These favorites from the second half of the year teach us about Ukrainian and Chinese-American cuisines, cocktails, and sourdough loaves.
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Clone Force 99 Is Back in New Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 Trailer
The calvary — Omega, Hunter, Wrecker, Echo, and Tech — has arrived! Today, Lucasfilm Animation and Disney+ released the trailer and key art for Season 2 of the acclaimed animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch, with the two-episode season premiere on January 4, 2023, following the continuing adventures of the elite squad first introduced […]
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
Plus: ICE accidentally doxes asylum seekers, Google fails to uphold a post-Roe promise, and LastPass suffers the second breach this year.
15 Highlights from Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Spoiler warning: This article contains story details and plot points from each installment of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi. Now streaming on Disney+, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi is a six-part anthology of animated shorts, diving into never-before-seen, pivotal moments for both Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku. Both of these fan-favorite characters left the […]
Tony Gilroy Breaks Down Andor Season 1
Spoiler warning: This article contains story details and plot points from the entirety of Andor Season 1. Andor isn’t like the Star Wars we’ve known. It announces this to us in its opening sequence, which finds Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor skulking forward in the rain, heading into a brothel, and minutes later, accidentally killing a local […]
Framework Laptop 2 Review: An Upgradable Laptop
Framework delivers its second laptop with faster processors and an upgrade path for existing users.
Bring Us “Pan Solo” and a Cookie
The problem was Han Solo’s lips. For three months, Hannalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine, had carefully planned out how to create a 6-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide sculpture of Solo encased in carbonite using the tools of their trade from One House Bakery in Benicia, California. After the bakery closed for the day, mother and daughter worked […]
The Mission Behind the New Star Wars and Sackcloth & Ashes Collaboration – Reveal
Star Wars stories tend to be about hope and perseverance despite overwhelming odds, a theme shared with the mission-driven Sackcloth & Ashes, which launches its first Star Wars collaboration today. In 2014, CEO Bob Dalton founded the company during a dark time in his life, when his own mother experienced homelessness. “Prior to my mom […]
Author Cavan Scott Springs the Trap with Tales from the Rancor Pit
After spending several scary seasons inside the chilling halls of Darth Vader’s castle, this year’s galactic take on the Halloween season has found a new haunt: Jabba the Hutt’s Palace. More specifically, dangling over the trap door that leads to the rancor pit. Writer Cavan Scott could think of no better setting to incorporate the […]
Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 Key Art Revealed
Next spring, the Rebellion is landing in London. Today Lucasfilm and Reedpop unveiled the key art for Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023, featuring a fleet of rebel ships, led by the Millennium Falcon, on course for the London skyline in a nod to Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, which marks its 40th anniversary next […]