[SPOILERS] Top 5 Predictions for 'Supernatural' Season 11: Spoilers, Rumors and More

Season 11 of 'Supernatural' will premiere on Wednesday, October 7, which means we have a little more than a week to dissect the spoilers and rumors about the upcoming episodes. We've got five predictions for the new season right here, so let's get to it and list out what we think is in store for the Winchester brothers, Castiel and, of course, Crowley.
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Crunchyroll to Stream "Young Black Jack" Anime for Fall 2015 Season

New anime announcements are in the house today as Osamu “God of Manga” Tezuka’s famed outlaw surgeon gets the prequel treatment in Young Black Jack, which is set to begin streaming soon on Crunchyroll. Young Black Jack is set to premier on Crunchyroll every Friday starting October 2 at 10:00pm Pacific Time. By Patrick Macias.
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Plan B - She Said

From the album 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks' (2010)
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Reading Stash: 9 Superb Short Novels You Can Finish Over The Weekend

While long novels and epic fantasy tales enthrall and fascinate, sometimes a short, sharpened novel can make for an even more satisfying read for the busy. Today, we have compiled a few of our favorite short novels. Most are 200 pages or less, and can be comfortably finished over the weekend. Very little things are more satisfying than finishing a book, and these novels are bound to make your weekend more fulfilling.
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No sense of an ending: which books have lost the plot?

A disappointing denouement can ruin a novel, leaving readers feeling disappointed or even angry. Now’s your chance to vent your frustration – if you can stand the spoilers. By Marta Bausells.
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Crunchyroll to Exclusively Stream "Miss Monochrome -The Animation- 3" Anime for Fall Season

It’s a day of multiple new anime announcements as the third season of the aspiring android idol singer series Miss Monochrome -The Animation- 3 is set to begin streaming exclusively on Crunchyroll every Friday starting October 2 at 8:40am Pacific Time. By Patrick Macias.
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Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans to Also Stream on Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hulu, Gundam.Info

The Gundam Global Portal Facebook page announced on Wednesday that the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans anime will stream on Hulu, Gundam.info, Crunchyroll, and Funimation in addition to the Daisuki streaming service.
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"Evangelion" Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Street View Broadcast

As part of the ongoing 20th anniversary celebration of the debut of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the 1st episode of the landmark psychological mecha anime TV series will receive a "street view" broadcast at 8 locations in 5 major cities in Japan. By Paul Chapman.
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Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s "The Doom of the Great City" (1880)

Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory - Brett Beasley explores a piece of Victorian science fiction considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse.
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Nabokov on the Sins of Translation

Vladimir Nabokov explains the perils of translating, and the great Russian short story.
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BD athlete Adam Ondra onsights The Golden Ticket (5.14c), Red River Gorge, Kentucky

Black Diamond athlete Adam Ondra traveled to Kentucky's Red River Gorge in late October and 10 days later he had blazed through the area's hardest routes, including onsighting two of the Red's hardest, Pure Imagination and The Golden Ticket, in the same day.
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Women and the World of Dime Novels

Full of romance and adventure, dime novels were a variety of melodramatic fiction that was popular in the United States from about 1860 until the early 1900s. Published as cheap paperbacks (most cost only ten cents), they were generally regarded as low-quality fiction. The characters fought, fell in love, got married, and occasionally killed each other (or sometimes themselves). The goal of this exhibit is to highlight some of these female characters.
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How Accurate Is "The Martian"? 9 Things The Movie Got Right And Wrong

"The Martian" is hitting cinemas right about now, and already it is being heralded as one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fi films of all time. We’ve seen the movie, and we’ve got to say, it’s amazing how far we’ve come since "Armageddon" (shudder). NASA has been so impressed, they've been using the movie as a marketing campaign for their own, actual manned missions to Mars in the 2030s.
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The X Files - Official Trailer (2015)

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Buried Treasure Amongst the Stacks

This is what buried treasure looks like in a library: This book, which is a collection of two perfectly respectable but not very rare tracts by Vatican Librarian Agostino Steuco, has acted as a vessel, a treasure chest, for the bits and pieces that went into its binding and physical construction.
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Dodgers clinch NL West with Clayton Kershaw 1-hitter vs. Giants

Clayton Kershaw pitched the big-money Dodgers to their third straight NL West title, tossing a 1-hitter as Los Angeles beat the San Francisco Giants 8-0 on Tuesday night.
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Awesome Places (Arguably) Ruined By Popular Books

A rice paddy in Bali, a medieval Italian fortress, a logging town in Washington, and a few hunky-dory hiking trails have all found themselves at the center of a lot of unexpected attention. It's a matter of a few bestselling books, written by authors who likely never imagined the devotees and disciples who would want to recreate their journeys (real or imagined), step for step. Have the effects of these books diminished the magic that they tried to capture?
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Oakland Athletics Become First MLB Organization To Employ Female Coach

A look at the big news that the Oakland Athletics have become the first Major League Baseball team to hire on a woman as a coach. Justine Siegal will work with the organization's minor league infielders in the instructional league this fall.
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FC Kahuna - Hayling

FC Kahuna - Hayling video vocals by Hafdís Huld
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Al Jean Says ‘The Simpsons’ Is Probably Ending After Season 30

The 27th season of The Simpsons premiered on Fox last night, and according to showrunner Al Jean, there’s a fairly good chance the show won’t continue after season 30. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jean was asked about The Simpsons’ double season renewal for seasons 27 and 28 and what that means for the show’s future, and here’s what he had to say...
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30th September 1955 - James Dean dies in car accident

At 5:45pm 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an intersection.
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The Eagles - 'Hotel California' (Re-mastered)

Genre - Classic Rock
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Peter Bjorn And John - Young Folks

Music video by Peter Bjorn And John performing Young Folks. From the album 'Writer's Block' (2006).
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Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini deny wrongdoing over £1.35m payment

The Fifa and Uefa presidents, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, have issued almost simultaneous statements denying any wrongdoing relating to the £1.35m paid to Platini in February 2011, for which Blatter is subject to a Swiss criminal investigation.
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NCAA hits SMU with postseason ban, suspends Larry Brown

Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown will be suspended for games this season -- and his Mustangs are getting a postseason ban for this season -- because of an NCAA investigation that uncovered rules violations, a source confirmed to CBS Sports.
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Seeking Jagger’s Muse

Dear Lorin, did I ever tell you about the thing I did with The Ice Plant? You know them—they make oddly compelling photography books. Last year they did one about some candid “found photos” of the Rolling Stones, pictures taken in the South that had somehow turned up at a flea market or estate sale out west. I wrote a piece to go with the book. But the book wound up getting squashed, or at least suppressed.
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How Lin-Manuel Miranda Shapes History

Works of art have long informed how people understand the past, and Hamilton is no exception. Edward Delman speaks with the show's writer, composer, and star about the process of translating history onto the stage; the ways in which Hamilton could alter our perception of history; and the role artists play in shaping historical narratives.
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Bringing to Light

After an unexpected and mind blowing discovery on the slopes of Mount Hood, we embark on an expedition deep under the Sandy Glacier to document the disappearing world and fleeting beauty of the largest glacier cave system in the lower 48 states.
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Corey Kluber, Cleveland Indians Fall Short Against Minnesota Twins, 4-2

The Indians (77-78), for all intents and purposes, are essentially out of the wild-card race.
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Cathriona White, Ex-Girlfriend of Jim Carrey, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

The 29-year-old Irish-born makeup artist had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Carrey, 53, since they first met in 2012.
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Burlesque dancers stage 'wild striptease protest' outside Barnes & Noble

Bombshells blew up Broadway when a gang of burlesque dancers took to the streets in a "wild striptease protest" outside an Upper West Side Barnes & Noble. The group was unhappy because the bookstore agreed to let them perform in its storefront windows to promote a new book, "Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St Cyr," only to lose its nerve and withdraw the offer at the last minute because their outfits would be “too revealing.”
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The young Chekhov: a comedian in spite of himself

Before Chekhov produced some of the greatest stories ever written about disappointment, death, long­ing, passion and loneliness, he was a different kind of writer: a newspaperman dashing off copy to feed the booming culture of weekly comic magazines in St Petersburg and Moscow. Small enough to operate largely beneath the censors’ attention, magazines such as the Spectator, Dragonfly and Alarm Clock rewarded topicality, brevity, irreverence and the ability to produce work at speed.
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Taking to the Hills

High in the mountains of Lakeland, away from the crowds and congestion, I was surprised to find exhilarating adventure and a peaceful solitude. This is a story about the mountains themselves, their history, geology, ecology and culture — and about my experiences trying to capture their essence on film.
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Nike Runner Missed World Record Because His Shoes Disintegrated

Eliud Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon over the weekend, a remarkable achievement even before considering the fact that he ran much of the race with insoles that were falling out of his Nike shoes. The 30-year-old elite Kenyan runner won the race at a 2:04:00 personal best, defying footwear problems, according to the Berlin Marathon’s official website. The insoles were falling out of his shoes by around the 10-mile mark...
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Camille - Ta Douleur

From the album 'Le Fil' (2005)
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These are the top 10 books Americans tried to ban last year

In an age where kids can access porn from the machines they carry in their pockets, banning books seems like an antiquated means of information control. But that doesn’t keep people from trying.
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Guillermo Del Toro Confirms that Junji Ito Would Have Collaborated on 'Silent Hills'

Guillermo del Toro has confirmed that horror manga artist Junji Ito was a collaborator on the now cancelled videogame 'Silent Hills'.
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Carolina Panthers acquire Jared Allen in trade with Chicago Bears

The Carolina Panthers have acquired veteran pass-rusher Jared Allen from the Chicago Bears, pending a physical.
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Sandstorms, Explosions, Potatoes, Oh My: 'Martian' Takes Its Science Seriously

Programmer Andy Weir had always longed to read science fiction with a greater focus on science. So, he wrote a novel of his own — which has since become a best-seller and, now, a blockbuster film.
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The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom

For writers coming of age during and after the Boom, invoking Carmen Balcells linked them to a special kind of origin story. Jonathan Blitzer on the literary agent, who died a week ago, in Barcelona, at eighty-five.
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Mount Everest to be declared off-limits to inexperienced climbers, says Nepal

Nepalese officials plan to introduce ban on novices, as well as disabled, old and very young people, in effort to improve safety and lessen overcrowding. By Jason Burke in Delhi.
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Cake - Comfort Eagle

From the album 'Comfort Eagle' (2001)
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"The Internet Was Fucking Me Up": Patrick DeWitt On Writing

The author of The Sisters Brothers doesn’t have a TV, or the internet. What he does have is a new novel, and perhaps a few answers. By Daniel Dalton.
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Meet the man who invents languages for a living

David J. Peterson has crafted languages for TV shows and films — even a whole language for a single giant, in Game of Thrones. For him, every language is a balance of the technical and the artistic.
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Elena Ferrante’s Unruly Bodies

Worry, exhaustion, menstruation: Ferrante writes about all the subjects we’re scared of. By Miranda Popkey.
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Alba amicorum - Book of Friends, the social media of the past

Social media may be the poster child of the 21st century, but the ideas behind LinkedIn and Facebook go back a long, long way.
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Pippi Longstocking's Creator: Wartime Diaries Reveal the True Astrid Lindgren

Who was the woman behind Pippi Longstocking? Freshly released wartime diaries along with a new biography reveal Astrid Lindgren, author of some of the world's most beloved children's literature, to be as radical and determined as her best-known character. By Claudia Voigt.
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Media General, Meredith Corp. announce $2.4B merger

Meredith Media General will be present in 30 percent of U.S. TV households with 88 stations in 54 markets.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine creators making a courthouse sitcom for Fox

Here comes the judge! After working together on Parks and Recreation, and co-creating Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Michael Schur (who also wrote for The Office) and Matt Murray are leaving no governmental agency unturned, announcing that they’re working together again to develop a courthouse sitcom for Fox. Murray will act as showrunner for the comedy, about a “larger-than-life“ federal judge and his staff of law clerks, who get into mischief and probably talk directly...
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How to Invent a Language, From the Guy Who Made Dothraki

David J. Peterson has become one of the most recognizable and prolific conlangers; now, his new book sets out how you can be one too. By K. M. McFarland.
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