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Edmonton Journal
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
Former Raptors all-star DeMar DeRozan shares thoughts about playing in Toronto
Article content During a recent appearance on the Run Your Race podcast, the California-raised NBA star – who has become involved in the rap feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, siding with the latter — shared his feelings about playing the majority of his career north of the border. When asked by host Theo Pinson, a former NBA guard, about his time playing in Toronto, DeRozan was nothing but complimentary towards the Six. 'Talk about hooping in Toronto, in general … How special is Toronto?' Pinson asked. 'I'm glad I didn't get drafted nowhere else. Toronto is always going to be the No. 1 place in my heart,' DeRozan said. 'For everything that they've done for me, did for me, supporting me through my time there.'
Business Wire
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
YogaSix To Celebrate Second Annual YogaSix Day on June 6
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- YogaSix, the largest franchised yoga brand in the U.S. and part of the Xponential Fitness family, today announced the return of its second annual YogaSix Day train place on June 6, 2025. With nearly 200 locations across the country, YogaSix is building on the success of last year's inaugural event, which delivered record-breaking attendance, strong new student turnout, and one of the brand's highest days for class utilization. This year, YogaSix again welcomes members and newcomers alike with a unique opportunity to see all that the modern boutique yoga brand has to offer on its signature brand day. 'YogaSix Day has quickly become a signature celebration for our brand,' said Jeff Miller, Chief Marketing Officer of YogaSix. 'Last year's success showed just how many people are interested in joining and embracing the YogaSix community. YogaSix Day gives us an opportunity to showcase our brand, our style of yoga, our franchise owners, our teachers, and most importantly, our YogaSix community. This is only our second year, and I can't wait to see what YogaSix Day looks and feels like in its 20th year.' Special Classes, Events and Offers on YogaSix Day Back by popular demand and only offered once a year, 'The Y6 Six' class offers a 60-minute yoga journey through all six signature formats: Y6 101, Y6 Slow Flow, Y6 Signature, Y6 Power Flow, Y6 Sculpt & Flow, and Y6 Restore. This dynamic class blends elements of each to deliver a comprehensive, energizing, 60-minute yoga experience. 'The Y6 Six class gives new students a taste of what YogaSix offers and an opportunity for our loyal members to try out different class types that they may not normally take,' said Veronica Najera, Director of Education at YogaSix. 'We hope it encourages members who regularly attend our Y6 Signature Hot or Y6 Power Flow class to expand their comfort zone by trying a little of Y6 Restore or Y6 Slow Flow, and vice versa.' This special day will be celebrated with both in-studio and out-of-studio events, with participating studios partnering with local community businesses to offer samples and on site activations. To keep the party going, select studios will also have custom playlists, DJs, and food and drinks going throughout the day. Select YogaSix studios are offering free and discounted classes for newcomers and friends, discounts on YogaSix branded apparel and merchandise, special one day only membership offers, and the return of the 'Summer 6-Pack' – which launches nationwide on YogaSix Day. YogaSix stands out from other yoga concepts by eliminating the exclusive and intimidating vibe that often surrounds yoga, reviving the practice in a modern way that is inclusive, empowering, and fun. For more information about YogaSix Day, class schedules, studio locations and special promotions, visit or contact your local YogaSix studio directly. YOGASIX Founded in 2012, YogaSix is the largest franchised yoga brand in the United States that offers a broad range of heated and non-heated yoga classes, strength-building and cardio-boosting fitness classes, and restorative yoga classes accessible to all. YogaSix has six Signature class formats, including Y6 101, Y6 Restore, Y6 Slow Flow, Y6 Signature Hot and Warm, Y6 Power Flow, and Y6 Sculpt & Flow, plus three Specialty Classes: Y6 Mix, Y6 TRX, and the new Y6 Mobility. Classes at YogaSix eliminate the intimidation factor that many people feel when trying yoga for the first time, offering a fresh perspective on one of the world's oldest fitness practices. Ranked in Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 three years running, and Fastest-Growing Franchises and Top New Franchises two years running, YogaSix is headquartered in Irvine, California and backed by Xponential Fitness, one of the leading global franchisors of boutique health and wellness brands. To learn more about YogaSix, visit
Chicago Tribune
2 days ago
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Today in Chicago History: Cubs hire Buck O'Neil who becomes first Black coach in major league history
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 29, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1962: The Chicago Cubs hired John 'Buck' O'Neil as the first Black on-field coach in major league history. 'I have never told anyone this before, but I was the one who talked to [then-Cubs owner] P.K. Wrigley and asked him to hire Buck,' Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie Banks told the Tribune in 2006. 'That had always been between just me and Buck. I'm saying this with love today; it was me. I said to Mr. Wrigley: 'There is a man I know who has a lot of talent with baseball, it's Buck O'Neil.'' A solid-hitting first baseman, O'Neil barnstormed with pitching legend Satchel Paige during his youth and twice won a Negro leagues batting title. He later became a pennant-winning manager of the Kansas City Monarchs. O'Neil — who fell short of induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by one vote in 2006 — was finally enshrined there in 2022. He died in 2006 at age 94. 1976: Six Flags Great America (which was originally known as Marriott's Great America) debuted in Gurnee. The $50 million-playland opened in miserable Memorial Day weekend weather, but 12,000 visitors still showed up. Roller coasters including the corkscrew barrel roll Turn of the Century were a big hit. 2013: Catcher Dioner Navarro had the first three home-run game of his career, connecting from both sides of the plate at Wrigley Field to lead the Cubs to a 9-3 win over the Chicago White Sox. Navarro had 6 RBIs, drove in a career-high 5 runs and scored 4 times. Navarro hit six home runs for the White Sox during the 2016 season, before he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays. Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past.
Irish Independent
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Obituary: Paul Durcan, popular, prolific, performing poet who had the power to move people with his words
Prolific, popular and a performing poet, he had the power to move people with his words. A sensitive soul who took the daring leap to devote his life to poetry, he was a rare breed. He also had a great gift for making people laugh. One of his poems began with the line: 'My father was a man with five penises.' His poetry chronicled Irish life and his own life. The two were intertwined. His great friend Niall MacMonagle described his work as 'the soundtrack to our lives'. Indeed it was. Durcan's finger was relentlessly on the pulse of the nation. He would peruse the newspapers and broadcast media, then spin them into poetic gold. Such was the power of his writing that his verses often had more potency than any news report. 'That's one of the things about people who write poetry, you record things that you would have forgotten about, that I would have forgotten about,' he once said. He wrote about the poor Loreto nuns who burned to death in a tragic accident (Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno). When a man drowned trying to cross the River Slane at a Bob Dylan concert, he commemorated it in verse. He wrote about the divorce referendum and his rage as a priest from the pulpit urged a vote against it, in accordance with the church's teachings. When the IRA killed two RUC policemen, his poem The Bloomsday Murders, 16th June 1997 was placed on the front page of The Sunday Independent. 'Not even you, Gerry Adams, deserve to be murdered, You whose friends at noon murdered my two young men, David Johnston and John Graham.' ADVERTISEMENT Learn more He also had a great ability to look at the world from an oblique angle. His poems would go off on surreal tangents, like the one about the old ladies who escaped from a nursing home, giggling in their golden dressing gowns. Another one imagined his elderly mother installing a trapeze in her kitchen. He was a master at making people laugh. He captured the minutiae of Irish life. He wrote of a priest in the middle of a 'fast mass', asking his congregation to pray that Clare would beat Galway in the All-Ireland hurling quarter-final. When he wasn't writing, he spent a lot of time doing poetry readings. Although he has a poem about one lone man being his audience, this was not the norm. They were almost always booked out, and with good reason. To say that he recited his poetry would be an understatement. He performed. His readings were mesmeric. He would close his eyes, wait for silence and then freefall into an odyssey of his beautifully bizarre world. Complete with accents, facial expressions and fantastic timing, he would have the audience in howls of laughter. He would bask in this joy with his gentle smile. Other times when his criticism of IRA atrocities, in verse, was met with stony silence, he would carry on courageously. Having heard him, it was impossible to read his poems without his voice in your head. But equally, they were strong enough to stand alone. Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944 to Sheila MacBride and John Durcan. His mother's family name was a huge part of his childhood because her father's younger brother was John MacBride who was executed in 1916. Her first cousin was Seán MacBride, the son of John MacBride and Maud Gonne. His father was a Mayo man. John Durcan was a secondary school teacher who went on to become a barrister and later a judge. He wrote about them both in his poetry. He had precious childhood memories of getting the 11 bus with his mother with her pearl earrings, matching necklace and glistening lipstick, on the way to see Treasure Island in the cinema. He said that she was his first childhood sweetheart. His relationship with his father was often troubled. It is all in the poetry, especially in the book Daddy, Daddy. Paul wrote of asking if they could pass out the moon as they drove in his father's Ford Anglia to Mayo. His father would quiz him on whether his bowels had moved or not and tell him that he would leave him his galoshes. As a young boy, when he didn't excel academically in the top three in the class, his father beat him. Years later, a doctor persuaded Mr Durcan his son should be institutionalised. When he was 19, Paul was put into a psychiatric hospital where he had to undergo 27 sessions of Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment. Alan Gilsenan covered this period in his documentary about Paul's life The Dark School. But ever after, he was reluctant to talk about that time. It was the distant past. 'I ended up in St John of Gods in a ridiculous way. There was nothing the matter with me. I'm sure you saw the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Well, I was one of the luckier ones, one of the ones who flew over the cuckoo's nest and survived it,' he said. 'I didn't get a leucotomy which would have finished me off completely but I did get massive amounts of barbiturates, the whole Mandrax and every lethal tablet you could ever name. I think I came out of it with a kind of melancholia.' As the years passed, he became softer about his father. 'I wrote what I wrote,' he said of his poems about him, 'but I realise that some people have formed too black an impression of him. He took his job as a judge unbelievably seriously and it definitely made him more melancholic. It took its toll on him. "But he was a terrific storyteller and he was forever telling me about the French Revolution. It fascinated him and so Robespierre and Danton were real to me.' He got a degree in archaeology and medieval history. Paul married Nessa O'Neill in 1968. She changed his life. They lived in London for some time and had two daughters Sarah and Síabhra. They finally settled in Cork. He wrote of the wondrous joy of their love and family life. When their marriage broke down in 1984, he wrote about it in verse. The heartache was heartbreaking to read. The Difficulty that is Marriage is one of his poems on the Leaving Cert syllabus. He poured his life into his work. Poetry was his life and his life was in his poetry. In one poem he wrote: 'Do not buy the biography of Primo Levi. If you want to know Primo Levi, read the poetry of Primo Levi. The poetry is the story; The story is the life.' And so it was with him. It is all there. He wrote of love, loneliness, how he was crazy about women and how his hair was grey with woman hunger. He wrote about two recovering alcoholics spending Christmas Day together. He wrote about how he was not a natural driver and had spent endless Sunday afternoons driving around, practising so he would pass his test. He wrote of how appalled he was that his bedroom had a matching squalor to the artist Tracey Emin's grubby exhibit, with his sheets the colour of stagnant dishwater. Last October, the Gate Theatre hosted a night to celebrate the publication of Paul Durcan — 80 at 80. It was his final book, a compilation of his poetry edited by Niall MacMonagle. His poems were recited by many including President Michael D Higgins. But Paul was not there. He was no longer able. His life had changed and he was in a nursing home.
Sunday World
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Singer Nadine Coyle pokes fun at Nicola Coughlan's Derry accent
The actress based her accent in the hit show Derry Girls on the singer's speaking voice The Galway-born star played the role of Clare Devlin in BBC sitcom Derry Girls. Appearing on the Late Late Show, the Girls Aloud singer was dubbed the 'original Derry girl' asked if she knew that Coughlan had 'based her accent' in the show on her. 'I've heard her say that! I've heard her say that she did…,' Nadine said. 'She watched YouTube videos of me saying stuff – I was like, 'You could have watched a few more, you could have watched a few more Nicola'. Nicola Coughlan in Derry Girls 'I can help you out. Anytime you need to do another Derry character we can like get together,' she added. In 2020 during an appearance on the Graham Norton show, Nicola said she prepared for the role by watching old videos of Coyle 'I don't know if people will know this, but there was an extremely controversial incident in the early noughties in Ireland. 'I feel like it was sort of the first Irish pop culture TV moment, it was Popstars the Irish version,' she continued. 'So she went on and lied about her age, but she got found out on camera. 'She had got into the band and then her on-camera interview, the first one to introduce yourself and who you are. 'She said 'my name is Nadine Coyle, I'm from Lark Hill in Derry, my date of birth is 15/6/85 making me a Gemini', and then she thinks for a second and goes 'what date of birth did I say?' and then it fades and she's outed herself on camera,' she explained, doing her best impression of the iconic moment. 'Everyone lost the plot.' Nadine Coyle News in 90 seconds - 12th May 2025 Continuing her impression of Nadine, Coughlan mimicked the moment when she called her mother to look for her passport. 'It was all a lie, she knew. She was 16, but she was meant to be 18,' she added. Nadine was kicked out of the band 'Six' once her real age was outed. The group went on to achieve the fastest-selling single in Irish chart history with their smash hit song There's a Whole Lot of Loving Going On. Louis Walsh, who was a judge on the programme encouraged Coyle to audition for Popstars: The Rivals once she turned 18. During the competition, she sang for a place in a girlband which ultimately became Girls Aloud.
