber’s fine work in mugshot mugging can’t be denied. His hair hasn’t lost its cockatiel magic and he still has that adorable Christopher Robin glint in his eye. Hell, he looks like a perfectly salable Proactiv “before” photo.

Parts of the Us may see aurora borealis Friday night, with rare views of the northern lights possible in places like Illinois and Colorado. I guess that makes up for the Polar Vortex? The gorgeous bands of light are regularly seen in places like Norway and Greenland, but solar flares on Tuesday sparked the possibility of views in America, too. "Aurora borealis," which means "dawn of the north," refers to the lights in the northern hemisphere, but the physical phenomenon happens in the southern hemisphere, too, where it's referred to as aurora australis. In both regions, striking colors span across the sky, making for incredible views and beautiful photo ops. In anticipation of tonight's possible viewing, take a look at some of the most gorgeous photos of the northern lights through the years. View Slideshow ›...

While the holidays have kept me too busy to tackle my (supposedly) regular Crowdfund This column for the last couple weeks that doesn't mean we're not still seeing a lot of intriguing projects looking for support. And one such project is Niles Heckman's scifi short Auroras.In a metropolis at the north pole on planet Earth, a female cyborg ("The Occupant") is called on a mandatory long term mission to travel along a space elevator through the Aurora Borealis to serve aboard Space Gate Auroras. Forcing her to leave her pregnant partner, another female cyborg ("The Loved One"), and say goodbye for an extended period. Two women, human or not, in love. Having to separate and say goodbye for an extended period of time as one...

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We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes the first two short films from The Four Players, the New York City Horror Film Festival lineup, details on the new zombie novel Northern Lights, and a Jason mask charity auction:

The Four Players Short Film Release Details: “Screenwriter and director, Evan Daugherty, screenwriter of the 2012 fantasy/action film “Snow White and the Huntsman” (as well as 2014’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “GI Joe 3,” among others) and Maker Studios’ collaborative gaming and geek culture network Polaris have announced the release of “The Four Players,” four new short films, each one re-imagining a different character from Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. franchise. The first two films, “The Fixer” (Mario) and “The Addict” (Luigi) will debut on Polaris beginning November 14…”

To find out more on these four short films, visit: www.

“Life in space is impossible.”

Watch Sandra Bullock & George Clooney in the brand new trailer for director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity.

“I was stunned, absolutely floored,” director James Cameron told Variety.

“I think it’s the best space photography ever done, I think it’s the best space film ever done, and it’s the movie I’ve been hungry to see for an awful long time.”

Here’s a preview to the soundtrack from Gravity by composer Steven Price.

Available Now: http://smarturl.it/Gravity_amazon

Tracklisting:

1. Above Earth

2. Debris

3. The Void

4. Atlantis

5. Don’t Let Go

6. Airlock

7. Iss

8. Fire

9. Parachute

10. In The Blind

11. Aurora Borealis

12. Aningaaq

13. Soyuz

14. Tiangong

15. Shenzou

16. Gravity

When I spoke with Mr. Price recently during a phone interview on his work for Edgar Wright’s The World’S End, I asked him about his score for Gravity. At the time he was mastering the soundtrack...

Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick has rightly been praised for her work on Behind the Candelabra. Her intricate research and attention to detail helped create a believable world for Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his lover Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), both on stage and off. Here, exclusively for Clothes on Film, she describes five of her recreated stage ensembles alongside official illustrations (some with with fabric swatches) by Christian Cordella. Click on the images to enlarge.

Liberace’s White Iconic Fur Coat with 16 ft Train

Faux white fox lined completely with silver sequins. The skins are separated by triple rows of rhinestone bands that are mitred into a chevron design at centre back down through the train.

White jumpsuit and Jacket

White silk brocade fabric with silver leaf overall pattern encrusted with white crystals and white rhinestones. The front panels of the jacket have large peacocks embroidered in tones of silver metallic...

Photographer Jonathan Tucker snapped this absolutely amazing photo of the Northern Lights looking like a face. Check it out using your own face. Click For Full Size: See it? Preeettay cool, right? As I’m typing this, the photo has already inspired a History Channel special Northern Lights Face: Man Or Myth? as well as two reality shows, Northern Lights Face Hunters and Ice Road Northern Lights Face Hunters. So – coincidence, or is someone from The Lion King trying to send us a message… I’m not saying it’s definitely a fictional lion that’s spiritually manifested itself in the sky to impart invaluable advice encouraging us to remember who we are, I’m just saying that it’s probably that. Also, can’t have a Northern Lights post without: “Aurora Borealis???” – Superintendent Chalmers (Pic: Jonathan Tucker/solent, via Splash News)...

Update on 11/26/11 at 12:05 a.m.: Prizes will be hidden on Saturday Afternoon on Nov. 26, 2011! See our clue tweets here to find out where to go!

Chicago – Hide & Tweet! Unpuzzle the Twitter mystery and win! In our second edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hide & Tweet, follow our clue tweets to discover one of two secret Chicago locations and snag one of 10 “Super 8” Blu-ray/DVD combo packs for yourself!

Starting on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, HollywoodChicago.com began an all-new social Hide & Tweet campaign. We’re tweeting clues to where 10 stashed copies of the “Super 8” Blu-ray/DVD combo pack will be hidden in Chicago for you to discover and take one home!

The special Blu-ray/DVD combo packs will be stashed at two secret Chicago hiding spots on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. The first 10 people to decipher our Twitter clues and find the hidden combo packs win! To play along with and...

In 2006, .Happy Feet. became a critical and commercial success culminating with an Academy Award win for Best Animated Feature. In 2011, the franchise continues to tap dance its way into our hearts with a brand new sequel that stays true to the spirit of the original.

.Happy Feet Two. starts with a rollicking production number featuring the penguins of Emperor Land singing and dancing to the tune of Janet Jackson.s .Rhythm Nation. among others. Within the film.s first five minutes, you will notice that the production design is much better, the animation is sharper, and the dance routines are far better choreographed.

Mumble, once again voiced by Elijah Wood, is now a father and is having a hard time connecting with his son Erik (voiced by Ava Acres). If Mumble was vocally challenged as a little penguin, Erik is allergic to movin. and groovin.. When forced by his dad...

Screen Australia has invested $2.4m across seven documentaries to create what it says will be $6.5m worth of production.

Cordell Jigsaw will return with a second series of Sbs’s successful Go Back to Where You Came From to test six Australians about their preconcieved notions of asylum seekers by visiting refugees from regions not previously covered.

Producer Tristram Miall and writer/director Robin Hughes will create a six-part series called Creative Minds, exploring the lives of six Australia artists who have significantly contributed to the nation’s cultural landscape.

Using the ‘new science of happiness’ principles, experts will see if science can help couples save their relationships in Making Couples Happy, a four-part ABC series.

Photographer Murray Fredericks captures the Greenland Icecap in Nothing on Earth, produced, directed and written by the team behind award winning documentary, Salt.

Coming out of the National Documentary Program, Raising the Curtain traces...

Happy Friday my flavorful fajitas. I want to be very clear about something, lest you get the wrong idea, I love tacos. I think they're the best. But I would have to be Very drunk to eat at Taco Bell (or Taco Town for that matter). That's why I think Wi-Fi at Taco Bell is a terrible idea. Because while drunkenly consuming a double deep fried gordita sounds gross, drunktweeting about it sounds even grosser. (End Gadget)

That tech link was sent to me by branded on this It Takes A Village People Friday. He also sent me this riddikulus wand remote. Seriously, I'm stupefied. (Think Geek)

Speaking of Harry Potter, Dan Carlson pointed out this amazing comic which breaks down each book in the series (hogwarts and all). There are spoilers if you haven't read the last book...why haven't you read the last book? (Lucy Lou)

Similarly, the...

Carole King is the call for the "American Idol" Top 6 theme night. We are trepidatious -  not because we don't love Carole King. We do, quite a bit. "Tapestry" is an incredible album. But a night of Carole King with this bunch of Idols? Hmm. Where's Brooke White when we need her?

Um, why does Randy look like Eugene from "Grease"? Babyface is here as the mentor. Wow, that's a big name, very cool.

Update: After watching the night, I take back my trepidations. This was actually a great "Idol" night, overall. Here are our rankings from best to worst:

1. Scotty McCreery, "You've Got a Friend"

Jimmy Iovine and Babyface are trying to work on Scotty being smoother and a little more interesting and subtle with his vocals. Yes, definitely something for him to work on. He starts singing and ... this is gorgeous. Perfect choice. He is having some absolutely...

Buried in this profile about how Paul Marcarelli (Verizon Wireless’ “Can You Hear Me Now?” guy) had his entire life controlled by the company who needed him to maintain his image is the little note that he got the job while living in a one bedroom apartment with his boyfriend. Which in retrospect, didn’t surprise me.

I don’t really have an opinion on Rebecca Black’s “Friday” – it was just pop music that made no impression on me. I know others had some strong feelings, so they may want to skip the prom episode of Glee.

I used to run episodes of The Annoying Orange in the early days of Meme. In all honesty, they made Gilbert Gottfreid seem pleasant. Now it’s going to be an animated series on television.

Kobe Bryant was fined $100k for calling a ref “f**king fag” during a game. Kobe found...

Happy Monday, my titillating toboggans! I've heard rumblings that it's snowing again in some of the frostier climes of our fair nation. Alas, Alack! Well this collection of dog sledding photos are for you, my frostbitten readers. If glacier-eyed canines mushing in the slush aren't your cup of iced tea, at least check out image #10 which is another jaw-dropping photo of the Aurora Borealis. . .can you picture that? It looks unreal. (The Big Picture)

Meanwhile this weekend in foggy old Londontown there was a bit of a dust up between the police and 500,000 protestors. A contingent busted up The Ritz and 1,000 anarchists occupied Fortnum & Mason. So help me god, if they put one dent in a decorative tin. . . (Daily Mail)

Meanwhile, across the globe, the Japanese people continue to set an example for the rest of us as they cobble their country back together. In "You'd Never See This In America" news,...

Happy Friday my darling darjeelings and randy rooibos. We begin today's Love by throwing some affection at our lord and master, Pajiba Editor-in-chief and Ryan Reynolds enthusiast, Dustin Rowles. In all honesty (and not just because I'm angling for an increase in my salary of stale Peeps), Dustin does a fantastic job every single damn day even if he Does run a pop-culture site and only just listened to Rebecca Black's "Friday" today (the day before Saturday). So take a moment and read this interview Dustin gave about Pajiba and the publicity machine, then drop some love for him down in the comments. Do It. (The Next Web)

Speaking of our tentacular overlord, how fetching are these squid-patterned fabrics? I would like a kicky skirt made from the last one. (Spoonflower)

I'd pair it with a T-Shirt homage to my favorite scathing and bitchy muppets and, to make matters twee,...

In casting news, Desperate Housewives/Hawaii Five-0’s Mark Deklin has been cast as Blake Caruth, husband of Crickett on Good Christian Bitches. The casting notice describes him as “metrosexual” but we know that he’s actually more than that.

George Michael has announced a new single, “Every Other Lover In the World” as well as a new tour, via his Twitter. And he’d like to remind you, he never said he wasn’t touring any more, just not doing arena tours any more.

It’s a new round of voting in E!’s Alpha Male Madness. Neil Patrick Harris is still in the running, as is Darren Criss. It’s the Sweet Sixteen round, so go vote until it hurts.

The nasty bill in Montana seeking to overturn any municipal Glbt protections in the state has died a quiet death in committee.

I may be alone here, but...

Viva! Spanish Film Festival, Manchester

Opener Tear This Heart Out recreates a 1930s Mexican town with all its intrigues, and there are star-studded shorts to mark the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution, but much of this year's Spanish-lanugage film festival is bang up to date. Chilean movie The Life Of Fish is set at a party, while Aurora Borealis: My Final Day is presented as a Mexican teenager's video suicide note. The Colours Of The Mountain contrasts a rural village with guerrilla wars, and Spanish comedy Fat People focuses on obesity. Also, the documentary Circus tracks one of Mexico's last travelling circuses, while Sins Of My Father is a son's view of drug baron Pablo Escobar.

Cornerhouse, Sat to 27 Mar

Minghella Film Festival, Newport

Three years after Anthony Minghella's death, the shoring up of his legacy continues thanks to his fans, family and celebrity mates. The latter...

2012 Apocalypse Predictions! Urban Legends, Myths, and Science Trumors (True Rumors) about Solar Flares -- [Feb. 18] Despite all the excitement about Solar Flares this week, I wouldn't go running to your bomb shelter getting ready for some sort of John Cusack 2012 apocalypse movie moment in real-time modern era history just yet. The sky is not falling officially yet -- but according to true rumors in Scientific journals, last Monday Nasa scientists identified an X-class Solar Flare that sent a Coronal Mass Ejection (Cme) hurtling from the Sun yesterday toward Earth. Such an ejection, as scientists refer to the winds produced by the Sun, are often associated with other forms of solar activity, most notably solar flares. What's more, Nasa expects two more today -- making even celebrity gossip websites like Ecorazzi speculate that Hollywood star celebs like Ashton Kutcher -- who believe the end of the world is in sight -- speculate...

The world is ending – according to the news.

It snowed in Los Angeles on Monday after raining for a week straight in December. Thousands of dead fish and crabs are washing up on beaches in Florida and England. Birds are dropping dead from the sky in several states, and soon, a film about Justin Bieber will see wide release in 3D. What is going on?

Let’s ask Aaron Eckhart. Before delivering an Oscar-worthy performance last year in Rabbit Hole that Dave Karger calls “emotionally affecting,” Eckhart starred as a geophysicist in a wonderfully bad Armageddon-meets-The-Day-After-Tomorrow film called The Core,...

For those who aren’t familiar with Family Guy’s “Road to...” episodes, there is usually a lot to enjoy in these hour-long installments. Traditionally, episodes such as "Road to the North Pole" feature our favorite dog and baby in a madcap road-trip musical.

I had mixed feelings about this one, despite its clever moments and hopeful ending. While I normally have no problems about Family Guy’s shocking or offensive themes, I felt bit disconcerted about the direction of this Christmas episode.

Perhaps it was the way that the series stomped on something as innocent as Santa and his elves and twisted them all around. Or perhaps it was the cannibalistic reindeers. Whatever the specific reason, the irreverent nature of Family Guy seemed just a little too graphic for me this time around.

“The Road to the North Pole” started innocently enough. I enjoyed Stewie and Brian’s adventure...

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Map by Steve Stankiewicz

Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.

Arctic Visions: Clockwise From top left, oil workers at Bovanenkovo, Gazprom's gas field on the Yamal Peninsula, which will start operations in 2012; the town of Nadym is the gateway to Yamal; Gazprom has carved thousands of miles of roads from the Yamal tundra to ease deliveries of necessary supplies. | Photographs by Jeremy Nicholl

Old but sturdy, our Russian helicopter flies low over the endless flatness of the Siberian taiga, the MiG's incessant whine barely softened by Styrofoam plugs wedged into my ears. We pass thick stands of pine trees, where brown bears lurk, and rust-colored rivers whose banks are dappled with ice. Hundreds of...

Jonah Hex: "Yippie-kai-lame, motherfucker. I'm not sure what the fuck Jonah Hex was supposed to be. Rather than a tight-fisted western popcorn flick about a vigilante bounty hunter trying to track down the outlaw who murdered his family and scarred his face, we're left with a cowboyed-up mash-up of pseudo-westerns, as gazed through a heady dose of peyote. Not a single frame doesn't feel derived from something else, whether it's Wild Wild West, Sherlock Holmes, Back to the Future III, or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The titular character growls and snarls his way through a rammy, stilted Ramboner, gunning through the flimsiest sketches of characters until the film abruptly skids to a whinnying cliff-edged halt. At a paltry 81-minute run time, you don't have time to enjoy yourself. It's like the studio gave up halfway through, which was about a half-hour past when the cast stopped caring. It's a...

Iridium Communications, the satellite phone company, has some clever ideas for small "piggyback" payloads aboard its next-gen Next communications spacecraft, but one big experiment using its existing array of 66 orbiting platforms has just been announced: It's to measure space weather in real time.

The effort is a partnership between Iridium, Johns Hopkins University and Boeing, and it's dubbed the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment--ampere for short. The equipment is already aboard some of Iridium's satellite communications spacecraft, drawing power from the vehicle's main systems, and using Iridium's ground systems to send data and commands to and from the payload. Ampere is designed to provide real-time magnetic field measurements, taken from orbit, as part of a new network to forecast the Earth's upcoming space weather. Eventually the science from these experiments may let forecasters work out how the Earth's space weather effects will progress, much like is currently attempted...

Guy Maddin’s hometown fantasia, My Winnipeg, is one of my favorite films of the last few years. Night Mayor is a recent short film that explores similar territory. It won a Short Film Jury Award for Experimental Short at this year’s SXSW, and is now available online at the National Film Board of Canada site (and embedded here). From the press release: Night Mayor tells the tale of Nihad Ademi, a Bosnian immigrant who serves as Winnipeg’s “night mayor.” Ademi somehow harnesses the multi-coloured waves of the Aurora Borealis and uses its power to broadcast images of his beloved adoptive country to its identity-starved citizens from coast to coast. It is Maddin’s first film added to an online catalog. Maddin says,...

The National Film Board of Canada (Nfb.ca) reports that director Guy Maddin’s "Night Mayor", presented in HD, has been added to the Nfb's official free online collection.

"I thought 'Night Mayor' could unspool luminously and infinitely in its own enchanted, and frequently visited, corner of cyberspace," said Maddin. "Now, if only I could get my films on radio and Telex I'd really be set!"

"...'Night Mayor' tells the story of 'Nihad Ademi', a Bosnian immigrant who serves as Winnipeg’s 'night mayor', somehow harnessing the multi-coloured waves of the Aurora Borealis, using its power to broadcast images of his adoptive country to identity-starved citizens from coast to coast..."...

If you're at all familiar with Canadian auteur Guy Maddin, you already know what to expect. For those who don't know the Genius from the North, here's your way into the bizzare, strange world of Maddin.

The Night Mayor was created for the National Film Board of Canada (commonly referred to as the Nfb), to celebrate their anniversary and the film premiered at Tiff last year. After much waiting and the thought that we may never have the opportunity to see the film, the Nfb does what they do best, they share it with the world. The full short has appeared online and it's well worth 13 minutes of your time.

The short tells the story of inventor Nihad Ademi, who harnesses the power of the Aurora Borealis in 1939 Winnipeg. Ademi uses the power to broadcast images of Canada to its own citizens from coast to coast, but in the process angers the government.

As previously discussed on many occasions at Pajiba, DreamWorks is widely considered second to Pixar when it comes to animation excellence. Still, I'm really a sucker for an underdog, so I was pleased to see that DreamWorks' maturity level has grown in the few years since the studio's ass-clenching hero of Kung Fu Panda graced the celluloid screen. Of course, the upcoming Shrek Everlasting will likely cause me to eat these words, but, with How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks has pulled off a Pixar-level story with affecting characters and a refreshing lack of pop-culture allusions and no bodily function jokes to be found. Quite simply, this movie was made to last, so parents can breathe a sigh of relief that repeated viewings on DVD shall not destroy valuable brains cells of their children.

How to Train Your Dragon is based upon the beloved children's book by Cressida Cowell and...

New Delhi, Mar 29 – Paying tribute to the Roman Goddess of the Dawn, Aurora, designer Siddhartha Tytler’s creations on the fourth day of the ongoing 15th edition of Wills India Fashion Week (Wifw) Autumn-Winter 2010 here, was tinted in shades of peacock, copper, gun metal and black.

Bringing to the fore a refreshing insight into his collection, Tytler’s collection, ‘Aboriginal-The Aurora Borealis’ was inspired by the ‘Dance of the Spirits’.

“Basically it was ‘Aurora Borealis’, which was my collection’s inspiration. It was an amazing collection; a difficult collection. It was something we have never done before. All the technology.

Acclaimed Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin has won the Best Experimental Short award at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival for Night Mayor. The film is a fictional documentary about Bosnian inventor Nihad Ademi who, in 1939, built a machine that harnessed the power of the Aurora Borealis to transmit images of Canadians to themselves.

Created as a tribute to the National Film Board of Canada’s 70th anniversary, Night Mayor playfully twists concepts of fact and fiction. Maddin describes the film as a documentary, even though his subject never actually existed, since it was shot documentary style with no planned action or script. Maddin assembled his cast and crew to document Ademi’s story as it may have happened and captured the action in his uncanny style of recreating time periods.

To see the director at work and to hear him describe his process, embedded below is a making-of clip posted on the Nfb’s website.