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Rick Pitino has some high praise for the Knicks this season. During an appearance on the “Roommates Show” — a podcast hosted by Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart — on Thursday, the St. John’s head coach said the Knicks are “much better” than they were last season. “I really think that you guys have the potential to do great things this year,” Pitino said while talking to Brunson and co-host Matt Hillman. “This is, in my opinion, a much better team than last year.” Pitino said his opinion does not have anything to do with the coaching changes this offseason,…

Jelly Roll revealed his dramatic clean cut look after shaving his face for the first time in ten years. The country star took to Instagram Thursday to debut the transformation, and joked that the new look makes him resemble a “Ninja Turtle.” “I thought my chin went at least a half inch longer than it actually did, but f—k, I didn’t know. It was a failed science experiment y’all.” Jelly Roll revealed his dramatic clean cut look after shaving his face for the first time in ten years. The country star took to Instagram Thursday to debut the transformation, and…

A raging fire tore through the grounds of the UN climate summit COP30 in Brazil on Thursday, stalling talks as a full-scale evacuation was ordered, officials said. Thirteen people were treated for smoke inhalation after the inferno broke out near the China pavilion before fanning outwards to other nearby sectors, Brazil’s Tourism Minister Celso Sabino told reporters at the scene. A fire broke out at COP30 in Brazil on Thursday. REUTERS Samuel Rubin, one of the people in charge of an entertainment and culture quadrant, said that other pavilions that were torched included many of the sections set aside for…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, thanks to Bloomingdale’s. The department store unveiled its Burberry-themed holiday windows and façade Wednesday evening in festive fashion, drawing a star-studded crowd that included Alicia Silverstone, Justine Lupe, Lori Harvey and Suni Lee. (Almost all of the celebs in attendance were decked out in Burberry’s signature check, naturally.) The evening culminated with a performance by Raye, who belted out a handful of her hits (including “Where Is My Husband!” and “Worth It.”) along with a jazzy rendition of “Jingle Bells.” Here, see what stars wore to the seasonal shindig. 1 of 11…

The World Health Organization describes wellness as not merely the absence of disease, but rather a state that transcends the absence of disease and approaches optimum psychological, physical, spiritual, and social health. The history of optimizing health dates to the ancient Greeks. The fifth-century B.C. text On Regimen, authored by Hippocrates and his students, is likely the authoritative reference that described specific means of obtaining optimum health. The modern era of wellness can be traced to Jonas Salk’s 1973 groundbreaking treatise, Survival of the Wisest. In that book, Salk defined the pursuit of health in two epochs. Epoch A was…

Shocking video captured the terrifying moment three masked teenage thugs clashed in an English street, wildly swinging 24-inch machetes at one another during a broad-daylight brawl. The chilling footage, recorded by a startled motorist, shows a hoodlum in black repeatedly hacking at another teen with the large blade before the pair spiral into a violent tussle with a third brawler in the middle of the road around 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 in Leeds, according to SWNS. The three assailants, brandishing their weapons, then dashed around in a frantic circle before two of them ran toward an electric bike lying…

DETROIT — When the Islanders were in Las Vegas last week, coach Patrick Roy took a short drive down I-15 for a long-awaited meeting.  He’d wanted to meet Raiders coach Pete Carroll since the offseason, when he started listening to the “Finding Mastery” podcast, hosted by Dr. Michael Gervais, a well-known performance psychologist. Carroll has been a guest on the podcast a number of times, and worked closely with Gervais over the years, including having him on staff for nine seasons with the Seahawks. Carroll’s episodes with Gervais caught his ear. Not only did Roy hire Gervais to work with…

A convenience store worker in the UK who vanished without a trace five years ago has now shown up “safe and well” — just days after a group of suspects were arrested for supposedly murdering him, cops revealed. Ismail Ali, who was 46 at the time, disappeared under suspicious circumstances after finishing up his shift at Gulam Food Stores in the northern England city of Bradford in May 2020. The case went silent for years until police announced on Monday that five people had just been nabbed on suspicion of murdering the store worker. Ismail Ali, who was 46 at the time, disappeared…

Ok, here is a debate that occurs all the time in the horror community. Is The Exorcist still the scariest movie ever made? That might seem like an impossible question to answer, likely because it is, but we are going to try it anyway. For some horror fans, even asking the question can be offensive. […]

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