io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by Kel Coleman. Enjoy! Last Meal Aboard the Awassa by Kel Coleman Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport […]
Originality is still alive at Disney, and it’s taking the form of 2026’s Hexed. Unveiled during the studio’s Destination 23 event, the Walt Disney Animation Studios film from Zootopia and Raya and the Last Dragon artist Josie Trinidad and Moana 2 co-director Jason Hand centers on “an awkward teenage boy and his Type – A […]
The 52nd Telluride Film Festival is barely more than a day old and already there is a strong theme running through the new films here: art as a life altering experience. In Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, depression causes the superstar musician to go deep into his writing and recording a new album in order […]
Sim Smith is pleased to announce Vanessa Garwood’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Story Circles. Vanessa Garwood’s paintings explore the progressive nature of matrilateral storytelling, whilst also mining the psychological dramas that unfold behind both speech and action. Each painting becomes an investigation into the hierarchies that play out in this instinctive, subconscious world, where the […]
Television has long had a Jewish mother problem. From The Goldbergs (Gertrude Berg’s medium-spanning landmark) to The Goldbergs (Adam F. Goldberg’s barely Jewish ABC hit), TV’s Jewish characters have too often seemed to emerge from the same mother — and I’m not talking about the mystical concept of the shekhinah, or the divine feminine. Long […]
anish kapoor and greenpeace flood liquid on shell’s platform Anish Kapoor and Greenpeace activists install the BUTCHERED on the active gas platform of Shell located 45 nautical miles off the Norfolk coast. A debut of an artwork on an active offshore fossil fuel platform, the installation represents and visualizes the climate damage caused by […]
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Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures Nothing brings a chilling fear down someone’s spine like a horror movie teasing that its plot is based on real events. Weapons, released on August 8, 2025, is the latest Warner Bros. film to haunt viewers, and many walked out of theaters wondering if it’s based on a true story. […]
A woman swims through the ocean, blissfully oblivious of the humongous great white shark with a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth rising to the surface below her. The poster for Jaws isn’t just a great ad for a movie; it’s a timeless depiction of a primal human fear. “Everybody can relate to it,” says Josh […]
In the recesses of the internet, where reality can feel increasingly fuzzy, one young Norwegian man lacking offline mobility built a world of his own. Mats Steen, the subject of the poignant Netflix documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, formed a digital community that transcended the severe muscular dystrophy he’d developed as a child. While […]
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