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The New Twelve Apostles

from France 24 ‘Twelve Apostles’ help migrants cross Mexico © AFP | Undocumented migrants climb on a train known as “La Bestia” (The Beast), in the town of Las Patronas in Mexico’s Veracruz state hoping to reach the US CÓRDOBA (MEXICO) (AFP) – It is pouring rain, but Norma Romero is standing by the train tracks as […]

Adored and Hunted – Aryana Sayeed

from Der Spiegel ‘I Am Very Aware of the Danger’ Aryana Sayeed, 33, is the only internationally known pop act in Afghanistan. She is adored by youth — and hunted by the Taliban. By Susanne Koelbl  DER SPIEGEL: You’re beautiful, successful and independent — and, as a result, religious leaders would like to see […]

Dastmalchian News

from Deadline David Dastmalchian & Rhys Wakefield Join Hulu’s Femme Fatale Pilot ‘Reprisal’ From Warren Littlefield & A+E Studios by Denise Petski Photos courtesy of Persona PR/ICM Partners David Dastmalchian (MacGyver, Twin Peaks) and Rhys Wakefield (True Detective, The Purge) are set as series regulars opposite Abigail Spencer and Mena Massoud in Hulu drama pilot Reprisal, […]

Aretha Franklin Gone

from CNN Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has died By Lisa Respers France, Dan Gilgoff and Todd Leopold Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title “the Queen of Soul,” has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76. Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. at her home […]

James Frey Reads from KATERINA in New Canaan

from New Canaan’s Hamlet Hub Authors @ New Canaan Library Presents James Frey, Introducing New Novel, Katerina by Katherine Blance New Canaan Library welcomes bestselling author James Frey, speaking about his latest novel, Katerina, on Wednesday, September 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Adrian Lamb Room. Copies of the book will be available for purchase, […]

How You Know He Really Loves You

from WTUE Boyfriend Punches Man After He Was Caught Looking At His Girl’s Butt by Bill Galluccio A North Carolina man cold cocked a stranger inside of an SEA Wireless store in Lincolnton after the stranger was busted staring at the man’s girlfriend’s butt. Surveillance footage from the store captured a guy in a red […]

Affordable Big-Block Monsters

from Driving Line BIG CAR, BIG BLOCK: 5 V8 MUSCLE MACHINES YOU CAN STILL AFFORD by Benjamin Hunting The Mercury Marauder X-100 Looking for a V8 classic but feeling squeezed out by muscle car pricing? Don’t worry, there’s an entire subset of stealth big block cars out there that the collector market has largely ignored, keeping […]

The de Kooning Behind The Door

from artnet Was This Mild-Mannered Schoolteacher Couple Behind the Unsolved Heist of a $160 Million de Kooning Painting? Does a book of short stories hold a clue as to how Jerry and Rita Alter acquired a stolen de Kooning? by Sarah Cascone The stolen De Kooning seen hanging behind Jerry and Rita Alter’s bedroom door. […]

Easton Ellis on Cultural Relevance

from Rolling Stone Bret Easton Ellis on Podcasts, Politics and How His Dark Satire Predicted Trump’s America “If there is a sense of cultural irrelevance hovering around me, that’s fine,” says the screenwriter and novelist behind ‘American Psycho,’ ‘Less Than Zero’ By DREW FORTUNE  Over the past three decades, novelist Bret Easton Ellis has […]

QUEEN AND SLIM – Lena Waithe Mashes It Up With James Frey

from INQUISITR Lena Waithe Tabs Daniel Kaluuya To Star In New Movie, ‘Queen & Slim’ by Stephanie Barnes Get Out and Black Panther actor Daniel Kaluuya has been tabbed to take the lead role of Slim, in an upcoming film, Queen & Slim, a romance drama written by Emmy award-winning writer Lena Waithe. According to […]