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DC’s Titans will soon return for Season 4 in November, and fans of the HBO Max original series couldn’t be more excited. After a year of waiting, the Titans team will soon be back, with Jay Lycurgo’s Tim Drake expected to tag along as the next Robin, having recently begun training under Brenton Thwaites’ Nightwing.Titans has already revealed the first look at some of Season 4’s new villainous additions, which include Lex Luthor, Brother Blood, Mother Mayhem, and Jinx....

Kingpin finally made his debut in the season finale of Hawkeye after Vincent D’Onofrio’s crime boss made a surprise cameo at the end of Episode 5. Returning from Netflix’s Daredevil, Wilson Fisk appeared to give Clint Barton and Kate Bishop a fair bit of trouble on Christmas Eve. Fisk was also originally supposed to receive a bit more play in Episode 6, with one Kingpin-related scene reportedly being cut from the final episode....

When I hosted a book club meeting a few months ago, my dog Lulu stayed upstairs in her crate. As guests arrived, they asked if she could join the group but I politely declined. Lulu can get overly excited around guests; a house full of people toting plates of cheese and other goodies could lead to doggie-induced chaos. I convinced myself that everyone was better off with Lulu upstairs. It prevented me from having to pull her off someone’s lap, and it saved guests from pretending they enjoyed being licked by a 48-pound dog....

It may come as a surprise, but you don’t have to go through a breeder to find the perfect purebred dog. If you have your heart set on a specific breed, there are dog rescues waiting to match you with your ideal companion. You can help a rescued dog find a forever home and get the dog you’ve been dreaming about. Why dogs end up in breed-specific rescues: There is a misconception that getting a dog from a breed-specific rescue is less desirable than getting one from a breeder....

Love to give homemade gifts for the holidays? Besides baked goods and jams, candles are one of the most thoughtful DIY gifts you can create. But many environmentally conscious people have ditched candles to avoid indoor air pollution. After all, traditional candles are made from paraffin, which is a byproduct of petroleum. Traditional candles also give off benzene and toluene, noxious chemicals that vegetable-based candles don’t emit. So if you focus your efforts on soy candles or beeswax candles, you’ll avoid that hazard....

While the Multiverse is a concept about which Doctor Strange and the audience still know frighteningly little, fans would be completely in the dark about this Phase 4 focus if it wasn’t for Loki on Disney+. The Tom Hiddleston-led Marvel series not only focused on the God of Mischief as he confronted himself and the Time Variance Authority (TVA), but also educated audiences on timelines, Variants, a Multiversal War, and He Who Remains....

Marvel Studios is off to the races with its seventh Disney+ series, Ms. Marvel, which partially serves as a look back at MCU history through the eyes of in-universe fans. Expanding on the new world post-Avengers: Endgame, as Kamala Khan works to find her way through high school, the new series offers a fresh perspective on how the Infinity Saga came to an end three years ago. Endgame’s final battle came into play during Ms....

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania made some changes to Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror as he becomes the MCU’s next big bad. Given the scale of Marvel Studios’ blockbuster superhero ventures, CGI and post-production play an intensive role in creating the MCU. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law proved this after some significant changes between trailers and ultimately in the final product - which still maintained some of these issues.As fans prepare to see Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania kickstart Phase 5 in early 2023, much of the discussion surrounds Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror....

Marvel Studios could be making some massive changes to their Phase 5 and Phase 6 lineups after the negative reception to some of the content in Phase 4.There’s no denying that this first new Phase of MCU content post-Avengers: Endgame was mixed. While projects like Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Spider-Man: No Way Home were widely praised, movies such as Eternals and Thor: Love and Thunder missed the mark for many....

Marvel’s Phase 4 has begun, but not as planned. After several project delays and release date order changes, WandaVision wound up kicking off the post-Infinity Saga era of the MCU. Other Disney+ series including The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki are set to follow in the coming months, but release dates for the films on Marvel’s slate are still very much up in the air. One movie that was pushed back an entire year is Eternals, which was originally set to come out in November 2020 but is now slated for November 2021....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is less than four weeks away from finally unveiling the first new project of Phase 4: WandaVision on Disney+. Regarded as one of the craziest stories brought to life in the MCU, Wanda and Vision are about to embark on their own solo journey in an alternate reality displayed through the lens of multiple eras of network television. The series is already confirmed to be utilizing at least six different eras of classic TV shows, going so far as to use a live studio audience during filming for the earliest of these eras....

Smart cities are not a panacea, and the New York Times is on it. Dr. Shoshana Saxe is known to TreeHugger readers for her work on the carbon footprint of big transit projects. Now she is known to riders of the New York Times for writing about another subject dear to this TreeHugger’s heart, titled in the print edition What We Really Need Are Good ‘Dumb’ Cities. Dr. Saxe is responding to the Sidewalk Labs proposal for Toronto, and wondering if the dumb old solutions aren’t better....

The word nuclear has a bad reputation, and for good reason. If you know your history, it may bring to mind the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan during World War II that killed hundreds of thousands of people, or maybe the nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Which is precisely why, in the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government launched a program called Atoms For Peace to give nuclear energy some positive press....

Given that The Flash Season 9 is the final adventure of Grant Gustin’s titular speedster, the show’s teaser trailer might have already teased a major death of a DC character. The CW has been hyping up The Flash’s final season, with President of Entertainment Brad Schwartz teasing that the upcoming Arrowverse episodes have “plenty of twists, guest stars, and surprises.” This could hint that a major death will happen that could cause massive ramifications for the rest of Team Flash....

The Mandalorian arrived on Disney+ to rave reviews from all across the globe in the Fall of last year, earning the new Star Wars property scores of critical acclaim as well. This is a series that came in as a new addition to one of the most deeply established properties in sci-fi history and walked away from the 2020 Emmys with seven wins and fifteen total nominations. Even for all the incredible boundaries it broke and the accolades it earned, fans of all levels seemed to have a consensus favorite new addition to the Star Wars universe: Baby Yoda....

Boba Fett returned with a bang in The Mandalorian, in pretty much every manner imaginable. Watching Tatooine’s twin suns. Meeting Din Djarin. Reclaiming his armor and destroying stormtroopers in the process. The return of the Slave I and the seismic charge. And, of course, executing Bib Fortuna and taking over Jabba’s Palace in the Season 2 finale’s post-credit scene. Once a feared captor across the galaxy, Fett now says he’s “not a bounty hunter” in The Book of Boba Fett’s trailer....

Even with everything still set to come for Marvel Studios before the end of 2022, there is no slowing down with content premiering in theaters and on streaming in 2021. Potentially starting off that run on Disney+ next year is Ms. Marvel, which will be the first time any new hero has headlined a series within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The plot for Ms. Marvel has been kept under wraps more so than many of its MCU counterparts, although fans have gotten a handful of looks at costumes that newcomer Iman Vellani will don throughout....

Star Wars Day is upon the galaxy, and naturally, Lucasfilm and fans have put on an Ewok-style celebration. With so much of Star Wars’ future taking place on Disney+, it comes as little surprise that the streaming platform has been at the center of the holiday’s special reveals. When the twin suns rose, everyone was treated to the official trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi, featuring a heated discussion between the Jedi and Uncle Owen, Reva on the prowl, and a Darth Vader suit-up....

Over the last couple of years, HBO Max made its mark as the latest in the expanding group of players in the streaming game. Helping separate it from other major names like Disney+ and Hulu is the company’s status as the home of everything relating to DC Comics. Featuring every movie in the DCEU and various shows from across the DC landscape, superheroes reign supreme on HBO Max. Through the pandemic, Warner Bros....

Have you heard about the Mexican sour gherkin cucumber? No? Maybe you’ve heard of one of this summer’s trendiest fruits, the cucamelon? They’re one in the same. The small cucumber-like fruits that are shaped like tiny watermelons are having their day in the social media sun, and the adorable edible is ending up in salads, getting pickled and making its way onto cocktail skewers as a garnish. Although they look like baby watermelons, they taste like cucumbers with a little citrus — some people say lemon, some say lime — and they don’t have to be peeled....