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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Woman sneaks home-cooked popcorn in shoebox to movie theatre. Viral video

A video of a woman from Pondicherry sneaking home-cooked popcorn into a cinema hall has gone viral on Instagram, garnering over 23 million views and even drawing a response from actor Nargis Fakhri. To avoid paying for expensive theatre popcorn - a common complaint among moviegoers - Payal Nagar came up with a plan. She prepared popcorn at home, placed …

2 months, 1 week ago

Demi Moore, 61, swaps her red carpet glamour for chic conservative look as she is honoured at the Ghetto Film School Fall Benefit

Daily Mail

Demi Moore oozed confidence as attended the Ghetto Film School's annual Fall Benefit in Santa Monica on Thursday. Demi Moore oozed confidence as attended the Ghetto Film School's annual Fall Benefit in Santa Monica on Thursday The 61-year-old actress looked typically chic in a black pinstripe blazer, teamed with matching trousers Demi was honoured at the benefit along with Kelvin …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Mustafa, Toronto's hood poet, shoulders the stories of the lost

NPR

Mustafa, Toronto's hood poet, shoulders the stories of the lost On the aching 'Dunya,' the artist stands at an east-west crossroads, trying to resolve years of trauma with a drive to preserve what's left toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Rap is the CNN of the ghetto. In its harrowingly heavenly songs you can hear a cross-cultural exchange, and his …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Vikrant Massey starrer 'Sector 36' trailer is intense, intriguing and intrepid | WATCH

India TV News

Vikrant Massey starrer Sector 36 has been in the news since its inception. The film made waves at Melbourne's famous Indian Film Festival and is now one of the most awaited films of the year. Sector 36 trailer is out now, watch: Sector 36 featured at Melbourne's Indian Film Festival 2024 Netflix's Sector 36 made its world premiere at Melbourne's …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Uganda’s Bobi Wine shot, injured in altercation with police in Kampala

Al Jazeera

The police said officers attempted to block opposition leader from marching down a road, resulting in an altercation where Bobi Wine was hurt. Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine, who has emerged as the most formidable opponent of veteran President Yoweri Museveni, has been shot in the leg by security agents in a northern suburb of the capital, Kampala, his …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Kendrick Lamar pops out with Ghetto Rodeo hat in ‘Not Like Us’ music video

LA Times

Ghetto Rodeo, the Latinx-owned and L.A.-inspired clothing brand, made a special appearance in Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” music video, prompting a roar of approval from the team behind the apparel line. Toward the end of the music video — about four minutes and 40 seconds in — the Compton rapper is seen dancing with fans and donning a cap …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Ryan Castro se muestra completo en “El cantante del ghetto”

Associated Press

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO — Ryan Castro está en una etapa de su carrera en la que puede ir de los escenarios de Coachella a la pista de un salón de baile para moverse al ritmo de la salsa. Ahora presenta su álbum, “El cantante del ghetto”, cuya canción homónima es una salsa con todas las de la ley grabada en …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Review: City on Fire; A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan

Hindustan Times

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Tolstoy’s famous line from Anna Karenina seems apt to comment on the place that the ghettoized Indian Muslim holds in Bharat today. In City on Fire, Zeyad Masroor Khan tells us his story of growing up in the prone-to-riots, historic ghetto of Upar Kot in Aligarh, …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Lord Jacob Rothschild death: All you need to know about banking family scion

Live Mint

Jacob Rothschild, the banker and philanthropist who left the family bank to build his own financial empire in the City of London, has died. Jacob “returned the British branch of the Rothschild family to the ascendance,” said David Hawkins, founder of Cliveden Advisory, a London-based strategic consulting business for wealthy individuals and their investment firms. He had “acute business acumen.” …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

International Holocaust Remembrance Day has special significance for young people with Jewish roots in Poland

Hindustan Times

For ten years now, an empty streetcar has rolled silently through the streets of Warsaw on January 27. Of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the vast majority were killed in occupied Poland, which is why many Jews continue to regard Poland as a large cemetery. Searching for their Jewish roots It is not unusual in Poland for …

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11 months ago

California Soul singer Marlena Shaw dies at 81, fans shattered: ‘Powerhouse of soul and sass’

Hindustan Times

Marlena Shaw, the influential voice of a generation celebrated for her soul and jazz melodies, has passed away at the age of 81. Marlena Shaw Marlena Shaw dies at the age of 81 Marlena Shaw was more than just a one-hit wonder. In a video posted on Friday, Marlena’s daughter said,“It’s with a very heavy heart for myself and my …

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11 months, 1 week ago

‘In Delhi, I fell in love with Aligarh’

New Indian Express

What made you write a memoir and why did you choose to write from a child’s perspective in the first section of your book? However good their intentions might be, when someone else tells your story, you unwittingly turn into an object—mute and powerless without the means and spirit to tell your own. A child can often say things adults …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Senior Far-Right Israeli Official Admits Gaza Is A ‘Ghetto’ For Palestinians

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A senior Israeli official from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government admitted on Saturday that the Gaza Strip is a “ghetto” and that Israel must reduce the enclave’s Palestinian population ― the latest example of Israeli authorities plainly stating their goals for the future of Gaza and Palestinians. In an interview with Israeli Army Radio, ultranationalist Finance …

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1 year ago

Review of Zeyad Masroor Khan’s City on Fire — A Boyhood in Aligarh: Life in a ghetto

The Hindu

In her thought-provoking 1961 essay, philosopher Hannah Arendt dealt with the “banality of evil” by engaging in conversations with German officers who worked in concentration camps and presided over the killing of Jews. In his debut book, City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh, Zeyad Masroor Khan grapples with something similar. While Zeyad’s uncles chose migration to Pakistan, his father, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Review: War is good as 50th anniversary of ‘The World Is a Ghetto’ shines in premium box set

Associated Press

A remastered and well-presented five LP box set of War’s best-selling album “The World Is a Ghetto” recaptures that slice of time when multicultural rock reached its first peak. The Southern California band — originally called Eric Burdon and War — gave us music for the working class, with lyrics bemoaning political infighting and frequently urging social harmony. The stabs …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Column: Holocaust survivors’ son, a pro hockey agent, tries to keep their memory alive

LA Times

Ron Salcer knew that his brilliant father had secured patents on 16 inventions that ranged from plastic table cloths to unbreakable roller hockey pucks, and he sensed that William Salcer’s physical and mental strength had allowed him to survive the Holocaust and make a new life. Yet, they had the courage to pick themselves up and close that chapter and …

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1 year, 4 months ago

US secretary of state says Poland’s 1943 Bialystok ghetto uprising was an act of bravery and dignity

Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent a message Wednesday marking the anniversary in Poland of the 1943 Bialystok ghetto uprising, saying it was an act of bravery that reaffirmed the dignity of Jews during the Holocaust. Blinken’s mother, Judith Pisar, the widow of one of the ghetto survivors, Samuel Pisar, the state secretary’s late stepfather, took …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Disunited we stand

India Today

Ten years ago, many Indians and foreigners were busily laying down principles for Indian writing in English, or hatching theories about it. Would you even include Jhumpa Lahiri in the category of Indian writing, given that she has spent so little time in India and sets nearly all her stories on the East Coast of America? In desperation, category-makers and …

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1 year, 6 months ago

‘What the hell is wrong with her?’: Candace Owens slammed for calling Juneteenth ‘ghetto and made up’

Hindustan Times

Candace Owens is being deeply criticised for a comment on Juneteenth she recently posted. Candace Owens is being deeply criticised for a comment on Juneteenth she recently posted Juneteenth, observed on June 19 every year, commemorates the end of slavery in Texas at the end of the Civil War. According to National Geographic, “For decades, many southern Black communities were …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Candace Owens slammed after calling Juneteenth 'ghetto and made up'

Raw Story

It's Juneteenth, the anniversary of the final enslaved persons being freed in Texas in the wake of the Civil War, which in 2021 was officially recognized as a new federal holiday. "New Flash Klandice…every holiday is made up and we didn’t need your approval to enjoy it!!!" Another commenter, @ppPepoComfy, had a more long-winded takedown: "Reminder that Juneteenth is the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Taylor Swift and the ways white women exploit allyship

Salon

Anthropormorphized into a green-clad mountain valley, Taylor Swift sings a new version of her song "Karma," while above her, a cloud shaped into the profile of rapper Ice Spice provides encouraging adlibs. And considering the timing, as well as how Swift's girl squad is predominately white, it felt an awful lot like the ole "I'm not racist; I have a …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Matty Healy's controversial porn comments resurface

Daily Mail

Matty Healy's controversial podcast comments from earlier this year have resurfaced amid his high-profile romance with Taylor Swift. Shock remarks: Matty Healy's controversial podcast comments from earlier this year have resurfaced amid his high-profile romance with Taylor Swift Controversial: The 1975 frontman discussed a time he masturbated to porn of 'brutalised' women during an appearance on The Adam Friedland Show …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Rhythm, rap, revolution: Celebrating 50 years of hip-hop

Hindustan Times

It’s a hot August evening in 1973 and a crowd of teenagers from New York’s Bronx borough have gathered at a building on Sedgwick Avenue for a back-to-school party. The New York Police Department’s so-called rap unit, whose existence it only admitted to in 2004, kept tabs on rappers, nightclubs and organisers, sending agents to concerts on surveillance missions, and …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Daffodils bloom as symbol of Warsaw ghetto uprising memory

Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland — Yellow daffodils are everywhere in Warsaw this week, a symbol of remembrance for the 1943 uprising by Jews in the city’s ghetto against Nazi German occupiers. But those displaying them in Warsaw associate them with memory, respect and a communal coming together by people of all backgrounds to honor the Jewish victims of the ghetto and Holocaust …

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Woman sneaks home-cooked popcorn in shoebox to movie theatre. Viral video

Demi Moore, 61, swaps her red carpet glamour for chic conservative look as she is honoured at the Ghetto Film School Fall Benefit

Mustafa, Toronto's hood poet, shoulders the stories of the lost

Vikrant Massey starrer 'Sector 36' trailer is intense, intriguing and intrepid | WATCH

Uganda’s Bobi Wine shot, injured in altercation with police in Kampala

Kendrick Lamar pops out with Ghetto Rodeo hat in ‘Not Like Us’ music video

Ryan Castro se muestra completo en “El cantante del ghetto”

Review: City on Fire; A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan

Lord Jacob Rothschild death: All you need to know about banking family scion

International Holocaust Remembrance Day has special significance for young people with Jewish roots in Poland

California Soul singer Marlena Shaw dies at 81, fans shattered: ‘Powerhouse of soul and sass’

‘In Delhi, I fell in love with Aligarh’

Senior Far-Right Israeli Official Admits Gaza Is A ‘Ghetto’ For Palestinians

Review of Zeyad Masroor Khan’s City on Fire — A Boyhood in Aligarh: Life in a ghetto

Review: War is good as 50th anniversary of ‘The World Is a Ghetto’ shines in premium box set

Column: Holocaust survivors’ son, a pro hockey agent, tries to keep their memory alive

US secretary of state says Poland’s 1943 Bialystok ghetto uprising was an act of bravery and dignity

Disunited we stand

‘What the hell is wrong with her?’: Candace Owens slammed for calling Juneteenth ‘ghetto and made up’

Candace Owens slammed after calling Juneteenth 'ghetto and made up'

Taylor Swift and the ways white women exploit allyship

Matty Healy's controversial porn comments resurface

Rhythm, rap, revolution: Celebrating 50 years of hip-hop

Daffodils bloom as symbol of Warsaw ghetto uprising memory