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On Monday morning, with just under a month to go until the Oscars, actors John Cho and Issa Rae helped the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announce the nominees for this year’s ceremony, set to take place on Feb. 9. The 92nd Academy Awards, which will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, will honor the films, as well as the acting, writing and directing, that have made a major impact in cinema over the last year.
As E! News previously shared, the 2020 Oscars won’t have a host, just like last year’s ceremony. Karey Burke, president of Disney-owned ABC Entertainment, whose network airs the ceremony, recently announced that this year’s award show will not have a “traditional host,” but also noted that it will be an “entertaining show.”
Bake a red velvet cake, cool it completely and crumble in a bowl. Stir 450g (16 oz.) of cream cheese or buttercream frosting into the cake, about ½ a cup at a time. Once it reaches a nice consistency that will hold together, roll it into bite-sized balls. Place the bites on a large baking sheet and chill them for 30 minutes. Melt 500g of white chocolate, dip each bite in the melted chocolate and coat these evenly. Chill till the chocolate has hardened. Dye the remaining melted chocolate with red food colouring and drizzle it over the chilled cake bites
If you’ve ever wondered where Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and their cronies hang out between making Star Wars films, look no further than the out-of-this-world home in a gated Los Angeles Hidden Hills neighborhood that is now for sale. For decades, Hidden Hills has been a secure celebrity-rich enclave for those wishing to hold the paparazzi at bay. However, little did anyone know that it was also home to the Star Wars cast of characters, who live in the 5,000-square-foot basement of an 18,183-square-foot contemporary Craftsman home. Now with their hideout finally discovered and no longer a well-kept secret, it has just been put on the market, priced at $26.5 million.
A few years ago I attended the birthday party of a friend’s French bulldog and was the only one not to show up with a gift. I have always been an animal lover, but I used to roll my eyes at people who indulged their pets. I would sneer at chihuahuas wearing custom knit sweaters and poodles who had home-cooked meals. Whenever I saw people kiss their dogs, I wondered what would happen if they redirected all the kindness and money they showered on their fur ball towards another human being instead. It seemed like a cruel example of the world’s inequality that the pet elite lived more luxuriously than many people.
At first glance, Houston doesn’t exactly seem like an exciting destination for design lovers. The downtown is characterized by corporate-looking glass-and-steel skyscrapers; the city has no zoning laws, so residential neighborhoods are replete with a mishmash of architectural styles (you might see a Tudor-style mansion and a starkly minimalist house right next to each other); and no matter where you want to go, you have to get in a car. Locals joke that Houston is 15 minutes from Houston. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find emerging neighborhoods, a thriving community of artists, swanky new hotels, and an incredible restaurant scene. “It’s an exciting place to live because it’s ever shifting and moving,” says Diane Gelman, a local artist with a studio in the Silos at Sawyer Yards.
Kelly Clarkson made a meteoric rise to stardom after singing and winning the first season of American Idol in 2002. Kelly is now one of America’s favorite entertainers, judge on The Voice and host of her new NBC talk show. Ten years after her American Idol win, Kelly bought a Tennessee lake home in Hendersonville, 25 miles up the Cumberland River from Nashville. Her Tennessee mansion is for sale, priced at $7.49 million.
cricket tour by Sri Lanka to any destination, irrespective of the strength of the opposition, is viewed as important. After all, the nation is crazy about the game and it follows that the recent tour to India for three T20 games should be viewed in that context.
With the ICC T20 World Cup scheduled for later this year, every exposure of potential players is both important and considered a bonus. Against such a backdrop, the poor showing in India should be considered a learning experience.
What does jewelry look like in the new decade? In the past few years, we saw jewelry scale back: Massive statement necklaces from Gossip Girl’s heyday were replaced by layered chains and charms, and we traded in gaudy earrings for a constellation of stud piercings. Surprisingly, we’re swinging back in the oversized, over-bedazzled, but not-so-overdone direction. At least that’s what we found out when we tapped two retail experts from Bloomingdales and Net-A-Porter to get a better feel for which 2020 jewelry trends are worth buying into in. Read on for their secret to accessorizing like a pro, here.
Although you are reading this in February, aren’t you so glad that Christmas comes but once a year? No prejudice to the seasonal holiday; in fact, I mark it – well, reli-giously. But it’s all that commercial stuff, which prises open your jaw, and crams your mouth full of food, drink and other consumables until you’ve had it up to here.
And before you regurgitate that sentiment, let me confess that if there’s one thing more barf inducing than crass commercialism at Christmastime, it’s the pious hypo-crites who lament the passing of reason.