Donald Trump just hired one of the country’s top trial attorneys, Joe Tacopina, to go after a former Manhattan prosecutor for allegedly defaming him, TMZ has learned. In his first order of biz as 45’s new legal eagle, Tacopina fired off a letter Monday to lawyer Mark Pomerantz, claiming Pomerantz falsely stated Trump was “guilty
Month: February 2023
A stalker who just won’t quit has gotten arrested again … outside Kelly Clarkson‘s house, and there’s a pattern with this one that is bizarre and alarming. Huguette Nicole Young was arrested Wednesday night outside Kelly’s San Fernando Valley home. Kelly already got a temporary restraining order against her and a permanent one as well,
Drake‘s Los Angeles mansion came under attack after a man allegedly broke in, alerting the rapper’s security, who in turn called the cops. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, officers responded Thursday night to Drake’s home after his security reported seeing an unknown man leaving the house — carrying something in the process. Play video content
R. Kelly is no longer facing sex-abuse charges in Chicago, where a prosecutor’s decided to drop several pending charges, but that news isn’t swinging his mood … the singer still has plenty of other troubles. Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, tells us she spoke with Kelly after Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced she no
Joe Mixon is in the clear in his aggravated menacing case — at least, for now — prosecutors dismissed the charge against the Cincinnati Bengals star on Friday … though there is still a chance they could re-file it at a later date. Officials from the Cincinnati City Prosecutor’s Office asked a judge to sign
The Santa Fe County D.A. has gotta be a little embarrassed today … dropping a key charge against Alec Baldwin that now means even if convicted he might not spend any time behind bars. The D.A. dropped the gun enhancement charge in the case … this after Baldwin’s lawyer filed a motion excoriating prosecutors for
Towards the beginning of the pandemic I watched my first K-drama (Romance Is a Bonus Book) and immediately understood the obsession. Since then I have purchased the Viki app and inhaled as many Asian TV shows and movies as time will permit, which recently brought me to Hotel del Luna (streaming on Viki and Netflix).
Dungeons & Dragons is the most popular fantasy tabletop roleplaying game in the world. It allows players to escape into new, exciting worlds with limitless possibilities. And in a world where many adults are not regularly encouraged to use their imaginations, D&D gives everyone, regardless of age, a chance to play and imagine. The game
Libraries are essential to bookworms. Aside from free access to books, they act as community centers and safe spaces for many who crave for quiet refuge for reading and other educational activities. But as much as they are a lifesaver, libraries are affected by budget cuts and librarian salary slashes, which greatly diminishes the services
Sydney, as a city, LOVES to party – especially during Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. This year, the party is even bigger as Sydney hosts WorldPride 2023. I honestly don’t know how the city is going to contain itself. Official celebrations began on 17 February, with theatre performances, storytelling sessions, art workshops, and photographic
Octavia’s Bookshelf owner Nikki High had hoped that the opening of her new bookstore focusing on books by Black, Indigenous, and people of color authors would be attended by 20-30 people. Instead, by the time the doors opened February 18th, there were hundreds of people lined up for ten blocks to get in. 300 people
The publisher Puffin has removed or changed hundreds of words in Roald Dahl’s books in new editions to “modernize” them, including Augustus Gloop being described as “enormous” instead of “fat,” Mrs Twits no longer being called “ugly,” “female” being changed to “woman,” Oompa Loompas described as “small people” instead of “small men,” and a line
The New York Times has a history of opining on the side of the oppressor. This is not my opinion, nor is it based on feelings, but is a fact. In 1922, they published their first article about Adolph Hitler, in which they fawned over his “uncanny control over audiences” and claimed that his antisemitism
If you’d told me back in the early 1990s (my, um, experimental college days) that a few decades hence bookstores would be selling cannabis cookbooks, I wouldn’t have believed you. But here we are, and hallelujah. In Sugar High: 50 Recipes for Cannabis Desserts, Chris Sayegh first delivers a primer on cannabis—quite necessarily, as uniformed
In a note included with advance copies of Gillian McDunn’s fifth novel, the middle grade author shares that When Sea Becomes Sky is her “once-in-a-lifetime-book.” It is an undeniably beautiful story made for pondering and revisiting, and a tale that readers will surely treasure. It’s been almost a year since rain fell on Pelican Island,
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway call their deeply researched new book, The Big Myth, “the true history of a false idea.” The false idea in question is not really a single idea but rather many connected assertions, promoted throughout the 20th century, that have gelled into the “quasi-religious belief that the best way to
In Will Schwalbe’s memoir We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship, the wry writer of books-about-books (see The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living) turns his attention to an unexpected friendship that originated in a secret society at Yale. Unlike any secret society I’ve heard of, this one
Behaviors and beliefs are often perpetuated throughout families, when what we learned as children continues to show up in our families and relationships as adults. Sometimes these behaviors stem from childhood wounds that have led to negative repeating patterns. In The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and
Anya is about to become a Moth Keeper, a guardian tasked with protecting the Moon-Moths. According to the lore in Anya’s desert village, the moths were a gift from the Moon-Spirit, who wished to show her gratitude for the villagers’ choice to forswear daylight. Instead, they live their waking hours at night so the Moon-Spirit
Michelle Obama will be the first to admit she is as fallible as anybody else, but she does have a lot of this life stuff figured out. The thoughtful way in which she presents her myriad experiences is what makes her second book, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times (10 hours), such a
To continue in the face of doubt and despair, three women draw on their Christian faith in these immersive historical novels. Code Name Edelweiss Stephanie Landsem’s transfixing Code Name Edelweiss is peppered with rich descriptions of Los Angeles in 1933. Amid widespread unemployment and poverty, few people in LA are fully aware of the growing
In Rebecca Makkai’s engrossing novel I Have Some Questions for You, a successful podcaster and film critic takes a job at a New Hampshire boarding school where, 23 years ago, a white female student named Thalia Keith was murdered. The school’s athletic trainer, a Black man named Omar Evans, was convicted of the crime and
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. If you’re looking for quiet desperation in modern-day America, you’d be hard-pressed for a better place to find it than the “dubiously named” Oasis Mobile Estates in Riverside County, California, the setting of Asale Angel-Ajani’s debut novel, A Country You
Many Miles Away have just released their second single “Get It Back†off their soon to be available self-titled debut album. Many Miles Away is a fearless adventure and collaboration of two unique singers, songwriters, musicians fulfilling their exclusive destinies. There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm and Michael Shapiro and Miles Schon push open
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Television†on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, February 21st, at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on
Tommy Howell’s American Storyteller is a throwback in the best possible way. The actor known as C. Thomas Howell has taken on a different moniker for his debut musical collection, but the same guy shines through. Onetime rodeo star and son of a famed stuntman, Howell’s love for roots music comes through during each of the
The Atlanta DreamFest Artists Against Bullying Concert, starring “That Girl Lay Lay†to take place on Saturday February 18th, 2023, at the Gateway Center Arena, College Park, Georgia. Joining TV personality “That Girl Lay Lay†are Nickelodeon’s Young Dylan, and artists/rappers KD Da Kid, The Wicker Twins and Kylie Marshall. In addition to a day
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