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There are copious books, podcasts, films, and interviews about black culture and experience — far too many to list here. In honor of Juneteenth, Indy staff members Caitlin Fitch, Ricky Barajas, and Ava Talehakimi have put together the following primer, which includes books, videos, podcasts, S.B. Public Library suggestions, and other resources. Dive in. To […]

Read, Watch, Listen, Learn — The Santa Barbara Independent

The first three months of 2020 have been extremely good for 18-year-old American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. During the last Sunday in January, Eilish won four Grammy Awards, sweeping all four major categories presented by the Recording Academy: * Best New Artist * Song of the Year * Record of the Year * Best […]

The 007 Best James Bond Theme Songs — DJ Dave’s Musical Musings

From Russia with Love (1963) SPECTRE wants to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviet Union. They plan to sell it. They are going to try to trick MI6 James Bond) into assisting them, Also in their plans is to avenge the death of Dr. No by killing Mr. Bond in the process. The […]

From Russia with Love (1963) — It’s All in Finding the Right Words

“You only live twice: Once when you are born, And once when you look death in the face.” — James Bond “James Bond” is now a movie franchise, just like “Star Wars” was. But it started out as a series of novels by British author Ian Fleming (1908-1964). Fleming had been a Naval intelligence […]

The Wisdom of James Bond — The Thousand-Year View

The 10th novel in Ian Fleming’s Jame Bond series Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making––a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart. Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United […]

The Spy Who Loved Me — Author DC Gilbert

We’ve come far in our retrospective, haven’t we? We visited Crab Key and fought Dr. No (1962), we met The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), we came back home to Skyfall (2012), and every adventure in between. We are now at the most current Bond adventure, and today we are going to: See what […]

James Bond Retrospective: Spectre — The Twin Geeks

There are so many fun facts about U.S. Presidents that aren’t mainstream, like JFK being allergic to Caroline’s pony, Macaroni, and how Teddy Roosevelt’s kids once brought theirs up in the White House elevator. Speaking of Theodore Roosevelt, who hated being called Teddy, he created the Oval Office Mr. Trump now occupies. Dwight D. Eisenhower […]

Those Wacky Presidents Part Two — athingirldotcom

[ad_1] As unlikely as it may appear there is at least some possibility that Thanos could return in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seems. This is based on a deleted scene from Avengers: Endgame that has been circulating online recently. The scene in question is an alternate version of the meeting between Hulk and the […]

Endgame Deleted Scene Suggest That Thanos Could Return? — PNN – Paper News Network

And so for the first time since 1971 we get a canon Bond film that doesn’t star Roger Moore, and by all rights it shouldn’t be Timothy Dalton parachuting into Gibraltar, it should have been Pierce Brosnan, but he couldn’t get out of his contract for Remington Steele and so Eon signed up Dalton. Was […]

The Living Daylights (1987) — werewolves on the moon

Outlander star Sam Heughan wants another shot at James Bond after missing out on the role of 007 in Casino Royale. The actor auditioned for the role of Bond in the wake of Pierce Brosnan’s departure from the franchise but lost out to Daniel Craig, who has gone on to play 007 in five movies, […]

‘I still dream of playing James Bond’: Outlander star Sam Heughan — Canoe