Dakota Johnson is the newest lovelorn heroine in Jane Austen romance 'Persuasion'

Full transparency: I've by no means been an enormous Jane Austen fan.

As an English main, anglophile and lover of historic fiction, I really feel like I ought to be -- but it surely simply by no means occurred for me. Nonetheless, with so many Austen variations to select from, I've sometimes discovered myself entertained.

So I am giving Regency romance a go once more. Dakota Johnson leads as Anne Elliot, an unconforming girl with trendy sensibilities, whose "one who bought away" returns years after she referred to as off their engagement. Bonus: "Loopy Wealthy Asians" star Henry Golding additionally costars.

"Persuasion" begins streaming Friday on Netflix.

'Ceaselessly Summer season: Hamptons'

What do you get whenever you combine solar, sand, surf and younger individuals from rich households?

Drama, in fact!

This new actuality sequence, set within the tony Hamptons group in New York's Lengthy Island, is centered round a gaggle of school college students who work at a restaurant through the day and social gathering the summer season nights away.

"Ceaselessly Summer season: Hamptons" begins streaming Friday on Amazon Prime.

'Lady within the Image'

So far as I'm involved, the perfect true crime content material takes you on twists and turns en path to its conclusion -- and that is definitely the case with "Lady within the Image."

The documentary begins with a 20-year-old girl named Tonya Hughes, who died in 1990 after having been struck by a hit-and-run driver in Oklahoma Metropolis. However who was Hughes, actually? And did she know her killer?

Netflix positively continues its fame for disturbing but absorbing true crime initiatives with this investigation, which is streaming now.

Two issues to hearken to

In line with the singer, she narrowed down 200 songs she had written to the 12 tracks featured on the document.

"Particular" is out Friday.

Prepare for brand spanking new music from an American traditional. The members of Chicago are marking 55 years performing along with the band's thirty eighth studio album, titled "Born for This Second."

"I hope that, 55 years from now, listeners will truly really feel one thing about our music and our lyrics," founding member Robert Lamm mentioned in a launch for the brand new album. "I imply, we're all human. All of us undergo some variation of the identical ache and pleasure sooner or later in our lives, and there is a commonality to that. I hope listeners sooner or later will truly get all these emotions whereas listening to our music."

"Born for This Second" options 14 new songs and is out on Friday.

One factor to speak about

Why are we so outdated?!

It has been 25 years for the reason that Hanson hit track "MMMBop" was launched (sure, you learn that accurately) and brothers Isaac, Taylor and Zac are actually dads to fifteen kids between them.

Whew!

"'MMMBop' is one thing that wasn't false, and it wasn't someone else's message," Taylor mentioned. "The connection with the followers that we made with that track continued for years after. We all the time aspired to have longevity."

Mission completed -- I'm buzzing the track now as I kind this.

One thing to sip on

The fixed information about gun violence in our society jogs my memory that it touches all points of our lives on this nation.

Hip-hop has usually been criticized as a medium that glorifies violence. These arguments overlook the truth that it is music that always displays the artists' life experiences, a lot of whom grew up in internal metropolis neighborhoods the place gun violence was and might be part of life.

However as an increasing number of mass shootings are taking place throughout america, we're reminded this isn't simply an city difficulty -- and by no means has been.

Wherever you might dwell, it is our downside, and it'll take all of us elevating our voices if there's to be any hope of change.