I’m turning forty at the start of November. Lately, I’ve been thinking about what this birthday means to me. A lot of what’s happened in the past fifteen years of my life has culminated in a search for understanding. In those years, I’ve found myself grappling with what it means to be so in my […]
Picture narrow, cobbled streets. Locals are chatting, with some rushing to get a headstart on the day’s errands, and colorful fabrics float around shop doors. The air is filled with the scent of spices and freshly baked bread. If you listen carefully past all the bustle in and around Jerusalem’s Old City—where I grew up […]
Lee wasn’t as big of a star in 2017, especially not outside of Asia, so it’s unsurprising that the tone of the first two sequels toggle wildly between unfortunately broad police comedy and bloody, generic crime drama. Somehow, each new “The Roundup” installment has simultaneously relied more on Lee’s presence and less on his gifts. […]
The Caribbean island nation continues to endure extreme insecurity, with widespread and incessant violence as rival gangs fight each other and the police for control of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The violence, which includes kidnapping for ransom, is playing out against a backdrop of political and economic crises as well as poverty and underdevelopment. Chantale Valcourt […]
Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, the Spiritual Leader of the Igbo Nation, has vehemently condemned the remarks made by Engr. David Umahi, Minister of Works. Umahi had alleged that Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party and a prominent opposition leader, was inciting the Igbo against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Obi had previously criticized […]
Politics / April 30, 2024 While we cannot change the world with dreams alone, moral ideas can inspire people to come together and change their societies for the better. Ad Policy John Rawls in 1987. (Frederic Reglain / Gammo-Rapho via Getty Images) From Free and Equal © 2024 by Daniel Chandler. Adapted by permission of […]
MMA star Christian Eckerlin battered his opponent on the way to sealing his dream fight at Eintracht Frankfurt’s stadium. Eckerlin played against Germany World Cup winners like Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mats Hummels at youth level. 1 MMA star Christian Eckerlin battered his opponent Miroslav Broz But he left behind a professional football career in the […]
A flyer who plead guilty to interfering with a flight crew will be on the hook for paying United Airlines for diverting his flight from the U.K. to Newark after threatening to “mess up the plane.” A British national who has been held in custody since his arrest in the U.S. will be responsible for […]
It’s been 30 years since Alex Proyas’ dark superhero film, The Crow, first arrived. To mark the occasion, the film is coming back to theaters for two nights only. The theatrical re-release arrives as part of the “Scream Greats Series” by Paramount Scares and Fangoria. Specifically, The Crow will be shown at participating Cinemark locations […]
“There is no doubt that after decades of what has been called ‘development’, the world is in crisis – systemic, multiple, and asymmetrical; long in the making, it now extends across all continents” (Acosta et al., 2019, p. xxi). Understanding apocalypse as a revelatory state of crisis (Williams, 2011), far from anticipating a future apocalypse, […]
