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Newsweek
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Pre-Schoolers Cut Off 4-Year-Old's Hair, Mom Knows What to Do Next
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A mother's act of solidarity with her young daughter has left the internet deeply moved, after she cut off her long blonde hair to match her 4-year-old's—whose first haircut was the result of a distressing encounter with classmates. Alexis Salerno (@lexfsal) shared on TikTok that the incident took place during a Valentine's Day party she hosted for her daughter, two friends, and their nannies. During the gathering, the children gained access to a pair of craft scissors. "The girls got a hold of a pair of craft scissors from the craft station and cut my daughter's hair. My daughter is a bit shy and the youngest in the group. She shared with us that while she didn't tell them to stop in the moment, she didn't want her hair to be cut. This was my daughter's first hair cut, her hair was down to her lower back, I was distraught looking at her soft baby curls on the floor," Salerno told Newsweek. In the wake of the incident, Salerno said she called her husband home from work and the two took their daughter to a local salon, Salon Dada, hoping to give her a proper experience of a "first haircut." While there wasn't much to shape or salvage, the stylists did their best to make it a positive memory. But the emotional impact lingered. Salerno said that once her daughter realized her long hair wasn't coming back overnight, she became inconsolable. "Many evenings she cried and asked her daddy to draw hair on her back, asked if he could make it grow back and would cry in the evenings before bed saying 'I don't feel like myself, I miss myself. I don't like my little hair. Mommy how do you spell please don't ever cut my hair again friends?'" she said. Seeing her daughter struggle, Salerno decided to take a bold step. Her own hair, waist-length for her entire life, was chopped into a chin-length bob. "When I picked her up from school with my bob, her face lit up. She was SO excited. She ran over and gave me a big hug. Now she says we both have 'little hair' and she matches mommy," she said. To help her daughter embrace the change, Salerno and her husband celebrated the new look with intention: they bought her a Barbie doll with a pixie cut, listened to singer Pink, and talked about strong women with short hair—from actresses to Olympic athletes. "My husband and I did everything we could to celebrate her new 'do... and continued to tell her how special she was no matter the length of her hair and that being different is cool," Salerno said. A split image of Alexis Salerno before with her longer locks and after with her short chop. A split image of Alexis Salerno before with her longer locks and after with her short chop. @lexfsal/@lexfsal Salerno said the decision to cut her hair came easily, and she has no regrets. "I'm actually really liking the shorter locks, it feels freeing and it's nice to have a change after 30+ years of the same style," she said. The emotional video transformation resonated widely, earning 143,900 likes and over 2.6 million views on TikTok. Salerno was surprised by the overwhelming response, especially as a newcomer to the platform. "The social media reaction has been wild! I'm new to TikTok and honestly still learning how to use the platform. People are generally being so kind and supportive," she said. However, she also addressed a misconception that the incident occurred in a school setting, clarifying. "Other people are assuming this happened in school and are blaming the teacher they think is responsible for allowing this to happen. I've commented to clarify this happened outside of school," she said. Despite the distressing nature of the situation, Salerno said she's grateful no one was hurt and sees it as a chance to teach her daughter resilience. "I fully understand these are young kids and mistakes happen, I think everyone has learned from it. We have been able to teach our girl about resilience at a young age and that we've got her no matter what life throws at her," she said. The TikTok comments reflect the emotional impact of her story. "You remind me of Julianne Hough when she plays in Safe Haven. Absolutely beautiful!" said Kadee. "Omg this length was MADE for you!! It makes you look like pure sunshine," said Megan. "That hair cut just took 10 years off you! You look fantastic," added Amanda. Some users shared similar experiences or chimed in with insight. "For those of you surprised this can happen, I don't think you understand the quickness that children can be with scissors. I'm a pediatric goatee and I can't tell you the amount of times kids have cut their own hair while I was 3 inches away. THEY ARE FAST," said Jacqueline. "Another preschooler took a huge chunk off the side of my daughter's long beautiful blonde hair I couldn't look at the mom for the rest of preschool," one mother shared. Do you have any viral videos or pictures that you want to share? We want to see the best ones! Send them in to life@ and they could appear on our site.
The Sun
21-05-2025
- The Sun
From quiet beaches to James Bond: The Italian town set to be the new Amalfi thanks to new British Airways flights
NEW British Airways flights to Italy are expected to make a quiet coastal town a much more popular destination with Brits. The new flights from London Gatwick to Salerno have made holidays to the Amalfi Coast much easier. 6 6 6 But it is also known as being extremely busy during the summer season. Yet around an hour from it is the town of Maratea, which has far fewer crowds. James Bond fans will notice it featuring in the No Time to Die film. And the Old Town is the main attraction, with multicoloured shops and stalls as well as 44 churches. It even has it's own 70ft tall Christ the Redeemer statue, although on a much smaller scale than the one in Rio. It is still worth the 90-minute hike, as it is the fifth tallest of its kind in the world. Otherwise the town port is the best spot for the evening for an Aperol Spritz when the sun goes down. Local hotel owner Aldo Melpignano told T+L: "It's a hidden gem where you can truly disconnect from the hustle of everyday life and embrace the timeless allure of authentic Italian charm." Visit in July for the town's annual film festival Marateale: Premio Internazionale Basilicata. And expect far fewer crowds at the beaches, with La Secca being a quiet lagoon beach. A look at Italy's spectacular Amalfi Coast Called by tourists as a "corner of paradise," it is great for kids too as the protected cove means the sea is always calm. If you're wanting to stay in town, of the fanciest places to stay is Hotel Santavenere, a the area's only five-star resort. Along with 26 rooms, the recently refurbished hotel has a private beach club as well as an outdoor pool with views of the coast. Aldo Melpignano, founder of the group behind the hotel, praised the local setting as being the reason behind it's up-and-coming nature. He told Forbes: "This is why we see considerable potential for development in Maratea, a spectacular destination that is still little known, especially abroad.' 6 6 Cheaper hotels and B&Bs can be fond for around £80 a night. when it opened last year. Jet2, who also launched flights, scrapped them back in March. The airport, which closed back in 2016, reopened after a £400million renovation and will be fully operational by next year. Here's another beautiful Italian city that has been "frozen in time". Want to stay in the UK? Here is a free attraction that l ooks more like an Italian villa.
Times
20-05-2025
- Times
Shh… this is the quieter, more affordable end of the Amalfi Coast
Blink and you'll miss it. That's the best way to describe baggage reclaim at Salerno airport — and missing it is exactly what Sam Langley and her fiancé, Shaun McDonald, did a couple of weeks ago, after their flight from Gatwick. 'We walked right through it and out into the arrivals hall before we'd realised what it was,' Sam says. 'We had to get an escort back through customs to pick up our suitcases,' adds Sam, a former travel agent. Unsurprisingly, she was mortified. But you can't blame them for the mistake. Salerno Costa d'Amalfi airport is tiny. For much of its life it was a military airbase but it reopened in July 2024 with a new runway, and a renewed sense of purpose. EasyJet is already flying there from Gatwick. Ryanair has flights from Stansted and from May 22 British Airways will have its own Gatwick service. You can't help but wonder what its startled Gold Club members will make of queueing outdoors for passport control. Sam and Shaun, however, had no regrets about choosing the airport. 'Our return flights cost just £80 each, including checked-in baggage,' Sam told me. 'And look where they got us. The Amalfi coast! It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.' • 88 of the best holiday destinations for 2025: a month-by-month guide You can add me to Salerno's list of fans too. Because at a stroke, this unlikely rural gateway — ringed by polytunnels and chugging tractors — has made the quieter end of Italy's most fêted coastline more accessible. This is the shoreline east of famous towns such as Positano and Ravello, and reaching it from Naples airport, where most of the coast's five million annual visitors fly in, has always been a faff. Especially if you're driving along its white-knuckle coast road, where nearly every bend is blind and the local buses can't help but swing out into the oncoming traffic. The famous names are distracting too. John Steinbeck at La Sirenuse hotel. George and Amal Clooney at La Conca del Sogno restaurant. Gwyneth Paltrow in Ravello. Julia Roberts reportedly with her luxury villa near Positano. For decades, the coast's western resorts have been celebrity magnets. It's easy to be dazzled by their star quality and go no further. But from Salerno the eastern shoreline is a cinch, provided that you use its boats. The airport coach to the city centre takes half an hour (£4.20; and from there it's a five-minute walk down to the Porto Turistico, where you can board Travelmar's serene and inexpensive foot-passenger ferries along the coast ( For a brief moment, you'll worry that the gritty container port on your right is a taste of what's to come. And then, suddenly, five minutes into your voyage, all you can see are the Lattari Mountains and the shimmering Tyrrhenian Sea. It's like diving into a swimming pool in the middle of a breathless summer day. You're pretty sure it's going to be good before you jump in, but you can't believe how delicious the reality is, once you're engulfed by its soothing, watery blues. First stop, after the town of Vietri sul Mare, is the fishing village of Cetara, 15 minutes (and a £6.30 ticket) from Salerno. A quarter of an hour beyond that lies the small town of Maiori, with little Minori next door. At each of them, the mountains plunge down into the sea with the same giddy sense of gravity that you'll find further west. But here there are none of the crowds that choke those streets, nor the kind of luxury hotels where sea-view doubles can set you back £1,500 a night. It's as if someone had set up a checkpoint on the road to Minori and was only letting every tenth tourist through. • 13 of the best beach holidays in Italy My tour of this 'other' Amalfi coast started in Cetara, with a night at the Hotel Cetus — a bright white four-star that glitters with majolica floor tiles and clings to the side of a cliff below the wiggling coast road. With its private beach and a highly rated restaurant, it could easily cost £600 a night if it were in Positano. But here, later this month, double rooms can still be had for £234, including a long and delicious breakfast buffet that features blood-red strawberries and citrus-scented sfogliatelle pastries. Admittedly, the five-minute walk along the road back to the village is a little hairy (there are no pavements). But that didn't stop me wandering there for the evening to try its celebrated restaurant scene. La Dispensa di Armatore was my pick — a properly gastronomic little perch next to the sea wall that knows exactly what to do with anchovies: softening their earthy flavour with olive oil and just the right amount of lemon juice (mains from £15; Then I put my head into the lion's mouth and went to Amalfi itself. The next stop by ferry from Minori, heading west, it's where the overcrowding begins. But I couldn't resist the allure of its dramatic location, wedged tight into a narrow valley beneath two towering cliffs. Besides, I'd found a place to stay that promised a degree of seclusion: at the far end of town, beyond its pizza restaurants and ceramics showrooms. Here, on a ledge that overlooks the valley road, Villa Lara is a crisp, neat B&B with big bedrooms and beguiling views. And yes, it was blissfully quiet. The only hubbub came from the valley's swallows, nesting on the cliffs opposite. This month, B&B double rooms cost from £180. In the morning the manager Nello Rispoli told me to go higher still if I wanted to preserve this sense of tranquillity: 900 steps higher to be precise, to the village of Pontone, where he grew up. Until the 1970s there was no road up there, so he had to climb those steps every day after school in Amalfi. By the time he was a teenager he was doing it in 8-10 minutes. I made it up there in just under 20. Thank goodness Nello had WhatsApped his friend, Raffaele Mansi, at the Blu Bar to warn of my approach. His bar sits on a little piazza at the top of the steps and he was waiting to welcome me with a glass of sparkling water and freshly squeezed lemons ( As I sat there, watching the swallows dart through a medieval archway, it occurred to me that even here, close to one of the coast's principal sites of overtourism, you can still find a deep sense of quiet — if you're prepared to sweat for it. Profusely. • 10 of the best walking holidays in Italy for 2025 So, on my final day, I went higher still. By now I'd caught another Travelmar ferry to my final destination of Maiori, which deters everyone but backpackers and holidaying Italians with its four-square seafront of postwar hotels and apartments. But I wasn't there for the architecture, or lack of it. I'd noticed the church that sits 2,713ft above its streets. The Santuario di Maria Santissima Avvocata was built in honour of a local hermit, and clearly the views from its terrace were going to be sensational. It was time for a proper walk. I thought it would be easy. After all, the sanctuary is the scene of an annual pilgrimage on the first Monday after Pentecost (which falls either in May or June) — and not every pilgrim is a part-time mountaineer. But after a steady start up hundreds of steps, and an enchanting, flattish section through billowing banks of wildflowers, it suddenly turns steep, intricate and testing. Did the first pilgrims pick such a demanding route to test their faith? Or was it to deepen the sense of rapture when they reached the top? Either way, my heart was bursting — right up to the point when I walked out onto the sanctuary's terrace and realised that a drone was buzzing overhead. • 10 of the most beautiful places in Italy It belonged to a small group of locals sitting at the foot of a statue. They were the first people I'd met since I'd left Maiori, two and a half hours earlier. Their guide, Enzo Masullo of Hiking the Sky, explained that they'd come to photograph the sanctuary in a bid to make this part of the Amalfi coast more popular. 'After all, it deserves to be better known — don't you think?' he asked. This article contains affiliate links, which can earn us revenue Sean Newsom was a guest of Hotel Cetus, which has B&B doubles from £200 ( Villa Lara, which has B&B doubles from £210 ( and easyJet, which has Gatwick-Salerno returns from £70 (
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Hitting the 100s: Huge jump in temperatures in Phoenix area expected over the weekend
The National Weather Service in Phoenix said Valley residents could see high temperatures in the low 100s over the next few days, nearly 10 degrees above average for this time of year. The change in weather was a sharp contrast to the cloudy skies and light rain seen around the Valley in previous days. The high temperature for May 9 was expected to be about 101 degrees with sunny skies and winds traveling about 5 mph. The low for the evening was forecast to be nearly 77 degrees with calm winds blowing about 5 mph. Temperatures for May 10 were expected to reach nearly 102 degrees with sunny skies and a breeze gusting between 10 mph and 15 mph. In the evening, the National Weather Service office in Phoenix predicted a low temperature around 79 degrees with winds moving between 5 mph and 10 mph. The weather service estimated a high temperature of near 104 degrees for Mother's Day on May 11, with mostly sunny skies and winds moving between 10 mph and 15 mph. It was possible gusts could reach as high as 20 mph, the weather service said. The low temperature predicted for that night was about 78 degrees with partly cloudy skies and winds blowing between 5 mph and 10 mph. Temperatures were predicted to steadily drop starting May 12. The high temperature was predicted to be about 99 degrees with mostly sunny skies and winds moving between 5 mph and 10 mph, with the possibility of winds traveling as fast as 20 mph. The low temperature for May 12 was expected to be 72 degrees, with winds continuing to travel between 5 mph and 10 mph. The high temperature forecast for May 13 was near 87 degrees, back to average for the season. The weather service said residents can expect mostly sunny skies and winds blowing between 5 mph and 10 mph, with the chance of gusts as high as 25 mph. Matt Salerno, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Phoenix, said large jumps in temperatures were common during the transition months between spring and summer. Weather systems progress through the region and drastically cool down the surrounding area, then as the storm passes, residents are met with a ridge of high pressure that gives the area a higher atmospheric pressure and more dry air. Salerno said the current high-pressure ridge had the ability to heat the Phoenix area more efficiently, and with the changing angle of the sun moving into the summer months, the swing in temperature was not a surprise for the weather service office. Salerno encouraged Valley residents to practice heat safety during the transition into hotter months. He recommended taking frequent breaks in the shade or indoors and stressed the importance of caution as the Valley starts seeing temperatures consistently in the 100s. Sneak peek: Phoenix opens 24/7 heat relief center for families, unhoused and pets This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Triple-digit weather expected in metro Phoenix over the weekend
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Interior Sec. Doug Burgum visits NYC sports complex that risked closure until youth sports parents got involved
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stopped by a Brooklyn sports complex Thursday to celebrate the revival of its ice rinks that almost closed for good until hockey parents pushed the White House to intervene. The Trump cabinet member even rode the Zamboni at the Aviator Sports & Events Center in Midwood as the athletics hub was buzzing with activity – a far contrast from the gloomier prospect it faced earlier this year. 'Being here and seeing the youth here, the youth hockey players that came out tonight, seeing their gratitude because this place was at risk of being closed down,' Burgum told The Post about what made the event so special. 'We're fighting hard, through the National Parks system, to ensure we keep places like this open for youth like this.' Aviator announced in March that it would be forced to close its complex on Floyd Bennett Field because its lease with the National Parks Service was expiring in April. The bad news spurred scores of hockey and ice skating parents into action. They put together a binder filled with photos of their kids and then had the youngsters write out their goals before sending it all to the White House and National Park Service. 'We had parents that actually delivered packages to the headquarters of NPS in person,' one mother, Yana Salerno, said. 'They drove to DC.' The grassroots lobbying worked. The Aviator Hockey and Figure Skating Club revealed late last month it was back in business thanks to working with the park agency and an investment firm, News 12 reported. 'I can't tell you how happy we are,' Salerno said. 'So for the one week that it closed, all the coaches went to different rinks, you know, and we followed. It's like an hour and a half every single day to get to each one of those rings. And it was just awful.' Salerno's figure skating daughter Michaela said, 'I was crying when I heard the news, crying out of happiness.' The 175,000-square-foot multi-sport facility has faced years of adversity due to COVID-19 closures and the emergency encampment that opened up in 2023 during the Big Apple's migrant crisis. The migrant tent city closed in January and the Department of Interior announced in February that the property could not be used as a temporary shelter. While the ice rinks are reopened and outdoor fields are expected to be used, the gymnastics studios in the building are still closed for now, director of facility Chris Werstine said. 'We're just so grateful that we have been given the opportunity to operate because now we can continue to run our programs, and have access,' he said.
