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On Indie Bookstore Day, find a Nook & Cranny’s secret ‘golden ticket’
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Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center diverse and new authors, connect readers to books in a personal and authentic way and actively support the right to read and access to books in their communities.
Each week we profile an independent bookstore, sharing what makes each one special and getting their expert and unique book recommendations.
This week we have Maren Comendant, owner of Nook & Cranny Books in Seattle, Washington, just in time for their grand re-opening on Indie Bookstore Day next Saturday, April 26.
What’s your store’s story?
Nook & Cranny is a queer, femme-owned shop that opened in June 2022 to elevate marginalized voices and tell unusual stories. As the name would suggest, we are pocket-sized and cozy, with books organized by mood or topic like “Cheaper Than Therapy,” “When You’re Feeling Witchy,” or “Books About Books” – one of my personal favorites. Despite limited capacity, we pack in as much community connection as we can, with book clubs, author events, an art group and a well-attended open mic.
We are in the process of moving our storefront and Indie Bookstore Day will serve as our official Grand Opening.
What makes your independent bookstore unique?
Folks love the non-traditional organization, which encourages getting lost in the shelves and surprising yourself with unexpected finds. It’s an ideal store for the curious reader of any age. The intimate space also allows for highly personalized service and recommendations for those looking to find the perfect gift or travel read. We strive to be a third place that fosters community, found family and the elevation of marginalized voices.
What’s your favorite section in your store?
My favorite shelf in the store is the “Where in the World?” shelf, where we feature books from a different country or region every month. I love exploring books in translation and learning about the world. This is also the category that inspires our “Read Around the World” book club.
What book do you love to recommend to customers and why?
For kids (and kids at heart) I always recommend the “A Narwhal and Jelly” series by Seattle local Ben Clanton. My current favorite in the series is “Narwhalicorn and Jelly,” when the characters visit a unicorn planet and the unicorns come to visit the ocean. The books can be read in any order. I love the illustrations and the relatable, admirable friendship. Jelly can be a bit of a stick-in-the-mud and sometimes Narwhal can be a bad friend, but they always learn from their mistakes and become better friends for it.
What book do you think deserves more attention and why?
“Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko and “They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears” by Johannes Anyuru quickly catapulted their way into my all-time top 10. “Ceremony” is a 1977 novel that is considered a modern classic by many, but should be required reading because of its exquisite writing on the traumas of war and colonialism. Johannes Anyuru is a Swedish-Ugandan poet and his astonishing book is part dystopian sci-fi, part time-travel and part scathing indictment of the Islamophobia and anti-immigration policies rampant in Sweden (and here at home). Saskia Vogel’s translation is perfect, and I recommend it to everyone I can.
Why is shopping at local, independent bookstores important?
You get personal service, you’re more likely to find local and indie authors represented, your money gets cycled back into the local economy and we donate to local orgs too. We have our fingers firmly on the pulse of the local community and strive to adapt our businesses to meet the specific needs and desires of that community. We advocate for you.
What are some of your store’s events, programs, or partnerships coming up that you would like to share?
For Indie Bookstore Day, we will have snacks, door prizes, a book exchange, Indie Bookstore Day exclusives and special editions of some favorite titles. Somewhere in the store, there will be a hidden Libro.fm Golden Ticket, good for a year’s worth of audiobooks. We’ll also be participating in the Seattle Indie Bookstore Day Book Crawl with nearly 30 other stores in the Seattle area.
We also host a monthly “Read Around the World” book club in person every 4th Sunday, a twice-monthly open mic every 1st and 3rd Thursday, and “Trans*pire: a Trans Creative Group” is a newly added monthly meet-up for trans, nonbinary and genderqueer writers, artists and other creatives to co-work, share and network. We currently partner with local arts orgs Noveltease Theatre and Joketellers Union to promote their regular shows and we’re always looking for new, fun partnerships with the other small businesses on our street.
(This article was updated to include video.)
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Ryan Gosling will star in new Star Wars filmEntertainment
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Actor apologizes for antisemitism amid arrest
Haley Joel Osment is apologizing after aiming an antisemitic slur at a police officer during his arrest last week at a California ski resort, according to reports.
Osment apologized for his use of the slur in a statement shared with People and the New York Post April 18 after his arrest footage surfaced the day prior.
“I’m absolutely horrified by my behavior. Had I known I used this disgraceful language in the throes of a blackout, I would have spoken up sooner,” Osment told the outlets. “The past few months of loss and displacement have broken me down to a very low emotional place.”
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Osment continued: “But that’s no excuse for using this disgusting word. From the bottom of my heart, I apologize to absolutely everyone that this hurts. What came out of my mouth was nonsensical garbage – I’ve let the Jewish community down and it devastates me. I don’t ask for anyone’s forgiveness, but I promise to atone for my terrible mistake.”
On April 8, “The Sixth Sense” and “Forrest Gump” actor was arrested for disorderly conduct for public alcohol intoxication and possession of cocaine at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area resort in Mammoth Lakes, California, Mono County District Attorney David Anderson said in an April 17 statement.
What did Haley Joel Osment say?
In the nearly 2-minute footage shared by Page Six, Osment says, “I’m being detained.” Later, when asked what his name is, he replies, “I’m an American.”
Later in the footage, an arresting officer holds up Osment’s ID to other law enforcement officials and says, “You do recognize him right? That’s the actor … from ‘Sixth Sense,’ ‘Pay it Forward.’ That’s the kid actor.”
Inside the police car, as they are purportedly driving to a jail, Osment calls the officer a “Nazi” and later hurls an antisemitic slur about Jewish people.
“You’ll wish you treated me nicer,” Osment says to the officer. As he’s escorted into the jail in handcuffs by two officers, the actor says, “Good luck.”
Haley Joel Osment arrest follows prior legal troubles
Preceding his arrest in April, Osment was described as an “unruly skier,” according to a Mammoth Lakes Police Department media bulletin. The incident is still under investigation, People reports, and the Mono County District Attorney’s Office said the actor will be arraigned on July 7. At the time of his arrest, Osment, a Los Angeles native, was days away from his 37th birthday.
The “Blink Twice” actor has had previous run-ins with law enforcement, dating back nearly two decades. In 2018, media outlets reported the actor was involved in an argument at a Las Vegas airport on Super Bowl Sunday, with police being called to respond to an “unruly passenger.”
There was also a 2006 arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol and misdemeanor drug possession, in an incident where he suffered a broken rib. The then-18-year-old Osment pleaded no contest and was sentenced to three years of probation, 60 hours in an alcohol rehabilitation program, attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous and a $1,500 fine.
Contributing: Taijuan Moorman
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Oklahoma City bombing documentary: Timothy McVeigh’s chance arrest
Watch trailer for Netflix’s ‘Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror’
Netflix’s documentary ‘Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror’ arrives on the 30th anniversary of the tragedy. See the exclusive trailer.
On the morning of April 19, 1995, an Army veteran once described as “probably the best soldier” in his company parked a commercial truck carrying a 4,800-pound bomb in downtown Oklahoma City. Timothy McVeigh targeted the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building because of the numerous federal agencies scattered among the structure’s nine stories, where hundreds worked.
The date marked two years since the fatal end of a 51-day standoff between law enforcement and cult leader David Koresh in Waco, Texas. In retaliation, McVeigh rented a truck using a fake I.D. made with a clothing iron to transport the fertilizer bomb that he and his friend Terry Nichols assembled. The two first met in the Army, and later bonded over their anti-government views. At 9:02 a.m., the explosive detonated, obliterating one-third of the building, which also housed a daycare center.
Thirty years after the shocking act of domestic terror that claimed 168 lives, the tragedy is the focus of new projects: NatGeo’s three-part docuseries “Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America” is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. And Netflix’s “Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror” 1 hour, 24-minute documentary chronicles the day of the bombing, featuring interviews with people on site and law enforcement officers desperate to solve the case. The documentary also spotlights local residents’ resiliency and ability to step up for their grief-stricken community.
The inspiring Oklahomans who ‘found a heroic piece of themselves’
Director Greg Tillman tells USA TODAY that while making his film, he found a consistent theme: “In spite of the horror that they’re all experiencing,” he says, “so many people in that moment found a heroic piece of themselves that they may never have known about until something like this happened in their life.”
The filmmaker applauds the “hundreds” who “ran right to the site to see if they could help people.” Those attempting to save survivors in the building did so with the understanding that they were risking their own lives. Dr. Carl Spengler, who performed onsite triage, remembers in the documentary a surgeon who, when he “crawled into the hole to do (an) amputation he handed his wallet back and said, ‘If this collapses, give that to my wife.’”
Tillman says FBI officials told him as he made the documentary they were mindful about requests for donations, “because anything they asked for from the public, they got 20 times more than needed.”
Timothy McVeigh in custody for another crime during hunt for bomber
Charlie Hanger, then an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, pulled over McVeigh shortly after the bombing. McVeigh’s getaway car, a 1977 Mercury Marquis, didn’t have a license plate. McVeigh threatened Hanger with the loaded gun bulging from his jacket, so Hanger arrested McVeigh and brought him to Noble County Jail in Perry, about an hour north of Oklahoma City. There, McVeigh was booked and saw on TV the extent of the devastation. Because of a court backlog, McVeigh remained jailed, though authorities had not yet connected him to the bombing.
Meanwhile, a blown-off piece of McVeigh’s truck led authorities to a rental reservation, which resulted in a sketch that ultimately connected him to the crime. The FBI searched a database to see if anyone named Timothy McVeigh had been arrested and discovered he’d been apprehended in Perry. On April 21, the FBI phoned Hanger, who informed them that McVeigh was currently in court “35, 45 minutes away from walking out the door.”
When asked about the coincidence Mark Gibson, then assistant district attorney for Noble County, reasoned with a Southern drawl, “God was watching us.”
McVeigh was executed in 2001. His co-conspirator Nichols is serving a life sentence in Florence, Colorado.
A dedicated doctor, grieving mother and transformed survivor
The documentary depicts the experiences of three people irrevocably touched by the tragedy that will stay with viewers long after the documentary ends.
Spengler, a third-year medical resident, accepted a friend’s invitation for breakfast near the Federal Building after his shift ended at 7 a.m. Spengler says after the bombing he “took off running” to the scene and provided triage care. He determined which victims needed the most urgent attention and which could not be saved. “And to compound all of that, you had children,” Spengler emphasizes.
Renee Moore worked near the building and relied on its daycare for her 6-month-old son Antonio Cooper Jr., who was among those killed. She recalls nights where she would drive to McVeigh’s prison and “just sit out there in the dark, wondering how I could get in so I could hurt him.” In an interesting twist of fate she welcomed another son, Carlos Moore, on Antonio’s birthday.
Amy Downs, an employee of the building’s Federal Employees Credit Union, regained consciousness beneath a mountain of debris. Rescuers located Downs but had to flee before they could free her from the rubble after authorities thought they had found a second bomb.
“They were leaving me buried alive,” Downs remembers. “And I’d start thinking about my life and relationships and doing something with your life to help others, and I’d never been a mom. And all of a sudden, it was just so clear. I didn’t live a life true to myself. Once free, Downs vowed to God, “I would never live my life the same.” She became a triathlete, earned her MBA, became CEO of the credit union, an author and a motivational speaker.
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‘Sinners,’ streaming ‘The Last of Us’
Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal discuss father-daughter relationship
“The Last of Us” stars Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal reveal they didn’t enjoy their character’s estrangement in season 2.
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Here’s an outstanding BOGO: Not only can you see a great Michael B. Jordan performance in “Sinners,” you get another one for free!
Jordan pulls double duty as gangster twins taking on vampires in 1930s Mississippi in director Ryan Coogler’s musical horror mashup. But don’t just limit yourself in your screen monsters, fam: Those fungal zombies are back and still freaky in the second season of HBO’s “The Last of Us.” (OK, yeah, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey return as well and they’re pretty cool.) It’s also getting kind of scary for TV shows out there, with cancellations on the horizon. We’re giving y’all to a chance to let your voice be heard to keep your favorites before it’s too late!
Now on to the good stuff:
See Michael B. Jordan battle vampires in Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’
It took a few months, but the movie season’s really revving up these days: “Warfare” came out last week and this week brings “Sinners,” the year’s best film to date. Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers who return to their Mississippi hometown to open up a juke joint, and they recruit their talented cousin (Miles Caton) to sing the blues on opening night. However, their party’s crashed by a vampire (Jack O’Connell) and this fangtastic menace threatens their entire community. It’s a frightfest that’s musical and meaningful, mesmerizing and memorable. (Peep my ★★★½ review.)
I talked with Coogler and Jordan about the inspirations behind the surreal horror movie. To build out his dual roles, the scheming Stack and the more serious Smoke, Jordan thought about how “their earliest childhood traumas” informed their personalities and coping skills. “Two survival instincts, but just approached differently.”
Stream ‘The Last of Us’ for an emotionally wrought Pedro Pascal
The first season of HBO’s “The Last of Us” was a great, emotionally complex and super-gory adaptation of the survival horror video game, and the new second season (streaming now on Max) finds Joel (Pedro Pascal) and surrogate daughter Ellie (Bella Ramsey) trying to make a life for themselves in a post-apocalyptic world.
My colleague Bryan Alexander interviewed the stars about Ramsey (and her new jiu-jitsu skills) taking on more of an action role this season, Joel having a new therapist, and Joel and Ellie’s newly estranged relationship. “I want to take it all back. Go back to Season 1 and just stroll through the apocalypse. Together,” he says. For more “Last of Us,” check out TV critic Kelly Lawler’s ★★½ star Season 2 review and my fellow horror nerd Brendan Morrow’s breakdown of the biggest changes between the show and game.
Don’t forget to vote in USA TODAY’s Save Our Shows poll
The deadline is quickly approaching on the end of our Save Our Show poll this year, and if you haven’t yet, pick your favorite among 17 “bubble” TV dramas and comedies as the networks weigh their fates. (You have until April 30!) One of the leading vote-getters already received its lifeline, as ABC renewed the Tim Allen comedy “Shifting Gears” after the poll launched April 2. Two dramas have also proven popular among readers: NBC’s “The Irrational,” starring Jesse L. Martin, and CBS’ remake of “The Equalizer,” starring Queen Latifah.
The endangered crop also includes my pick, ABC’s “Doctor Odyssey,” plus the new spinoff “Suits LA,” Fox’s long-running “The Cleaning Lady,” and two NBC sitcoms, “Lopez vs. Lopez” and a “Night Court” revival.
Even more goodness to check out!
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Sean Combs news, live updates from court: Diddy trial delay denied
NEW YORK − Federal prosecutors scored another win against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian ruled against the Combs defense team’s request to push back the start of his federal sex-crimes trial two months after its scheduled May 5 start date.
Combs’ attorneys made the original request in a motion filed April 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY.
Now, the Combs defense team will have limited time – less than three weeks – before the trial begins to prepare their arguments. The ruling comes as Combs now faces two new charges of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution of the unnamed “Victim-2” filed earlier this month.
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In court documents filed April 17, the day before the court hearing, Combs’ legal team also presented their case for excluding from the trial footage of Combs attacking then-girlfriend Cassie.
The embattled music mogul was arrested in September and has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty to all five charges.
The federal indictment on criminal charges emerged amid a growing number of civil suits that allege Combs engaged in a pattern of abusive behavior over three decades including accusations of rape, sexual assault and physical violence.
Live updates from court:
Brian Steel, who represented rapper Young Thug in his own long-running legal battle and RICO trial, appeared at the federal court building as he joins Combs’ legal team ahead of the trial. –Anika Reed
Combs’ mother, Janice Combs, arrived at court April 18, donning sunglasses and sporting a bright blonde bob as she entered the courthouse to support her son. –Anika Reed
The Sean John founder’s lawyers have requested more time to prepare his defense in response to additional evidence and two new charges of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution of “Victim-2.” Combs’ lawyers originally requested a two week, and later, a two-month delay, claiming in a April 16 motion that there is “substantially new conduct” alleged in the expanded April 3 indictment, and that the U.S. government is still producing evidence.
Combs’ lawyers said in the filing that the proposed two-month delay would allow Combs the “necessary time” to prepare his defense. –Taijuan Moorman and Edward Segarra
The court hearing was scheduled to start at 11 a.m. ET on April 18. –Anika Reed
When does Diddy’s trial start?
Combs’ trial, which will take place in downtown Manhattan, is currently set to begin May 5 with jury selection. –Anna Kaufman
Is Sean Combs in jail?
Despite repeated attempts at bail, Combs was ordered to remain in custody at the Special Housing Unit in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center ahead of trial — a ruling his legal team has challenged in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He’s been jailed since his arrest on Sept. 16. –Anna Kaufman
What is Diddy accused of?
Combs’ federal case involves a narrow number of alleged victims.
Using RICO law, which is aimed at targeting multi-person criminal organizations, prosecutors allege that Combs coerced victims, some whom were sex workers, through intimidation and narcotics to participate in “freak offs” – sometimes dayslong sex performances that lawyers claim they have video of.
Diddy news: Prosecutors add new charges to criminal case in indictment
Embattled music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with two additional sex crimes charges ahead of his May trial in New York City.
In March, prosecutors submitted a second superseding indictment, updating the amended indictment from January that added three unnamed women who were allegedly victims of his so-called sex trafficking enterprise, which claims Combs subjected employees to forced labor under inhumane circumstances. In a third superseding indictment, prosecutors added two additional charges – one count of sex trafficking and one count of transportation to engage in prostitution of “Victim-2” – to the previous three charges against him. –Anna Kaufman
What is a RICO charge?
Racketeering is the participation in an illegal scheme under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Statute, or RICO, as a way for the U.S. government to prosecute organizations contributing to criminal activity.
Per Combs’ indictment, prosecutors say his racketeering activity included “multiple acts of kidnapping,” arson, bribery, witness tampering, forced labor, sex trafficking, transportation for the purposes of prostitution and distribution of narcotics. –Anna Kaufman
How is Cassie involved?
Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed a civil lawsuit in November 2023 that is widely viewed as the match that lit the flame for the mogul’s current predicament.
She accused her former partner of rape, sex trafficking and physical abuse, a series of allegations that opened the floodgates to dozens of damning civil complaints accusing the Bad Boy Records founder of various sexual assaults throughout his career.
Combs and Ventura settled for an undisclosed amount a day after she filed her suit. –Anna Kaufman
Contributing: KiMi Robinson, Edward Segarra, Anika Reed and Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY; Luc Cohen, Reuters
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Lorrie Morgan husband’s cancer pushes her to cancel Alabama concerts
Country singer Lorrie Morgan has canceled upcoming concerts and appearances for the next two weeks due to her husband’s health.
Morgan, a 65-year-old singer known for songs “Except for Monday” and “What Part of No,” is currently on tour with the band Alabama.
According to Morgan’s manager, the Grand Ole Opry star’s husband of nearly 15 years, Randy White, has been undergoing treatment for mouth cancer. He was recently readmitted to a a Tennessee hospital.
Country singer Pam Tillis, who is known for songs “Maybe It Was Memphis” and “Shake The Sugar Tree,” will replace Morgan on the tour with Alabama.
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Tillis and Morgan are known collaborators and have released multiple tracks together, including “I Am A Woman” and “I Know What You Did Last Night.” On the 2024 “CMT Giants: Alabama” show, Morgan and Tillis hit the stage to perform a duet.
Morgan had concerts set for Lincoln, California, on April 19 and Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House on April 24. She is slated for shows in Wisconsin, Connecticut, North Dakota, Louisiana, Missouri and Canada, as well as a second Grand Ole Opry House show, through May.
The singer and actress has been married to White, her sixth husband, since 2010, after previously being married to three fellow country musicians.
Audrey Gibbs is a music reporter with The Tennessean. You can reach her at [email protected].
Contributing: Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY
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Starfighter’ movie cast includes Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling to star, Shawn Levy to direct new ‘Star Wars’ movie
Ryan Gosling will star in “Star Wars: Starfighter,” directed by Shawn Levy, that takes place five years after the events of “The Rise of Skywalker.”
Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new “Star Wars” film, Walt Disney’s Lucasfilm announced on April 17.
Shawn Levy will direct, and production will start in the fall. Levy directed Marvel’s record-breaking 2024 film “Deadpool & Wolverine” and episodes of Netflix’s sci-fi series “Stranger Things.” Jonathan Tropper is credited as a writer for the film, according to IMDb.
The film comes as the science-fiction franchise has several other films said to be in the works, including the Daisy Ridley-led “The Rise of Skywalker” follow-up.
“Star Wars,” created by George Lucas in 1977 and set in a galaxy “far, far away,” has brought in more than $5.1 billion at global box offices.
Here’s what we know about “Star Wars: Starfighters” to date.
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‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ release date
“Star Wars: Starfighter” will reach movie theaters on May 28, 2027.
Who does Ryan Gosling play in ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’?
Gosling’s character has not yet been announced.
When does ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ take place?
“Star Wars: Starfighter” will take place five years after the events of 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker,” a Lucasfilm statement said.
The movie is “an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen yet,” the statement said.
The film stands alone from the new trilogy of “Star Wars” films in the works set to be written and produced by “X-Men” writer and producer Simon Kinberg. No new “Star Wars” movie has been released in nearly five years following “The Rise of Skywalker,” which received mixed reviews and polarized reactions among fans.
What other ‘Star Wars’ films are in the works?
Several “Star Wars” films have been announced that are in various stages of development and may or may not actually make their way across the finish line. Daisy Ridley is set to star in a film that will see her character, Rey, building a new Jedi Order after the events of “The Rise of Skywalker.” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is directing.
“Logan” filmmaker James Mangold has also been tapped to direct a movie about the dawn of the Jedi, and Filoni is directing one said to “close out the interconnected stories” told in the live-action Disney+ shows like “The Mandalorian.” A movie continuing the story of “The Mandalorian,” titled “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” is also on the way from director Jon Favreau and scheduled for release in May 2026.
Contributing: Lisa Richwine, Reuters; Brendan Morrow and Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY