Chris Rock Shreds Will Smith With Oscar Slap Jokes:Everybody Called Him a B- And Who D

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1186 words  |  Tandra Barner

Almost a year after the infamous Oscars slap, comedian Chris Rock finally addressed what happened in his live Netflix special, “Selective Outrage.” After an hour of new material that only alluded to Slapgate — “They say, ‘words hurt.’ Anybody who says ‘words hurt’ has never been punched in the face,” he joked earlier in the night — the comedian finally broke down the aftermath of the on-stage smack from Oscar-winner Will Smith. [Read More]

Cicely Saunders: Dying with Dignity

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2098 words  |  Billy Koelling

For the doctors and nurses at the south London hospice it had been a wrenching weekend. Twelve patients had died between Friday and Sunday nights, and by Monday morning death’s wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted. It was time for a tall, somewhat stout, white-haired woman to provide the reassurance of her presence: standing in a stairwell, in the path of grief-bruised nurses and doctors, greeting each with a jovial smile and concerned questions: “How was your weekend? [Read More]

Election Map: How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  172 words  |  Kelle Repass

Updated: November 9, 2016 4:57 PM [ET] | Originally published: November 8, 2016 3:27 PM EST; The U.S. wasn’t always divided between blue and red states—the parties that dominated the national conversation once included Whig, National Republican, Democratic-Republican and more. Electoral maps dating back decades reveal a lot about political change in the U.S. as the country grew and two dominant political parties emerged. In the 2016 election, Donald Trump won the Electoral College tally by taking traditionally Democratic states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. [Read More]

ESPN's Stephen A Smith got into an epic shouting match with Lavar Ball over Michael Jordan

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  56 words  |  Patria Henriques

Host Stephen A. Smith challenged Ball on his recent comments that he could have beaten Michael Jordan one-on-one in his prime.

Ball wouldn't back down, saying "[Jordan] would need help. He's too small."

This got Smith even more fired up than usual and Ball was up to the task. The two traded verbal punches like

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Film and TV's Carbon Footprint Is Too Big to Ignore

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1094 words  |  Patria Henriques

This March, movies like Oppenheimer, Barbie, and Killers of the Flower Moon will battle it out at the Oscars, competing for the film industry’s highest academy awards. While the main focus is on the movies that will bring home the most awards for artistic and technical merit, behind the curtains a growing movement within the film industry is vying for a different kind of impact: reducing filmmaking’s carbon and waste footprint. [Read More]

Foreign News: Commem Week | TIME

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  446 words  |  Patria Henriques

Oxford was “down.” The summer vacation had begun. “Schools” (exams) were over. Yet Oxford, last week, was crowded with formidable dowagers, jovial “guvnors,” dainty débutantes in the joiliest of raiment and under the absurdest of parasols, all being escorted by be-flanneled undergraduates. “Commem” (Commemoration) Week had started seven days of endless pleasure. Up the “High,” down the “Broad,” along the “Corn” strolled British society. Every available lodging was taken. No money could buy or hire a punt, for they were already thick upon the water of the Isis. [Read More]

Friends or Acquaintances? You need to understand the difference

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  691 words  |  Kelle Repass

But isn't that what friendship is all about, asking for and receiving favours while having fun and comforting each other in between? The problem is lots of people mistake acquaintances for friends, so they feel abandoned when those acquaintances ‘desert’ them in their time of need. Simply put friends just love each other. It's a sort of connection that transcends a lifetime. This bond can develop from the experiences you both shared or just happen. [Read More]

Gbemisola Saraki accuses AbdulRazak of using police to settle family political scores

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  581 words  |  Billy Koelling

The minister condemned the demolition saying the state governor is using security agencies to settle political disagreement between him and the Sarakis. Kwara State government demolished Ile Arugbo (home for the aged) around 4am on Thursday, January 2, 2020, claiming the property was illegally acquired by late Olusola Saraki. The governor said, the land was originally designated for the construction of a secretariat and parking lot of the civil service clinic, but that it was unlawfully allocated to a private firm—Asa Investments Limited—without any record of payment to the state government. [Read More]