Bad Bunny on Being Ready For CoachellaAnd the World

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3291 words  |  Tandra Barner

In 40 minutes, the former grocery bagger from Puerto Rico will try on outfits worth thousands for the cover of this magazine. In 12 hours, he will be photographed embracing the world’s highest-paid supermodel. In one month, he will be staring out onto a sea of 125,000 superfans from the heights of Coachella’s main stage. But right now, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, who also goes by Bad Bunny, is slouched almost completely horizontally on a green-room couch in downtown Los Angeles, thinking about being with his parents back home in Puerto Rico. [Read More]

Barbie - History's Best Toys: All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  129 words  |  Tandra Barner

Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler created history's most famous teenager after watching her daughter Barbara play with her paper dolls. In 1959, Handler decided to create a three-dimensional, grownup fashion doll for young girls to play with. She named the doll Barbie after her daughter; sales soared, making Barbie (and her vast collection of accessories) the best-selling fashion doll of all time. As the 1960s unfolded, criticism mounted of Barbie's unrealistic body shape. [Read More]

Blackness, Black-ish and The Cosby Show: Cliff Huxtable and American Culture

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1060 words  |  Patria Henriques

Thirty years ago this September, NBC aired the pilot for a new situation comedy on eight o’clock on Thursday night. At the time, there wasn’t a single sitcom in the Nielsen top twenty, and many in the TV industry had declared the format “dead.” In an upfront presentation for advertisers, network president Brandon Tartikoff predicted tepidly that the show would finish second in the time slot to “Magnum P.I.” on CBS; in an advance review critic David Bianculli pleaded with NBC not to “dump it” prematurely. [Read More]

Cancer Is Especially Dangerous for Immigrants in Texas. Here's Why

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1393 words  |  Tandra Barner

McALLEN, Texas — Edgar carries a red folder bulging with paperwork, bills and medical records. Before his lung cancer diagnosis in September, he had about $11,000, he said, money he was saving to purchase a used truck and to pay an immigration attorney to pursue legal residency. By February, it was gone, and Edgar was relying on friends and family to cover doctor appointments, food and other basics. His treatment had been complicated by a collapsed lung. [Read More]

Capital Gazette Staff March in Annapolis Fourth of July Parade

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  510 words  |  Tandra Barner

Instead of covering the Annapolis Fourth of July parade this year, the staff of the Capital Gazette will be featured in it. The Capital staff will march in the parade less than a week after a gunman killed five reporters, editors and members of the business staff in their newsroom. “Normally, we cover the Fourth of July parade in Annapolis,” the newspaper staff said in a statement about their parade participation. [Read More]

Celtic salt benefits | Pulse Nigeria

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  500 words  |  Tandra Barner

But, this isn't just any old salt. Harvested using traditional methods from the Atlantic seawater off the coast of Brittany, France, Celtic sea salt is renowned for its health benefits. Packed with minerals and lower in sodium compared to regular table salt, it's a choice that's not only good for your taste buds but surprisingly beneficial for your health too. ADVERTISEMENT 1. Keeps you hydrated Surprisingly, Celtic sea salt helps keep your body well-hydrated. [Read More]

Cinema: Prestige Picture | TIME

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1936 words  |  Patria Henriques

(See front cover) The cinema has a special category for what it calls “prestige pictures.” Made with an eye to pleasing serious critics, these productions are intended primarily to stimulate the self-respect rather than fill the purses of their makers. Prestige pictures are such films as The Green Pastures, Winter set, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Camille and the like. Many prestige pictures lost money. Many are bores. Last week Warner Brothers released a movie which is probably the outstanding prestige picture of the season. [Read More]

Contestant's bra falls off on stage

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  101 words  |  Patria Henriques

Miss Beverly Hills, Chanelle Riggan suffered major wardrobe malfunction during her walk which left her breasts splashed before the crowd. In a recorded video which has since gone viral, Chanelle is seen struggling to catch the stripes of her bra from behind while trying to stay on the top of her game. She however continued and finished her catwalk like a pro with one of her hands holding tight to the bra stripes  as she smiled to the end of the runway and back. [Read More]

Daniel Hale Williams (Heart Surgeon)

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  273 words  |  Martina Birk

Profession: Heart Surgeon Biography: Daniel Hale Williams was an American surgeon best remembered for performing one of the world's first successful open-heart surgeries. He pursued a career in medicine at a time when opportunities were limited for African Americans and earned his medical degree from Chicago Medical College in 1883. Recognizing the lack of hospital access for African American residents in Chicago, Williams founded Provident Hospital and Training School in 1891, the first non-segregated hospital in the United States, which also provided nursing opportunities for African American women. [Read More]

Detroit's Satanic Statue Has A Political Point to Make

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  954 words  |  Billy Koelling

A little before midnight on Saturday, a crowd of around 700 gathered in an old industrial warehouse a few blocks from the Detroit River for what they’d been told was the “largest public satanic ceremony in history.” Most of them professed to be adherents of Satanism, that loosely organized squad of the occult that defines itself as a religious group. Others came simply because they were curious. After all, Satanists exist in the popular psyche as those who casually sacrifice goats and impregnate Mia Farrow with Lucifer’s child; if this ceremony was indeed unprecedentedly big, who knew what could be in store? [Read More]