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Daily Mail
6 days ago
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- Daily Mail
I moved from New York to Paris... this common fashion trend in America is considered a style faux pas in France
New York City and Paris are two of the world's most iconic cities - but they are incredibly different to live in. Elena Taber moved from New York City to Paris a year ago - and has been documenting the differences between the two cities since. In a recent TikTok, the 28-year-old opened up about some of the most shocking adjustments she had to make when she relocated from the US to the French capital. She started off her video by dishing on the differences in fashion, while declaring that she was committing a Parisian 'fashion felony.' 'I'm committing a crime right now,' the content creator said, showing off her simple outfit of black biker shorts, a zip-up weather resistant jacket, and her running shoes. 'People do not wear athleticwear here, at all,' Elena, who is dating Stranger Things actor Jamie Campbell Bower, shared. 'Don't do what I'm doing right now.' She explained that in the 10 minutes walking home from the gym, she felt embarrassed about her less-than-chic ensemble. 'This feels illegal,' she declared. 'Straight to jail.' Elena, who also has a popular YouTube channel, often talks about life as an American in Paris. In a YouTube video speaking about what it's really like to reside in the French city, she admitted that despite going to classes to learn the language, she has struggled to make friends. 'French women are not particularly warm, most of them,' she admitted. 'Some are,' she added. 'But it's just a bit challenging.' Elena noted that the social scene was a big difference between New York and Paris. The YouTuber said that in France, a lot of people tend to stick with the friends they made in high school or college, and are not overly interested in making new ones. 'It's something I've noticed is a little more French then it is in the cities in the US,' she explained. 'In a big metropolitan area like New York I feel like people for the most part are very inclusive and want to make new friends, but for a big metropolitan area like Paris, people are quite closed, unless they're expats,' she mused. Making friends in a new city can certainly be difficult. But according to Lee Thompson, co-founder of travel company Flash Pack, there are ways to best connect with others when flying solo. While previously speaking with the Daily Mail, Lee stressed the importance of saying yes to things. 'The trick is to be open and curious to new opportunities as they arise and say 'yes' to invitations – even if you feel a bit shy about doing so,' he encouraged 'Equally, I've struck up friendships with the guy busking in the park, or by saying yes to an impromptu game of Pickleball,' he added. Lee also recommended signing up to events, such as supper clubs, open mic nights, or weekly park runs, while travelling or moving to a new city alone. 'A dash of online research will open up a world of events wherever you happen to be travelling,' he shared. 'All you need to do is look them up and choose ones that speak to your personal interests and values. 'This is a really effective way of meeting people in a non-pressurized environment.'
Extra.ie
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Stranger Things star coming to Ireland for one day only
Stranger Things fans won't have to go to the upside down to meet one of the stars of the show as he's heading to the capital for Dublin Comic Con this summer. Vecna star Jamie Campbell Bower will be attending the Saturday of the popular fan event which will be taking over the Convention Centre this August for its second show of the year. Jamie joined the hit Netflix show in season four as Henry Creel, a worker in the lab where Eleven and other children were being experimented on, and it was later revealed that he was test subject 001, and after an encounter with our heroine, became the creature we now know as Vecna. Jamie Campbell Bower and Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things 4 Pic: Netflix The 36-year-old already had a slew of credits to his name before joining the series, including The Mortal Instruments, The Twilight Saga, the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises, and Sweeney Todd. Fans will be able to get photos and autographs from the actor on the Saturday of the convention, with prices listed on the Dublin Comic Con website, but he will not be partaking in a Q&A panel. Jamie joins the lineup that includes Lilo and Stitch star Tia Carrere, The Shawshank Redemption's Mark Rolston, The Walking Dead's Ross Marquand, Star Trek icon John de Lancie, Sons of Anarchy's Theo Rossi, Power Rangers stars Tracy Lynn Cruz and Alyson Kiperman Sullivan, Hitman's David Bateson and Jane Perry, Rogue the Bat voice actor Karen Strassman, and the Kingpin himself, Daredevil star Vincent D'Onofrio. Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna in Stranger Things Pic: Netflix In the meantime, Jamie will be joining another franchise as he was announced among the new cast members of the hit Prime Video series The Rings of Power. While his role is being kept under wraps for now, considering he said he'd be steering away from villainous roles after playing Vecna, we can assume his Rings of Power character won't be as dastardly.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New 'Stranger Things' Season 5 trailer teases final battle with Vecna — plus release dates, episode titles, cast members and what we know so far
We independently evaluate the products we review. When you buy via links on our site, we may receive compensation. Read more about how we vet products and deals. An official teaser trailer for the fifth and final season of Netflix's Stranger Things dropped Wednesday, featuring our favorite Indiana teens coming back for one more round of interdimensional drama. Stranger Things is set to return later this year and, with it, a continuation of the story that put fan favorites like Sadie Sink's Max in grave danger after a battle with Jamie Campbell Bower's villain, Vecna. With so many questions still unanswered (Will Max ever wake up from her coma? What will happen to the town of Hawkins now that the Upside Down is invading?!), it's hard to believe we're nearing the end of Stranger Things. Since its debut in the summer of 2016, the series has built a world filled with supernatural suspense, iconic characters (RIP, Eddie!) and ride-or-die friendships. It's also a love letter to all things '80s, celebrating everything from Dungeons & Dragons to hanging at the roller rink — all with an epic synth soundtrack. Soon we'll all be wistful for the series that made nostalgia cool. Here's everything we know so far about the upcoming season of Stranger Things. Where did we leave off with our gang? Season 4 of Stranger Things followed the Hawkins crew as they tried to stop Vecna, a powerful new villain with ties to Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). Vecna, once known as Henry Creel, was the first child experimented on by Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) in the Hawkins lab, but after Eleven defeated him as a child, he was sent to the Upside Down. At the beginning of the season, Vecna exacted his revenge with a string of teen murders, leading the gang to team up to defeat him. Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Max, Eleven, Will (Noah Schnapp), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Steve (Joe Keery), Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Robin (Maya Hawke) worked together across different locations and dimensions to stop Vecna, but unfortunately, it didn't go quite as well as they hoped: In the season finale, Vecna's still around, Max is in a coma and the Upside Down is starting to take over the real world. When will Season 5 of Stranger Things drop? Expect the holidays to get a little stranger this year. The first four episodes of the season, coined "Volume 1," will drop on Nov. 26 — the day before Thanksgiving. "Volume 2," with three episodes, is slated to drop on Christmas. The show won't release its final episode, "Volume 3," until New Year's Eve. This marks the first time that the series will release just one episode separately from the rest of the show — meaning that the last episode will be an event all its own. Each part is slated to drop at 5 p.m. PT on its release date. Netflix is planning on dropping all of these episodes at the same time worldwide. How many episodes of Stranger Things are there? How long are they? Stranger Things Season 5 will consist of eight episodes — and we already know their names. The final season of Stranger Things features eight episodes titled 'The Crawl,' 'The Vanishing of …,' 'The Turnbow Trap,' 'Sorcerer,' 'Shock Jock,' 'Escape from Camazotz,' 'The Bridge' and 'The Rightside Up.' While we don't know how long each Stranger Things episode will be, Wolfhard, who plays Mike, told Collider that while some episodes run closer to 45 minutes, we should expect others to be as long as a feature film. That checks out, given the longer runtime of Season 4's episodes — including the finale, which clocked in at two hours and 24 minutes. Ross Duffer, who cocreated the series with his brother Matt Duffer, said at the Next on Netflix event in January that they spent a full year filming the season, and that, by the end, they had captured over 650 hours of footage. 'So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet,' he said. 'It's like eight blockbuster movies. It's pretty, pretty insane.' And Bower previously told Netflix that while Season 4 of the show was 'big,' the show's final season 'definitely feels bigger.' Who is returning? Most of your favorites are confirmed to be back: Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, David Harbour as Jim Hopper, Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Amybeth McNulty as Vickie, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, Brett Gelman as Murray Bauman, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna/Henry Creel, Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler and Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield will all return for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. Are there any new characters? Stranger Things is adding new cast members Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux to the show's final season. And staying true to its pattern of casting '80s icons — like its star Winona Ryder and cast members like The Goonies star Sean Astin and Aliens' Paul Reiser — the series has also cast The Terminator's Linda Hamilton in the role of Dr. Kay. Do we know what the new season will be about? Is there a trailer? The official teaser trailer released on July 16 also came with an official description of the final season: "The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna," the synopsis reads. "But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will's disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they've faced before. To end this nightmare, they'll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time." Matt Duffer revealed in a press release earlier this year that the new season has 'no time for a ramp-up,' meaning it's 'going to be intense from beginning to end.' And Ross noted that the new season will feel 'familiar' to longtime fans of the series. 'This season is the biggest it's ever been in scale, but everyone's back together in Hawkins, interacting the same way they were in Season 1.' When will the season take place? Is there a time jump? According to the official Stranger Things episode title announcement, Season 5 picks up in the fall of 1987, more than a year after Season 4, which unfolds in March of 1986. But eagle-eyed fans noticed something quite interesting in footage of Harbour and Wolfhard filming Stranger Things in Atlanta, which is a stand-in for downtown Hawkins. On the set, there is reportedly a movie theater advertising Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — a movie that came out in 1989, two years after the series picks up again. So it's possible, though hardly confirmed, that we may see our characters throughout a wider time span than in previous seasons. Are there any major theories for the final season? One of the bigger theories heading into Season 5 involves the resurrection of metalhead Eddie, played by Joseph Quinn. Eddie was tragically swarmed by demobats in Season 4, leading to his demise — but some think his manner of death is a clue that he could return in a new form. It all has to do with the Dungeons & Dragons story of Kas the Bloody-Handed, a warrior who was killed by Vecna and later resurrected as a bloodsucker. So far, though, Quinn has not confirmed a return to the Netflix series … but if this is the case, it's not like he would ruin the surprise. Another theory points to how Stranger Things might end — and it's pretty depressing for Eleven. One theory popular with fans is that Eleven will take Vecna's place as the ruler of the Upside Down, but instead of it being a dark, gloomy hellscape, she'll use her psychic abilities to create a paradise. That means, of course, she'll leave dad Hopper and boyfriend Mike in the real world … unless they can vacation there on school breaks?! I miss Stranger Things. What can I do until Season 5 drops? You can learn more about Vecna's backstory in the special-effects-heavy stage show Stranger Things: The First Shadow, which began its run in London's West End before setting up shop on Broadway as well. While there's no Eleven, Mike or any of the other Hawkins teens, the play does take audiences back to the small Indiana town circa 1959, when Hopper and Joyce were in high school.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Demogorgons terrify in 'Stranger Things' Season 5 teaser
July 16 (UPI) -- Netflix is teasing the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The preview released Wednesday shows the cast facing off against vicious monsters known as Demogorgons. "Picking up in the fall of 1987, Stranger Things 5 finds the town scarred by the opening of the rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: to find and kill Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower)," an official synopsis reads. Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is hiding amid a military quarantine and Vecna is MIA. Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty, Nell Fisher, Jack Connelly, Alex Breaux and Linda Hamilton star. The first suite of episodes arrives Nov. 26, while Volume 2 arrives on the streamer on Christmas Day. The series finale premieres Dec. 31 on New Year's Eve. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
16-07-2025
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What the Stranger Things season 5 teaser trailer reveals
The first trailer for Stranger Things' last season is finally here, and it looks like the Netflix series will have an ending of epic proportions. Released on Wednesday, 16 July, the teaser for the first volume of new episodes — which lands on 26 November — follows the beloved characters as they prepare to face Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) and vanquish the Upside Down. The fourth season ended with the team left at their lowest point after Vecna brought his world to Hawkins through a series of Rifts, and it seems that series 5 will find the characters right where we left them. There were many exciting moments in the trailer that tease the story to come. Here is everything we could glean from the teaser and what it could mean. The teaser opens with Steve (Joe Keery) and the gang on a mission, using a radio to find the right frequency that they need to burn the Upside Down. With characters like Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Will (Noah Schnapp) and Robin (Maya Hawke) waiting in shelters to see if their quest will be a success. Hawkins has been placed under military quarantine as a result of Vecna's actions, with the government hunting for Eleven and forcing her into hiding. Hints of this military presence is clear in the trailer as Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) are seen cycling their trusty bikes around town whilst trucks and helicopters speed past them. The final battle against Vecna is upon the group and it will take all of them to take him down. This is mirrored in a speech given by Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) to Nancy (Natalia Dyer) as they wait in the dark of the Upside Down. He says: "After what we've been through, this thing, it ties us together, forever." Eleven may be needing to dodge the government in our world but her problems may well be worse in the other, as she's seen in the Upside Down running away from a Demagorgan. She is also seen with Hopper (David Harbour) as they search and investigate the Upside Down and all the strange things that are in it — including a wall of darkness that appears to be the breeding ground for Vecna's creatures. With the Rifts all over Hawkins it shouldn't come as a surprise that the creatures are also prowling our world too. One scene that brings to mind Jurassic World sees Lucas, his sister Erica (Priah Ferguson) and Max (Sadie Sink) hiding from a Demodog in Hawkins hospital. All hell is clearly about to break loose in the small town as an array of scenes show the characters faced with raining bullets, a full-fledged Demogorgan on a rampage and Steve racing into a Rift towards the Upside Down. Eleven, meanwhile, is also seen struggling with her extensive powers as the war rages. The war to save Hawkins will clearly not be an easy one, and while it's unclear exactly what the casualties will be there are scenes showing Nancy crying as she washes her blood-soaked hands, while another shows Dustin crying with Steve. Will is also clearly continuing to be a vessel for the Upside Down as he is shown falling into a trance in one scene and facing an unknown threat in another. And as this happens Harbour's Hopper can be heard saying: "Where ever this blood leads, I need you to fight one last time." Hopper and Joyce (Winona Ryder) are very much part of the fight too as they are both seen in the midst of the action. The final moments of the trailer shows a series of different images, including the characters watching in fear as Vecna tears through a portal into the world. And the trailer ends with the chilling declaration that he has "found" them. Stranger Things season 5 lands on Netflix in three parts, with Volume 1 (four episodes) premiering on 26 November, Volume 2 (three episodes) premiering on Christmas, and the show's finale airing on New Year's Eve.
