A 17 y/o was shot during a dispute on a MARTA train in Midtown, with a bullet striking his backpack and injuring him.
He has been identified as JโVon Easterling, a star student-athlete at KIPP Atlanta who had just left a program at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Actress Quinta Brunson prank called comedian Marcello Hernandez and had him FREAKING OUT after asking why he wasnโt on the set of Abbott Elementary ๐ญ๐๐
Joe finally blessed the Tiny Desk
The setlist:
โช๏ธ Faded Pictures
โช๏ธ More & More
โช๏ธ The Love Scene
โช๏ธ Good Girls
โช๏ธ All the Things (Your Man Won't Do)
โช๏ธ I Wanna Know
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) faked a phone call for roughly 90 seconds after being asked about Speaker Mike Johnsonโs comments regarding potential Social Security cuts.
The phone's screen remained visible, with his cheek inadvertently tapping different parts of the display.
First trailer for โRIDE OR DIEโ, starring Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer.
The comedy series follows 2 best friends who thought they knew everything about each-other until one turns out to be an international assassin.
Releasing July 15 on Prime Video.
Anthony Bourdain had what looked like the best job on the planet. He got paid to roam the world eating whatever he wanted, and strangers everywhere told him things they would never tell a reporter. Eight years ago today, he died by suicide at 61.
For almost thirty years before any of that, he was a cook nobody had heard of, working long hot shifts for little money. He was in his forties when he wrote a book spilling the secrets of what really goes on behind restaurant doors, and almost overnight, the unknown cook became a star.
What made him different was that he never faked it. Other travel hosts smiled at pretty views and pretended to love everything. Bourdain sat on plastic stools in back alleys and ate exactly what the people there ate. Then he got them talking about their real lives, and they trusted him enough to tell him the truth.
He went to places most shows stayed away from, like the Congo, Gaza, Iran, and New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. He once ate noodles at a tiny plastic-table joint in Vietnam with a sitting US president. His show Parts Unknown ran for twelve seasons and won a dozen Emmy Awards along with a Peabody, the top prize in broadcasting. It made a food show feel like real reporting on the world.
His death was so shocking because of the gap between the life everyone saw and the life he was actually living. Here was the guy who looked freer than anyone on TV, doing the job millions of people dreamed about, and the pain underneath was almost invisible to the people around him. He had actually talked about it in the open: on camera he once described how something as small as a bad meal could drop him into days of feeling low, and he had written about his heroin addiction from when he was young. None of it fit the cheerful, curious man people thought they knew.
He died just days after the designer Kate Spade died the same way, and that week, calls to the national crisis line jumped 65 percent. The conversation that followed kept circling one hard fact: the life you envy from the outside can be sitting right on top of pain you cannot see. What he left behind is bigger than any of the awards. He taught a whole generation that the fastest way to understand a stranger is to sit down and eat what they eat.