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Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?

Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?

Published by skeptic

Gina Torres, Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin as Zoë Washburne, Mal Reynolds and Jayne Cobb in Firefly © 20th Century Fox Film Corp Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Firefly holds a special place in the hearts of many sci-fi fans. First off, this 2002 western-in-space show by Joss Whedon is good, with a great gang of funny and engaging characters at its heart. Second off, it was tragically cancelled in its first season, with all its promise intact. Then Whedon, blocked from making more TV episodes, capped off the series with a Hollywood movie, Serenity, in 2005. The movie showed exactly why the cast and the series would have had the chops to run and run, had the show’s network, Fox, not upended its running order and then cancelled it. In the 21 years since the movie, there’s been plenty of time for the Browncoats – as fans are known – to get excited over every suggestion of a reboot. It’s all come to nothing. Now the Browncoats are, probably, having their hearts toyed with …

New York rapper A$AP Rocky makes comeback in new album, balancing fury and serenity

New York rapper A$AP Rocky makes comeback in new album, balancing fury and serenity

Published by Sam Flores

A$AP Rocky in New York, 2024. COURTESY OF RCA On Friday, January 16 at 9 pm, 350 young fans of rapper A$AP Rocky settled into the comfortable seats of a cinema on Place Clichy in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. The collective Mino, who invited them, played the New Yorker’s long-awaited fourth album, Don’t Be Dumb, through immersive sound. Their motto: “Music isn’t something you consume, it’s something you live.” To illustrate the music on the big screen, the rapper’s label provided music videos and “visualizers” – short clips of A$AP Rocky rapping and dancing in various outfits: pink curlers in his hair, a megaphone in hand or dressed in a suit and beige trench coat. The American artist, who is in a relationship with pop star Rihanna and is the father of her three children, had not released an album in eight years. Once a defining force in the new wave of New York rap in the 2010s, he was preoccupied with fashion these past few years, serving as ambassador for Chanel since December 2025; with …

The beauty and serenity of laundry : Goats and Soda : NPR

The beauty and serenity of laundry : Goats and Soda : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

A boy does laundry near the Siem Reap River. Macy Castañeda-Lee hide caption toggle caption Macy Castañeda-Lee In early February, Macy Castañeda Lee took a motorbike ride along the Siem Reap River out to the large green swaths of rice and lotus fields that pepper the outskirts of the Cambodian city. Miles from the city center, they stumbled across a booming industry that filled the streets, homes and riverside. “There was laundry everywhere,” remembers Castañeda Lee, a Filipino photographer who was in Siem Reap for the Angkor Photo Festival and Workshop. “Visually, it was very striking.” Camera in hand, Castañeda Lee started documenting the varied loads of laundry, and in the process learned what laundry means to the community: “Laundry is a symbol for Cambodian and Khmer people of their economic and health standards.” Invisible workers A new photo series from Filipino photographer Macy Castañeda Lee showcases the beauty in the mundane task of doing laundry and the role it plays in the rural Siem Reap economy. Macy Castañeda-Lee hide caption toggle caption Macy Castañeda-Lee …