Despite loud opposition from Democrats who said the legislation overstepped local governments, Senate Bill 23 passed with broad bipartisan support.

A critical $16.25 billion grant program to sustain thousands of small creative venues that haven’t been able to open since the pandemic began has yet to deliver a cent of relief four months after passage, due to delays and faulty technology at the Small Business Administration (SBA). A website constructed to take grant applications closed last week after only four hours online, because of constant crashes and an inability to intake documents. It has not been restored and there’s no timetable for its return. The program, based on the landmark Save Our Stages legislation put into last December’s COVID relief bill, was the largest investment in the arts in U.S. history. But the byzantine application process (often requiring over 100 pages of documents) and stubborn lack of payout has music clubs, small museums and movie theaters, and other venues either closing or looking to sell out to larger firms.

The alleged flatulent was hanging at the park with friends when he was approached by a group of police officers—that’s when things got windy.

"Nobody really wants monkeys walking around with human eggs and human sperm inside them," said Hank Greely, a Stanford University bioethicist who co-wrote an article in the same issue of the journal that critiques the line of research while noting that this particular study was ethically done. "Because if a monkey with human sperm meets a monkey with human eggs, nobody wants a human embryo inside a monkey's uterus."

On April 6, Elle Hunt was in a pub in New Zealand, where life has basically returned to pre-pandemic normal. She was, by her account, two wines deep, having a light hearted argument with her friends about film genres. Half serious, but committed to the bit, she tweeted this: "Settle an argument: is Alien a horror film? Give reasons why pls" A few minutes later, in response to a harmless reply, she tweeted her rationale and closed her phone: "@utherlives My argument: horror cannot be set in space" Even if you don’t know the story, you probably have a sense of what happened next. Her lopsided Twitter poll answers quickly indicated she’d expressed A Bad Opinion. The quote retweets started rolling in. The first few seemed like faux outrage at a particularly spicy genre opinion that kept with the spirit of her post — but that eventually shifted, too. People were mad. Hunt logged off and went to bed. She woke up to angry emails from strangers. Overnight, friends in the U.K. sent concerned messages asking if she was doing alright. She opened Twitter and found her poll had 120,000 votes. Over 6000 people, including filmmakers like Kevin Smith, had angrily quote tweeted her, many demanding that she apologize — to Film Twitter, to prominent directors, to the medium of space itself. The reason? Once the tweet picked up steam, it was elevated into Twitter’s Trending Topics widget in the U.S and U.K.

Heavy on torture and low on meaning, the Little Marvin–created, Lena Waithe–produced series reveals the empty promise of representation in Hollywood.

Canadian lawmaker William Amos is apolgizing after he mistakenly appeared naked on camera during a virtual hearing on Wednesday.

A teacher and basketball coach at a North Carolina school was killed in a shooting after trying to rob the home of a Mexican drug cartel member, authorities said Wednesday. Barney Dale Harris and his brother-in-law, Steven Alexander Stewart Jr., were accused of robbing an alleged "stash house" last Thursday belonging to a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the world's most powerful drug trafficking organizations, Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said at a news conference. Investigators determined Harris and Stewart broke into the mobile home of Alonso Beltra Lara and waited for him to come back, according to the sheriff. When the man returned home, a shooting broke out that resulted in the deaths of Harris and Lara, Johnson said.

The coronavirus vaccine is being provided free of charge to all Americans, but not everyone knows that.

The city of Placerville, California, also known as Hangtown, is losing the noose on its logo.

The findings, published in iScience, show a complex image of spoke-like structures, arranged in a helix around a central tube inside the neck vertebra, similar to that of a bicycle wheel.

Deployed at a public housing building, the device drew condemnation as a stark example of police power and misplaced priorities.

Steven Carrillo’s path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known.

A spokesman for Republican Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador has been dismissed after mistakenly tweeting a response to a sexy Super Bowl ad for CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls from his boss' account, according to a report in the Idaho Statesman.

If you’ve always dreamt of building a miniature model railway but don’t quite have the space for one, Peter Waldraff came up with a solution by building a complete four-season N-scale layout that disappears into a nondescript coffee table so you can hide your hobby when company visits. This isn’t the first attempt to build a complete miniature railroad into a coffee table, but most to date have involved sunken layouts that sit inside a table and beneath a pane of glass so there’s still a place for your coffee. Waldraff’s creation takes an entirely different approach, with a detailed three-dimensional mountain contained within an imaginary half sphere so that it can be flipped upside-down and completely hidden inside the piece, leaving nothing but a matching wooden tabletop in its place.

All Cops are Bastards but some are more bastard than others.

Cherished cast-iron cookware has crossed oceans, survived fires and connected generations. These are the stories of your skillets.

After a year of pandemic-influenced living, Bostonians are beginning to make plans to socialize in the not-so-distant future. Back in March, the perfect opportunity to make post-vaccine plans arrived when tickets went on sale for “Imagine Van Gogh,” a visually stunning exhibit that arrives at the SoWa Power Station in December. In the rush to secure tickets, some people didn’t notice that there were actually two nearly identical events dedicated to the late Dutch painter. Along with “Imagine Van Gogh,” there is “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,” another traveling exhibit promising dazzling projections of the artist’s works that has been advertised on social media. Even more confusing for customers was that tickets for “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” were sold by a company operating the website SecretBoston.com and posting on social media as “Secret Media Boston.” That company, the European-based Fever, is not affiliated with Secret Boston, the events-focused community that, since 2011, has been sharing advice on things to do in Boston.

Bitdefender is warning that hackers are using malicious software cracks to steal valuable data including cryptocurrency wallets.

An archival release marks the technical debut of a band that helped build a scene, 44 years later.