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Pete’s character in The King of Staten Island has the somewhat misguided idea to open a tattoo parlor/restaurant, and he spends much of the movie doing bad amateur tattoos on his friends, including a truly unfortunate attempt at Barack Obama. How much of that is true to life?You know, Pete loves tattoos and that world.

Columbia Hillen Twin brothers, Omar and Othmane Belkhayat (31) are just the kind of tourism entrepreneurs Morocco needs. Personable, multi-lingual, having lived in cities such as Montreal, Paris and Madrid, and with banking background experience, they returned to their native home two years ago and revamped their father’s riad in Fez. Tucked away along a

Since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin brutally pressed his knee onto George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, and three other white officers stood by and did nothing as he suffocated to death, the entire world has responded with shock and outrage and demanded an overhaul of American policing. One of Chauvin’s colleagues, meanwhile, was

As of Tuesday morning, Martin Gugino is still hospitalized. The week before, the 75-year-old man was speaking to local cops at an anti-police brutality protest in Buffalo, when two officers shoved him to the concrete with so much force that his head can be heard cracking against the pavement in a now-viral video of the

Jun. 9th, 2020 There is only one private island resort in all of the United States and it’s a well kept secret. For years, Florida VIPS, along with celebrities and dignitaries, have taken a quick seaplane from Miami to Little Palm Island Resort & Spa. The luxury island resort is located off Little Torch Key

Maybe you saw all the promotion for Be Water, ESPN’s latest 30 For 30 documentary on Bruce Lee, and thought to yourself: “Hasn’t this been done already?” Well, sure. There have been, based on a quick search, no fewer than 17 documentaries, docuseries, and biopics centered on the legendary martial artist’s all-too-brief life. Last year

I’m an emergency medicine physician in New York City—one of the only Black physicians in the entire emergency department at my hospital. While many New Yorkers followed shelter-in-place orders, I’ve been called to work, to help heal the people afflicted by the coronavirus pandemic. I drive to work, and lately, compared to typical New York

“We’re at a place where basic truth and bearing witness is somehow seen as political. I’m concerned about that. I don’t consider myself an activist. I don’t think it’s my place to do that. I feel like as a journalist, I have to speak out about this, but I don’t want to trespass on the

“This is a shared feeling of hurt.” We had a protest in Madrid on Sunday. We tried to keep it mum at first, because here you need a permit. We dressed in all black, we had signs. Our group specifically went and put armbands on honoring the names of people that had passed. We did

A lifetime and a few fires ago, before the dark whir of helicopters started troubling my sleep, before I could tell you what tear gas tastes like, I was still learning the contours of Breonna Taylor’s life and death, still thinking about Ahmaud Arbery going for a jog then running for his life, still mourning

I’ve been catching up with it. Right now I know that all the officers in the George Floyd case got charged with their crimes, which I think is pretty fair for now. And once again it shows the bravery of our people that stand up together. Have you been able to follow the other cases

On Tuesday evening, as a large group of peaceful protesters marched over the Manhattan Bridge, members of the New York Police Department parked on opposite ends of the span, trapping 5,000 people over the water for nearly an hour. The night before, in Dallas, police officers corralled protesters on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge before

During the COVID-19 quarantine, hotels in Key West were ordered to close during the third week of March as a safety precaution to visitors. On June 1, 2020, Ocean Key Resort & Spa opened its doors, offering a luxurious oceanfront experience between Key West Harbor and Mallory Square.  Of all hotels in Key West, Ocean

It seems every new day during these protests against the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, police brutality, and white supremacy, that there’s a statement by some company, including many sports teams, expressing their sympathy. These statements have been mostly embarrassing either from the vagueness and emptiness of the sentiment or the irony of certain

The Great Lawn, Rosewood Miramar Beach. Photo courtesy of Rosewood Miramar Beach With its Mediterranean-inspired architecture, expansive beaches, enveloping Santa Ynez mountains, and year-round sunshine, no other United States locale so well mimics the aesthetic of the European Riviera as does Santa Barbara. Hence the region’s nickname – The American Riviera. And within this posh paradise, no

In the past week, cities all over the world have risen up to protest police brutality and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others—only to see peaceful marchers brutalized by the police themselves. In some places, these protests mark the largest acts of organized resistance in decades. But in others, protest has

RTJ4, the fourth album from Run the Jewels, was supposed to come out this Friday. But with the nation massing in the streets to protest the police killing of George Floyd, Killer Mike and El-P decided to bump things up, releasing the project in full at noon today. As they put it: “Fuck it, why

Starting Tuesday, social media users showed support for the police brutality protests in cities across the country, posting blacked out images and using the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday. It was a small sign of solidarity, though some activists and observers criticized it as ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. Still, since this is the Internet and