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16-05-2025
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Kid Rock's Nashville Restaurant Closes Over Concerns of ICE Raid: Report
The post Kid Rock's Nashville Restaurant Closes Over Concerns of ICE Raid: Report appeared first on Consequence. Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse in Nashville reportedly shut its doors on Saturday to avoid potential ICE raids sweeping the area. Nashville Scene reports that employees without legal citizenship were told to leave work at Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse around 9:30 p.m. local time on Saturday in order to avoid detention by ICE agents. 'We were already understaffed because of the ICE raids throughout the weekend,' an employee, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation, told the Scene. 'There was no one in the kitchen to cook the food.' While Kid Rock licenses his name to Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse, the business is actually owned by conservative restaurateur Steve Smith. Per Nashville Scene, Smith's other Nashville eateries also shut down Saturday night over ICE raid concerns, and on Sunday, some struggled with staffing as workers avoided returning to work, fearing arrest. Popular Posts First Look at Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale in Madden Movie Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Morris, Alligator in Happy Gilmore, Dead at Over 80 Years Old Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Live Nation Launches $30 Ticket Deal for 1,000+ Summer 2025 Concerts Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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14-05-2025
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Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars
The post Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars appeared first on Consequence. [Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Andor, Season 2 Episode 8, 'Who Are You?'] The second season of Andor, taking place over the four years leading up to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has spent a great deal of time focusing on the previously obscure planet of Ghorman, a peaceful world where spiderwebs become the galaxy's most popular fabrics. Over the first half of the season, the Disney+ series has made a point of establishing Ghorman as a richly defined world with its own history, traditions, and language — specifically the language Ghor, a fully-developed brand-new fictional tongue spoken by Ghorman residents on screen. 'Language is such a part of any culture, of any country, or in the case of Star Wars, of any planet,' David Acord tells Consequence. 'So if you have this well-fleshed-out language that characters are speaking on screen, and doing a great job of seeming very fluent and very believable, and then you've got this world built around that culture, it solidifies what you're trying to achieve, which is this wholly unique culture here.' Acord and Margit Pfeiffer were both supervising sound editors on Andor Season 2 in different capacities: Pfeiffer focusing on any human dialogue element you hear in the show, while Acord — as Pfeiffer puts it — 'gets to have all the fun designing the spaceships and aliens, and then mixes it perfectly with all the music.' In short, they were both responsible for what you hear as you watch Andor — including bringing the Ghor dialogue to the screen. Marina Tyndall, Diego Luna's dialect coach going back to Rogue One, created the Ghor language — 'a fictional language with its own rules and sounds and grammar and pronunciations,' Pfeiffer says. She also confirms that creator Tony Gilroy based a fair amount of Ghorman on French culture, 'from the beautiful set design to the sounds of the language, to the beautiful fabrics and tapestries and the whole production design centered around it. So the language followed.' This means, she continues, that while 'we tried to put in a little bit of Italian grammar, the phonetics [of Ghor] are purely French. A French person could read the lines on a sheet of paper, even though they wouldn't make any sense in French — but it's the French melodic tone that we wanted to keep.' While the syntax might be familiar to French speakers, the vocabulary, Pfeiffer says, 'is all made-up words. It follows strict rules — a noun is a noun, a verb is a verb — but the words themselves are made up.' The limits of the Ghor vocabulary might technically be determined by the scripts, and the words that needed inventing to replicate the writers' dialogue. However, that's still an awful lot of words. Andor (Disney+) 'We recorded hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lines,' Pfeiffer explains. 'And if you look at the structure of a language, I think you could consider yourself to be somewhat fluent if you know about 2000 words — you can form basic sentences and the most common words.' And then there are more specialized topics, she notes: 'For a rebellion and a massacre, you'll have different words than you'd use to check into a hotel.' Unfortunately for the people of Ghorman, dialogue for all those scenarios was required. For as we learn over the course of the season, the planet isn't just a fashion mecca — the increasingly powerful Empire has figured out that there's a rare mineral just below the surface the Emperor requires. And what the Emperor wants, the Emperor gets by any means necessary. This only accentuates the impact of Ghorman's destruction in Season 2, Episode 8, 'Who Are You?,' Acord says. 'It's important that we establish that there's this rich culture on this planet that the fascist Imperial bad guys have decided is less important than the mineral rights underneath the surface. It builds the tension and the stress that you feel for these people.' Popular Posts Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Stephen King's The Long Walk Movie Gets Long-Awaited Trailer: Watch Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Metallica Perform "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition: Watch Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Nicolas Cage Says He Is "Mistaken" for Nick Cave Almost Every Day Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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14-05-2025
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Foo Fighters Announce First Concert of 2025 at Singapore Grand Prix
The post Foo Fighters Announce First Concert of 2025 at Singapore Grand Prix appeared first on Consequence. Foo Fighters have confirmed their first live performance of 2025 at the Singapore Grand Prix on Saturday, October 4th. The band last performed publicly in August 2024. Frontman Dave Grohl has made a series of one-off solo appearances throughout the early part of the year, including alongside the rest of Nirvana's surviving members at SNL50; with the LA Philharmonic at Coachella; and a charity gig in Los Angeles back in April. Popular Posts Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Stephen King's The Long Walk Movie Gets Long-Awaited Trailer: Watch Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Morris, Alligator in Happy Gilmore, Dead at Over 80 Years Old Metallica Perform "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition: Watch Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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14-05-2025
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Weezer Bassist's Wife Jillian Lauren Pleads Not Guilty to LAPD Shooting
The post Weezer Bassist's Wife Jillian Lauren Pleads Not Guilty to LAPD Shooting appeared first on Consequence. Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, pleaded not guilty to felony gun charges following an altercation with police that resulted in her being charged with attempted murder. Lauren, an author of best-selling memoirs and true-crime books, has been charged with discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. She faces up to 19 years in federal prison if convicted. According to the Los Angeles Times, prosecutors are also looking to apply a firearms sentencing enhancement. Get Weezer Tickets Here A quick refresher for the uninitiated: on April 9th, officers were searching for three suspects allegedly involved in a hit-and-run when they encountered Lauren wielding a firearm in her backyard. As seen in body cam footage released by the LAPD, officers repeatedly instructed her to lower her weapon before she fired at least one shot. In response, officers fired back, striking her in the arm, after which Lauren fled back into her residence. Lauren remained inside for approximately an hour and called 911, before eventually surrendering to the police, who charged her with attempted murder. According to audio released by the LAPD, it appears that Lauren believed she was shooting at the hit-and-run suspects, unaware that they were police officers. Lauren is expected to return to court on June 18th for a preliminary hearing. Popular Posts Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Stephen King's The Long Walk Movie Gets Long-Awaited Trailer: Watch Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Metallica Perform "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition: Watch Nicolas Cage Says He Is "Mistaken" for Nick Cave Almost Every Day Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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14-05-2025
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Menendez Brothers Resentenced, Paving Way for Possible Release from Prison
The post Menendez Brothers Resentenced, Paving Way for Possible Release from Prison appeared first on Consequence. A California judge resentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez on Tuesday, clearing the way for the brothers to possibly be released from prison sometime in the near future. According to NBC News, Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic handed down a new sentence of 50 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Erik and Lyle were initially sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering their parents, José and Kitty Mendez, in 1996. In recent years, however, the release of new evidence, the popularity of the Netflix series The Mendez Brothers: Murder Most Foul, and increased awareness of the sexual abuse the brothers endured at the hands of their father have sparked a shift in public opinion, with many people calling for a resentencing. The brothers will next appear before a state parole board on June 13th. Popular Posts Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Stephen King's The Long Walk Movie Gets Long-Awaited Trailer: Watch Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Metallica Perform "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition: Watch Nicolas Cage Says He Is "Mistaken" for Nick Cave Almost Every Day Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
