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Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained, activists say
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “ No Other Land ” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, Jewish activists on the scene said. Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “ No Other Land ” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said. Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Body camera footage is released showing scene outside Gene Hackman’s home
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
ALBUQUERQE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities have released body camera footage from outside the home of Gene Hackman, where the actor and wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in late February. The redacted footage shows deputies talking with the two workers who called authorities to report seeing someone lying on the floor inside the home. With ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and arrested, activists say
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “ No Other Land ” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said. Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: ‘Elphie’ a psychological backstory of the Wicked Witch of the West
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
For fans, like me, looking to fill their “Wicked” obsession, “Elphie,” the fifth book in the Wicked Years series, provides the perfect escape into the world of Oz, with a new look at Elphaba Thropp, the beloved green heroine, before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with familiar ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Will Smith channels his post-slap introspection into music on ‘Based on a True Story’
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith could have let his infamous Oscar slap be his cinematic fade out with a career bruised, marriage dissected and reputation in a free fall. But instead of retreating, he turned inward for self-reflection. In the process, Smith rediscovered a long-neglected creative outlet in music, using the mic as a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez named creative directors at Loewe
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the celebrated design duo behind Proenza Schouler, will take over as creative directors at Loewe, the Spanish luxury house announced Monday. Their tenure begins April 7, succeeding Jonathan Anderson, who stepped down last week after an influential 11-year run that elevated Loewe into a major global brand, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: ‘Baldwin, Styron and Me’ a valuable contribution to current debates about DEI
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
The new book “Baldwin, Styron and Me” is an intellectual reflection that serves as a valuable contribution to the current debates about race, equity and identity. Author Mélikah Abdelmoumen is the daughter of a Tunisian immigrant father and Québécois mother who uses the lens of her background to examine the complex relationship between American writers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: Debut poetry collection ‘Scream/Queen’ views trans identity through horror
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
The LGBTQ+ community has a long, sometimes fraught relationship with the horror genre; there’s a kinship in the Othering, in being feared and hated and cast out from society. CD Esklison’s new poetry collection examines this connection, whether overtly or by putting the two things side by side and leaving the associations up to the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: ‘There Is No Place For Us’ shines lights on a homeless population often ignored
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
The public’s perception and debate over homelessness is usually fixated on people living on the street, encampments or shelters. That view ignores an even larger segment of the population, often dubbed the “invisible homeless,” people without stable housing who are living with friends or family or other locations such as extended-stay hotels. That population is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: ‘Lollapalooza’ is an entertaining history of festival’s role in alternative rock rise
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
The least enjoyable part of “Lollapalooza: The Unscripted Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival” for readers might be seeing the $27.50 ticket price for the inaugural festival in 1991. The cheapest tickets for the reconfigured version of Lollapalooza this year start at about $189. With hundreds of interviews from the musicians, promoters and others, Richard ... Read More »
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