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Spectator
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Pacy, fast-moving and graphically lavish: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 reviewed
Grade: B+ Tony Hawk is an old guy these days. The most famous sk8r boi ever to have lived is now 57. A sk8r geezer, if you will; and the video games celebrating his glory days are of an age too. Gamer-geezers who remember losing hours to the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games will welcome this pacy, fast-moving, graphically lavish remake. The Sex Pistols and Run-DMC and suchlike blare in your ears as you guide your skater around any number of wildernesses of kneecap-imperilling concrete. (Gen-Z players will probably be mystified by the floating VHS tapes that you need to pick up as you skate.) You can do ollies and kickflips and medusas and acid drops, grinds and spine transfers and skitches, and manuals and reverts and wallplants. You can catch sick air, as I believe they used to say back in the day. Or, at least, you can in theory. Almost the only trick not explicitly covered in the extensive training is 'faceplant' because, as it turns out, nearly any combination of buttons achieves that. The difficulty curve is brutal. Splat, you go. Splat. Splat. Ouch. If this were a medically accurate simulation you'd spend most of the game in traction. That one of the many skaters available as a guest star is the meat-headed space-marine from Doom pays tribute to the implied violence. But when you do stumble over the right button combination and land a high-scoring trick off the halfpipe, leap a moving car or grind a long railing just right, you'll exclaim: 'Gnarly!' Which, is, I imagine, the condition of the real Tony Hawk's toenails these days.
Evening Standard
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Top 17 bucket hats for Oasis Live '25 and beyond
Originally designed for farmers and fishermen, the practical headwear made its way into pop culture via the hip-hop scene in the 80s and 90s, when the likes of LL Cool J and Run-DMC sported the look. It wasn't long before scores of bucket hats began popping up at British festivals, attendees no doubt drawn to their waterproof and sun-shading qualities - who doesn't have trust issues when it comes to summer weather? - plus their ability to mask greasy, unwashed hair and roll up tightly in a backpack without destroying the design.
The Star
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect on 40 years of Live Aid
NEW YORK: Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good - helping to raise over US$100mil for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might otherwise have ignored. Simulcast from Philadelphia and London on July 13, 1985, Live Aid was the most ambitious global television event of its time: 16 hours of live music in two different continents featuring Queen, The Who, a Led Zeppelin reunion and more. A lot has changed in the years since. "Live Aid, '85 to now, is the same distance as the Second World War from Live Aid," notes Rick Springfield, laughingly. "That's how long ago it was.' Artists who performed at Live Aid - Springfield, organizer Bob Geldof, Hall and Oates' John Oates and Judas Priest's Rob Halford - reflected on the event and its impact in interviews with The Associated Press ahead of the 40th anniversary on Sunday (July 13). Here's what they had to say: At John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Springfield performed between Run-DMC and REO Speedwagon - just a taste of the diversity of performers featured on the transnational lineup. "Run-DMC, I remember thinking, 'What is this? Three guys talking over a record player. What is that? Little did I know that it was about to change the whole game," he says, laughing. He remembers playing an electric set - no "Jessie's Girl,' because "back then, it was just my first hit.... It hadn't gone on to become this cultural thing." Hall and Oates' John Oates had a different experience. His band also played in Philly - their hometown - and in 1985, his band was one of the biggest on the planet. They played near the end of the night, joined by the Temptations' Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin and remained on stage to back the Rolling Stones' dynamic frontman Mick Jagger. The British rockstar had a trick up his sleeve. "He didn't tell us that he was bringing Tina Turner out," Oates says. "We had rehearsed a certain amount of songs with him. But then when he brought her out, it just jacked up the level of energy like you can't believe." Judas Priest singer Rob Halford counts "Mike and Tina, of course,' as one of his Philly Live Aid highlights. "Led Zeppelin, too." But most exciting of all for the heavy metal frontman? Meeting folk hero Joan Baez. The band had previously covered her classic "Diamonds and Rust." "I thought, 'Oh my God, she's gonna come and kick me in the ass for wrecking her beautiful song,'" he recalls. "She gives me a quick hug and goes, 'The reason I'm here is because my son said to me, if you see Rob Halford from Judas Priest at the Live Aid Show in Philadelphia, will you tell him from me that I prefer Judas Priest's version to my mom's version?'... It was a display of such kindness." Twenty years after Live Aid, Geldof organized Live 8 - an even larger undertaking in the new internet era, with 10 concerts happening simultaneously and across the globe. If the trend were to continue, there should be another event taking place this year. Notably, there isn't. Geldof says that's because there couldn't be a Live Aid-type event in 2025. He cites social media as a cause. In his view, algorithmic fracturing has made it impossible to create monolithic musical and activistic moments. Instead, he views the current media landscape as bolstering "an echo chamber of your own prejudices." For something like Live Aid to work, "You need rock 'n' roll as a creature of a social, economic and technological movement," he says. "And I think the rock 'n' roll age is over.... It did determine how young people articulated change and the desire for it.... That isn't the case anymore." Springfield agrees. "I think we are too divided," he says. He believes the world wouldn't be able to agree on a single cause to support, or even which musicians to back. "You could never do a thing with the size of Live Aid unless it was some kind of universal thing of, 'Let's bring everybody together.'" "Never say never, but I highly doubt it,' says Oates. "The landscape of music and entertainment in general has changed so drastically." He points to "We Are The World," the 1985 charity single for African famine relief that included the voices of Michael Jackson, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Paul Simon and many more, as an example. "The idea of that happening with the stars of today all in one place, I can't even imagine that. And plus, who would they be?... How many songs are released every day?" Halford echoes the other's sentiments. There's an undeniable "extremism in the world right now,' he says, that would make a Live Aid event challenging to pull off in 2025. But he doesn't think it's impossible. He uses January's Fire Aid - the LA wildfire benefit concert featuring Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder and a Nirvana reunion - as a recent example. "There will always be empathy from people,' and in the right hands, maybe another event like Live Aid could take place. "It was a tremendously beautiful, humanitarian example... that provided us opportunity to do something ourselves to help."
Los Angeles Times
17-03-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Video captures a burglary that went bust and a getaway gone bad
A failed heist was followed by a flawed getaway for burglars who recently broke into an Upland chain restaurant, authorities say. The group was interrupted mid-theft. Then, as they were being pursued by officers, they drove into a dead end and got their stolen car stuck, according to police. In a tongue-in-cheek video and statement posted on X by Upland police, three people are seen breaking into the Corky's Homestyle Kitchen and Bakery near 7th Street and Mountain Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Police added 'It's Tricky' by Run-DMC as a soundtrack to security and body-camera video of the burglars smashing in a restaurant's glass patio door with a sledgehammer, then using drills and a crowbar to wedge out a safe inside. The safe, which the people in the video seem to struggle to move, appears to be abandoned as sirens are heard outside. Police approached the stolen black Dodge Challenger parked outside the restaurant about six minutes after the initial break-in, according to the video's time stamps. After a failed PIT maneuver to immobilize the car in the parking lot, the burglars fled, purposely hitting a police vehicle to get away, police said. The getaway driver, who police said was an adult male from Southgate on probation for burglary, drove down nearby South Linda Way — a dead end — before getting stuck between two parked cars. Several suspects fled on foot, police said. Two were arrested, a 16-year-old from Los Angeles and the driver. Two others escaped. Police did not identify any of them. The stolen Challenger had another plate inside connected to a different vehicle associated with other burglaries, police said. Management at Corky's declined to comment Sunday when asked about the burglary.
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Yahoo
MDC Brooklyn jail inmate tried to smuggle scalpel blades in bag of Doritos: Feds
A murder-for-hire suspect tried to smuggle 21 ceramic scalpel blades into the MDC Brooklyn federal jail after a visitor handed them to him in a Doritos bag, federal prosecutors say. Angel Villafane, who's accused of being a member of the 'Valentine Ave. Crew' in the Bronx, was indicted last week for the October attempt to bring the scalpels into the troubled Sunset Park jail. He slipped the scalpels into his shirt — and when correction officers strip-searched him he tried to swallow the blades, prosecutors said at his arraignment in Brooklyn Federal Court. Villafane, 40, has been locked up since January 2021, when he was arrested on federal firearm possession charges in Manhattan in connection with a Bronx shooting. He's since been charged alongside 15 other gang members in a March 2024 superseding indictment, implicating him in two non-fatal shootings, one of which brought him a murder-for-hire charge. The feds say Villafane paid a co-conspirator in July 2020 to lure a victim to a spot in Manhattan where he tried to kill him over a drug debt. The second shooting took place in January 2021, when Villafane ambushed a man coming out of his apartment in a building on Second Ave. and E. 97th St. in Manhattan, Manhattan federal prosecutors allege. Villafane told the victim, 'What's up now,' then pointed a gun at him as the man begged for his life, according to court papers. Villafane raised the gun and shot the victim in the neck, then advanced on him but ran off when a relative of the victim opened the apartment door, the feds allege. Villafane pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court on the smuggling charges Tuesday and returned to MDC Brooklyn. He could face up to five years on contraband charges and up to life in prison in his Manhattan case. His lawyer did not return a message seeking comment. MDC Brooklyn has for years been plagued by violence, medical mistreatment of inmates and dire living conditions. On Feb. 22, Karl Jordan, who is convicted of killing Run-DMC icon Jam Master Jay in 2002, was stabbed inside the jail while awaiting sentencing. Last summer, the jail saw two fatal stabbings less than six weeks apart. And in a caught-on-video April 27 attack, three MS-13 members stabbed a man 44 times before a lone correction officer intervened.
