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The Citizen
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Citizen
Afro Geek festival brings gaming, tech and arts to Soweto youth
To close off African Month, Afro Geek hosted its second festival in partnership with Vumatel at Jabulani Safe Hub, Soweto, on May 24. The vibrant festival brings together cosplay, gaming, comic books, animation and tech through a proudly African lens. Afro Geek is a community and a hub r talent within the African space. This includes STEM, science, technology, engineering, arts, gaming, and mathematics. It was started to bring geek culture into the local communities so that they are also exposed to things such as gaming and robotics. ALSO READ: Noordheuwel triumphs in thrilling 21–20 victory over Jeppe at KES Easter Festival Creative Director and co-founder of Afro Geek Thapelo Zwane shared that as a Geek from Soweto, he saw it fit to bring that culture to his hometown and expose the community to things such as the arts and gaming. ''We do see that people from our communities are interested and like things such as gaming and comics and everything that is exhibited here, and we decided that instead of travelling to your upper-class locations, let us bring that to our local communities. 'One of our main goals is to expose children from different schools, so we invited some learners to showcase to them,'' said Zwane. The festival had stalls that showcased different products, ranging from artists with their vibrant paintings to edtech stands that dealt with robotics, gaming, and designers. Marketing CSI coordinator of Vumatel, Thandazile Mkhize shared that Afro Geek shared their concept with them and thought that it was something that they would want to venture into as they are for supporting for the community. ALSO READ: St John's U16s closes festival with a win of 42–26 over Northcliff She added that they assist with connection and hope their contribution makes a difference. Zinhle Mfaba, an artist showcasing her art at the festival, said, ''I believe that the festival is a great way to showcase talent, especially local talent. 'We are not exposed to such and I believe that this is a great initiative that will make a huge difference and give us better opportunities.'' At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Fox Sports
a day ago
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
How to watch INDYCAR Detroit Grand Prix: Schedule, date, time, TV channels, streaming
The 2025 INDYCAR season, hot off a thrilling Indy 500, continues with the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, bringing high-speed action to the streets of Detroit, Michigan. Keep reading for key details, including race dates, start times, TV channels, and streaming options. When is INDYCAR Detroit? What time does the race start? The next race of the 2025 INDYCAR season will start at 12:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, June 1st, 2025. Where is the Detroit Grand Prix? The race will take place on a temporary street course in Detroit, Michigan. The course is a 1.645-mile, nine-turn street circuit through some of Detroit's most popular and active Downtown areas. The race itself is a total of 164 miles and 100 laps. How can I watch INDYCAR Detroit? What channel will it be on? The 2025 INDYCAR Detroit Grand Prix race will be broadcast live on FOX. How can I stream INDYCAR Detroit? The 2025 INDYCAR Detroit race will be available to be streamed live on the FOX Sports website and the FOX Sports App . For those without cable, there are live-streaming services that carry FOX, including YouTube TV, Sling TV, Hulu + Live TV and fuboTV. If you have an antenna in a good reception area, you can also watch INDYCAR on your local FOX station. Check out the Federal Communications Commission TV reception maps to see which stations are available in your area. 2025 INDYCAR Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Schedule Friday, May 30 Saturday, May 31 Sunday, June 1 recommended Get more from NTT INDYCAR SERIES Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more in this topic
CTV News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Classic Sports Moments - Regina Hosts 2001 Memorial Cup with the Pats in the semi-final
Watch A thrilling contest many Saskatchewan hockey fans still remember, though probably wish the scoreboard went the other way.
Elle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Unique Fragrances Are In—And One Cult Scent Is Now Available in the U.S.
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Your name may not be Taylor Alison Swift, but you've gone through some eras, especially when it comes to scents. Let's recall your personal Fragrance Eras Tour: Your teenage years, puzzling over whether you wanted to smell 'clean' or 'fresh.' Then the 'School Dance Scents' era. Maybe you had a 'Sure, I'll Sample the Perfume in This Club Bathroom' era. Perhaps a CK One, Flowerbomb, Baccarat Rouge, or all-of-the-above era. And now? You have a chance to be in your most powerful scented era of all. It's never been easier, more exciting, or more thrilling to smell like nothing you've ever experienced before—and exactly what you've always wanted. 'Remember this time,' Inter Parfums, Inc. chairman, CEO, and cofounder Jean Madar boomed at me when I met him. As head of one of the biggest manufacturers and distributors of fragrances and cosmetics in the world, he was boisterous: Fragrance sales for the third quarter were at an all-time record. 'There's never been a moment like this,' he says he tells his employees, citing the past four years of growth. #Perfumetok confirms the huge surge of interest in scent, with the hashtag drawing billions of views. Funmi Monet, a fragrance and beauty content creator, describes its appeal: 'You don't have to be a certain size; you don't have to be Kendall Jenner, or even super-rich,' to put on a fragrance and feel more seen (or smelled). It's a particularly exciting time for indie brands, rare perfumes, or what I'm calling niche-niche perfumes. Franco Wright, cofounder of one of the biggest online retailers for this subcategory, describes it as 'true niche': 'artistic, independent-driven brands that are often less distributed and usually very creative and unique in their composition.' Think Byredo before it became a household name. Think of eclectic scents like the unapologetically lewd Sadonaso by Nasomatto, which smells like…well, accounts vary, but just look it up. Think of a perfume from a big house that you can only buy in certain parts of Europe and Asia that has Fragrantica in a tizzy (like Yves Saint Laurent Beauty's Babycat, which only just became available in the United States) or a specific vintage edition of a Jean Paul Gaultier scent that goes for hundreds on eBay. Think of small perfume brands that don't have to do any market testing and have to please no one but their creators—people like the visual artist Andrea Maack of Iceland, and Marissa Zappas of New York City. Zappas started her career as a receptionist at Givaudan, and now, with her legions of fans (including Kacey Musgraves), she could be the perfume laureate of downtown New York (as Tynan Sinks, a beauty writer and co-host of perfume podcast Smell Ya Later, put it, "How did we all start fucking talking about Marissa Zappas who we love?'). Her fragrances are often created for friends, like the astrologer Annabel Gat, the muse behind Annabel's Birthday Cake. Not quite Funfetti, the scent has notes of balloon, tuberose frosting, fresh-out-of-the-oven cake, and lemon sugar (with just a hint of Cabbage Patch Kids doll, according to one reviewer). Rooted in nostalgia, with inspirations like Swan Lake and Elizabeth Taylor, Zappas's creations touch on the current bow-bedecked nerve of girlhood. Zappas wants perfume to be different. She doesn't do any advertising, and not much social media, yet customers do 'tend to find me,' she says. 'There's so much potential in storytelling with perfume, because it's so abstract. I wanted to explore the possibilities and create perfumes that weren't necessarily just reiterations. I really love old Guerlain perfumes, and my goal is to reach people who might originally have reached for [it]. I certainly have worn commercial perfumes, and found comfort in the fact that my best friend was also wearing it. This is part of why we wear perfume—to share in these moments. But at the same time, I think we live in an increasingly individualist society, and everybody wants to have the most unique, the most special, the most different smell.' Wanting to smell different is becoming an increasingly ardent form of self-expression, the ultimate invisible and rare accessory. 'Consumers have gone from one signature fragrance, to a collection,' says Linda Levy, President of the Fragrance Foundation. Tom Bloom, marketing and relationships manager for Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, which has collaborated on perfumes with Neil Gaiman, makes a parallel to the search for vintage. 'It's comparable with the rise of thrifting in terms of looking for special items that are perfect and have a story.' With non-mainstream perfumes, the inspiration behind them can often be more complex and unusual, combining smell with fiction as a point of difference. Jane Dashley, the blogger known as Sea of Shoes, is a fragrance collector and enthusiast who started a niche perfume site, Fragraphilia, with her husband Jeff, followed later by a companion podcast. She tells me about Stora Skuggan, a Swedish company whose perfume Thumbsucker spins the tale of a king becoming pregnant after mistakenly drinking a potion made by sages for the queen. Its notes include honey, cherry, and Himalayan Cedar Bitter Almond—a redolent take on a hangover. The bottles, with their exaggerated orb caps, look like they could eat Harry Styles's Pleasing. Non-mainstream perfumes can also give perfumers the chance to try more unusual notes. 'If you have a client who's willing to go all the way out there, you can really explore uncharted territory, and that's quite exciting,' says perfumer Frank Voelkl, the nose behind Le Labo's Santal 33 and many other once-niche scents. His creation, Mood Ring by Phlur, captured something new for me—the feeling of going into a Japanese grocery after school and ripping open a sleeve of Hi-Chew candies. Sometimes, all the experimenting can result in more unusual perfumes that take some time to appreciate and go beyond the general desire to smell good. Jeff Dashley tells me about a perfume called Ambilux by Marlou. 'I wouldn't wear it to go visit my mother. It's such an [initial] straight urinous blast. Sometimes there are things that challenge you. But you start to look past those type of things and see the elevated artistry behind it.' (It's still not a luncheon perfume, however, he confirms.) Even as everyone wants to smell different, there can be community in bonding over your favorites. When you become fluent in ambroxan and ethyl maltol and follow the creations of your favorite perfumers, you want to meet others who speak the same language. 'Among young women, niche perfume is becoming more and more an important type of social currency, a status symbol, and a great way to relate to other girls. People are genuinely making friends from this hobby,' Jane Dashley tells me. Because fragrance is so subjective, there aren't really any wrong answers, which helps safeguard against internet toxicity. Ultimately, niche-niche perfume isn't about anyone but you, the main character of your own story. 'Fragrance used to be about who you wanted to be,' says Tynan Sinks, cohost of the scent podcast Smell Ya Later. 'But now it's about who you are today, which might not be the same tomorrow.' A version of this story appears in the March 2024 issue of ELLE.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eric Dane Stars in 'Countdown' Trailer with Jensen Ackles, 6 Weeks After Revealing ALS Diagnosis
Jensen Ackles, Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho star in the action-packed official trailer for Countdown, which premieres June 25 on Prime Video The series features a secret task force trying to stop a "Chernobyl-level event" from happening in Los Angeles This marks the first released project from Dane since he announced his ALS diagnosis last monthThe action-packed trailer for Countdown, starring Jensen Ackles, Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho is here. In the official trailer for Prime Video's forthcoming series, Ackles' Mark Meachum joins an elite team led by Dane's Nathan Blythe in the hopes of stopping a "Chernobyl-level event" from happening in Los Angeles. While the stakes are high, there's still levity to the show, specifically between Ackles' character and Camacho's Amber Oliveras. "I was just checking to see how you were after that bomb went off in our face last night," Mark says to Amber. After we see the explosion being referenced, Amber replies without missing a beat, "Ready to rock." Dane's character, however, is all business. "You are the best, or I would not have selected you," he tells the team, which also includes Luke Finau (Uli Latukefu), Evan Shepherd (Violett Beane), Keyonte Bell (Elliot Knight) and Damon Drew (Jonathan Togo). "Our mission could prevent another 9/11." After a thrilling montage — including body slams into a glass table, shoot-outs and daring leaps from moving vehicles — Ackles' Mark closes the trailer with an action hero-worthy line, saying, "If I'm going out, I'm going out saving something." The show's logline reads: When an officer with the Department of Homeland Security is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum, portrayed by Ackles, is recruited to a secret task force, alongside undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement, to investigate." It continues, "But the hunt for the killer soon uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have imagined, kicking off a race against time to save a city of millions." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. In a recent interview, Ackles teased that his Countdown character will feel "familiar" for fans of his Supernatural character, Dean Winchester. "There's probably going to be some familiarity from that fandom with this guy," he told Entertainment Weekly. "It's not like I'm going so opposite spectrum with this character. He's going to be a familiar taste, which is good. I like doing that." As for Dane, this marks his first released project since announcing he was diagnosed with ALS. 'I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate this next chapter. I feel fortunate that I am able to continue working and am looking forward to returning to the set of Euphoria next week,' he told PEOPLE on April 10. Countdown, created by Derek Haas, premieres June 25 on Prime Video with the first three episodes. New episodes will then be released weekly on Wednesdays, culminating in the series finale on Sept. 3. Read the original article on People
