‘WandaVision’: Explore New Images from Episode 4

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

Do not adjust your television sets! You’re looking at brand new images from Marvel Studios’ WandaVision, and the blissful suburban life that Wanda Maximoff and Vision are currently living. But, don’t expect this state of mind to stick around forever, as the couple quickly begin to suspect that not everything is as it seems.

Episode 4 of the new series, “We Interrupt This Program,” rewinds a little bit as we travel to Westview with Captain Monica Rambeau and her team of S.W.O.R.D. agents as they try to figure out what’s going on.

Marvel Studios’ WandaVision is now streaming exclusively

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Journey Had to Force Arnel Pineda Onto Stage for His First Show

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

Arnel Pineda said he hoped the first moments of his debut show with Journey would be the way his upcoming biopic ends. He also recalled how the band had to force him to go onstage to begin his new career.

The singer made his first appearance in Chile in 2008, after having been discovered via YouTube videos of his Journey covers. With 13 years of shared history between him and the band, he can now laugh about what he told guitarist Neal Schon that night before he started to sing “Separate Ways.”

“I was trying to back out five minutes

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Coronavirus live updates: Variant found in South Africa prompts new travel curbs; E.U. demands answers on vaccine delays

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

Here are the latest developments:

The moves to tighten borders came as the European Union stepped up efforts to secure vaccine supplies amid a growing shortage, threatening drugmakers the E.U. says have hampered a major rollout with production and other logistical delays.

The bloc’s executive branch Friday published its contract with British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, following a heated dispute over the company’s announcement last week that it would deliver “considerably fewer” doses to E.U. member nations than agreed upon.

Although some parts of the contract were redacted at AstraZeneca’s request, the European Commission argues that the document makes clear that

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Canadian Prime Minister Expected To Increase Travel Restrictions

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is anticipated to announce measures to restrict international travel later today. He has warned the public not to take any trips that aren’t absolutely essential, saying that restrictions could be imposed at any time that could make it difficult for them to return. The aviation industry is calling for aid, as flying through the pandemic is set to get tougher.

Canada’s struggling aviation industry is bracing itself for another blow. Photo: Vincenzo Pace | JFKJets.com

Trudeau to cancel March break

The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, will make an announcement later today regarding the

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At Kingston Gallery, Two Artists Explore Nature’s Beauty And Loss

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

Vaughn Sills creates unsettling photographs that are pretty, but perturbing. She sets lush floral bouquets — bright pink dahlias, pale yellow peonies and purple parrot tulips, among others — before one of her pensive landscape photographs to create still lifes that are as discomfiting as they are appealing. Rhonda Smith, meanwhile, creates mixed media work that looks like something you might stumble across on a nature walk. Her work is suggestive of rock formations, tree limbs, lovingly crafted birds’ nests blown off lofty perches.

The work of both artists is now on view at South End’s Kingston Gallery in two

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