August 2019

Constance Wu Addresses ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ Twitter ‘Fiasco’: ‘I Can Be Dramatic’

Entertainment /

Constance Wu has further explained what she was feeling when she tweeted an eyebrow-raising reaction to some seemingly good news earlier this year. In May, the actor took to social media to express disappointment over the renewal of the TV series “Fresh Off The Boat,” in which she stars as Jessica Huang. She apologized after […]

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Teammates mourn slayings of pitcher’s family in Va. town

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Blake Bivens was inconsolable as the 24-year-old minor league pitcher flew from a road trip back to southern Virginia, where his wife, 1-year-old son and mother-in-law were slain. “It was awful,” said Montgomery Biscuits manager Morgan Ensberg, who traveled with Bivens on Tuesday. “Blake is an incredibly strong man. He’s an incredibly strong man, and

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Uproar Over Anti-Semitic Video Produced by Republicans in N.Y. County

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The video ends by urging viewers, in large capital letters to “TAKE BACK CONTROL.” After the video was taken down, Lawrence Garvey, the Rockland County Republican Party chairman, defended it in a statement. “Regardless of your thoughts of the video, there are facts that cannot be ignored,” he said. “This is not, nor has it

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Here’s What Is Leaving And Arriving On Netflix In September 2019

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Here’s What Is Leaving And Arriving On Netflix In September 2019 | HuffPost Life Part of HuffPost Home & Living. ©2019 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. A guide to conquering peak TV Netflix adds a few noteworthy shows and movies in September. On Sept. 1, movies such as “American Psycho,” “Mystic River,” “Stripes” and “Superbad”

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‘We live in LS Lowry’s house… he might not approve of the colour scheme’

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Image caption Steve and Abigail Johnson are deciding whether to make the new plaque permanent The Salford house where LS Lowry painted many of his famous works has been recreated for a film about the artist’s life, starring Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave. But what’s it like to live in the original? Lots of the

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Fuse ODG: ‘Why we must reject narratives portraying Africans as inferior’

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Ghanaian Afrobeat star Fuse ODG says Africans must reject tired narratives portraying them as ”inferior”. Fuse ODG, who grew up in both the UK and Ghana, also accuses the Western media of presenting Africa as ”poverty stricken”, with ”kids with flies around their mouths”. The singer told BBC What’s New? he thinks change should come

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Labor Day Art Guide: Summer Shows to See Before They Close

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‘BRAZILIAN MODERN: THE LIVING ART OF ROBERTO BURLE MARX’ at the New York Botanical Garden (through Sept. 29). The garden’s largest-ever botanical exhibition pays tribute to Brazil’s most renowned landscape architect with lush palm trees and vivid plants, along with a display of paintings and tapestries. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Marx (1909-94)

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