Month: September 2024

When Joanna Brichetto sees potato chips, she craves goldfinches. An offbeat association? Sure. One imbued with enthusiasm and nature-loving logic? Absolutely. You see, she explains, the goldfinch’s call sounds like “potato-chip, potato-chip,” and the Lay’s Classic Potato Chips bag is a yellow “not unlike a male goldfinch in breeding plumage.”  That perspective-shifting, find-joy-in-daily-life revelation is
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Two dancers took their final bows on Dancing With the Stars. During a dramatic double elimination, Tori Spelling and Anna Delvey were voted out of the ballroom on Sept. 24, making them the first contestants of season 33 to leave the competition. Hosts Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro thanked the dancers and their pros Pasha Pashkov and
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Two dancers took their final bows on Dancing With the Stars. During a dramatic double elimination, Tori Spelling and Anna Delvey were voted out of the ballroom on Sept. 24, making them the first contestants of season 33 to leave the competition. Hosts Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro thanked the dancers and their pros Pasha Pashkov and
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Keenan “Special” Bristol, CEO and Founder of “Music Brings Life”, proudly presents a heartwarming  film dedicated to bringing awareness of the shortage of blood donations for victims facing sickle cell disease by African-American, Latino and Caribbean donors. The movie is entitled “Students Are Heroes: A Sickle Cell Warrior’s Story.”  Students Are Heroes Film Synopsis: The narrative
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Times Square NYC, often called the crossroads of the world, was the scene for the “Pause The World For Peace”, a 5 hour concert celebrating the 40th Anniversary of International Peace Day declared by the United Nations in 1984. Amidst the dazzling billboards, the vibrant blue skyline and the 10 foot Friendship and Peace Tree loomed
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In November of 2024, New York state’s ballots will have a ballot initiative for a constitutional amendment to, among other things, solidify protections for LGBTQ+ individuals and for reproductive rights by adding sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy to the state constitution’s equal protection clause. However, shortly
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The horror genre has been thriving for years now, to the delight of fans like myself. Some of the best horror movies returned to theaters with new sequels, including the Scream franchise. The last two movies (which can be streamed with a Paramount+ subscription) were released in quick succession, and a seventh slasher is currently
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Following its CorpCore-themed Fall/Winter 2023 runway show—which reimagined tailoring with modern iterations of classic suiting and on-duty dressing staples—for Spring/Summer 2025, BOSS unveiled a collection that broke with the conventional parameters of corporate attire. Staged at the Palazzo del Senato in Milan and presented under the theme “Out of Office,” the runway looks deconstructed a
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The Crossroads of the world, Times Square New York City, was the arena for the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of International Peace Day established by the United Nations in 1984. The major commercial intersection and tourist destination sees over 380 thousand people daily and on a beautiful sunny afternoon the surrounding Billboards seemed brighter,
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A weekend of music in Liverpool this autumn will test a series of proposals to radically decarbonize the events industry, with Massive Attack, Idles, and Nile Rodgers and Chic headlining. Announced as the United Nations names Liverpool its first Accelerator City for climate action, the Act 1.5 Presents series will cut audience transport emissions, as
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The desire to change one’s less-than-perfect attributes has long been a staple for fictional plotting, and is at the heart of several 2024 features – such as Demi Moore’s body horror tour de force The Substance and Netflix’s YA novel adaptation Uglies. But no film, TV series or workplace instructional video has taken the concept
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A seemingly doomed wedding is the focal point of Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red, a propulsive novel that further justifies this Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s acclaim. Time and time again, with just a few words of perfectly placed description—like “the layaway bridal gown hung like an apparition on the outside of the closet door”—Erdrich lends Shakespearean
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Donna Kelce Says She and Taylor Swift Have the “Best Time” at Travis Kelce’s Games (Exclusive) Donna Kelce always has the best day at Arrowhead Stadium.  And that’s thanks in part to Taylor Swift, with Travis Kelce‘s mom sharing how special it is to cheer on the Kansas City Chiefs alongside his girlfriend. “It’s fun,” Donna exclusively told E! News at the
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Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Simone Kraus. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
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Oct 21, 2022; Tel Aviv, Israel; Benjamin Netanyahu, the ninth prime minister of Israel, speaks to USA TODAY ahead of the release of his memoir, “Bibi: My Story” in Tel Aviv, Israel. Mandatory Credit: Ariel Tagar-USA TODAY Photo: Ariel Tagar-USA TODAY via IMAGN The Israeli government’s military defense and intelligence forces recently, seriously degraded Hezbollah
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Erotic thrillers are a bit of a lost art, enjoying a Golden Age in the ’80s before tapering off in the mid-’90s around the time the genre was parodied in 1993’s Fatal Instinct. By the 2000s, notable entries in the the genre had all but disappeared thanks to its success on the direct-to-video market and
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