Ramy Youssef Interview: More Feelings on HBO
Posted on August 15, 2024
| 6 minutes
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| Billy Koelling
Ramy Youssef is tired of apologizing. In his new HBO special, the 32-year-old comedian jokes about how he often has to prove that Muslim men are not inherently violent. After Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, he says he received a call from a friend a few days later, asking: ‘Yo bro, where are you at with Hamas?’ His response is exasperated, but sharply funny: ‘Where am I at, like, are we f-cking?
[Read More]SpaceX's Starship Explosion Is No Big Deal. Here's Why
Posted on August 15, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 993 words
| Kelle Repass
To hear the folks in charge tell it, you’d think that SpaceX’s Starship rocket—the biggest, grandest, most powerful rocket ever built—didn’t blow up over the Gulf of Mexico this morning, just four minutes into its maiden flight and barely 39 km (24 mi.) above ground on what was supposed to be an around-the-world orbital journey. For one thing the company didn’t call the incident an explosion. Starship instead experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” SpaceX tweeted.
[Read More]Sport: Champions at Forest Hills
Posted on August 15, 2024
| 11 minutes
| 2192 words
| Martina Birk
(See front cover) As predictable as the sun whose course it follows around the world, international tennis is a grand tour with Christmas in Melbourne, May at the French championships in Auteuil, June in the heroic blaze of Wimbledon. Last week international tennis and the small bronzed band of young men & women who play it best made the last stop on the circuit. The place was the stadium of the West Side Tennis Club in the otherwise undistinguished New York suburb of Forest Hills, the event the U.
[Read More]Students: Hail to Thee-- Er ... Da Di Da
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
A bunch of alums were whooping it up in a highway-side saloon, toasting Stanford’s football victory over Cal, when a young old grad called for the Stanford hymn. “How does it go?” someone asked. “From the … something . . . something …” a voice began. “Foothills? Mountains?” someone suggested. Others dimly recalled “in the sunset fire” and “raise our voices singing,” until at length a young wife bravely quavered:
[Read More]Television Channel History - On This Day
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| 12 words
| Tandra Barner
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The (Sticky) Fad of Summer
Posted on August 15, 2024
| 3 minutes
| 579 words
| Kelle Repass
For a while there, it looked as if this could be a summer with nary a craze in sight. But not for long. Suddenly this has become the summer of the Velcro paddle and ball.
The idea for the new toy is simple: put stick-to-itself Velcro on a sphere that is roughly the size of a tennis ball. Apply the same stuff to two mitt- size disks that have a strap across the back for a handhold.
[Read More]The True Story Behind 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
Posted on August 15, 2024
| 8 minutes
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| Kelle Repass
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Killers of the Flower Moon.
Based on journalist David Grann's 2017 best-selling book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the true story of how a white businessman and self-proclaimed "true friend" of the Osage Nation orchestrated the brutal murders of numerous members of the tribe in early 1920s Oklahoma.
Directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese, the film centers on the relationship between an Osage woman, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), and white World War I veteran, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), nephew of the aforementioned wealthy rancher, William K.
[Read More]Transformers - History's Best Toys: All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
It wasn't tough to be excited about Transformers as a kid in the 1980s. Magical alien machines that could be reassembled to assume the identities of everyday automobiles, they were adapted by Hasbro from a pair of Japanese toys from Takara: the Diaclones and the New Microman. With a slight redesign and a new story line, Transformers hit the American shores in 1984.
See the trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
[Read More]Ulu Grosbard | TIME
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| 126 words
| Martina Birk
Richard Corliss
April 2, 2012 12:00 AM EDT
A diamond cutter before his arrival in the U.S., the Belgian-born Ulu Grosbard, who died March 18 at 83, brought the same lapidary craftsmanship to theater and movie direction. He staged the original Broadway productions of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, Arthur Miller’s The Price, Frank Gilroy’s The Subject Was Roses and Woody Allen’s The Floating Light Bulb. On film, he paired Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall as priest and cop brothers in True Confessions and De Niro and Meryl Streep for a fugitive tryst in Falling in Love.
[Read More]Urban Outfitters Selling Tapestry That Resembles Holocaust Uniform
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
February 10, 2015 4:24 PM EST
Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters is in hot water with a Jewish civil rights group for selling a tapestry that looks similar to clothing worn by gay men in Nazi concentration camps.
The tapestry, which features gray and white stripes and several pink triangles, was being sold for $69 at an Urban Outfitters in Boulder, Colo., according to the Anti-Defamation League. The group said it wrote to Urban Outfitters CEO Richard Hayne asking him to stop selling the item, but the retailer hasn’t commented so far, the Washington Post reports.
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