O.J. Simpson, Dead at 76, Had a Lasting Impact on America

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1167 words  |  Billy Koelling

For those of us born after the baby boom, June 17, 1994, was nothing less than our JFK moment.  Where were you during the O.J. Simpson chase? The night that law enforcement trailed Simpson—the wildly popular NFL Hall of Famer, sports commentator, and sometimes actor who goofed around in those Naked Gun movies, who was now incomprehensibly a fugitive from justice, wanted for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman—in a white Bronco, up a Southern California freeway, on live television? [Read More]

Ryan Reynolds on 'Self/less,' Blake Lively, Marriage

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1772 words  |  Martina Birk

Plenty of actors would want to switch positions with Ryan Reynolds right about now. On the heels of his spring sleeper hit Woman in Gold, Reynolds returns to the multiplex with director Tarsem Singh’s Self/less (out July 10), a morally complex thriller about a dying businessman (Ben Kingsley) who implants his consciousness into a body (Reynolds) that he’s been told was grown in a lab. When Reynolds’s former life as a father and military veteran begin to invade Kingsley’s consciousness, the sinister origins of the body begin to become clear, the ramifications of body-swapping become far more ethically convoluted—and an action drama breaks out. [Read More]

Sport: Stanford's How Boys | TIME

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  513 words  |  Kelle Repass

As a member of Stanford’s winning 1941 Rose Bowl team, All-America Guard Chuck Taylor was one of the Indians’ “Wow” boys.* Now, in his first year as a coach, burly (204 Ibs., 5 ft. n4r in.) Chuck Taylor has a winning Stanford team of his own: the “How” boys. The question in the minds of the sportwriters who nicknamed the team: How do they do it? Before last week’s game with Oregon State, Stanford in victory was more than a sport-page enigma. [Read More]

Step inside a Russian oligarch's daughter's 7.7 million Oscars-inspired wedding, where Lady Gaga p

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  613 words  |  Tandra Barner

Lolita Osmanova, the 22-year-old daughter of the Russian energy oligarch Eldar Osmanov, married 29-year-old Gaspar Avdolyan, the son of the telecoms millionaire Albert Avdolyan, at the Dolby Theatre — the venue that hosts the Oscars. The event was arguably even more lavish than the Academy Awards, with $500,000 (£387,300) worth of flowers, violinists, dance performances, red-carpet dresses, performances from Lady Gaga and Jason Derulo, and even stars on the floor featuring the names of guests. [Read More]

Student Ambassadors: Airu from Japan - Live & Study

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  377 words  |  Patria Henriques

14. 2. 2020 | Student Ambassadors I chose Prague College because I have always wanted to study Art and Design and to learn in English to improve my English skills. I am currently studying for my Foundation Diploma in Art and Design and when completed, I will begin my BA in Graphic Design here too. Our group is quite small which is great because we can ask questions and discuss our projects at length with the teachers personally, we get a lot of one-on-one time during classes. [Read More]

Terrance Franklin Killing by Minneapolis Cops Under Scrutiny

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  27 minutes  |  5594 words  |  Tandra Barner

When Terrance Franklin was shot to death in a Minneapolis basement eight years ago, the only witnesses were the five police officers assembled to capture him. Two of them were bleeding—wounded by rounds from a police submachine gun the department declared the young Black man had managed to get control of in a brief struggle, a contest it said ended with Franklin’s death in a fusillade of immediate return fire. The officer who gave the most detailed account said the fatal encounter lasted “seconds. [Read More]

The year's best cyst popping videos, including one that can only be described as 'gleefully repulsiv

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1024 words  |  Kelle Repass

And some like to watch cyst popping. There are a few different types of skin cysts , each with unique attributes, but they all share the same basic definition , according to DermNet NZ, the educational website of the New Zealand Dermatological Society: They're typically benign, round, encapsulated growths filled with "fluid or semi-fluid" material from the body. And when they're squeezed, they can make for great popping videos , too. [Read More]

Top 10 Movie Dance Scenes

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  133 words  |  Kelle Repass

EverettDirector: Quentin Tarantino Year Released: 1994 Cast: Tim Roth, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman Get This MovieWe already knew John Travolta could dance. He discoed and hand-jived his way to stardom in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. But in the 1980s Travolta’s career fizzled and we sort of forgot about him because — let’s be honest, here — we have pretty short attention spans. But in 1994, Travolta made his comeback in Quentin Tarantino’s stylized crime film Pulp Fiction. [Read More]

Travel Ban: Banned Grandmas Go Viral in Protest

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  431 words  |  Martina Birk

Iranian-American opponents of President Trump’s travel ban want you to know that it’s shutting out one loving person: grandma. After the Supreme Court ruled that the travel ban could not be used against anyone from the six Muslim-majority countries who has a “bona fide relationship” with the U.S., the Trump Administration moved quickly to define that term narrowly. Spouses are included, but not fiances; parents, but not grandparents. The revised ban temporarily wedges a block between grandparents, aunts and uncles who have been waiting years to reunite with relatives living in America, and some have decided to fight back on social media. [Read More]