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The dollar store is one of my favorite places to pick up inexpensive seasonal crafting items.  A perennial favorite across all seasons is their glitter table scatter. Over on Creative Green Living, I show you how to take some wired burlap ribbon and combine it with Valentine table scatter to make a cute bunting perfect for a mantle, door, or mirror.  [how to make an easy burlap and glitter valentine heart banner]

Project estimate:

• burlap ribbon, $1
• Glitter heart table scatter, $1 and up
• Scissors, on hand
• Jute twine, on hand or $1 and up
• Hot glue gun & glue, on hand

Total: $3 and up

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Last fall, UCLA held a new class, titled “Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic.” As you can probably tell, the course was inspired by Jordan Peele’s Get Out, and descriptions had us bubbling over with envy. The course is taught through the African Americans Studies department and uses Peele’s film as its central thesis touchstone while discussing other films and works of art by black artists and how “this subset of horror genre binds elements of history, sociology, politics, African-based religions such as Vodun/Vodou, and morality tales to create mirror through which to view true-life struggles facing black population.”

The course was taught by Prof. Tananarive Due and her husband, author Steven Barnes. Due told i09 that this course attracted about double the number of students she’s had in her most popular Afrofuturism class–and that was before Jordan Peele decided to drop by. This spring, they say they had the same number enroll. The two have taught classes before over webinar, so they realized they should probably just go ahead and offer this one online as well. And it’s not just open to UCLA students, but to anyone.

From i09,

When asked who might be the ideal people to take the Sunken Place seminar, Barnes singled out three populations. “One is just the fans who want to understand and have a wider context and deeper understanding of the roots of horror, black horror in America, and our transition from being the monsters in Birth of a Nation to being the ones who fight the monsters. That’s an amazing, heroic journey that we have taken in this country,” he began. “We also want to be a resource for teachers of black horror to provide them with context, to deepen them, so that they can in turn reach out and touch other people. But also, we want to impact the next generation of the creators of black horror.”

 Note that this is not a free online event; this is a full, university-level, six-week seminar. (It also comes with a second “bonus” screenwriting class.) The course began on January 13th, but you can still sign up (here) and all previously held classes are available for replay.

Shoutout to @JordanPeele for coming to my Black Horror Aesthetic class and lecturing us on his movie #GetOut ✊? pic.twitter.com/P9P7aRGoV3

— DJ ODYSSEY (@Dj_Odyssey_) October 12, 2017

• If that’s not exciting enough for the aspiring filmmakers among you, Disney and Nissan want to give you cars, money, and premiere tickets to A Wrinkle in Time‘s premiere. (via Women & Hollywood on Twitter)
• If you’re tired of being harassed or assaulted at work, there are worse lines of action than this one.

Women are farting on men to get them to leave them alone.

2nd time I’ve read this in a week.

Eat your broccoli and cabbage, folks. pic.twitter.com/HbggIIMaRj

— Keri F Sweet & Keri Ford (@KeriFord) January 25, 2018

• Black Panther’s opening weekend is looking huuuuuuge. Please just give it to us now! (via Variety)
• A prize is being offered for thriller-genre books “in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered.” Jezebel guesses that “half the entries are from guys whose books don’t qualify but submit anyway!” and we were thinking the same thing. (via Jezebel)
• Anne Heche has shared her Harvey Weinstein story. (via IndieWire)
• Your guide to this year’s Oscar contenders, as told by Hey Arnold. (via Twitter)

Have a great weekend, you scholarly beauties!

(image: Universal)

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It looks like Steven Spielberg will follow up Indiana Jones 5 by directing a West Side Story remake. Wait….seriously? We discussed his big potential (dance) move on today’s Nerdist News Talks Back, along with the newest look at Annihilation, and where Breaking Bad ranks in TV history ten years after its premiere.

Joining host Jessica Chobot on this Friday extravaganza were Nerdist editors Alicia Lutes, Dan Casey, and Kyle Anderson, as well as Bizarre States’ Andrew Bowser. They started with reports Steven Spielberg will follow The Post and Ready Player One with another Indy film, but that he has also begun casting his next project after that, a remake of West Side Story. What do we make of this? What do we think a musical would look like from him? Who do we want to see in it? Do we even care if we ever get another Indiana Jones movie? And what’s our favorite—and least favorite—Spielberg movie?

Paramount also released a new featurette for Annihilation exploring the mysterious “Shimmer,” where creatures are mutating at a frightening speed with deadly results. How hyped are we for this movie? Did we follow up last month’s Alpha Book Club reading of the novel by diving into the next two books in the trilogy? And do we think the movie will be hurt at the box office by debuting a week after Black Panther?

Finally, this month marked the ten year anniversary of Breaking Bad‘s premiere. The show is considered one of the best series during this amazing era of television, but does it deserve the lofty accolades it gets? What are the greatest TV shows of all time?

Just like it does every weekday, Nerdist News Talks Back airs live at 1:00 p.m. PT on our YouTube and Alpha channels. So tune in and get in on the conversation with us, especially because you never know when Steven Spielberg might announce he’s remaking West Side Story and we have to figure out if all the Sharks will include the mechanical one from Jaws.

They couldn’t even get that thing to swim, what are the chances it can dance?

We still want to hear from you though, so talk back to us about today’s topics in the comments below.

Images: United Artists, AMC

Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates / Artist: Leonard Kirk / Marvel Comics

A few weeks away from the movie debut, Ta-Nehisi Coates picked a wonderful time to write a triple-double of a Black Panther book. Though he has caused a bit of controversy by turning parts of the mythology upside down, that’s just the kind of forward thinking this character has needed to be propelled into the next generation of Afrofuturism for new readers. Now, if we can just get that Storm solo book popping…

Coates is clearly stretching his legs and opening up all cylinders to see what he can really do with his story in Issue #169. There’s a little set-up dialogue-wise to get the readers up to speed with the varying threats to Wakanda all in play, and T’Challa’s old nemesis puts his grand plan into action. Then, the rest of the story is told visually with zero dialogue as the focus turns to the captured Midnight Angels, Ayo and Aneka. The action is exciting and tense as if our heroes are savaging their way through.

Coates is always finding never-increasing T’Challa’s ever-increasing supporting cast so interesting. We can read a whole issue about characters that weren’t around a year ago in a Black Panther book with no Black Panther panel time in sight. Though the script is on point, it wouldn’t have worked so beautifully without Leonard Kirk’s artwork. Kirk’s panels are so cinematic and easy to follow, never losing their bearings or getting ahead of the script itself. Faces convey so much emotion and tension on every page.

Bottom Line: With the wrong artist on deck, this issue’s concept could have easily bombed, but Leonard Kirk and Ta-Nehisi Coates were in perfect sync like they were driving a Pacific Rim jaeger.

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