Sydney Sweeneys Immaculate, Ghostbusters on the Horizon as Dune 2 Continu

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  905 words  |  Martina Birk

Warner Bros.’ “Dune: Part II” continued its sway atop the U.K. and Ireland box office for a third consecutive weekend with £4 million ($5.1 million), according to numbers from Comscore. Denis Villeneuve’s anticipated sequel has an all-star cast including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem reprising their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken and Léa Seydoux joining them. [Read More]

Talented actress Nazo Ekezie brilliantly curates quarantine experiences with her new film Viral the

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  252 words  |  Kelle Repass

With her production imprint, Unoaku production, Ekezie has since 2018 produced her flick and pushed them through the most accessible platforms. Her first produced movie was ‘Flawed’, released in 2018 and featured Mofe Duncan and Ebekle Okaro. Expanding her reach, the beautiful actress has now started to release her works on her Youtube page Nazo Ekezie TV. ADVERTISEMENT In two months since she officially launched the page, the actress has released five, including her first work, ‘Flawed’. [Read More]

Tania Omotayo on how editing of The Real Housewives of Lagos did her dirty

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  608 words  |  Patria Henriques

She had avoided being the subject of Instagram live sessions of famous people hurling insults at other famous people that had become the hallmark of a new kind of celebrity culture; Influencer-meet-socialite-meet-rising-actress-meet-content-creator with fans in the millions stan-ing round the clock. The Real Housewives of Lagos, with the second strongest stan culture in the country, the first being Big Brother Naija, will invade her relative peace. After over seven months of shooting the season and two months of streaming on Showmax, she will become a new kind of celebrity. [Read More]

Ten Must-Have Back to School Gadgets and Accessories

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  139 words  |  Martina Birk

Ironing is awful. On the official list of suck-tastic chores for college students, it ranks somewhere between doing your apartment’s dishes for the month and hauling trashbags of half-full beer cans to the recycling bin. So for the sake of your future internships, a handheld steamer like this $25 guy could be a lifesaver. It’s portable, for one, but steaming your clothes in lieu of ironing? It basically goes hand-in-hand with what college is all about. [Read More]

Thailands New Prime Minister Is Getting Down to Business.

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2501 words  |  Kelle Repass

There is zero chance, aides insist, of accessing the second floor. The upper reaches of Bangkok’s Venetian Gothic Government House are strictly for official work. Journalists (and even respectable guests) are only permitted to loiter among the watercolors and marble ornaments that adorn the ground-floor reception rooms. Everything above the grand staircase is strictly off-limits. It doesn’t take long for Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin to overrule this staid protocol, beckoning me up to his inner sanctum on the second floor, banishing the chastened courtiers and settling down to chat for an hour without notes. [Read More]

The Eyo masquerades and the significance of the Eyo festival

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  309 words  |  Martina Birk

One of the most eye-catching and enduring celebrations in Lagos is the Eyo Festival, also known as Adamu Orisa. Who is the Eyo masquerade? The term "Eyo" is also used to describe the masquerades or costume dancers that perform at the Eyo festival. The Yoruba term "agogoro Eyo" is used for the white-clad Eyo masquerades, which portray the ghosts of the deceased. ADVERTISEMENT Their origin can be traced to ancient secret societies. [Read More]

The Jimi Hendrix Sexperience

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  184 words  |  Martina Birk

Is it because I’m too busy digging through a week’s worth of mail, in order to see my office floor again, to write an original post? Is it the irrestistable lure of getting Tuned In to show up on Google searches for “Jimi Hendrix sex tape”? Is it part of my business plan to diversify Tuned In into the lucrative Internet porn market? Decide for yourself, but I must refer you to the story that porn giant Vivid is marketing what it contends to be a nearly four-decade old sex-flick starring Jimi Hendrix. [Read More]

The Top 10 Opinions of 2011

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  273 words  |  Kelle Repass

Guang hua / APAmy Chua When the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from Yale law professor Amy Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in January, the editors titled the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” and readers lost their collective minds. But it wasn’t just the headline that offended; it was everything that Chua went on to recount about how she, as a Chinese mother, parented her two daughters Sophia and Lulu. She did everything in her power, including insulting, threatening and screaming until she lost her voice, to make sure that her daughters were straight-A students who were first in their class and had mastered either the piano or violin. [Read More]

They said that I used my wife for rituals when she fell ill - Obi Cubana

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  402 words  |  Martina Birk

In a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Cubana recounted the harrowing experience of his wife's diagnosis and subsequent partial paralysis. "After my wife gave birth to Alex, something happened. On Valentine's day she developed a strange illness. We were at the Hilton then and Alex was three months old and my wife became numb and at the time I was building Cubana. We were managing it but it became worse so on the 15th we were about to check it out and she collapsed so we rushed her to the best hospital then, in Abuja. [Read More]

Transportation: Barges That Cross the Ocean

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  650 words  |  Tandra Barner

Every business student learns in one of his first classes that shipping by water is the cheapest but also the slowest way to move goods. Only those who go on to become freight managers discover that the longest delays nowadays do not occur at sea. Dock congestion around the world has become so common that general cargo ships spend about half their time in port loading, unloading or just waiting—even when the docks are not shut down by a longshoremen’s strike. [Read More]