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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Succession star Hiam Abbass: 'Before the series, I was almost anti-TV'

As media mogul Logan Roy's third wife, Marcia Roy had the unenviable role of showing his scheming children their place in the family's future. Palestinian actor and Succession star Hiam Abbass at the just-concluded Ajyal Film Festival in Doha, Qatar "It was the first TV show that I ever participated in," Abbass told Hindustan Times at the just-concluded Ajyal Film …

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1 month ago

Magical Songwriting just like Julia Jacklin, Meet Stella Bridie

ABC

This week’s Feature Artist writes with magic. Creating music that pours straight into your heart and sends you on a one-way trip to your feels, you have to meet this Naarm/ Melbourne based singer songwriter… After dropping a string of God tier singles in 2024, she’s en route to sharing her debut EP ‘Speaking Terms’ with the world. “This string …

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1 month, 1 week ago

My Ex-Husband Has a New Girlfriend. I Will Never Get Over Who It Is.

Slate

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. If your goal is to merely get stuff off your chest because it’s so awkward, well, making him aware would only make things more awkward, especially if they don’t break up as a result. Dear How to Do It, * Your letter signoff Your pronouns Your email Submit Dear How to …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Experimenting with style: saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and metal trio Black Aleph

ABC

London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Nubya Garcia is in Australia for Melbourne International Jazz Festival and to play shows in support of her new album Odyssey. And, experimental trio Black Aleph are in to perform music live from their debut album Apsides. Nubya Garcia has one more gig in Australia - Saturday 26th October at the Fremantle Arts Centre. …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Dodgers vanquish recent postseason frustrations in NLDS Game 5 win over Padres

LA Times

Blake Treinen threw his hands in the sky. Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen, center, celebrates with teammates after the team’s NLDS Game 5 win over the Padres at Dodger Stadium on Friday night. After Darvish retired 14 consecutive batters following Hernández’s homer, extending his success against his former Dodgers team — he has a career 2.27 earned-run average against them in …

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4 months, 1 week ago

"Abusers are gonna see this film too": "It Ends With Us" producer on sending a message to everyone

Salon

When it went public that Colleen Hoover's "It Ends With Us," the massively popular best-selling book marketed as a romance novel, was going to hit the silver screen, fans were surprisingly upset. Blake Lively stars as Lily Bloom opposite "Jane the Virgin" star Justin Baldoni, who does double duty as the film's director and love interest Ryle Kincaid, who eventually …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif clinches medal at Olympics after outcry fueled by gender misconceptions

Associated Press

VILLEPINTE, France — Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria clinched a medal at the Paris Olympics in an emotional fight Saturday that followed days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports. Algeria’s Imane Khelif, right, fights Hungary’s Anna Hamori in their women’s 66kg quarterfinal boxing match at the …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Leon Edwards and Tom Aspinall aim to right the strangest of wrongs at UFC 304

The Independent

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It was …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Zach Bryan champions Lakers nostalgia and country-style catharsis at Crypto.com Arena

LA Times

Dressed in jeans and a sleeveless Lakers T-shirt, his wispily mustached face slick with sweat, Zach Bryan recalled the recording of his song “Condemned” on Monday night as though it had taken place in some previous life: He was all of 23, he told the capacity crowd before him at Crypto.com Arena, when he and a buddy used the mattresses …

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8 months ago

Sappho to Taylor Swift: The 2,600-year-old history of 'tortured' poets – and sexism

BBC

Sappho to Taylor Swift: The 2,600-year-old history of 'tortured' poets – and sexism Getty Images With her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift joins in a tradition that goes back to the writers of ancient Greece. "The feverish Tortured Poets Department is a full-throated return to her specialty: autobiographical and sometimes spiteful tales of heartbreak, full of detailed, …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Crime Time

Deccan Chronicle

Across the world, people have always been a sucker for crime shows and suspense thrillers. For many viewers watching crime shows sort is a distraction to immerse themselves in a captivating and exciting fictional world. Thrilling Escape Michelle Khiangte, a public relations professional from Bengaluru finds crime shows incredibly intriguing, especially real-life drama and murder mysteries. Crime shows also illustrate …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Sofia Vergara looks single and ready to mingle in plunging strapless top as she parties with Jessica Alba... after winning raves for Griselda

Daily Mail

Sofia Vergara looked single and ready to mingle on Wednesday after divorcing Joe Manganiello last year. She was partying with hosts Prune Nourry, Anastasia Soare, Wemimo Abbey, Nnamdi Okafor, Desiree Gruber and Ariel Nathanson in Beverly Hills at a private party. Sofia Vergara showed off her killer figure this week in a strapless black top that could barely contain her …

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10 months ago

Jaromir Jagr’s return to Pittsburgh ends with his No. 68 being retired — and catharsis

Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — There were jokes. No matter where the NHL’s second all-time leading scorer has gone during a professional odyssey that’s spanned 30-plus years and three continents, Jagr has long understood where his hockey home is: the place where he arrived in 1990 as a teenager from eastern Europe shrouded in mystery, armed with a mullet that became his trademark …

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10 months, 1 week ago

What the Centre’s White Paper on Indian Economy says, and doesn’t say | In Focus podcast

The Hindu

The Union Finance Ministry has come out with a ‘White Paper’ on the changes in the Indian economy in the past 20 years. It claims that the NDA government in 2014 inherited a “deeply damaged economy” marked by “governance, economic and fiscal crises”. It further claims that the in the past 10 years, the NDA government has “turned around” the …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Conjuring a catharsis: The Hindu Editorial on the government’s White Paper on the economy

The Hindu

The Finance Ministry, in a White Paper on the economy placed in Parliament, has accused the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance of 2004-2014, of botching the economy. The Ministry has sought credit for the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government’s repair and reform job since 2014 for lifting India to the world’s fifth largest economy from one of the ‘Fragile …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Can Pakistan’s politicians break the military’s stranglehold?

Al Jazeera

Pakistan’s political leaders have come together previously to bargain for more space in the system. The influence accrued by the military in the initial years led to a political configuration in the country that political scientist Asma Faiz describes as “establishmentarian democracy”. On the other hand, Niloufer Siddiqui, author of the book Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Christie banks on New Hampshire as he makes the case that only he can stop Trump: ‘I am the cavalry’

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. “Something’s happening,” Christie said in a wide-ranging interview last week in Manchester. “If he’s the nominee, it’s going to be a disaster for the Republican Party because he is going down.” Christie is making a particular play for independent voters in New Hampshire following Biden’s decision to skip the state’s …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Lokesh Kanagaraj’s ‘Leo’ and the history of violence in tamil cinema

The Hindu

A bullied and disgruntled teenage boy watching Bruce Lee movies to learn some moves, could end up learning more about Lee’s appeal to peace and oneness, and fall in love with martial arts movies. Or, he might yet realise that movies are just “24 lies per second at the service of truth.” Now, should Bruce Lee be held responsible for …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Taylor Swift delivers emotional catharsis and anthems galore in epic, three-hour-plus show

LA Times

Taylormania has finally arrived in Southern California. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve taken in one of Swift’s gigs in person — driving gross proceeds toward an expected $1 billion or more by the time she’s finished circling the globe next year — the Eras tour has maintained a constant presence on TikTok thanks in the …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky’s Arrest Won’t Fix Crypto

Wired

Alex Mashinsky has been living on borrowed time for months. In January, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius was hit with a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General, alleging that he’d misled investors. Celsius’ collapse in June 2022 was part of a chain reaction—starting with the fall of the Terra Luna stablecoin in May 2022—that …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Comic Roy Wood Jr. just might be the host 'The Daily Show' (and late night TV) need

NPR

Comic Roy Wood Jr. just might be the host 'The Daily Show' need Enlarge this image toggle caption Comedy Central Comedy Central Roy Wood Jr. was having a moment. " Wood seems a strong contender to nab The Daily Show host's chair permanently, as he's being hailed by fans on social media and name checked by luminaries like Late Show …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Shobhaa De on her book ‘Insatiable’ that celebrates her 75th year

The Hindu

It is afternoon and novelist-journalist Shobhaa De has just finished a light lunch of beetroot slices and tomato soup. “I didn’t want to be late for the interview,” says Shobhaa, known among writing circles as a stickler for deadlines. “Either way, a writer has to have discipline… penning at least a thousand words a day just as a singer performs …

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1 year, 9 months ago

From displacement to homecoming: Dispatch from Nigeria

Al Jazeera

It was a typically hot day in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state. The occasion was special: As many as 3,000 people were returning to their town after living for seven years in Internally Displaced Person camps in Maiduguri, 50km away. Like the others, she now has a new home in a rebuilt community that has a school and police station, market …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Experience the power of catharsis with these sad anime shows

Hindustan Times

Are you feeling a little down and in need of a good cry? Watching sad anime can be a cathartic experience, allowing us to release pent-up emotions and find comfort in knowing that others have experienced similar struggles. 5 Centimeters Per Second 5 Centimeters Per Second will take you on a melancholic journey, and you'll cry for the characters' missed …

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Succession star Hiam Abbass: 'Before the series, I was almost anti-TV'

Magical Songwriting just like Julia Jacklin, Meet Stella Bridie

My Ex-Husband Has a New Girlfriend. I Will Never Get Over Who It Is.

Experimenting with style: saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and metal trio Black Aleph

Dodgers vanquish recent postseason frustrations in NLDS Game 5 win over Padres

"Abusers are gonna see this film too": "It Ends With Us" producer on sending a message to everyone

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif clinches medal at Olympics after outcry fueled by gender misconceptions

Leon Edwards and Tom Aspinall aim to right the strangest of wrongs at UFC 304

Zach Bryan champions Lakers nostalgia and country-style catharsis at Crypto.com Arena

Sappho to Taylor Swift: The 2,600-year-old history of 'tortured' poets – and sexism

Crime Time

Sofia Vergara looks single and ready to mingle in plunging strapless top as she parties with Jessica Alba... after winning raves for Griselda

Jaromir Jagr’s return to Pittsburgh ends with his No. 68 being retired — and catharsis

What the Centre’s White Paper on Indian Economy says, and doesn’t say | In Focus podcast

Conjuring a catharsis: The Hindu Editorial on the government’s White Paper on the economy

Can Pakistan’s politicians break the military’s stranglehold?

Christie banks on New Hampshire as he makes the case that only he can stop Trump: ‘I am the cavalry’

Lokesh Kanagaraj’s ‘Leo’ and the history of violence in tamil cinema

Taylor Swift delivers emotional catharsis and anthems galore in epic, three-hour-plus show

Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky’s Arrest Won’t Fix Crypto

Comic Roy Wood Jr. just might be the host 'The Daily Show' (and late night TV) need

Shobhaa De on her book ‘Insatiable’ that celebrates her 75th year

From displacement to homecoming: Dispatch from Nigeria

Experience the power of catharsis with these sad anime shows