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☆ ‘Australia’s Bigfoot’ watched over the small town of Kilcoy for decades. Then one day, it disappeared
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-24 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Kilcoy, Australia CNN —The small town of Kilcoy is not the site of the first, or even the most recent, “Yowie” sighting. The town of Kilcoy is about an hour's drive north of Brisbane in the state of Queensland. “I was walking towards the front door in the dark, and there was this awful noise coming from the swamp just beyond the fence,” he told CNN. “You’d nearly say it’d have to be out-of-towners,” Lehmann told CNN at the time. “It’s just the number of these bloody stories you hear,” he told CNN.

Persons: Tony Solano, he’ll, ”, Solano, Kilcoy, —, Dean Harrison, Harrison, he’s, Harrison’s, “, ” Harrison, Yowies, Dean Harrison's, didn’t, who’ve, Graeme Lehmann —, You’d, ” Lehmann, that’s, ” John McAulay, He’s, “ It’s, Bill, ” McAulay, Bill McAulay, Yowie, Joanne Kunde, Hilary Whiteman, Tony Morgan wasn’t, Uncle Willie Mackenzie, Lindsey Winterbotham, Willie, Jacqui Kina, Jason Wendt, CNN “ It’s, Wendt, who’s, ” Wendt, David Joffe, Natureworks, Joffe, he’d, It’s, Hillary Whiteman, CNN Solano, Warren Christensen, Christensen, ’ ”, ” Solano, hasn’t Organizations: Australia CNN, Sasquatch, Research, CNN, of Fame, Coff, Yowies, football, . New Somerset, “ Locations: Kilcoy, Australia, It’s, Solano, Brisbane, Queensland, Sandy, Yowie Park, United States, Canada, Hibagon, Japan, Yeren, China, Ormeau, Kilkivan, Somerset, what’s, Yowie, . New

☆ The 13 best shows and movies to stream this weekend, from Kevin Costner's western drama to the new season of 'Pachinko'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Movies like "Horizon: An American Saga," "Sasquatch Sunset," and "Hell Hole" are newly streaming. Docs including "Untold: The Murder of Air McNair" and "Secret Lives of Orangutans" are out, too. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy .

Persons: Air McNair, —, Kevin Costner's, John Woo's, Scott Peterson, David Attenborough Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Fun or frightening? A brief history of Olympic mascot design
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images Merchandise featuring Beijing mascot Bing Dwen Dwen, the 2022 Winter Olympics mascot, has been extremely popular. MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Rio 2016 Olympic mascot Vinicius was selected four years before the Games kicked off. Rudi Blaha/AP Syd the platypus, Millie the echidna and Olly the kookaburra, helped represent the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Amicar de Leon/AP The Albertville Olympic Games in 1992 was cheered on by a star-shaped gnome-looking character. International Olympic Committee In pictures: Olympic Mascot History Prev NextTo find a worthy representative, each host country will typically organize a submission call-out or contest.

Persons: snowmen, Aline Lafargue, “, Lafargue, Stephane De Sakutin, Bing Dwen Dwen, Lintao Zhang, Maja Hitij, MARTIN BERNETTI, Vinicius, Alex Ferro, Andrej Isakovic, Mo Farah, Adrian Dennis, Jeff Vinnick, Amy Sancetta, Michael Sohn, Rudi Blaha, Syd, Olly, Claro, Eric Draper, Izzy Whatizit, Ross Kinnaird, Michel Euler, Amicar de Leon, Nicolas Le Corre, David Cannon, Sam, Eagle, Tony Duffy, Howdy, Dieter Endlicher, Misha, Armin Weigel, AP Shuss, Iris, ”, Millie Organizations: CNN, Olympic Games, International Olympic Committee, Grenoble Winter, Getty, Tokyo, Games, Reuters, Sochi, Getty Images Beijing, Winter Games, Sydney, Lillehammer Games, Albertville Olympic, Disney, International Olympic, Moscow's, AP, Dachshund, Olympics, Olympic, International, Sochi Winter Games, Angeles Summer, London Games, Soyuz Locations: France, Paris, AFP, Beijing, Vancouver, Canada, China, Turin, Italy, Athens, Salt Lake, Snowbasin , Utah, Claro Cortes, Japan, EMPICS, Barcelona, Barcelona's Port, South Korea, Sarajevo's Yugoslavia, Calgary , Alberta, Lake Placid, Munich, Innsbruck, Kitzbuhel, Austria, Algonquin, Russia, Sydney, Australia

An earthquake and an eclipse weren’t the only natural rarities that happened in New York City this past week. Did you hear about the sasquatch in Central Park? That’s because the sasquatch was a costume and his stroll through the park was a publicity push for the new film from the brothers David and Nathan Zellner. Opening in New York on Friday, the movie spends a year in the wild with a sasquatch pack — a male and female (Nathan Zellner and Riley Keough) and two younger sasquatches (Jesse Eisenberg and Christophe Zajac-Denek) — as they eat, have sex, fight predators and reckon with death. Droll but big-hearted, the movie sits at the intersection of the ad campaign for Jack Link’s beef jerky, the 1987 comedy “Harry and the Hendersons” and a 1970s nature documentary, down to the hippie-vibe soundtrack.

Persons: David, Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough, sasquatches, Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac, Jack Link’s, Harry Locations: New York City, Central Park, New York

☆ Can Minor League Baseball Survive Its Real Estate Problems?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-07 | by ( Mary Pilon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ed Willson has a jar filled with dirt sitting on his desk. For more than 40 years, Mr. Willson has been a fan of the minor league baseball team in Eugene, Ore., the Emeralds, and a season-ticket holder for 22 seasons. “It was a serious heartbreak,” Mr. Willson said. After the fire, Mr. Willson made a pilgrimage to the scorched diamond, where he filled a plastic bag with dirt from the pitcher’s mound that he considered sacred. Nine years later, the dirt is still on Mr. Willson’s desk.

Persons: Ed Willson, Willson, ” Mr Organizations: Emeralds, Civic, Major League Baseball’s Locations: Eugene ,

☆ Thursday in the Park With Bigfoot
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you were near the Ramble in Central Park on Thursday afternoon, you might have thought you were in a “Planet of the Apes”-themed episode of “What Would You Do?”Because you may have witnessed a 6-foot-7 longhaired sasquatch slowly traversing tall rocks and promenading through thickets, grunting at the sky and scaring children and dogs silly. But what you saw wasn’t Bigfoot. The sasquatch sighting was a gorilla — sorry, guerrilla — publicity effort for “Sasquatch Sunset,” a new film directed by the brothers David and Nathan Zellner that opens in New York on April 12. Conceptually, the promotional shenanigans in Central Park were in line with the film’s irreverent sensibility. A mix of bro comedy, National Geographic documentary and emotional family drama, it stars Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg as members of a pack of kind-eyed sasquatches who brave life and death in the wilderness.

Persons: David, Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg Organizations: Geographic Locations: Central Park, New York

☆ How to Hunt the Sasquatch
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Virginia Heffernan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE SECRET HISTORY OF BIGFOOT: Field Notes on a North American Monster, by John O’ConnorWhy do Americans need Bigfoot? This question propels John O’Connor’s “Secret History of Bigfoot,” a farrago of participatory journalism, anthropological speculation, pop-culture parentheticals and broadsides against Donald Trump that often seems stuck together by sap and tar. Officially O’Connor was seeking Bigfoot — or at least the enduring wellspring of faith in Bigfoot, which struck him as just as elusive. Like a forty-niner cutting ties with the uptight Victorians, O’Connor sought instead “wild places” where men are men, go unmasked and hope for moral redemption by Sasquatch. A stay-at-home dad in Cambridge, Mass., he became, during lockdown, a literal stay-at-home dad.

Persons: John O’Connor, John O’Connor’s, Donald Trump, O’Connor, Covid, “ wokesters, irked, he’s, ” Locations: American, Antarctica, O’Connor, Cambridge, Washington, Boston

☆ Sundance Diary: Buoy Meets Satellite
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The third wild film I saw at the Eccles on Friday was “Sasquatch Sunset,” a wordless comedy that follows a quartet of grunting Bigfoots as they trek through the forest for a year. Two of the Sasquatches are played, under heavy prosthetics, by Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, though you’d never know it was them unless you were told beforehand. (Well, maybe some people could clock Eisenberg as the most high-strung Bigfoot, if forced to grade these performances on a sliding sasquatch scale.) What starts off as slapstick becomes weirdly moving as we watch some of the sasquatches succumb to natural disasters. In the ’90s, every independent filmmaker dreamed of launching their career at this festival as the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh had.

Persons: grunting Bigfoots, Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, you’d, Eisenberg, Keough, ” Keough, Jan, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, ” Kristen Stewart, Steven Yeun, I’m Organizations: Sundance Film, Sundance, Girls, Apple, Boys State Locations: Eccles, Park City , Utah

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Jesse Eisenberg had not seen “Succession” when he was writing his new film “A Real Pain.” But his sister Hallie Eisenberg knew from years of watching Roman Roy that Kieran Culkin would be perfect. Eisenberg had wanted to play the spontaneous one, which was similar to a character he'd played on stage in “The Spoils” in England. They’d met previously through their mutual friend Emma Stone, who also produced “A Real Pain,” but he really didn’t know him well. His hope is that “A Real Pain” speaks to a cross-cultural, universal experience — though he’s also worried that sounds too much like a commercial. In addition to trying to sell “A Real Pain,” Eisenberg is also starring in “Sasquatch Sunset,” about a family of Sasquatches.

Persons: — Jesse Eisenberg, Hallie Eisenberg, Roman Roy, Kieran Culkin, They’re, Eisenberg, he'd, Culkin, They’d, Emma Stone, he’d, ” Culkin, ” Eisenberg, Kieran, flummoxed, ”, “ sparkled, “, Vanessa Redgrave, Ewa Puszczynska, “ White, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, he’s, It’s, Kristen Stewart, He’s, ’ ” Stewart, Jesse Organizations: Sundance, “, Tablet Magazine, Jewish Locations: CITY , Utah, Poland, England, Mongolia, Polish, legitimizing, Winnipeg, Eisenberg

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. (AP) — Trying to upset President Joe Biden in New Hampshire's primary, Democratic challenger Dean Phillips is running a TV ad across the state comparing him to Bigfoot — the argument being both are hard to find. "So I challenged myself to find President Biden in New Hampshire during this primary season. He pushed through Democratic rule changes that prioritized voters of color, deemphasizing New Hampshire's primary. But New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley, who once warned that the new calendar meant a major Democratic challenger could embarrass Biden, now says his write-in campaign should easily prevail. That means Biden supporters could vote in the Republican primary, where Trump and former U.N.

Persons: Joe Biden, Dean Phillips, Biden, ” Biden, —, Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Donald Trump, Trump, There’s, ”, Angela Brennan, ” Phillips, Andrew Yang, Yang, cued, Yang wasn’t, “, it’s, ’, Biden “, Peter Leishman, ” Leishman, Ray Buckley, ” Buckley, Williamson, trumpeting Biden, Kathy Sullivan, “ I’ve, ” Sullivan, ” Ellen Lavoie Cooke, “ I’m, Desmond Kager, I’ll, Nikki Haley, Tracy Moloney, she'd, he's, Moloney, Rodrigue Ngowi Organizations: Democratic, Dartmouth, Trump, White, New Hampshire Democratic, New Hampshire, Democratic Party, New, AFL, Granite, New Hampshire Democrats, Social, Biden, Republicans, Republican, GOP, Dartmouth College Locations: PETERBOROUGH, N.H, New, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Hampshire, Peterborough, Portsmouth, America, Dover, American, Plymouth, ”, Portsmouth , New Hampshire

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember the feeling of being the new kids at the Sundance Film Festival. “I remember being like, oh my God, this festival has been around 20 years, it’s such an old festival,” Boden said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. Their new film debuts Thursday, opening night of the 40th edition of the festival, at the storied Eccles Theater. “My favorite films are Sundance films,” Kaphar said. “That is really nourishing in a year when we’re acknowledging and marking this 40th edition of Sundance.”The Sundance Film Festival runs from Jan. 18 through Jan. 28.

Persons: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, they’d, Ryan Gosling, “, ” Boden, Kevin Smith, brough, ”, Steven Soderbergh, — Boden, Fleck, Marvel, dulled, Fleck’s, Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis, Dominique Thorne, Ben Mendelsohn, Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine’s “, Frida, Carla Gutiérrez, Gutiérrez, Frida Kahlo, ” Gutiérrez, “ Sue Bird, “ DEVO, Christopher Reeve, ” “, Mavis Beacon, Harper, Will Ferrell, Kristen Stewart, Saoirse Ronan, Kieran Culkin, Sebastian Stan, Glen Powell, Woody Harrelson, Steven Yeun, Lucy Liu, Danielle Deadwyler, Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Barrera, Laura Linney, Ejiofor, “ Rob Peace, Jay Will, Mary J, Blige, Camila Cabello, “ I’ve, ” Ejiofor, Debra Granik, Richard Linklater, Titus Kaphar, André Holland, Aunjanue Ellis, Taylor, Kaphar, John Earl Jelks, ” Kaphar, … it’s, Jesse Eisenberg, he’s, Culkin, ” Eisenberg, Eisenberg, David, Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough, Robert Redford, Joel, Ethan Coen’s, Jordan Peele’s “, Damien Chazelle’s, Eugene Hernandez, ” Hernandez Organizations: Sundance Film, Associated Press, Sundance, Eccles Theater, Amanda McBaine’s “ Girls, MacArthur, Sundance ., Eccles Locations: Park City , Utah, Brooklyn, ”, Park City, Eccles, Oakland, U.S, East Orange , New Jersey, American, Poland, Jan

NEW YORK (AP) — When Paul Giamatti made “Sideways” with Alexander Payne, he stayed in a little house in the middle of a large vineyard. I told David Hemingson: We’re writing for Paul Giamatti." “He’s just the best actor,” Payne adds. Twenty years ago, Giamatti was surprisingly passed over for an Oscar nomination for “Sideways.” This time, many are predicting he’ll receive his first Academy Award nomination for best actor. If the movie does, if (Randolph) does, if Hemingson does or Alexander does — it’d be great if somebody does."

Persons: Paul Giamatti, Alexander Payne, Giamatti, Alexander, ‘, ’ ”, Thomas Hayden, ”, John Adams ”, Jerry Heller, he’s, Payne, —, Paul Hunham, who’s, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ” Giamatti, “, Giamatti’s, Miles Raymond of “, grouch, “ He’s, He’s, ” Payne, David Hemingson, “ I’ve, aspersions, Paul, Bartlett Giamatti, Toni, Choate, You’ll, Miles, Sessa, wouldn’t, I’m, Randolph, Stephen Asma, cackling, ’ I’m Organizations: Thomas Hayden Church, Yale, Major League Baseball, Hopkins School Locations: Napa Valley, Manhattan, California, New England, Haven , Connecticut

☆ Fact Check-1883 ‘photograph’ of bigfoot or sasquatch is AI-generated
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image generated using artificial intelligence showing a man standing next to a tall hairy creature was falsely shared on social media as photographic proof that the bigfoot or sasquatch is real. “BIGFOOT OR SASQUATCH This photograph, taken in 1883 this year on Okey Mountain, Cleburne County, Alabama USA, was found buried in a glass jar on the family estate,” reads a tweet sharing the image (here) (archive.is/nyUxR). It was shared on Facebook as well (here), (here). Image does not show an authentic photograph of a bigfoot or sasquatch, it is AI-generated. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Dan Lyle, Read Organizations: Cleburne County , Alabama USA, Facebook, Reuters Locations: Cleburne County , Alabama

☆ Three Years Into Covid, We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About It
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Jon Mooallem | Photographs Ashley Gilbertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +53 min

It will play out and reverberate for years or decades, Hagen told me. “The pathological normal,” Hagen calls it: a patchwork of homespun, bespoke realities, each one invested in a different story about what exactly happened when Covid ruptured the story of our lives. garb.”More than once, life seemed to be attaining “an uncanny resemblance to normal life,” as one man put it. But because we don’t totally understand where that experience has delivered us, we don’t know the right gloss to give it. “The days are strange,” one public-school teacher told Milstein toward the end of his first interview, in May 2020.

☆ Apple a publicat topul celor mai populare jocuri pentru iPhone, iPad și Mac în 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-06 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Platforma iOS este recunoscută pentru unele dintre cele mai bune jocuri de mobil și pentru locul unde de obicei apar cel mai repede multe dintre jocurile de top. Anul acesta, Apple a premiat unele dintre cele mai populare jocuri de pe iPhone, iPad, dar și platformele Mac și Apple TV. # Cele mai bune jocuri de pe App Store în 2020Cel mai bun joc pentru iPhone în 2020: Genshin ImpactCel mai bun joc pentru iPad în 2020: Legends of RuneterraCel mai bun joc pentru Mac în 2020: Disco ElysiumCel mai bun joc pentru Apple TV în 2020: Dandara Trials of FearCel mai bun joc de pe Apple Arcade în 2020: Sneaky Sasquatch# Top 20 jocuri gratuite pentru iPhoneAmong Us! Call of Duty: MobileRobloxSubway SurfersInk Inc.Magic Tiles 3Brain Test: Tricky PuzzlesBrain OutCoin MasterCube Surfer! # Top 20 jocuri plătite pentru iPhoneMinecraftPlague Inc.Heats Up!

Persons: Anul, și, Mac, Trigger, Uno, San Andreas The, Go Bloons Organizations: mobil, Apple, și Apple, Dandara, Ink Inc, Monopoly Bloons, San, Inc, Arcadia

☆ (foto) Harta creaturilor mitice atribuite fiecărei țări. Care dintre ele este reprezentativă pentru Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-26 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

(foto) Harta creaturilor mitice atribuite fiecărei țări. Care dintre ele este reprezentativă pentru MoldovaCompania de servicii financiare CashNetUSA a realizat o hartă mondială cu creaturi mitice din foarte multe țări și, potrivit acesteia, reprezentativ pentru România și Moldova este balaurul. În Bulgaria, Ucraina, Rusia și Polonia a fost selectată Baba Iaga. Spaniolii se tem, noaptea, de El Coco, iar pentru Canada a fost ales wendigo, transmite cashnetusa.com. Potrivit autorilor, harta a fost realizată pe baza mai multor surse, printre care cartea Monsters and Mythical Creatures From Around the World.

Persons: Iaga, El Coco, Vampirul, . Balaurul Locations: Moldova, România, Statele Unite, Bulgaria, Ucraina, Rusia, Polonia, Canada, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia de Nord, Italia, Elveția

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