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Chicago Tribune
2 days ago
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
The Tribune's Quotes of the Week quiz for Aug. 16
Planes whizzing around the city for the annual Chicago Air and Water Show are a sign that summer is winding down. But before the planes came dark skies and tons of rain, with several parts of the Chicagoland under flash flood and severe weather warnings. But enough about the weather — let's recap what else happened this week. Chicago Public Schools students return to the classroom Monday as school leaders continue to hammer out the district's budget. At Wednesday's school board meeting, CPS CEO Macquline King presented a balanced budget that divided members, who must pass a spending plan by the end of August. Plus, the University of Chicago announced that it will pause admissions for Ph.D. and master's programs across several schools amid mounting financial strains. The city of Chicago is facing its own budgetary problems, with the city's chief financial officer speaking Tuesday about how new state actions could help. But City Hall did score a win when the mayor and Chicago Fire Fighters Union Local 2 reached a tentative contract agreement following years of bargaining. Both Republican and Democratic state politicians headed to Springfield this week for their party's day at the Illinois State Fair. The politicos weren't there merely to catch the Snoop Dog show and take in the butter cow, but also to give stump speeches, talk nationwide redistricting efforts and gear up for the 2026 midterms. Meanwhile, the Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois last week said Thursday that they plan to return to Austin after lawmakers adjourn their current special session and California Democrats introduce their retaliatory map designed to neutralize the Texas GOP's efforts. From the crime and public safety beat, another corrupt Illinois politician is going to serve time, the Cook County state's attorney's office declined to charge the officers who shot and killed Dexter Reed during a March 2024 traffic stop and the Chicago police officer who fatally shot Officer Krystal Rivera earlier this year was stripped of police powers after being accused of battery against another female officer. Chicago is the subject of more threats from President Donald Trump. After mobilizing National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to help fight crime, the president suggested doing the same in the Windy City. Trump also met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska on Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. It's been a little more than a week since the latest round of U.S. tariffs took effect, but it's difficult to interpret the impact they've had on the economy. While the stock market soared to historic highs this week, the latest report from the consumer price index showed the cost of some everyday goods is climbing and the Federal Reserve announced that, across the board, inflation was unchanged. Back home, the Chicago Bulls are preparing to get back out on the court, releasing their schedule for the 2025-26 season, which starts on Oct. 22, and across town, the Sky notched their 11th loss in 12 games, as injured star Angel Reese sat out for a sixth straight. Things aren't much better for Chicago area baseball fans. The Cubs are falling further back from first place in the NL Central, the White Sox are 44-78, and Clarendon Hills suffered a stinging defeat in their opening game of the Little League World Series, losing 16-1. But you know who had a good week? Swifties. The pop star announced her 12th studio album, 'The Life of a Showgirl,' late Monday and appeared on her boyfriend Travis Kelce's 'New Heights' podcast Wednesday to discuss the upcoming record. Now let's get to it. Can you guess who said what this week? Take the Tribune's Quotes of the Week quiz to find out. Missed last week? You can find it here or check out our past editions of Quotes of the Week.
Daily Mirror
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
David Beckham and Romeo look tense as they break cover as huge Brooklyn row
A Beckham family feud has been hinted at for months but it seems that it has come to breaking point with family members unfollowing each other on social media David Beckham and Romeo have been seen looking tense as they broke cover for the first time after the a row with Brooklyn blew up on social media. The father and son duo looked deep in thought as they got together to watch David's Inter Miami play against Nashville SC at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Saturday. The sighting of the pair comes just just days after Cruz and Romeo blocked their brother Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz on Instagram - as their severed ties deepened. David looked as smart as ever in a navy suit paired with a blue shirt along with a matching tie. While 22-year-old Romeo went for a more casual look in a grey Snoop Dog T-shirt and green camouflage cargos as he finished off his look with a smart Rolex watch. Romeo seemingly had a dig at brother Brooklyn on Friday just a few hours after it was noticed he had started unfollowing him and sister-in-law Nicola on Instagram. The model posted a picture of Justin Bieber's new song Walking Away as he commented "Yup", looking like he agreed with the lyrics. Fans had hoped for a reconciliation between the family after Brooklyn posted a tribute to his sister Harper on her birthday. A friend said Brooklyn was 'as confused as everyone else' about the apparent blocking. "The first they heard about it was when it was being reported," a source told The Sun of Brooklyn and Nicola's reaction/ Despite the unfollowing saga, Brooklyn and Nicola are still following his parents Victoria and David. A rumoured fallout among the famous family was seemingly confirmed when Brooklyn made a very public statement by refusing to attend any of his dad's 50th birthday celebrations this year. He then snubbed a slew of family occasions from Father's Day to the huge moment his dad was given a knighthood. However, Brooklyn appeared to find his voice when it came to sister Harper's birthday as he managed a brief tribute to her on his Instagram page. It was reported the fallout was down to Romeo dating model Kim Turnbull - who had a brief relationship with Brooklyn. Romeo's romance - which is now at an end - was said to have riled both Brooklyn and his wife Nicola. Kim addressed the situation last month and insisted she has only ever had a friendship with Brooklyn and that there was nothing to worry about. Sharing a statement on her Instagram page, she said: "I've avoided speaking on this topic to prevent adding fuel to the fire, however it's come to a point where I feel the need to address it so I can move on. "I will not continue to receive harassment or be embarrassed on the basis of lies, to fit a certain narrative. I have never been romantically involved in ANY capacity at ANY point with the person in question. "Nothing between us has occurred further than a school friendship at age 16. I would like to remove myself from the ongoing conversation & set the record straight for the sake of everyone involved." Kim had been at the centre of the fall out after it was reported that Nicola claimed that she felt uncomfortable around her. Sources close to Nicola reportedly said that Kim had dated Brooklyn when they were teenagers but this has since been denied by Kim herself. The Mirror have contacted the Beckhams' and Nicola Peltz' reps for comment
Los Angeles Times
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
10 most baffling Snoop Dogg branding deals, from Hot Pockets to ‘lit' fire pits, ranked
At any given moment, you're likely to find Snoop Dog wherever eyeballs (bloodshot or otherwise) wander, from T-Mobile ads and bottles of 19 Crimes wine to Radio City Music Hall for last week's 'Saturday Night Live' 50th anniversary concert. In late January, he performed at a cryptocurrency-themed inauguration party celebrating the incoming Trump administration. Less than three weeks later, he popped up in an anti-hate campaign during the Super Bowl telecast, face to face with football great Tom Brady. A few days before the big game, HL Insights, a New York City–based marketing intelligence firm, released its 2025 Celebrity Influence Index, in which the rapper, actor and entrepreneur ranked No. 3 — just behind Dolly Parton — in relatability based on the question to consumers, 'Who would you like to grab a beer with?' Which is no doubt music to the ears of the folks at Corona, whose suds Snoop has pitched in many a television ad. It's hard to get an accurate tally of all the endorsement deals, branding partnerships and business ventures the Long Beach-born Calvin Broadus has to his credit (emails to management of record went unanswered as of press time), but it's somewhere north of 70 that I've been able to reliably confirm, from the Cross Colours clothing ads of 1993 through that recent Super Bowl ad. As I dug into every last corner of the interweb to get to that number, I was struck by the breadth of products he's pitched, which range from the more-or-less expected (sneakers, fast food, lighters) to the seriously random and bordering on absurd (pistachios, luggage, Skims and the credit score company Equifax). What follows are some of the head-scratching highlights from that latter category, a ranking of the top 10 most perplexing campaigns that have leaned into the pot-puffing pitchman's easygoing likability and are so delightfully baffling that you might just feel like you've smoked some of that sticky icky yourself. Nothing cemented Snoop's ascent to all-American everyman status more than last summer's wall-to-wall Snoopathon that was the 2024 Paris Olympics. His official gig was as a special correspondent for NBC, but in between carrying the Olympic torch through the streets of Saint-Denis in advance of the games and performing on the sand for the closing ceremony back in Long Beach, he became something more akin to a mascot. Although it's impossible to say how much of NBC's reported 76% ratings boost over the Tokyo Olympics can be attributed to Snoop's presence, it certainly doesn't appear to have been detrimental. And with L.A. as the host of the 2028 Games, there's potential for the Snoop Dogg Olympic synergy to sizzle for shizzle. As founder of the nonprofit Snoop Youth Football League back in 2005 and a performer at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show, there's nothing surprising about a connection between the rapper and the game. Even so, the sponsorship of a college postseason bowl game, announced early last year, was notable because it marked the first time an alcohol brand has sponsored a bowl game since the NCAA changed its rules to allow it in 2022. What do Snoop and Dr. Dre and their canned cocktail have to do with a random bowl game whose past naming-rights sponsors include Offerpad and Barstool Sports? Your guess is as good as mine. According to the organization's website, the first game in December drew a record crowd of 40,076, and there are still two more bowls to come under the sponsorship deal, which runs through 2026. Game on! The whole idea of well-off famous folks helping to raise the profile of short-term rental companies like Vrbo (John Legend and Chrissy Teigen) and Airbnb (Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber) is a weird one all by itself. Why not rent an entire floor at the Four Seasons instead of someone's house? But a three-way collab between Snoop Dogg, prefab tiny accessory dwelling units (or ADU) maker Kithaus and Airbnb (with a little help from interior designer Emily Henderson) that popped up during the 2014 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, is a glimpse at what inhabiting 120 square feet of Snoop's domain might look like. Reflective gold marijuana-leaf print wallpaper? Check. A gold-painted, bedazzled mailbox? Check? An Arne Jacobsen egg chair, a blue velvet sofa under a piece of artwork that reads 'BO$$' and a coffee table topped with canine tchotchkes, video game controllers and a pistol-shaped lighter? Check, check and check. All further proof that, big or small, it's Snoop's world, and we're just living in it. Is Snoop Dogg an avowed herbivore? Or did he just 'give up meat' the way he 'gave up smoke' for that Solo campaign? Does it even matter? His efforts on behalf of Beyond Meat, an El Segundo–based maker of plant-based meat alternatives felt ... organic. There was his 2019 pre-Grammys party where Carl's Jr. Beyond Burgers were on the menu. A few months later, he took to the 'Gram to proselytize the protein. In early 2020, the collaboration added Dunkin' to the mix with the Beyond D-O-Double G — a sandwich consisting of a Beyond Meat sausage patty, egg and cheese clamped between two halves of a glazed doughnut (a combo that sounds like stoner food at its finest). The following fall — just in time for football season — Snoop took to a tricked-out food truck to visit L.A.-area Snoop Youth Football League games (talk about leveraging synergy) to hand out free samples of Snoop's Beyond Dogg — a meat-free take on a bratwurst smothered in tailgating-inspired chili. (If this has your taste buds tingling, there's a recipe online.) When an earnest-sounding Snoop took to social media in November 2023 to declare he had decided to 'give up the smoke,' the media (including this outlet) couldn't help but take the bait. Was one of the world's most famously enthusiastic consumers of weed permanently passing the blunt? More than 4.7 million people clicked the 'like' button; celebrities posted their support. Weed heads began gnashing their teeth and rending their garments. (OK, not really, but you get the idea.) Four long days later, while the weed world was coming to terms with what seemed like the loss of one of its most ardent supporters, the other shoe dropped: The misdirection (though, technically, not a lie) was actually part of the first national advertising campaign for Texas-based Solo Brands, maker of smokeless fire pits. A frenzy of follow-up press coverage and even more social media commentary ensued as everyone realized they'd jumped to conclusions. The result? According to a post on X (formerly Twitter) from Solo's chief executive a few weeks later, some 7 billion impressions, and 10 months later, a follow-up campaign featuring limited-edition Solo stoves emblazoned with the slogan 'This pit is lit.' You can't make this stuff up. What's the demographic crossover between Snoop fans and folks who carbonate their own beverages at home? According to at least one published report, not much. But the more pressing question — especially if you caught this PepsiCo subsidiary's 2020 holiday ad campaign: What's with the painting of Snoop as a centaur, the family table flanked with CGI mini-Snoop children and his kitchen-counter conversation with a high-fiving turtle? The shellback's presence, it turns out, is the campaign's way of underscoring the lessened environmental impact of making your own fizzy water at home instead of buying it. The Snoop-as-a-centaur painting? Your guess is as good as mine. But, like the kitchen turtle, it's an image that'll stick with you long after your home-bubbled bottle of water has gone flat. Over the years, he's appeared in ad campaigns for (or launched collaborations with) a walk-in closet's worth of apparel brands from Cross Colours (1993) to Gucci (2024). But the one that gets my up-vote for the most delightfully whackadoodle is an ad for the Gap Inc.-owned Old Navy brand that has Snoop Dogg bound to a chair and being held hostage — by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kumail Nanjiani, no less — for $1 million. The surreal high jinks include a discussion about pastries ('Man, those are profiteroles. I made 'em myself,' Snoop tells a noshing Nanjiani. 'Can you taste the vanilla in 'em?'), the definition of the word 'fortnight' and most important, the key detail that Old Navy customers waiting in line for the 2015 holiday-season Black Friday sale could win $1 million. That's right, all that star power — and Snoop tied to a chair — just to advertise waiting in line. Although he's pitched all manner of foodstuffs on behalf of others (Tostitos, Jack in the Box Munchie Meals, delivery service Grubhub) and launched his own products (ice cream brand Dr. Bombay and a line of breakfast cereals), his ad for the Nestlé-owned Hot Pocket brand of microwavable hand pies takes the (hash) cake. That's all because the music video-style ad featuring DeStorm and Andy Milonakis includes Snoop rapping a parody version of his 2004 hit 'Drop It Like It's Hot' called 'Pocket Like It's Hot' (sample lyrics: 'So don't change the dizzle, turn it up a lizzle / Got some cheesy drizzle dripping on my shizzle'). In what might be one of the most 'What were they thinking?' endorsement deals of all time, Norton enlisted the rapper in its fight against cybercrime. The partnership makes a little more sense when you put it in the context of promoting a contest called 'Hack Is Wack,' which asked creators to submit two-minute rap videos on cybersecurity threats — think hacking, identity-theft viruses and the like. What was in it for the winner? A trip to L.A. to meet with Snoop's management, two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop with Norton antivirus software. Wack indeed. In 2008, long before he was in heavy rotation as a T-Mobile spokesdogg, Snoop appeared in an ad for German cellphone provider Vybe Mobile that might just rank as the most bizarre commercial of his career to date. It begins with a Lego pirate riding on the back of a turtle (what's with Snoop and turtles?) across a kitchen floor as a bored, shorts-wearing 20-something gazes with ennui at his phone. Suddenly, music starts and a lounge-lizard version of Snoop steps into the kitchen — from inside the refrigerator. He's sporting a dark side-part wig and sunglasses and is kitted out in a black tuxedo. One hand clutches a microphone. He begins to sing — in German — 'Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein' ('It's nice to be in the world'), the signature song of the late German folk singer Roy Black, whom Snoop may be (or may be not) channeling. As in most ads featuring Snoop, zaniness ensues: Suds-covered women crawl out of the dishwasher, a pair of piano players appear out of nowhere and the bored 20-something becomes no longer bored. A dancing suds gal holds up a card referencing the costs and benefits of Vybe's offer and boom! In 50 seconds, the ad ends. But the questions? They'll remain with you forever.
Axios
12-02-2025
- General
- Axios
The Commonwealth of Virginia is selling a Snoop Dogg snow globe
The Commonwealth of Virginia has a Snoop Dogg snow globe for sale on the government surplus auction site. Why it matters: It's only $2, as of this writing. Also, at some point, the state owned a Snoop Dog snow globe. State of play: An Axios Richmond reader alerted us yesterday to the Snoop Dogg snow globe listing on an online auction site that helps governments get rid of any surplus inventory. The site is often a treasure trove of mundane or bizarre listings that are somehow in the possession of local governments. Sometime one might see a full-sized school bus for sale on behalf of Chesterfield, other times it might be a massive diorama of a beaver den, which Henrico County inexplicably wanted to unload in 2022. This time, however, it's a Snoop Dogg snow globe, from the Snoop on The Stoop holiday line, according to our research. It's one of nearly 1,000 items recently listed for sale by the state, along with a wooden rolling pin, a suede handbag, a magnetic cat toy and aprox. 900 loose screwdrivers. Pick up for all the items is in Henrico. The state did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
