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☆ 'The Vince Staples Show' feels like an appetizer that only scratches the surface
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Sowmya Krishnamurthy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"The Vince Staples Show" is a semi-autobiographical series featuring the rapper navigating life in Long Beach. "The Vince Staples Show" opens with this disclaimer. Each episode lacks enough time to give viewers what they really want"The Vince Staples Show" episode 5, season 1. Staples shines when it appears he's being himselfIn "The Vince Staples Show," season 1, episode 2, Staples recognizes the bank robber as one of his friends. "The Vince Staples Show" is a limited-run five-episode series that may very well be a teaser to gauge response before Netflix commits to more episodes.

Persons: Vince Staples, Staples, —, Netflix Staples, Kenya Barris, Ian Edelman, Ramona, serendipitously, Andrea Ellsworth, Anita, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Rick Ross, he's, George Clooney, Queen Latifah Organizations: Service, Netflix Locations: Long Beach, Long Beach , California, America, Long, Staples

☆ Lolita style, explained: Why the Japanese-born, Victorian-inspired street style enchants women around the world
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Her youthful obsession realized in front of her, Ella was inspired to buy her first piece of Lolita fashion in 2015, from the popular Lolita e-tailer Angel Pretty. While Lolita style is named after Vladimir Nabokov’s eponymous teen in the controversial 1955 novel, the overlap ends there. Even 1950s-style American prom dresses, with their extravagant skirts and bodices, influence contemporary Lolita fashion, he said. The skirt's fullness, achieved through the use of a petticoat, is a key characteristic of Lolita fashion. Ella says her personal Lolita style is a blend of classic and sweet, with a healthy dose of prints and patterns.

Persons: Ella hadn’t, waltzed, ”, Ella, Lauren, Shelby Knowles, Pretty, ” —, She’s, it’s, Michelle Liu Carriger, Bianca, Kandace, Vladimir Nabokov’s, Masafumi, Monden, accessorized, Lolitas, Marie Antoinette, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, ” Monden, ” Liu Carriger, lacy Lolita, Kei, don’t, Liu Carriger, Nghi, Mary, Jane heels, substyles Organizations: CNN, American, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, Television, University of Sydney, New, Asahi Shimbun, Pink House Locations: California’s Bay, Japan, America, San Francisco , California, US, Oakland , California, Australia, British, Otaru, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Lolitas, California

☆ Fresh from a murder sentence, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is becoming the internet's favorite influencer
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The 32-year-old was recently released from prison after eight years for orchestrating the murder of her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard. Where Gypsy Rose Blanchard's story beganDee Dee Blanchard and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. AdvertisementBehind closed doors Dee Dee was overbearing, but to the outside world, it was a different story. She was also a lot older than Dee Dee was telling people she was. In one with People after her release, she said killing Dee Dee was an act of "panic" and "desperation" because she was facing yet another surgery.

Persons: —, Rose Blanchard, Dee Dee, Blanchard, Blanchard shouldn't, Elizabeth Holmes, Nina Vargas, Dee Dee Blanchard, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Joey King, Patricia Arquette, Dee Dee's, Nicholas Godejohn, Dee, Godejohn, I'm, Blanchard hasn't, She's, Claudia Oshry, Time's, Amanda Hirsch, notskinnybutnotfat, Ryan Anderson, Vargas, Jamie McCarthy, TikTok, Jessica Maddox, she's, Maddox Organizations: Service, Business, ABC News, Police, Getty, The University of Alabama Locations: Missouri, Dee, TikTok

☆ John Mellencamp Just Might Punch You
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Rob Tannenbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’m not a nostalgic person, but I can tell when I play it for the audience that they are. I could do a whole show of hits if I wanted to, but I don’t. I don’t know if that girl made it home, so I wrote a song about her. Bob and I were painting together one day, and I asked him how he wrote so many great songs. In all seriousness, he said, “John, I’ve written the same four [expletive] songs a million times.” I’m going to get in line with Bob on that.

Persons: “, ”, ” Jack, Diane, you’re, Bob Dylan, “ John, I’ve, ” I’m, Bob, It’s Organizations: America Locations: America, Portland

☆ Don't bother writing a 'love letter' to home sellers. They're a waste of time and someone could get screwed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Aj Latrace | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Moved by the note, dubbed a "love letter" in real-estate parlance, Byington decided to sell the house to her. Elizabeth Scire's "Barbie House" love letter to the seller. EtsyLove letters risk discriminationDeeply personal and emotionally written love letters, however, open sellers and their agents up to legal risks. In a 2020 blog post, the National Association of Realtors said love letters would be more accurately described as "liability letters." In September 2021, Oregon became the first state to enact a law that banned the practice of writing or sharing real-estate love letters during the homebuying process.

The former Jackson Women’s Health Organization will become a luxury consignment shop called Hunt, owner David Carpenter said this week. Carpenter purchased the pink-stucco building known as the Pink House shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Las Cruces Women’s Health Organization has been nicknamed the Pink House West in a nod to the Jackson clinic. Carpenter said he bought the Jackson building in July from a local developer who had purchased the property from Derzis. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization opened in 1995.

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In cursive script, another vowed: “This is not the end.”Wednesday was the last day the Jackson Women’s Health Organization was legally allowed to perform abortions in Mississippi. Mississippi’s trigger law gave the Jackson Women’s Health Organization a 10-day window to continue operations after state Attorney General Lynn Fitch certified the Supreme Court’s ruling. Diane Derzis, owner of the Jackson Women's Health Organization, at a news conference on June 24. She fears that the fall of abortion rights, coupled with health care shortages in Mississippi’s poorest rural communities, will cost lives. “What we are is very grateful.”But he expressed doubt that Wednesday would be the final chapter in the fight over abortion rights in Mississippi — and the nation.

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