Description: The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. The parkway, which is the longest linear park in the U.S., runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 441 (US 441) on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, from which it travels north to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
Description: As before, White presents this season’s tangle of privileged problems around a theme. We’ve had money in Hawaii and sex in Sicily, and this time, it’s what he calls, “a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality”. We’ve known for a while that the setting would be Thailand, and this outpost of the fictional White Lotus would be on the island of Koh Samui. And again, proving that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, filming took place in a real-life Four Seasons resort. As before, it’s a backdrop that justifies binge-watching by itself, even before you factor in the exquisite torture White inflicts on his characters.
Description: As before, White presents this season’s tangle of privileged problems around a theme. We’ve had money in Hawaii and sex in Sicily, and this time, it’s what he calls, “a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality”. We’ve known for a while that the setting would be Thailand, and this outpost of the fictional White Lotus would be on the island of Koh Samui. And again, proving that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, filming took place in a real-life Four Seasons resort. As before, it’s a backdrop that justifies binge-watching by itself, even before you factor in the exquisite torture White inflicts on his characters.
Description: As before, White presents this season’s tangle of privileged problems around a theme. We’ve had money in Hawaii and sex in Sicily, and this time, it’s what he calls, “a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality”. We’ve known for a while that the setting would be Thailand, and this outpost of the fictional White Lotus would be on the island of Koh Samui. And again, proving that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, filming took place in a real-life Four Seasons resort. As before, it’s a backdrop that justifies binge-watching by itself, even before you factor in the exquisite torture White inflicts on his characters.
Description: As before, White presents this season’s tangle of privileged problems around a theme. We’ve had money in Hawaii and sex in Sicily, and this time, it’s what he calls, “a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality”. We’ve known for a while that the setting would be Thailand, and this outpost of the fictional White Lotus would be on the island of Koh Samui. And again, proving that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, filming took place in a real-life Four Seasons resort. As before, it’s a backdrop that justifies binge-watching by itself, even before you factor in the exquisite torture White inflicts on his characters.
Description: The Departed is a 2006 crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. It is both an English-language remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, and also loosely based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang; the character Colin Sullivan is based on the corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, while the character Frank Costello is based on Irish-American gangster and crime boss Whitey Bulger. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, with Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Anderson and James Badge Dale in supporting roles.
Description: At age 22, in 1955, Lastman bought out Heather Hill Appliances and established Bad Boy Furniture. Having adopted the nickname "the Bad Boy" for himself, he developed Bad Boy Furniture into a chain of stores around the Toronto area. "Bad Boy" Lastman was associated with many publicity stunts, including travelling to the Arctic in the 1960s to "sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo." Lastman sold the chain in 1975 to run in the Ontario general election. The Bad Boy trademark was ultimately acquired by the large furniture chain The Brick but the new owners allowed it to lapse through lack of use until it expired.
Description: Lumon Industries is a fictional biotechnology company in the thriller series Severance. The company is located within the city of Kier, and employs nearly half the city. The current CEO is Jame Eagan. Founded in 1865 by Kier Eagan, and subsequently run by generations of Eagans since, Lumon has grown from a business specializing in topical salves to a huge producer of drugs, biotech, medical equipment, cosmetics, personal care products, and more. In the present day, Lumon has been active for around 220 years (882 quarters), and operates in 206 countries around the world.
Description: The Old Town Bar and Restaurant is a bar and restaurant located between Park Avenue and Broadway at 45 East 18th Street in the Flatiron District, Manhattan in New York City, one block north of Union Square. Originally 45 East 18th Street was constructed in 1901, but the business was started, at 43 E. 18th St., in 1892, by Jacob Burckel, whose name is on the 1896 license behind the bar. Harry W. Viemeister, a saloon and restaurant owner in New York from as early as 1894, moved to 45 E. 18th St. in 1912. As the bar has been in continuous operation since 1901, this makes it one of the oldest bars in the New York City area.
Description: The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley in 1976 by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) and Lol Tolhurst (drums). The band's current line-up comprises Smith, Perry Bamonte (guitar and keyboards), Reeves Gabrels (guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards), and Jason Cooper (drums). Smith has remained the only constant member throughout numerous line-up changes since the band's formation, including stints with guitarist Porl Thompson and drummer Boris Williams, though Gallup was absent for just six years of the band's history.
Description: Morphine was an American rock band formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989. Drummer Billy Conway replaced Deupree as the band's live drummer in 1991. Deupree recorded the album Cure For Pain, with the exception of the title track which was recorded by Conway, before being permanently replaced by Conway in 1993. Both drummers appeared together during a 15 date US tour in March of 1999. After five successful albums and extensive touring, they disbanded after lead vocalist Sandman died of a heart attack onstage in Palestrina, Italy, on July 3, 1999 at the Nel Nome Del Rock Festival.
Description: The Cult are an English rock band formed in Bradford in 1983. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band had performed under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead vocalist Ian Astbury's previous band Southern Death Cult. They gained a dedicated following in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s as a post-punk and gothic rock band, with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking into the mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s establishing themselves as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love Removal Machine".
Description: Ambrosia is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1970. Ambrosia had five Top 40 hit singles released between 1975 and 1980, including the Top 5 hits "How Much I Feel" and "Biggest Part of Me", and Top 20 hits "You're the Only Woman (You & I)" and "Holdin' on to Yesterday". Most of the original band members have been active with the group continuously since their 1989 reformation to the present day, with the notable exception of original guitarist and lead vocalist David Pack who left in 2000.
Description: Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its peak, Woolco had hundreds of stores in the US, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. While the American stores were closed in 1983, the chain remained active in Canada until it was sold in 1994 to rival Walmart, which was looking to enter the Canadian market.
Description: Sean Baker’s comedy-drama film ‘Anora’ revolves around Anora “Ani” Mikheeva, an erotic dancer who works at a Manhattan strip club named HQ, which is also known as “Headquarters.” The movie begins with glimpses into her life in the establishment, depicting her interactions with her clients and colleagues. Her life turns around when her boss asks her to use her knowledge of the Russian language to accommodate a client named Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov, who ends up becoming her husband. HQ remains an integral setting in the film, both as Anora’s workplace and the site where she finds her partner after the latter disappears from her life. Even though the movie is fictional, viewers can drop by the adult entertainment club in real life!
Description: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (WBA) is an American multinational holding company headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. The company was formed on December 31, 2014, after Walgreens bought the 55% stake in Alliance Boots (owner of Boots UK Limited) that it did not already own. The total price of the acquisition was $4.9 billion in cash and 144.3 million common shares with fair value of $10.7 billion. Walgreens had previously purchased 45% of the company for $4.0 billion and 83.4 million common shares in August 2012 with an option to purchase the remaining shares within three years.
Description: Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the lead character, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Following Segar's death in 1938, Thimble Theatre (later renamed Popeye) was continued by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments on Sundays, written and drawn by R. K. Milholland. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.
Description: An aging couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, continue a tradition of spending each summer at their cottage on a lake called Golden Pond, in the far reaches of northern New England. Billy and Norman soon grow obsessed with catching Norman's fish rival, "Walter", which leads to the accidental destruction of the Thayers' motorboat in a rocky area called Purgatory Cove. Norman gets thrown overboard and suffers a head wound, and Billy dives in the water to save the old man. They are later rescued by Ethel and Charlie.
Description: FedEx Office Print & Ship Services Inc. (doing business as FedEx Office; formerly FedEx Kinko's, and earlier simply Kinko's) is an American retail chain that provides an outlet for FedEx Express and FedEx Ground (including Home Delivery) shipping, as well as copying, printing, marketing, office services and shipping. While FedEx, to the Kinko's founder's dismay, dropped the Kinko's name in summer 2008, the name remains in use. Unlike its main competitor, the UPS Store, which is franchised, all FedEx Office stores are corporate-owned.
Description: He evaded death at a shelter that needed to make room for more dogs. He was shot at — a veterinarian plucked pieces of ammunition from his flesh. He dodged a train, scampered across an interstate highway and survived on cat food left out for strays. He is about 3 years old, weighs 17 pounds and has coarse, cloudy fur. And for several months, he had much of New Orleans looking for him. With each foiled capture or implausible escape, his fame grew and so did his reputation. He became an almost mythical figure, too savvy and swift to contain. Some have held him up as a renegade, choosing freedom over the comforts of domestic life.
Description: This episode centers around an actor (Issa Rae) who stars in a remake of a 1940s romance film by acting in a simulation alongside AI versions of the characters through an immersive AI-based virtual production. "Hotel Reverie" received critical acclaim, with praise directed towards Rae's performance and the visuals and the more somber and bittersweet tone compared to previous Black Mirror episodes.
Description: Juliette is exiled and goes through the airlock, emerging on the surface. She sees the bright green of the outside world through her visor, but realises that it exactly matches the recording from Jane Carmody's Cleaning. The display is not an illusion, but those sent out to Clean are made to see a green and prospering environment to entice them to clean. Walking up to the camera, Juliette pulls out her sensor wool, holds it up to the camera, then drops it. Those watching in the cafeteria are faltered from this act. She walks up the hill, placing Holston's badge on his body, and realises that the heat tape used to seal her suit is Mechanical heat tape, not IT heat tape. Surviving longer than anyone else, Juliette walks up the hill.
Description: Martha Walker runs the electronics workshop in Mechanical. In Year 117 AR, Martha's marriage to Carla McLain broke up. She does not leave her workshop again for twenty-five years, which is something that she comes to regret. Walker contracted pneumonia, and was prescribed penicillin by Doctor Stern. The first night, she had a feeling that everyone had left and she was alone in the Silo. In charge of the electronics workshop in the Mechanical level. Walker has been a surrogate parent to Juliette since she was a teenage mechanical apprentice.
Description: Silo 18, known only as The Silo to its residents, is an underground bunker complex serving as the last refuge of ten thousand people. Buried deep underground, no one knows why the Silo was built or who built it. Outside the Silo is a toxic and apocalyptic wasteland. No one knows how old the Silo is, though it is said to be at least 140 years old. Silo 18 contains 144 levels, connected by the Stairwell, a spiralling staircase that runs down the center of the facility. The Silo is divided into three general areas: Up Top, the Mids, and the Down Deep. Several levels are given over to crop production and livestock rearing, and communal Cafeterias are located on several levels.
Description: Silo is an American science fiction dystopian drama television series created by Graham Yost, based on the Silo trilogy of novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust) by author Hugh Howey. Set in a dystopian future where a community exists in a giant underground silo comprising 144 levels, it stars Rebecca Ferguson as an engineer who becomes embroiled in the mysteries of its past and present. Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Avi Nash, Rick Gomez, Chinaza Uche, Shane McRae, Remmie Milner, Alexandria Riley, Clare Perkins, Billy Postlethwaite, and Steve Zahn also star.
Description: The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley in 1976 by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) and Lol Tolhurst (drums). The band's current line-up comprises Smith, Perry Bamonte (guitar and keyboards), Reeves Gabrels (guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards), and Jason Cooper (drums). Smith has remained the only constant member throughout numerous line-up changes since the band's formation, including stints with guitarist Porl Thompson and drummer Boris Williams, though Gallup was absent for just six years of the band's history.
Description: Shiz University is an institution of higher education in the city of Shiz in Gillikin, the northern province of Oz. It appears in Gregory Maguire's revisionist novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as in Stephen Schwartz's Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz, the hit Broadway musical based on the book. More recently, it also appears in Wicked: Part One.
Description: Tokugawa clan is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful daimyō family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) through the Matsudaira clan. The early history of the clan remains a mystery.[1] Nominally, the Matsudaira clan is said to be descended from the Nitta clan, a branch of the Minamoto clan, but the likelihood of this claim is considered quite low or untrue.
Description: Tokugawa clan is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful daimyō family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) through the Matsudaira clan. The early history of the clan remains a mystery. Nominally, the Matsudaira clan is said to be descended from the Nitta clan, a branch of the Minamoto clan, but the likelihood of this claim is considered quite low or untrue.
Description: The most influential figure within the Toyotomi was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three "unifiers of Japan". Oda Nobunaga was another primary unifier and the ruler of the Oda clan at the time. Hideyoshi joined Nobunaga at a young age, but was not highly regarded because of his peasant background. Nevertheless, Hideyoshi's increasing influence allowed him to seize a significant degree of power from the Oda clan following Oda Nobunaga's death in 1582. As the virtual ruler of most of Japan, Hideyoshi received the new clan name "Toyotomi" in 1585 from the emperor, and achieved the unification of Japan in 1590.
Description: Shōgun is an American historical drama television series created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks. It is based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell, which was previously adapted into a 1980 miniseries. Its ensemble cast includes Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira, Tommy Bastow, and Fumi Nikaido. The production features a mostly Japanese cast and the majority of the dialogue is in the Japanese language.
Description: The Substance is a 2024 satirical body horror film written, directed, co-edited, and co-produced by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity, Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) who, after being fired by her producer (Dennis Quaid) due to her age, uses a black market drug that creates a much younger version of herself (Margaret Qualley) with unexpected side effects.
