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ʻUkulele virtuoso Taimane has a lot to be thankful for. This summer she performed with the San Francisco Symphony before some 25,000 concertgoers. Her latest single and music video, called “Pīkake Princess,” honors Princess Kaʻiulani and is out on major streaming platforms. She was also on the national airwaves as a guest on the NPR show "Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!" — recorded in front of a live audience in Honolulu last month.The Conversation caught up with Taimane to talk story and enjoy some impromptu tunes during this season of gratitude. She started off by playing a song she calls “Creating As We Go.”Taimane will be performing at Blue Note Hawaii on Nov. 29 at 3 p.m. She will also be performing on Kauaʻʻ for the first time in nine years on Jan. 2, 2026. Her rendition of Joni M...

The end of the year is hurtling toward us like a rampaging sandworm that devours time, and that means every game you own is currently pitching you hard to vote for them in the Steam Awards. And not just the new releases, either—thanks to a category called "Labor of Love," you can nominate games that have been "out for a while" provided the devs have continued to "nurture and support their creation."No Man's Sky certainly falls into that category: it's been out for nine years and it's still getting updated regularly multiple times a year with new features. In 2025 alone, there have been updates that added new planets to explore, fossilized skeletons to dig up, a settlement management system, and huge new customizable starships. And as always, these updates are completely free.But there's an...

5 min readThanksgiving movies aren't as popular as Christmas ones, but there are some films about the holiday out there.There are also plenty of movies set in fall that just fit the mood.Read on to find out more about 16 films that are great options to watching during the long, food-filled weekend. Many people love Thanksgiving for the turkey and sides, but it's not exactly known for movies. The holiday is nestled in between the horror flicks of Halloween and the warm and cozy films of Christmas, but if you think "Thanksgiving movie", you might not get much further than A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving—which is wonderful, but a 30-minute-long TV special, not a movie.So, if you're searching for a film about Thanksgiving to view while you wait for the turkey to come out of the oven—or alongside ...

Silver Lake earned the “hipster” handle long before Spaceland opened its doors. But when the club threw its first show in March 1995 at the venue formerly known as Dreams of L.A., it marked a notable energy shift that made everyone take notice, establishing the neighborhood as a trendsetter and hub for creative talent. The live music space was the right idea, in the right place, at the right time.Atmospheric dive bars, funky/punky mom-and-pop shops and reasonable rents began attracting artists, musicians and bohemian slackers and scenesters as residents in the early ’90s. They joined its vibrant queer community and multigenerational familial (mostly Latino) populace, which combined to make it one of the coolest places to live in L.A. It still is, albeit pricier and more pretentious, if you...

It's 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Your family has finished feasting and migrated to the sofa and recliners. Everyone has already changed into their sweatpants with elastic waistbands. The Chiefs and Cowboys are playing lackluster football, and not even Tony Romo's exuberant praise over a Patrick Mahomes completed seven-yard-out can make the game entertaining. Uncle Frank makes a "he's had one too many" comment that causes you to reflexively cringe. You read the room: tempers are bound to boil as politics get brought up. Your Xbox is right there. You want nothing more than to sneak away and game. But what if instead of playing alone, you bring the fam in on the gaming session? Get everyone a controller and a shared objective. Quell any Thanksgiving Day drama before it begins. You don't wan...

HBO Max is about to get a ton of new anime movies soon, and one of them actually has a rare perfect score with Rotten Tomatoes. HBO Max has been going through a lot of changes with its library as it has been steadily removing many of its animated offerings from the platform over the last few years. And while it’s not necessarily the first platform that fans think of when it comes to watching anime releases, it does have a rather strong anime library thanks to the number of notable anime feature films that are currently available to watch on the platform. HBO Max has revealed its next wave of additions coming in December 2025, and it’s confirmed that a whole new batch of anime features from GKIDS will be coming to the platform on December 1st. As part of a huge streaming deal between ...

Playing calming instrumental music during surgery can help patients recover more quickly, according to a new study.“Music seemed to quieten the internal storm”, according to researchers who tested 56 people, said the BBC, and the results “could reshape how hospitals think about surgical wellbeing”.Lower stressExperts at the Lok Nayak Hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College in India studied patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery, the standard keyhole operation to remove the gallbladder. The Week Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly ...

ToplineAI’s trillion-dollar appetite for memory has drained consumer supply and handed chipmakers more lucrative enterprise contracts, a shift that has sent RAM and SSD prices soaring and turned simple gaming and PC upgrades into far pricier undertakings, according to various reports. NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 17: Jack Hyslop, science specialist for Christie's, displays a 1958 prototype of a microchip before auction on June 17, 2014 in New York City. The microchip helped inventor Jack Kilby win the Nobel prize and is expected to sell for $1,000,000 - $2,000,000. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey FactsMore than $1.1 trillion for AI data centers’ infrastructure has taken a dominant share of memory and storage supply, which has tightened the consumer market and dramatically incre...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Thanksgiving weekend means plenty of movies with the family, but with all kinds of holiday movies on offer, which films focus on Turkey Day? Of course, there are some classics that come to mind. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, of course! Even if your Thanksgiving meal doesn’t consist of jelly beans, toast, and popcorn, this classic animated film is a delightful way to enjoy the holiday. Another Thanksgiving-themed movie? Planes, Trains, and Automobiles isn’t to be missed and will definitely help you laugh through any of the travel woes you face to get back home to the ones you love. Or perhaps you’re in the mood for something a little more serious with a...

By: Ryan Duey Photo Courtesy of Historical Society The Dickinson County Historical Society will host its annual ‘Old Fashioned Christmas’ celebration at the Heritage Center in Abilene on Friday, December 5th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 6th, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Visitors can enjoy live music, carousel rides on the historic C.W. Parker Carousel, children’s activities, and much more. Historical Society Director Austin Anders said that something new this year is holding the event on Friday and Saturday. “We are changing up our dates this year. We’re actually going to do Friday and Saturday. We’ve done Sundays the last four years, but we’re going to try Friday.” “We also have a mixture of new musicians who are coming into play. The Jammers will be in on Frida...