The budding bromance between Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed is about to become a friendly rivalry. Ahead of this weekend’s big game, the streaming duo is leading a celebrity-filled roster for the Super Bowl LIX Flag Football Game, streaming live exclusively on YouTube. Taking place on Saturday, Feb. 8 at 9:00 …
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On Jan. 26, this year’s Dia de los Reyes celebration on Cherokee Street in St. Louis bustled with people happy for sunshine. After weeks of brutal snow, the event, put on by local Latino community organizers, featured taco tents and tables full of free coats, shoes, and blankets. Kids ran …
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A fter 40 years in Hollywood, Ke Huy Quan is no stranger to getting knocked around, literally and figuratively. He burst into the pop-culture consciousness in 1984 as the adorable young sidekick Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It was a pure accident — he’d accompanied …
Read More »How G2 Esports Created a Decade-Long Pro Gaming Dynasty
Tucked away amid an unassuming mix of mid-rise office buildings in a quiet part of Berlin is an entire floor that serves as the headquarters for one of the world’s biggest professional gaming organizations — G2 Esports. It has a practice room made to look like a tournament stage, production …
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Sarah has considered what she would do if a mass shooter entered the high school where she teaches. The Career and Technical Education teacher, whose name has been changed for privacy, says she would barricade her classroom door, turn off the lights, and instruct her students to hide. Those are …
Read More »'Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2' Is a Complex Yet Frustrating Medieval Simulator
Imagine The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim if all the magic and flying dragons were taken out. It would lose its fantasy flair and the player would just be a person walking around in an European-influenced setting. With no dragons around, the land is suddenly more peaceful without the fear of …
Read More »How a TikTok Code Word Is Exposing the Limits of Online Organizing
“Cute winter boots.” “Where to find cute winter boots.” “Have you seen my cute winter boots?” In the weeks following Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, the phrase has dominated many For You pages on TikTok. But the expression isn’t about creators shopping for lace-up or nonslip footwear options …
Read More »Welcome to HillmanTok University, the Digital HBCU Inspired by 'A Different World'
On Jan. 20 , Dr. Leah Barlow, a professor at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, recorded a welcome video for her Intro to African American Studies students. In an almost three-minute post, Dr. Barlow introduced herself and her class’s first assignments. “The way that I teach this class …
Read More »Basketball World Rocked by Luka Doncic Trade to Lakers: 'WOWWWWW NO F WAY'
The basketball world was rocked Saturday night when the Dallas Mavericks — fresh off an NBA Finals appearance last season — traded their 25-year-old Slovenian star Luka Doncic, a franchise cornerstone and one of the best young players in the league, to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team deal …
Read More »Michelle Williams Returns to Broadway in 'Death Becomes Her'
Michelle Williams is handling her stay in the snow-scattered, negative-windchill New York City the same way many choose to endure winter: “I don’t do anything.” But unlike most of the hibernating human population, Williams’ calendar hold for inactivity makes space for the former Destiny’s Child member to show up eight …
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