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21 Best Engagement Nail Ideas To Kick Off Your Bridal Era
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21 Best Engagement Nail Ideas To Kick Off Your Bridal Era

by jummy84 November 10, 2025
written by jummy84

For better or for worse, you’ll never forget what your nails looked like on the day of your proposal. That’s why we’re always in favor of stockpiling engagement nail ideas.

Maybe you know for certain that the big question is coming, or maybe your best friend has been suspiciously adamant about booking a nail appointment this week. Even if you’re single and daydreaming, there’s plenty of inspo to be taken from the best engagement nail looks. Whether you’re a mani minimalist who just likes to keep things polished, or an nail art enthusiast who loves a theme, there’s a perfect engagement set out there for you.

While there’s a lot of pressure to choose the perfect wedding day nails, your engagement manicure leaves a little more room for fun and spontaneity. You might lean into the celebration with a festive champagne set, or match your band with a metallic tip. If you’re more of a minimalist—or want to be prepared without letting your fiancé-to-be know you’re onto them—you’re in luck: There so many trendy ways to make a neutral mani feel special right now.

Even if you want to be completely surprised, there’s no harm in keeping a bottle of one-coat nail polish or some emergency press-ons in your purse. But for the planners among us: Scroll on for the best engagement nail ideas on Instagram.


November 10, 2025 0 comments
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Kim Kardashian's 'All's Fair' Represents a New Era in Television
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Kim Kardashian’s ‘All’s Fair’ Represents a New Era in Television

by jummy84 November 10, 2025
written by jummy84

One feature of modern AI systems is that the model does not actually reason. Unlike the older “symbolic” approach, in which humans hard-program a machine to run through a series of options, the current Large Language Models simply synthesize lots of information and predict based on likelihoods. So the model (by definition) cannot conjure up anything of literal substance; it can just regurgitate, sometimes coherently and sometimes nonsensically, based on material it doesn’t understand. 

An odd reference point, perhaps. But it came to mind when watching the first three episodes of All’s Fair, Hulu‘s new dramatic soap from Ryan Murphy. By network report, at least, the show was written by humans, including Jon Robin Baitz, an excellent playwright who has spent parts of the past 20 years trying to find his footing in television. Yet the result is a regurgitation of fragments of images, of plot lines and dialogue, previously thought native only to automated text-predictors — an approach to creativity with the same lack of consciousness as an LLM.

By now you know of the series, if only from the people warning you that you really don’t want to know the series; “atrocity,” “brain dead” and “worst TV show of all time” have been the kinds of terms thrown around. These labels somehow are both too generous and an understatement of the true contribution — dare I say transformation — of the All’s Fair moment. See, the Hulu series is not terrible on the scale of great to awful that television typically runs on. No, it does away with the entire spectrum — in fact, I would argue it overhauls the definition of television itself.

Through either a great act of artistic subversion or (more likely) just a great accident, All’s Fair has entirely recalibrated what a series should try to do. When faced with the increasingly tough Hollywood question of how to make original TV in a world that has seemingly already unearthed every plot and drained the bag of every surprise, Murphy and his team have returned an unexpected answer: junk the medium’s entire premise. In its place, they say, slide in a show whose defining characteristic is recycled emptiness. Thirty years after Seinfeld gave us a show about nothing (which was actually about friendship and frustrations and loneliness and insecurities), All’s Fair has finally come along to make good on the promise. 

By a show about nothing, I don’t mean All’s Fair represents a morally vacuous worldview; that would be reprehensible, but at least a perspective. No, I mean literally nothing. There is a universe in which champagne-clinking pronouncements like “from cocktails to cock rings all in one 24-hour period” mean something. But we don’t live in that universe. We live in this one, and it doesn’t.

A Los Angeles-set series anchored by Kim Kardashian, All’s Fair takes the form of a divorce-themed legal drama in which a set of inspirational girlboss slogans/insults get crossed with the images of an early 2000s perfume commercial. That sounds like a prompt more than a description, and it should; the show contains plotlines and dramatic arcs and character nuances no more than a ChatGPT response about a set of ingredients produces an actual pie. Surely in the history of people saying they didn’t want to do something no one has ever put together a combination of words that read “I wouldn’t do [it] even if I were penniless and starving on a street corner forced to blow a priest with a chlamydia for a bowl of refried beans.” But an LLM doesn’t know that, and when tasked with such an assignment it might just rifle through its training data to arrange them in this way.

This is a show which not only doesn’t know but doesn’t care whether it’s supposed to be an aspirational portrayal of wealth or a satire of it — where a tired husband’s “I’m drowning here with you” is met with “What are you talking about? You’re famous. You have three Super Bowl rings,” and it’s not clear to anyone, least of all the actors saying them, whether these lines are meant to be comedic.

Meanwhile, consumerism, the reliable source of ersatz meaning (and the ultimate goal of LLMs), becomes the go-to in All’s Fair’s many scenes of gourmet-food-picking sister-bonding. Surely it can be no coincidence that when Kardashian’s character (with the decidedly synthetic name of Allura) gets a life-crushing piece of news, this is the monologue that follows:

“Living well is the best revenge, but on the path to living well, looking great matters too. … The other day I did this new miracle laser that makes the tiny microscopic holes in the skin that stimulates collagen. There’s also the most wonderful new long-lasting filler formulated from salmon sperm. And then there is this new check machine that stimulates 20,000 super maximal muscle contractions; it’s like doing 20,000 crunches or squats. But the best thing I did was vaginal PRP.” (You don’t want to know.)

No person, no matter how dermatologically inclined, would have that reaction to learning about a shattering tragedy. Ah, but that presumes this show is attempting to portray people, not serve as a vessel emptied of meaning. If that is the aim, odes to filler formulated from salmon-sperm is exactly how you would respond to your newly ruined life.

In another era, the era of Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Room, we might expect All’s Fair to be reappropriated and valorized as camp. But the beauty, or at least the fireproofing, of this era is that the cultural techno-machine has already done all that work, processing and reprocessing heightened nonsense so much that there is nothing left for a midnight audience to do.

A temptation hovers to see all this as the logical downward endpoint of Ryan Murphy — that after the transgressive frisson of Nip/Tuck gave rise to the feelgood freshness of Glee which yielded the baroque heavyhandedness of American Horror Story that birthed the empty cosplay of American Crime Story, this marks the only place he could end up, in the commedia dell’arte of Kim Kardashian and her friends describing revenge in terms of chopped-up and force-fed ram scrotums. (Yeah, that’s in the show too.)

It would even be reasonable to find here an inexorable end to Kardashian herself, who, having increasingly turned from any sort of conventionally defined reality-star or social influencer into a meme — an abstract idea of what a public personality can be — now must evolve into the only state available to her: a simulation of a human character.

But that would actually feel like too mild an ambition for what I think might really be happening here, which is an attempt, with the specter of the AI slop machine looming over Hollywood, to destroy the storytelling medium before a personalize-the-IP Sora can get its hand on the gun — a kind of pop-culture cyanide-pilling. When the history of 21st-century entertainment is written, I believe we will look at All’s Fair as a watershed, the moment that television itself, as a place where new and coherent stories were for decades told, began to give way to something more meaning-free, more recycled, more nothing. As 6 7 gets named word of the year precisely due to its emptiness, and perpetrators of political violence toss out deliberately incoherent Internet memes, the small screen now enters the fray too, appropriating the nothingness and re-packaging it in its own bejeweled casing. With ratings so good, expect to see more like it. Broadcast created news-variety and basic cable created reality TV and streaming creating prestige TV and social media created outrage-opinion TV. AI will create tropal-emptiness TV trained on all of the above but adding up to, like All’s Fair, much less than it.

Murphy’s show has an almost laughable number of executive producers (I counted 15, including Kris Jenner), which at first confounds; surely in a group this large someone knows how to produce a passable television show. But then an explanation snapped into place: the abundance of voices is exactly what leads to All’s Fair anti-televisuality. Each producer cancels the other out, blender-like, just as a broad data set reduces an LLM’s outputs to meaninglessness.

I’m not certain if any of these 15 people or the cast (which also includes Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close) understood their epically disruptive aim (attempts to reach one of the executive producers ended with a redirection to Murphy, who for now isn’t talking). But there were hints at least of a subconscious understanding that what is being streamed here is not television in a classic sense. Because the cast has engaged with this empty memified world on-screen by extending the drama into a meme-land off of it. 

First Close on Thursday posted a hand-drawn doodle in which critics are boiled in a stew while the cast gleefully stands around and watches (a legendary actress trying to Fatal Attraction journalists was not on this year’s bingo card). The meme seemed to perfectly capture the dynamic on-screen too, the show’s principals burning down the avatars of meaning in a pot of hot-water nothingness.

And then Kim Kardashian offered an Instagram post that asked if followers “had tuned in to the most critically acclaimed show of the year?!?!?!?” and went on to cite the awful reviews in a way that recontextualized them as good. She, even more than Close, seemed in on the joke: “This whole idea of professionals producing television and a set of cultural gatekeepers evaluating it is now so meaningless we can pretend the evaluation is anything we want.” Algorithms are turning information into personalized bits, shaped into whatever we individually find most digestible, so why not grab a hammer and fragment the mass medium of television into subjective smithereens? I have no idea who the insult “I’m surprised your ancestors were actually allowed on the Mayflower but I guess that’s one way to rid the place of half-wits, mouth-breathers and perverts” is supposed to roast. But more important, the show’s creators don’t either, and aren’t particularly troubled by the question. It means whatever you want it to mean.

There’s something fitting about the author all of this. Who better than Ryan Murphy, who for so long embodied and powered a cable/streaming ethos with his prestige-flecked airplane reads, to come in and say that era is over? The new moment involves models, for now in human form but eventually, cost-effectively, run by the machines themselves. For years it’s been a good creative run, filled with wonderful and long-lasting filler. But now it’s time to let the salmon sperm take over.

November 10, 2025 0 comments
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Connect Live’s Evolution to Vyra, Pioneering a New Era of Live Experiences

by jummy84 November 3, 2025
written by jummy84

Connect Live, a leading full service event production and technology partner, today announces its evolution to Vyra, marking an exciting new chapter while honoring two decades of expertise in live events.

During its tenure, the agency has built trusted  partnerships with globally renowned brands including Lotus Cars, MG Motors, Bentley Motors, BYD, Aston Martin, Zenvo, and Pirelli. This evolution reflects an ongoing commitment to building on a strong foundation and providing cutting edge, live events expertise.

Enduring Partnerships & Global Expertise

Vyra thrive at the intersection of culture, creativity and technology, consistently delivering live experiences that elevate brands and move audiences. With repeat collaborations across automotive, culture, and lifestyle sectors, the agency is proud to partner with pioneers who share its vision for creativity and innovation.

Joe Duffield, Managing Director of Vyra, comments: “The agency is incredibly proud of its heritage and the relationships built along the way. This is not just a new name, it reflects our evolution and ambition. Vyra is movement, from the Latin roots of motion, symbolising growth, energy, and forward momentum, something that we are passionate about bringing to all of our clients. Built on 20 years of expertise as Connect Live, we carry forward the same values, trust, and craft. Vyra opens space to scale, adapt, and enter new markets. This is not a rebrand, but a recalibration for what’s next. Vyra pushes creative boundaries to engineer experiences that transform, inspire, and connect beyond the event itself. With enhanced content offerings and the fusion of creative and technical design, we craft seamless blends of physical and virtual worlds. Combining ambition with expertise, we deliver with precision, high-performing, effortless, and unforgettable, whether on a global stage or in an intimate cultural setting.”

Belinda Hynes, Client Services Director, notes, “Having worked closely with our clients for over 15 years, I’ve seen firsthand how lasting partnerships are built on trust, understanding, and shared ambition. The transition from Connect Live to Vyra is an exciting evolution that strengthens our ability to deliver precisely what our clients need – innovative, influential moments that truly resonate”

As part of its growth, Vyra announces the appointment of James Davies as Head of Global Projects, bringing over a decade of experience in international productions, concert touring, and high-end corporate events. James will lead the strategy and delivery of global projects, strengthening client relationships and expanding Vyra’s ability to deliver bold, transformative experiences worldwide.

A Legacy of Impact and Innovation

Vyra builds on a rich history of pioneering projects, ranging from the hybrid real-life and virtual cinematic reveal of the Aston Martin DBX707 launch, which quickly pivoted to a fully virtual event garnering over half a million global views, to groundbreaking anamorphic and automotive reveals such as the MG IM 5 and IM 6, where an impressive 11 × 7 m, 9 m-high anamorphic LED cube combined immersive storytelling with technical expertise.

Vyra has also had a close partnership with Bentley Motors since 2020, when the relationship began through their shared ambition to embrace innovative virtual opportunities that allowed information on current and future plans and products to be shared more effectively. Since then, the collaboration has grown through numerous events, most recently culminating in Vyra working alongside the Bentley Design team to produce and manage the striking Bentley Pavilion at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025.

The agency has also delivered full technical production for landmark cultural events, including the Attitude Pride Awards for three consecutive years, championing visibility, inclusivity, and community impact. Vyra’s role as both sponsor and supplier for the prestigious Rolling Stone UK Awards 2025 at Camden’s Roundhouse further highlights its expanding footprint in high-profile, globally recognised live experiences. These projects continue to showcase Vyra’s expertise in creatively engineering memorable moments that span automotive innovation and culturally significant occasions.

Vision and What’s Next

As Vyra steps boldly into this new era, the agency is focused on expanding its creative engineering expertise on a global scale while embracing emerging technologies and sustainable event practices. With ongoing investment in innovation and talent development, Vyra is committed to setting new standards, creatively engineering influential moments for the world’s most recognisable brands.

For more information, visit: www.vyra.co.uk

November 3, 2025 0 comments
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Emma Thompson Enters Streaming Era in Apple TV's 'Down Cemetery Road'
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Emma Thompson Enters Streaming Era in Apple TV’s ‘Down Cemetery Road’

by jummy84 October 31, 2025
written by jummy84

Worried about suffering withdrawal symptoms from “Slow Horses”? Well, in a shrewd bit of scheduling, just as its fifth series concludes, Apple TV is premiering yet another Mick Herron adaptation centered around the bumbling inner workings of British government, starring an Oscar-winning national treasure to boot.

Commanding center stage in “Down Cemetery Road,” however, is Emma Thompson in a role which, like Gary Oldman’s slovenly antihero, has the potential to define her latter-day career. 

The Dame is, of course, no stranger to the small screen, having earned a BAFTA for ‘80s miniseries “Tutti Frutti” and “Fortunes of War.” And who can forget her Emmy-winning cameo in “Ellen,” triple duties in “Angels in America,” and scarily prescient turn as a right-wing politician in Russell T. Davies’ “Years and Years”?

Rachel Sennott in 'I Love LA,' the HBO series she created and stars in as Maia

But this engrossing eight-parter is the first time she’s led a show in the streaming age. And, judging from its first three episodes, she’s immediately struck gold.  

Thompson plays Zoë Boehm, a private investigator every bit as spiky as her pixie cut. Much of her derision is reserved for Joe (Adam Godley), her downtrodden husband and more pragmatic partner-in-crime. “Is it another desperate damsel in search of a knight in shining cardies,” she sneers about his new case, the first of several withering putdowns which instantly establishes who wears the trousers. “Sometimes I feel like your mum, picking you up from the f**k-up creche” is another.  

Art restorer Sarah (Ruth Wilson) also bears the brunt of Zoë’s acidic tongue when she shows up at her unkempt office looking for help. (“Let me guess, you’ve got a husband, he’s got a secretary, am I warm?”) Of course, having just survived a fireball that’s ripped through her suburban neighborhood, it’s arson rather than adultery she needs investigating. Well, that, and the small matter of a conspiracy involving the Ministry of Defense, a neighboring assassin, and a young girl who may or may not be dead.  

Indeed, ever since her painfully middle-class dinner party was interrupted by a nearby house explosion — depicted in the kind of slow-motion you’d expect from a Zack Snyder film — Sarah has become something of an amateur P.I. herself. Unwilling to buy the tragic accident narrative, she makes herself a nuisance at the police station and the hospital, spurred on by a mysterious newspaper photo which appears to have cropped out a child she witnessed being rescued from the scene.

But is all this in the imagination of a bored forty-something looking for distraction from her faltering marriage to a man obsessed about keeping up with the Joneses? Or, as suggested by the shadowy figures appearing to trail her every move, are there really more nefarious things at play? 

Of course, by this point, we already know the answer, confirmed by a series of secretive boardroom meetings between the cartoonishly domineering MoD head known as C (Darren Boyd) and weaselly underling Hamza (Adeel Akhtar). The former also gets his fair share of zingers, continually unleashing his disdain with the potty-mouthed zeal of “The Thick of It” favorite Malcolm Tucker.

‘Down Cemetery Road’Matt Towers

“I’d love a heads-up on what Wreck-it-F**king Ralph has got planned for an encore,” he scoffs on learning how a planned hush-hush operation has literally gone up in flames. And it’s safe to say his employee review of “You couldn’t protect him if he used you as a condom,” wouldn’t typically get past HR. It’s a double act which recalls the boss/servant dynamics of British classics like “Blackadder” and “Fawlty Towers.” A spinoff sitcom, should both parties make it to the end with their lives intact, that is, wouldn’t go amiss.  

Screenwriter Morwenna Banks — continuing the “Slow Horses” connection having previously penned four episodes — generously ensures each character is given the chance to shine. Sinead Matthews also provides plenty of comic relief as Wigwam, Sarah’s well-meaning but idealistic hippie neighbor whose domestic bliss unravels in the unlikeliest circumstances. And although fully aware of the personal and professional pecking order, Joe is occasionally allowed to bite back (“Now that Cruella’s gone to hunt for puppies, who’s for a coffee?”).  

Meanwhile, the ever-dependable Wilson, finally sharing the screen with Thompson having shown up separately in “Saving Mr. Banks,” makes Sarah’s outlandish situation feel believably grounded, the fact her valid concerns are routinely shrugged off indicative of a culture all too quick to dismiss the female voice. And while she’s very much the straight guy to Thompson’s livewire, she’s still afforded the opportunity to get her hands dirty, whether setting off fire alarms or wrestling with hired killers in her own immaculately decorated lounge.  

Nevertheless, “Down Cemetery Road” undoubtedly belongs to its biggest star name. Thompson can play the formidable, no-nonsense antiheroine in her sleep, but she’s on especially sparkling form here as a figure with a near-pathological aversion to manners and moral compass that’s dubious at best. She’s undoubtedly less disheveled, and presumably more fragrant, than Oldman’s Jackson Lamb, yet she’s arguably just as flawed, another example of Herron’s ability to make his female characters as complex and three-dimensional as his male.  

And while it’s never in any doubt that Zoë will forge a mismatched buddy duo with Sarah, it’s fun watching make her wait, advising her to scratch her armchair sleuth itch with board games and get back to focusing on her “bland scatter cushions.” Likewise, her sheer disdain for anyone who doesn’t fit her free-spirited mold. “Seriously, this is what you want to do with your life?” she asks an aspiring Twitch streamer who helps her clear up some valuable grainy CCTV. “F**k me.” 

It would certainly be a grave mistake if Apple TV didn’t also adapt the three further follow-up novels putting Zoë on the case. Alongside “Elsbeth,” “High Potential,” and “Poker Face,” “Down Cemetery Road” belongs to that refreshing new club of semi-comedic mysteries giving women the greatest sense of agency. And, in Thompson, it has the most compelling agent.  

“Down Cemetery Road” starts streaming on Apple TV on Wednesday, October 29 with two episodes.

October 31, 2025 0 comments
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Y'all Feeling It? JT Previews New Track & She May Be In Her Rock Era
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Y’all Feeling It? JT Previews New Track & She May Be In Her Rock Era

by jummy84 October 26, 2025
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Y’all Feeling It? JT Previews New Track & She May Be In Her Rock Era

We hear you JT!!!!

The rapper previewed a new single titled , “Girls Gone Wild,” and it sounds like she may be entering a new rock and roll era.

TJB Crew, y’all feeling it?


October 26, 2025 0 comments
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The End Of An Era: Satish Shah, Beloved Actor, Dies At 74 | Glamsham.com
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The End Of An Era: Satish Shah, Beloved Actor, Dies At 74 | Glamsham.com

by jummy84 October 25, 2025
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Veteran actor Satish Shah, with his impeccable comedy timing and memorable performances on screen and TV, passed away on October 25 at around 2:30 pm at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. The veteran actor was 74 years old. The legendary actor was unwell for a long time with kidney problems and had recently undergone a transplant. His manager informed India Today that the actor’s body is currently at the hospital, and the funeral will be conducted on Sunday.

Having worked for over four decades in the field, Satish Shah became one of India’s dearest actors and best comedians. He reached a wide level of fame for the very first time with the 1983 hit ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’, where his brilliant comic performance and ability to get into several roles made him a household name. He performed unforgettable roles in films such as ‘Hum Saath-Saath Hain’, ‘Main Hoon Na’, ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’, ‘Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa’, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, and ‘Om Shanti Om’ throughout his life, where he demonstrated his phenomenal range for comedy, drama, as well as emotional roles.

On television, Shah reached legendary status with his portrayal of Indravadan Sarabhai in the hit sitcom ‘Sarabhai vs Sarabhai’, a role that continues to be celebrated as one of Indian television’s finest comic creations. His work in the 1984 sitcom ‘Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi’ also remains etched in the memories of audiences who grew up watching his effortless humor and charm.

Satish Shah’s passing is a warning that an era in Indian entertainment is over. His heritage is not so much his work, but the smiles, warmth, and laughter he drew out of millions. Friends, fans, and the film fraternity mourn the loss of a legend whose work will remain eternally relevant.

October 25, 2025 0 comments
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The End Of An Era: Pankaj Dheer, Mahabharat's Karna, Passes Away After Cancer Battle | Glamsham.com
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The End Of An Era: Pankaj Dheer, Mahabharat’s Karna, Passes Away After Cancer Battle | Glamsham.com

by jummy84 October 16, 2025
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Pankaj Dheer, veteran TV and film actor known chiefly for his memorable portrayal of the character Karna in BR Chopra’s epic serial Mahabharat, died on October 15, 2025. He was 65 years old. This was confirmed by his close friend and fellow actor Amit Behl, who is also a member of the Cine & TV Artistes’ Association (CINTAA).

As per reports, Pankaj Dheer was fighting cancer for a while. Even when he first reacted to the treatment, the disease returned a few months ago, making him very sick. He had also had extensive surgery for his condition.

CINTAA released an official condolence stating the veteran actor’s demise:
With great sorrow and deep regret, we regret to inform you of the sad demise of our Trust’s former Chairman and CINTAA’s ex-Hon. General Secretary, Shri Pankaj Dheer ji, on 15th October 2025. Cremation today at 4:30 pm, beside Pawan Hans, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai.

Pankaj Dheer achieved stardom with his intimidating acting as Karna in the late 1980s’ Mahabharat, a performance that gained him universal popularity and appreciation. Since then, he appeared in numerous successful films like Sanam Bewafa, Baadshah, and television series like Chandrakanta, Sasural Simar Ka, and Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek Arjun.

In addition to television acting, Dheer also dabbled in direction and film-making. He directed the 2014 movie My Father Godfather and was the owner of the Abhinay Acting Academy, where he trained aspiring actors.

He leaves behind his wife, Anita Dheer, and son, actor Nikitin Dheer, famous for starring in Chennai Express and Shershaah. His death signifies an era coming to a close for Indian television and the silver screen.

#CINTAA & #CAWT mourn the loss of Shri Pankaj Dheer, former General Secretary of #CINTAA and former Chairman of #CAWT — a respected member of our fraternity whose invaluable contributions to Indian cinema and television will always be remembered.

Funeral today at 4:30 PM at… pic.twitter.com/kNTG4TTTVc

— CINTAA_Official (@CintaaOfficial) October 15, 2025

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How the Pharcyde Led West Coast Hip-Hop Into a New Era

by jummy84 October 16, 2025
written by jummy84

It was 1991. The Pharcyde—Bootie Brown, Imani, Fatlip, and Slimkid3—were spending most of their time in Inglewood, California, at South Central Unit (SCU) studios recording demos, writing lyrics, and smoking copious amounts of weed. Around 5:00 p.m., when traffic was peaking in Los Angeles, the four of them would step outside and watch the girls drive by, which would soon become the inspiration for “Passin’ Me By.” 

The track, which lives on the Pharcyde’s debut album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (1992), borrowed elements from songs like Eddie Russ’ “Hill Where the Lord Hides,” Quincy Jones’ version of “Summer in the City,” and Weather Report’s “125th Street Congress.” The combination, unlocked by producer J-Swift, proved to be a key to their longevity. 

Barely out of their teens at the time, the Pharcyde helped lead West Coast hip-hop into a new era with their jazz-infused beats and a lyrical style that sharply contrasted the gangsta rap that dominated the 1990s. They were essentially doing for the West Coast what De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers were doing for the East. 

“Passin’ Me By” was one of three songs from the demo tape they were shopping around to labels. It caught the attention of several majors, but they ultimately decided to sign the dotted line with Delicious Vinyl, home to rappers like Young MC, Tone Löc, and Masta Ace. 

More than 30 years later, “Passin’ Me By” still resonates with generations of hip-hop fans. It was finally certified platinum in April 2025, adding another accolade to the group’s storied career. While Bootie Brown is no longer part of the original lineup, the Pharcyde has moved on as a trio, bringing their legacy to countless people around the world. 

Speaking to SPIN, Fatlip, Slimkid3, and Imani dive into the creation of “Passin’ Me By,” the accompanying music video and how they feel when they perform it. 

Remember the time

Fatlip: Life was a bowl of cherries in 1991. Actually, it was a bowl of buds. We was getting high, smoking and making beats. We was going to a lot of meetings about videos and a lot of record industry things that we were dealing with, doing a lot of shows. We were just fully in the business at that point and becoming somewhat rap stars on that escalation to rap stardom.

Slimkid3: We were in our early 20s. We were basically living at a studio in Inglewood. That’s where we spent the most time at—SCU.

Imani: We all had different houses and locations that we came from, but we spent the most time in Inglewood at a studio or at girlfriends’ houses, surrounding areas. In ’91, I was finishing my dance and videos career and shit. I had been dancing and teaching rap dance classes and doing anything that had to do with dance. Just anything. Literally, I was just going around people’s dance studios, trading off moves with people, getting in videos and all kinds of shit. 

And the last video I did was the “Remember the Time” video with Michael Jackson. That was the last video that I did. And that was ’91. At the time, we were doing demos and recording with J-Swift and doing stuff like that. We hadn’t put the record out yet. We was just getting our demos together.

Imani.

Delicious demo

Slimkid3: We recorded the first verse at SCU. We kept the verse that we recorded at SCU and transferred it to Hollywood Sound.

Fatlip: We did the chorus and had the beat, and that was what got us a record deal. “Passin Me By” was one of the three songs on our demo tape that got us attention with all the record labels.

Slimkid3: It had “Ya Mama,” “Passin’ Me By,” and “Officer.” 

Fatlip: We talkin’ about Def Jam. We talkin’ about a lot of labels that aren’t even around today. But we talking about Motown. We was just young guys out here in L.A. trying to get a record deal, and we were actually on the verge of getting a record deal because we had been at this studio for a couple years.

Imani: A lot of labels wanted to sign us, so they took us out to dinners and shit, tried to swoon us, wine us and dine us and shit, and somehow Delicious Vinyl made their way to the front of the line because this dude named Lamar, he came to our studio and he was really geeked. He was like, “I’m going to take it to my dude,” and he took it to [Delicious Vinyl co-founder/owner] Mike Ross. The rest is history.

Fatlip: I think another factor with Delicious Vinyl was they didn’t want to keep our publishing. That’s what I remember. 

Slimkid3: They gave us creative control and that was the most important thing to us because everybody was bidding pretty damn high, but it wasn’t really about the money as it was the creative control. 

Imani: They also had this record that they was putting together called “Heavy Rhyme Experience” with the Brand New Heavies. They threw us a bone because they was like, “You guys could be on this record with all these big wigs.” It was like Gang Starr, Grand Puba, Black Sheep, Masta Ace, and we were the only group that wasn’t signed. When the record came out, you know, everybody was like, “Who is this Pharcyde?” The song was called “Soul Flower.”  

SlimKid3. (Credit: Fresh Sam)
SlimKid3.

Passin’ them by

Slimkid3: There was something we did every day at about 5 o’clock, during traffic time. We would all stand out on this little patch of grass in front of SCU, just watching the cars go by, watching the girls go by in these cars. It gave that “she keeps passing me by” feel. But it was something that we could all relate to, like going after the girl that is not giving you play or playing a role. Musically, there was this loop that J-Swift and probably Romye [Robinson] had found, and it was just looming throughout the studio. 

It kind of put you in a trance a little bit, in deep thought, and you’re sitting there working on your lyrics and writing your lyrics. So once we got the GPS, it was like, “She keeps passing me by.” So I was like, “OK I got that story all day because it’s something that we do all the time.” 

Imani and SlimKid3. (Credit:Fresh Sam)
Imani and SlimKid3.

Boom Boom Pow!

Fatlip: There’s around 10 samples, if I’m not mistaken. J-Swift was our main producer, but we were all contributing input. But J-Swift was the the piano prodigy that knew the MPC drum machine like the back of his hand. So we was just giving him loops and records, and he was chopping them up. With “Passin Me By,” we had a bunch of records and he was going to make a bunch of beats with them. Then Bootie Brown was like, “Nah, you got to put those two records together.” 

That main horn sample was Eddie Russ and the song is called “Hill Where the Lord Hides.” The other one is Quincy Jones’ “Summer in the City.” He put those two together and then “boom, boom, pow!”

Slimkid3: We had a living room area where we did choreography and stuff like that. The music looming through the different rooms, the record itself already gave you chills. It already gave you goosebumps. 

I feel like this song kind of wrote itself, and you were just lucky enough to be a part of it. It’s almost like on a spiritual level, you were coloring by numbers to be a part of a hit. And then just the topic, “she keeps passing me by,” was extremely relatable. When Fatlip went in to sing the hook, that just took it to another level of goosebumps. I went in right after he finished and put the harmony on there, too. It just took off. 

Fatlip: We had the beat playing over and over and over and over. I got to keep giving Bootie Brown his props. We was all in the room, he heard the melody and he was like, “Yo, this sounds like time keeps passing me by.” And then I was like, “What about she?”Then it was like, “Damn.” Everybody had a story about she. So we had the concept, right? That was really how we came up with all of our songs—with the chorus first. 

Slimkid3: That’s that GPS. 

Clockwise from top: Tajai, Fatlip, Phesto, Domino, Pharcyde’s Manager, Chuck D, Imani, and Slimkid3.
Clockwise from top: Tajai, Fatlip, Phesto, Domino, Pharcyde’s Manager, Chuck D, Imani, and Slimkid3.

Power Punch

Fatlip: We took a break, everybody went and did their own thing and I came back with that idea in my mind. Then I grabbed the mic and did it. And I listened to the first chorus, and I was like, “Damn that shit sound otherworldly.” Then I called Bootie Brown in the room. 

I was like, “Yo, listen to this!” He didn’t even come all the way into the room. He just peeked his head in the room, and with no kind of excitement was like, “OK, finish the other two choruses” and walked out. So that’s what I did. Had he come in and been like, “Wow, this is crazy!” and tripped out with me, I probably would not have finished the other two choruses. I’m gonna be honest with you. I have never sang that shit like that again ever in my life. 

Slimkid3: Fatlip was being honest. Everybody’s just being honest. Bootie Brown set it off, and then me and Imani was pretty much the cream filling in the middle. Then Fatlip brought it home. 

Fatlip: You mean eight months later? [laughs]

Slimkid3: You always take a long time, but when it’s done, it’s done, and it’s dope. It just takes one person to be vulnerable, not care and just get on there and sing like that, or let everybody else know it’s OK to do that, too. Then we’ll start getting that soul music again that we’ve craved for so long. 

Fatlip: We put out “Ya Mama” first. I don’t know how many months we promoted it. We did the video. 

Slimkid3:We did it for quite a while. 

Fatlip: It was a totally different situation from then and when we released “Passin’ Me By.” 

Slimkid3: Don’t forget. “Ya Mama” was definitely chosen by that radio station in Washington, D.C. They jumped on “Ya Mama” quick and it was running with that. It was cool. We always put out music like we play pool. The shot that you’re shooting ain’t the shot that you worried about. You’re thinking about your third shot and what’s gonna back it up, so “Passin’ Me By” was a definite next shot to smash with it. 

Fatlip: You’re right, because it’s kind of like, had we released “Passin’ Me By” first, who knows what would have happened? The fact that we came out so lighthearted and jokey-jokey, and then the next song was like, “Wait a minute.” It’s a power punch. It’s a groove behind it. Some funk. 

Slimkid3: It always made you feel like,”What’s next?” So don’t put out your power punch first. Let the power punch come out second or third. But all your other songs should be good songs, too. You shouldn’t have album fillers.

Slimkid3
Slimkid3.

Budget Schmudget

Slimkid3: The budget was alright.

Imani: “Ya Mama” was like $40,000 and we hated the video when it came out. It didn’t feel like it represented us. It was a part of us, but we felt like we wanted to be represented differently. We was all hands on deck for “Passin’ Me By.” Every single person had to add something. We had to take it back to where we started from. We went back to SCU. We incorporated a lot of the visions from everybody. Fatlip had the homie Sanji [Sanjeeva Senaka], who I think he used to go to school with. He directed the video. We was all coming from the same headspace and it was perfect from our perspective. 

Fatlip: When the song had come out, people had heard it, so there were a lot of directors hitting us up. We were taking a lot of meetings and hearing a lot of concepts for what this video was going to be. And then there’s even some directors that went on to get Oscars, who at the time were like, “Yo, let me do this video.”

But then when the homie Sanji came with it, he came with these books that showed us like, “Oh, this is the black and white aesthetic that we’re going to use. We’re going to have you guys hanging upside down,” so we went with Sanji. There was this one director in particular. He was a little disappointed that he didn’t get to do the video, but I seen him after the video came out and he just was like, “Yo, you did that.” Coming from this director who, again, went on to get Oscars, it was a real compliment. 

Imani: In comparison, nah, we didn’t have a big budget. People were still doing million-dollar videos or even $100,000 videos at the time. We weren’t doing nothing like that. 

Slimkid3: I’ll say this. I don’t think we were really thinking about it. Creativity is expensive. We knew that. And back in the day, the technology wasn’t even there to give us what we were looking for as far as, let’s say, “Otha Fish.” The water was murky. It wasn’t as clear as we wanted it to be or whatever, but if we had the technology we have now, it would have been something different, and that was an expensive video. But I don’t think we were thinking about it monetarily at the time because we were just trying to make sure that the concept came across like it needed to be. In my perspective, I was not thinking about what something cost as opposed to, “Is this correct? Is this right? Is this set right? Is it edited on beat and tempo?” 

Imani: Whatever the money or budget was, that’s what it was. It wasn’t like, “Yo, we need more money to do something” or “that’s not enough.” We didn’t have enough leverage to be like, “Yo, we want a lot of money.” They OK’ed the budget because we were their group. They’re spending the money. Second time we proved ourselves and let the leash go a little bit more, and then by the time “Otha Fish” came, it was like, “Hey man, OK. Boom.” We were able to do exactly what we wanted.

Lupe Fiasco and Fatlip.
Lupe Fiasco and Fatlip.

The Junkyard

Imani: Everything is funny and a memorable moment with that video.

Slimkid3: I feel like the funny moment was we were all in the backyard and there’s a car door. We were like, “What if we had Fatlip looking like he’s sitting in the car talking to a girl and then you pull back and it’s just the car door, and then all the homies stand in the back? We laughing about it.

Imani: We in a junkyard! 

HINDSIGHT IS 20/20 

Fatlip: To the label’s credit, it didn’t take much for them to side with us after—no pun intended—because we were very much going to push our ideas. 

Imani: We couldn’t have done it without Delicious Vinyl. 

Fatlip: We weren’t going to just stay quiet. They definitely heard us out. And even to this day, all we do is argue about what’s the right idea, what’s the right thing. 

Imani: It was a certain vibe at Delicious Vinyl. None of this could have happened without Delicious Vinyl. We had such a vibe with them. In hindsight, it’s a lot easier to see, because when you’re creating greatness, it’s kind of hard to witness it being made. But it’s easier to look back in hindsight and you can appreciate shit. I see Mike Ross now, and the way I think about him now is not how I thought about him in 1995. Literally. I appreciate this man. He gave me opportunity. He had a thing going on, we had a thing going on and together, we culture clashed and made some shit for the ages. We couldn’t have did it without him. It was one of the coolest labels. 

Slimkid3: The Pharcyde, as people see it and hear it, was more than just four people. It was definitely Delicious Vinyl, the staff, everybody. It was definitely all the people that made this thing happen. We were the eggs, milk, oil, and sugar that made this cake pop. It was definitely lit by the time people sunk their teeth into it.

2025 & BEYOND

Slimkid3: I feel good about the song. It’s like color by numbers once again. It’s not about us, it’s about the fans. When we’re giving this to the fans, we’re giving a thousand percent, like it’s our first and our last time to ever do this shit. 

Imani: It’s not our music no more. It goes through us, but it’s not our music no more. We’ve grown, kids have grown up, it’s a part of their DNA now. I feel happy and honored to be on stage with these dudes. 

Slimkid3: Yeah, same. 

Imani: And to be able to do it, and then to see the people out there, you don’t even understand. 

Fatlip: I love you, man! 

Imani: I feel like I’m blessed. 

Slimkid3: No, we are blessed. I feel like the thing that was a gift to us, we’re giving it to our fans as a gift to them when we’re performing it.

LOOK, MA! 

Slimkid3: For me, it was like, “It’s about time.” I feel like the universe does shit to you. It’s like a hurry up and wait thing. Our focus was not for us to be platinum or not be platinum. It’s just to do what it is that we do. It’s timeless, and I have to say that. It’s so timeless that it took its time to get where it needed to go. And it shined on us today to extend the life of what it is that we do and what it is that we’re doing right now, which is a super blessing. 

Imani: It’s dope that it went platinum, but if I have the opportunity to talk to the people that are actually in love with the music and they trust us enough to put their kids’ brains and souls into our hands, that means a lot to me. 

Slimkid3: We made it! 

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Ayo Edebiri’s Chanel Girl Era Is Off to a Glorious Start

by jummy84 October 13, 2025
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Ayo Edebiri—one of Vogue’s November cover stars—is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stars of the moment, and her red carpet style is just as A-list worthy. Working with stylist Danielle Goldberg, the actor has been nailing the art of modern glamour. Both on and off the step and repeat, she manages to find looks that feel classic and timeless, yet undeniably fresh too. It was only a matter of time, then, that Edebiri would become a Chanel girl.

This month, it was announced that Edebiri would become a global Chanel ambassador under designer Matthieu Blazy’s new helm of the label. She was spotted at the spring 2026 show in Paris looking chic (and very Parisian) in all-black—and now, she just debuted her first Chanel red carpet moment, too. Last night, the star attended the premiere of her new Luca Guadagnino-directed film After the Hunt in London (alongside co-stars Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield) wearing a silky white Chanel gown, complete with draping and a low-waisted belt detail.

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A new era in event management: how Corsa’s modern platform simplifies complexity for organisers everywhere

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Corsa was born from a simple but powerful idea: to revolutionise event management by making it truly straightforward, accessible, and profitable. In an industry often hampered by cumbersome processes and fragmented tools, our innovative platform provides a seamless, all-in-one solution tailored to meet the evolving needs of organisers worldwide. Built with cutting-edge technology and scalable for events of any size, Corsa unifies essential functions—streamlining planning, registration, engagement, merchandising, and real-time analytics into a single, easy-to-use platform.

Success Story: Reykjavik Sports Association

One of our most inspiring success stories is that of the Reykjavik Sports Association (ÍBR), Iceland’s leading sports event organizer. Faced with the challenge of managing their iconic events—including the Reykjavik Marathon, the largest athletic gathering in Iceland—they turned to Corsa for a flexible, all-in-one solution. By customizing the platform to meet their needs, ÍBR experienced significant improvements: streamlined operations, automated registration processes, flexible tiered pricing to maximize revenue, and integrated merchandise sales that increased income— all in a single, easy-to-use platform. Participants could effortlessly manage their tickets, transfer entries, and view real-time race results, creating a smoother and more engaging experience. The platform’s seamless integration with timing systems reduced costs and enhanced accuracy, while branded event pages ensured a professional and consistent look. 

This partnership exemplifies how Corsa turns complexity into clarity, empowering organisers to focus on delivering memorable experiences.

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Corsa’s innovation hasn’t gone unnoticed. We’re proud to be shortlisted for the 2025 Event Technology Awards in the Best Use of Technology at a Sporting Event category.

“Our goal has always been to build a platform that simplifies event management while unlocking the true potential of every event. Corsa is not just a tool; it’s a transformative solution that empowers organisers to create extraordinary experiences with less effort. We are truly honored to be a finalist for the 2025 Event Technology Awards, and this recognition motivates us to continue pushing the boundaries of innovation in the industry.” Eloise Freygang, CEO and Co-Founder of Corsa

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