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“Forever Queens” Season 2: A Mexican Reality Show Featuring Bold Women

They’re women, they’re Mexican, and they all share one thing: their lives captivate thousands, which is why they must behave as they truly are, the queens of their own fate.

“Forever Queens” is a Mexican reality show that brings together five friends, rivals, and undisputed queens of the television show business. All of them have spent many years in the entertainment industry and were “influencers” before the term was even coined.

Lucía Méndez, Lorena Herrera, and their other professional friends and colleagues give us a peek into the world of influencers. Thanks to “Forever Queens”, we can see them during photoshoots, at meetings for the show, and even in their private lives.

Without a doubt, their sincerity was something fans appreciated during the first season, which concluded with a lot of disagreements and disputes, but also plenty of entertainment.

In this second season, these bold women promise not to disappoint anyone and to embrace conflict as a way of life. They will be exposed to the cameras, allowing us to see who they truly are.

Enjoy the show.

Where to Watch “Forever Queens”

Netflix

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Real States Simulator on Steam this March

IAȘI, Romania – March 19th, 2024 – Following the triumph of Parking Tycoon, publisher Midnight.Works is set to release REAL ESTATE Simulator in collaboration with developers, Geekon. The exclusive Steam release is set for March 22nd. 

REAL ESTATE Simulator is a deep and dynamic business simulation game. From broke to bespoke, begin as a small-time property investor and embark on a journey towards riches, developing skills and overcoming challenges along the way. Navigate market trends, remodel homes, and negotiate your way to success. Are you ready to make millions and conquer the world of real estate? The time is now!

Live Stream Event
Get ready to ride the wave of excitement! Mark your calendars for a date with destiny on March 22, 2024. Be part of an exclusive live stream event where the game’s developer, Gabriella, will reveal the much-anticipated REAL ESTATE Simulator.

Key Features of REAL ESTATE Simulator:

Interactive NPC Negotiations: Engage with a diverse range of NPC clients, from cautious first-time buyers to wealthy investors. Understand their needs, negotiate terms, and close deals in this cutthroat industry.

Property Development and Management: Purchase, renovate, and sell properties across the city. From affordable living spaces to luxurious skyscrapers, each property presents unique challenges and opportunities.

Intuitive Controls and UI: Whether you’re a seasoned tycoon or new to business sims, the game’s intuitive controls and clear user interface make managing your empire accessible and enjoyable.

Unique Challenges and Achievements: Face distinctive challenges, from market crashes to VIP clients, that test your strategic prowess. Unlock achievements and make your mark in the world of real estate.

Add REAL ESTATE Simulator to your wishlist now, and don’t miss the game’s live stream event on Steam. Set your reminders, as March 22, 2024 marks the day your gaming experience transforms into a thrilling real estate adventure!

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Eileen O’ Kane Kornreich: Pleasures of Duality | The Opening Gallery, New York

New York — The Opening Gallery is pleased to announce Pleasures of Duality, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Eileen O’ Kane Kornreich on view from March 26-April 14, 2024.  Pleasures of Duality, including 8 recent canvases and 15 works on paper, unfolds as a captivating call to explore the fluidity of expression, form, and identity, and the fearless offering of flesh. Through her surrealist dreamscapes populated with nudes, beasts, dolls, and butterflies, the artist has created erotic windows into a universe where boundaries of expectation are shattered, allowing for expanded interpretations of human relationships. The exhibition opens with a reception on March 26, 6-8 p.m. An artist talk will be held on April 5 at 6 p.m. A closing reception will be held on April 14, 6-8 p.m.
 
The works in Pleasures of Duality traverse manifold methods of expression, narration, and abstraction, with textured surfaces created through the meticulous layering of material and meaning. O’Kane Kornreich’s process, marked by the interplay of form and history, reflects an unyielding inspiration and a relentless pursuit to discover new ways of presenting figure, line, and being. Rendering her complex mixed media works in an improvisational style with layers of oil paint alongside urgently scratched lines and colorful mists of spray paint, the artist layers her work with historic and popular references.
 
Pleasures of Duality begins first with the conscious creation of a relationship between artist and model that challenges traditional dynamics. O’Kane Kornreich’s sensuous figures freely and fearlessly offer their flesh, and her love for her subjects imbues their images with a power that runs past vulnerability into the arms of ease and expansiveness. The artist’s subversive approach reflects her quest to engage with a more fluid vision of self, one where the viewer might seek out and feel the swells and patterns of all that resides within.
 
Each work within Pleasures of Duality serves as an entry point into a rich, enigmatic universe, inviting viewers to ponder the myriad expressions of softness, safeness, and hybridity embodied and imagined. Housed within planes of color and instinctive line, queer and non-binary figures beckon welcomingly from the portals that O’Kane Kornreich unveils. Despite their bareness and variously prone positions, O’Kane Kornreich’s figures emanate a sense of substance and security. Commanding, contemplative, erotic, and ordinary, the people of O’Kane Kornreich’s worlds reflect the abundance of experience available to us all.
 
The notion of gaze is a central tool in O’Kane Kornreich’s narrative, serving as a means to interpret perceptions in terms of gender, sexual identity, and human relations. What do the floating cartoon characters see in the brazen figures? Where, towards future or fantasy, are her subjects looking? Who stirs beneath the surface, the doll, the lover, the fox, the lion, yearning to be made visible? It is not a conclusion but a beginning, an ever-expanding world flowing forth from a center of potential where princesses and monsters coexist, expressing ecstatic hybridity between fox tails and hidden figures.
 
“As we move through our world, we change it and are changed. I’ve been a different person several times over,” says O’Kane Kornreich. “Who will you be after passing time in this new world?”
 
About Eileen O’Kane Kornreich
Eileen O’Kane Kornreich (b. 1955, Stamford, CT) is a New York-based visual artist known for multi-medium paintings and drawings that traverse the boundaries of expression, narration, and abstraction. Among her forays into various disciplines of printmaking, she is realizing unique artist books that expand her storytelling while allowing the viewer intimate engagement with her art. For her Bridge 3 canvases she produced hand-built ceramic sculpture as part of that ongoing works of paintings and drawings. Recent exhibitions have included her 100-foot drawing performance during Warren Neidich’s Swept Away, Love Letter to a Surrogate(s), Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY), INFO BAHN Associate Artist Alumni Exhibition, Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL), Dumbo Open Studios (Brooklyn, NY) LongHouse Reserve (East Hampton, NY), Henry Klimowicz’s Together in Isolation at his The Re Institute (Millerton, NY) and Julie Keyes Galleries (Sag Harbor, NY, and Wellington, FL). She has been an artist in resident most recently at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL, ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY, The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY, and the School of Visual Arts, New York. The artist studied at the New York Studio School, Art Students League, and the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is a member of White Columns Artist Registry.
 
About The Opening Gallery
The Opening Gallery, at 42 Walker in Tribeca, New York, is a nonprofit cultural venue and initiative established in 2022 by Sozita Goudouna, PhD, to showcase global and local artists, practice-based research, as well as performance, live events, and educational programs.
 
Exhibitions include visual and performing arts and music events, with monthly public programs spanning a wide range of topics.  The Opening Gallery has presented international and US based artists including Andres Serrano, Sagarika Sundaram, Michele Zalopany, Kenneth Goldsmith, John Zorn, The Shoplifter, Luciano Chessa, Daniel Firman, Hans Weigand, Raúl Cordero, Jessica Mitrani, United Nations artist-observer Yann Toma, Warren Neidich, Coleman Collins, Constance DeJong, Charles Gaines, Jimmie Durham, Leslie Hewitt, Jimmy Raskin, Agnieszka Kurant, Olu Oguibe, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Chrysanne Stathacos, Leah Singer, Ronan Day-Lewis, Orit Ben Shitrit, and Bill Hayward. In spring 2024 the gallery program will present a selection of Watermill Center former artists-in-residence including Eileen O’ Kane Kornreich, Christopher Knowles with Sylvia Netzer, D. Graham Burnett and “The Order of the Third Bird,” and Brian Block. Exhibited artists belong to U.S. and international museum permanent collections.
 
The Gallery has hosted the New York Arab Festival and events organized by MoMA curators and collaborates with Sorbonne Art Gallery in Paris. In 2023, The Opening Gallery partnered with the London-based publisher Eris to present exhibitions related to publications by Kenneth Goldsmith, Andres Serrano, ORLAN, Lucas Samaras, and Maurice Saatchi among other acclaimed contributors and artists. Our publishing art program has hosted readings of Edward Said’s poems by Simon Critchley, Stathis Gourgouris, and Udi Aloni, as well as readings of Gabriele Tinti by Vincent Piazza.
 
Proceeds from The Opening Gallery support Luv Michael, a nonprofit committed to enriching the lives of autistic adults.

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“Physical: 100” Second Season on Netflix: Who Among These 100 Athletes is the Best Prepared?

Physical: 100 is a South Korean television program in which 100 contestants participate in an elimination contest in which it will be decided who possesses the best body.

“111111111” invites Olympic swimmers, gymnasts, soccer players, wrestlers, bodybuilders, dancers, or even models to compete in a series of tests to determine who among the 100 participants is the fittest and, ultimately, possesses the best body with the greatest athletic virtues.

What Can We Find in “Physical: 100”?

“Physical: 100” is a Korean TV show that pushes the human body to its limits and tries to combine several sports disciplines to, by facing them and making no distinction between the sexes, find out who among these 100 athletes is the best prepared.

This is not a race between sports disciplines nor is it about choosing which sport is the most complete, because “111111111” is a reality show where, additionally, the competitors will interact with each other and there is a strong emphasis on healthy competition among athletes of the highest level.

Yes, all of them are from South Korea, since it’s a Korean program.

Tests of Skill and Destruction, but also of Ingenuity

In this second season, Netflix increases the level of ingenuity, and the contestants will not only have to face physical challenges, but will also face a maze, team tests.

Furthermore, the program directly confronts the participants, with frequent hand-to-hand fights and other tests that prioritize, above all, physical intensity, always with a carefully crafted sense of spectacle.

Remember that ’80s series about American gladiators that was so successful? Somewhat in that style, though without spectators.

The Venue: The Mine

In this second season, subtitled “Underground”, the contestants will have to descend into a mine, equipped with various elements in a setting specially prepared for the competition. Like in the first season, we hardly see the sunlight, and the whole series takes place in semi-darkness to underscore the tension of the competition.

Our Opinion

Do you like sports? This is a way to see how various high-level sports disciplines face each other in a program that aims to be, above all, a spectacle, and it succeeds. It is aimed at fans of sports and bodybuilding, who will no doubt enjoy this reality show where, above all, healthy competition prevails.

Release date

Tuesday, March 19, 2023

Where to Watch “Physical: 100”

Netflix

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Young Royals: Today we can witness the conclusion of the third and final season of the Netflix series

The Swedish series “Young Royals” reaches its end, with Netflix presenting the sixth episode of the third season.

The final resolution of young Wilhem’s love affairs is here, packed in this last episode which, as a grand exception, Netflix delivers on a Monday (the rest of the third season premiered early last week).

The third season brings closure to this successful Swedish series, and Netflix pairs it with a special entitled “Young Royals Forever,” also viewable today.

“Young Royals” is a series full of intensity where a young heir to Swedish royalty has to face typical adolescent challenges, in addition to confronting tradition and media scrutiny due to his sexual orientation.

The show has been a resounding success and we now bid it goodbye, on this almost spring-like Monday.

Enjoy.

Young Royals is a Swedish series starring Edvin Ryding and Omar Rudberg. It is a series created by Lars Beckung, Lisa Ambjörn and Camilla Holter.

Where to Watch “Young Royals”

Netflix

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Young Royals Forever (2024) – A Documentary on Netflix About the Filming of the Final Season of “Young Royals”

Young Royals Forever is a documentary capturing the behind-the-scenes journey of the final season of the Swedish series Young Royals, which concluded with the airing of its third season.

It consists of 6 episodes that lead to many tales and reunions, primarily highlighting the camaraderie among the lead actors, the true heroes of this narrative that managed to reach millions of viewers worldwide.

“Young Royals Forever” is not only a documentary about the filming of the season but also serves as a tribute to the series and an opportunity for fans to get to know the actors on a deeper level, and relate more closely to their thoughts and feelings.

The documentary is filled with nostalgia and serves as a farewell to this series that has deeply resonated with young viewers, leaving us with fond memories.

Three seasons come to an end, as described by its lead actor Edvin Ryding, as a beautiful gesture of love.

Enjoy the watch.

Where to Watch “Young Royals Forever”

Netflix

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First Look Teaser: Cathy Moriarty And Daniel Roebuck’s Saint Nick Of Bethlehem

Hard Faith and Magic Bean Entertainment have revealed the first look teaser for the Christmas themed ‘Saint Nick Of Bethlehem’, written and directed by Spencer Folmar and Daniel Roebuck.

The Saint Nick Of Bethlehem cast includes Daniel Roebuck (The Munsters), Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull), Marsha Dietlin Bennett, Duane Whitaker, Stelio Savante, Elias Kemuel, Bradford Haynes, Timothy E. Goodwin, Jennifer Porrata, & Kathy Patterson.

Filmed in Bethlehem Pennsylvania (Christmas City, USA), Saint Nick is based on the true story of Allen Smith, a man distraught over losing his son. He finds closure and discovers a new purpose when he takes on the role of Santa Claus in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

Saint Nick is produced by Spencer Folmar, Ben Daniele, Tammy Roebuck, Danny Roebuck, Doug Tschirhart, & Isaac March.

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Punchdrunk Presents Viola’s Room

Punchdrunk, the internationally-acclaimed company that pioneered the breakthrough of immersive theatre in the UK, announces the world premiere of new show Viola’s Room, at the company’s home in Woolwich this May for a limited run.​

Barefoot, and wearing headphones, small groups of up to six at a time feel their way through a maze-like installation as an unseen narrator guides them on a sensory journey to reveal a story of innocence lost and obsession unleashed.​

Written by Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy Johnson, Viola’s Room reimagines Barry Pain’s classic gothic mystery  The Moon-Slave for a new audience. It distils two decades of Punchdrunk’s immersive practice into an intimate, linear, audio-driven adventure that promises to suffuse the dreams of those who dare to follow the light.​

Felix Barrett said: ‘When The Burnt City closed, our laboratory opened, and Woolwich became Punchdrunk’s home to experiment, play and develop – allowing us to prototype long held dreams and new ideas. Our ambition over the coming years is to open our doors as never before, offering audiences a chance to experience the evolution of these ideas from limited runs to larger-scale works. It’s with great excitement that we prepare to welcome audiences to the first project in a new era of Punchdrunk shows, Viola’s Room – an uncharted landscape – a moonlit fever dream.’​

The production is conceived, directed and designed by Artistic Director Felix Barrett, with co-direction by Associate Director Hector Harkness (One Night, Long Ago; The Third Day) and design by Casey Jay Andrews, who was part of the design team on The Burnt City. Working with Punchdrunk for the first time are Lighting Designer Simon Wilkinson (Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Vanishing Point’s Metamorphosis), and Sound Designer Gareth Fry (Complicité’s The Encounter; V&A’s David Bowie Is, Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and Diva exhibitions).​

A limited season is on sale from 18 March (General On Sale 20 March) with previews commencing from 14 May.​

Viola’s Room will take place at Punchdrunk’s home at One Cartridge Place, Woolwich. ​

Tickets are on sale from http://punchdrunk.com/work/violas-room/

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Paines Plough Enters Its 50th Year

This year Paines Plough celebrates 50 years of supporting ground-breaking, innovative and thrilling new writing. The touring theatre company dedicated to developing and producing playwrights has commissioned over 500 writers and developed and produced more than 400 plays since its inception in 1974. 

Some of the ground-breaking writers supported by Paines Plough over the years include Zia Ahmed, Alice Birch, Mike Bartlett, Miriam Battye, Nathan Bryon, James Graham, Anna Jordan, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Duncan Macmillan, Chloë Moss, Vinay Patel, Nathan Queeley-Dennis, Simon Stephens and Kae Tempest.​

Announced today as part of Paines Plough’s 50th year is Kelly Jones’ My Mother’s Funeral: The Show. Exploring the experience of being a benefit class artist and different approaches towards trauma stories, Jones’ new play asks us: if death is unifying, why are we not all afforded the same dignity? Directed by Charlotte Bennett, the production is co-produced by Paines Plough, Mercury Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, Landmark Theatres, and Royal & Derngate, Northampton. My Mother’s Funeral: The Show will preview at the Belgrade in Coventry on 25 – 27 July, before a run at Paines Plough’s pop-up theatre Roundabout at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ahead of a UK tour. Paines Plough’s 2023 new writing commission, Miriam Battye’s Strategic Love Play, which previewed at the Belgrade last year, went on to enjoy an award-winning sell-out run at the Fringe and a subsequent UK tour. The show, directed by Katie Posner, will transfer to Soho Theatre’s Main House this year, running from 22 May – 15 June.​

Continuing Paines Plough’s long-standing relationship with Coventry, from 2024 onwards the company will find its new home at the Belgrade Theatre in the West Midlands city. As a touring company with activities across the UK, this new home strengthens Paines Plough’s national reach by deepening relationships with their existing co-producers, the Belgrade Theatre, while also opening up opportunities for new collaborations in the Midlands and beyond.​

Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett, Joint Artistic Directors of Paines Plough commented: “This year is a landmark year for Paines Plough as we turn 50 at a time where we remain one of the last subsidised new writing touring theatre companies in the UK. With programming priorities being forced to shift and costs increasing, the landscape for new writing is more challenging than it has ever been. In this context, we’re proud to even be here to talk about a fiftieth year, and to continue to be an advocate, a voice and a thriving platform for writers and the future of new writing around the country. Our fiftieth year will be about future-proofing our longstanding commitment to writers, who remain at the beating heart of everything we do. We will move to our new home in Coventry, previewing our thrilling new play by Kelly Jones there as a ‘see it first’ opportunity for Coventry audiences, before it transfers to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We can’t wait to also welcome the return of last year’s runaway success Strategic Love Play, and continue with our Tour the Writer and writers-on-attachment activity; all of which supports new, bold, brilliant work to be created, just as the company has done in the last 50 years, and which we intend to do in the 50 years to come. Thank you for being part of that journey with us, and we hope you’ll join us for the celebrations throughout the year!”​

Corey Campbell, Creative Director of Belgrade Theatre, said:
“I’m very excited that our dear friends and collaborators at Paines Plough are coming to Coventry,  both for the wider region, and the city and the theatre. Coventry will receive a contemporary writing theatre company who are incredible at what they do – they are incredible dramaturgs, and incredible at developing talent. They also look at future forms and future styles of writing, which is something that we at the Belgrade are excited about, supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. We have a partnership with them currently that’s not only looking at co-produced shows, but also how we wrap around and support co-created practice. I think their practice and our practice coming together is a force to be reckoned with. We look forward to welcoming them to Coventry!”​

Further details about Paines Plough’s 2024 programme will be announced in due course. ​

Please find additional comments from leading playwrights Mike Bartlett, Anna Jordan and Duncan Macmillan here on Paines Plough’s 50th year. ​

Paines Plough’s work amplifies the writers of today, and creates the space and environment for future writers to develop their craft. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, launched in partnership with the Founder-Director Ellie Keel, is now in its fourth year. Receiving over 1,000 entries from women and nonbinary artists, Sarah Grochala’s era-hopping epic about Ada Lovelace, titled Intelligence, was this year’s winner. ​

As previously announced, Somebody Jones and Shahid Iqbal Khan have joined the company as writers on attachment for 2024. Jones, who is also the recipient of the Playwright Fellowship, was a Finalist of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Playwriting with her play How I Learned to Swim. She will receive a bursary and mentorship from Paines Plough’s Joint Artistic Directors. Iqbal Khan, whose attachment is made possible by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and the Film 4 Awards scheme, will write one full-length play and, via his base in Bury, will extend the team’s reach for seeing and championing plays across the country.​

In April, Paines Plough’s Tour the Writer will enter its second year. Through mentoring sessions, masterclasses and networking opportunities, this multi year project serves the company’s commitment to strengthen nationwide writer networks in partnership with seven theatre organisations across the country: Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, Freedom Studios/Bradford 2025 in Bradford, Mercury Theatre in Colchester, Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, Landmark Theatres in Peterborough and Barnstaple, and Theatre Royal Plymouth.​

To celebrate turning 50, the company has also launched their #50for50 fundraising campaign. #50for50 aims to raise £50,000 over the year to enable Paines Plough to continue platforming, producing and touring ground-breaking new plays, and nurture the next generation of writers. There will be special events planned throughout the year to celebrate this landmark moment for the company, which will be announced in due course. You can donate to the fundraising campaign here: painesplough.com/50-for-50/ 

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Betty Parsons – Alison Jacques, London

Alison Jacques presents our second solo exhibition of American artist Betty Parsons (1900-82). This exhibition showcases over thirty years of Parsons’ practice, covering the period from 1950 until 1981. The show includes paintings on canvas and paper, as well as sculpture.

Betty Parsons is one of the most influential and dynamic figures of the American avant-garde.
In the last decade, her contribution to post-war abstraction through her own artistic practice has been internationally acknowledged and understood.

This exhibition offers a deeper understanding of Parsons’ art which, during her lifetime, was often overshadowed by the pioneering New York gallery she opened in 1946. Despite the great success of her gallery, Parsons possessed an unwavering commitment to her own artistic practice. ‘When I’m not at the gallery, my own art is my relaxation’, she once said. ‘That’s my greatest joy’.

In her lifetime, as a female artist, Parsons not only found it hard to supersede her powerful status as a gallerist, but also to be accepted within a male dominated art world. Her American retrospective at Montclair Art Museum in 1974, which followed the first international survey of Parsons work at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1968, was a revelation for many. It served to change the perspective of Parsons as gallerist, to a celebration of her as an artist in her own right. Parson once said: ‘I would give up my gallery in a second if the world would accept me as an artist’ – this lifetime desire has now been cemented and continues to grow.

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