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Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Video: Rottweiler Can't Stop Smiling on Picnic With Girlfriends
Doesn't it instantly make you smile when you're on an outing with your core group of friends on a bright and sunny summer day? Just the thought of a wholesome adventure like that is enough to make one giddy. This dog owner captured a video of her Rottweiler having the time of her life on a picnic with the 'gorlies,' flawlessly blending in the group like she was one of them. Daphne could barely contain her excitement and kept smiling throughout the day out as she received endless pets from the inner crew. Dogs love a hearty sunny outing as much as their humans, especially on a bright summer day. So, a day in the park always sounds like an ideal day out for our furry babies when the sun is out and the skies are clear. A viral Instagram video showed this Rottweiler soaking it all in and loving every second of the picnic because she's just a girl. The clip captured Daphne basking in the moment and constantly smiling, surrounded by the best company there could be. The post's subtext explained, 'POV: Your dog is one of the gorls.' In the meantime, the video showed the Rottweiler beaming with excitement on a park outing with girlfriends. Her excitement was nearly impossible to miss as she smiled throughout, baring her pointy teeth and blushing while the girls around petted her. Dahpne sat on the picnic blanket, joining the group while they ran their fingers through her soft coat, stroked her ears, and comforted her. Moreover, the Rottweiler's picnic video was enough for viewers to understand that she's just a girl at the end of the day. 'Your average rottweiler, just your average gal,' wrote one user, while another pointed out that Dahpne's 'such a happy baby.' A third individual claimed they liked that the girls were 'getting into the ears!' More commenters called her the 'FAV girlie' and remarked that her 'little smile' explained everything. The post Video: Rottweiler Can't Stop Smiling on Picnic With Girlfriends appeared first on DogTime.
Boston Globe
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Strong voices and difficult choices in Shakespeare & Company's ‘The Victim'
There's enduring wisdom in E.B. White's famous advice to young writers: 'Don't write about Man . Write about a man." In another words, tell a story about one person or a small group of people that helps illuminate the larger story. Advertisement Theater-makers frequently try to link their productions to the current political or social environment. Those linkages can feel contrived or overwrought, a strained attempt to find 'relevance.' Not this time. Not when each day in America seems to bring new, ominous images that suggest the machinery of authoritarianism is revving up. (Men in masks snatching people off the street? Really?) Not when certain elected leaders see political gain in pitting us against one another. Advertisement 'The Victim' is built on three interconnected monologues among women of three different generations: Ruth ( While our current predicament is never far from the mind when watching 'The Victim,' Gidron and his topflight trio of actors make sure to pull us into the particulars of their characters' lives and experiences. There is a specificity to their portrayals; there's nothing facile or abstract about Goodman's writing, and the cast brings a similar rigor to their performances. When they are not speaking, the actors sit impassively in chairs at the edge of the stage in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Miller, Clayman, and King give performances that are compelling by dint of their sheer discipline. Their delivery is measured, as if they are giving testimony, until and unless they need to dial it up to drive home the horror of a particular event. Each of the performances contains its own stand-alone force, while also adding to the cumulative impact of 'The Victim.' First to speak is Daphne, who spells out what happened to her mother, Ruth (Miller). When she was 12, the Nazis invaded Ruth's town in Ukraine, forced 800 Jewish residents to disrobe, herded them into a large ditch, then systematically murdered them. Ruth somehow survived and spent two days hidden beneath the dead bodies of her mother, father, and three sisters. Daphne has undergone racial diversity training at work. In light of that harrowing family history, Daphne objects to the term 'white privilege.' As the COVID-19 pandemic creates overcrowding in the hospital where she works, Daphne, her heart hardened, draws the wrong lesson from that training and makes a terrible choice, responding to a Latino patient in crisis with shocking inhumanity. Advertisement Next to speak is Maria (King), the daughter of that patient. A Dominican-American home health aide in her late 20s who immigrated to the US legally, Maria had accepted Daphne's offer of a job as caregiver for Ruth, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The relationship of employer and employee is a minefield from the start in both their tellings; Daphne reacts with furious disbelief when Maria seems to equate Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo with Hitler. Maria's own mother has health issues, and when the mother experiences a medical emergency, Maria makes a quick judgment call that brings matters to a full boil with Daphne. Meanwhile, Maria's young son has been called an ethnic slur in his school. Fear has entered the life of a formerly confident kid. Last to speak is Ruth, who begins with the moment her 12-year-old self emerged from that mass grave in Ukraine and went in search of shelter and protection. What she found initially seems like the opposite of both, a kind of brutalization by other means. But humanity is full of surprises. Ruth's life is saved when the least likely of people makes a choice that reflects the trace of goodness that remains. THE VICTIM Play by Lawrence Goodman. Directed by Daniel Gidron. Shakespeare & Company, Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox. Through July 20. Tickets $27-$85. At 413-637-3353, Advertisement Don Aucoin can be reached at
Boston Globe
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
In Lisa Smith's ‘Jamaica Road,' a sensitive portrayal of growing up Black in London
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Code-switching among the local South London regional accent, the Queen's English, and Jamaican patois is one of the complexities of the immigrant experience Smith brilliantly portrays. As Daphne overcomes her initial resistance to friendship with Connie and the two begin to spend time together, he asks her, 'D'you suppose one day mi will begin to sound cockney like you and all dem other pickney ah school?' Advertisement She corrects him, explaining that she only talks like the white kids 'when I have to,' as her grandmother insists on 'proper English.' Advertisement 'Grandma doesn't like us speaking Jamaican either, she reckons that it gives prejudiced people the chance to say we don't belong here. She says, 'You English. You nar fi talck like we.'' Connie is greatly amused. 'That is the worst Jamaican accent mi ever hear.' As the novel follows the pair over a 12-year period, with sections set in 1981, 1985, 1989, and 1993, this issue of how one speaks is mostly highly charged when addressing police officers, which happens with nerve-wracking frequency. The novel opens just after a real incident that occurred at a house party, the In addition to its important role as recent historical fiction, 'Jamaica Road' is both a love story and a family drama. When the story opens, Daphne is living with her mother, Alma, a nurse, and her grandmother Miss Gladys (the one who insists on proper English), as well as an aunt, an uncle, and four cousins in a ramshackle cottage long slated for demolition. Daphne has never known anything about her father, but she will ultimately learn that she is one of many children of a man called Eeze — exactly how many, no one can say. She tracks him down and forms a fraught relationship with him over her mother's objections. Alma's disappointments and trials have made her an unhappy woman. She has high hopes for her daughter, but not a lot of softness. Fortunately, Miss Gladys is a reliable font of kindess and wisdom. Advertisement Connie's mother, Althea, is a gifted hairdresser. She and Connie are in England illegally (they 'nuh land,' an expression Daphne learns early in the friendship) but the plan is that Althea will marry Tobias, who is the father of Connie's baby brother Kallai, as soon as his divorce comes through. But Tobias is a violent and cruel man. Domestic abuse is a key element of the plot, connecting Smith's first novel to other recent UK debuts — ' In this situation and others, the novel resists final judgments and easy answers, recalling F. Scott Fitzgerald's marker of a 'first-rate intelligence' — the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind, to 'be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.' In Smith's universe, this dilemma is summarized by a quote that comes up again and again, attributed to Connie's embattled mother. Though Althea is arguably the character with the least agency, she has instilled in her son the belief passed on to her by her Jamaican father that 'We run tings, tings nuh run we.' Connie first brings this idea up to Daphne when he's trying to convince her to track down her father. But the decisions the characters make to take control of their fates are just as often completely thwarted by conditions and circumstances. If the end of 'Jamaica Road' is marred by too much happening in too short a space — a hell of a lot of drama and tragedy at the very last minute — it is a profound demonstration of the fact that sometimes, tings very much do run we. Advertisement JAMAICA ROAD By Lisa Smith Knopf, 448 pages, $29 Marion Winik hosts the NPR podcast 'The Weekly Reader.' She is the author of ' .'
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
Tim Tebow and Demi-Leigh Tebow welcome 1st child together
Tim Tebow and Demi-Leigh Tebow have officially welcomed their first child. The Tebows announced the July 6 arrival of their newborn daughter in two joint Instagram photo posts late Monday, calling their baby a "blessing and gift." "We've been so excited to share this with you," Demi-Leigh Tebow wrote in one post caption. "Meet our daughter, Daphne Reign Tebow." The new mom went on to explain that her daughter's first name is one that has been "close" to her heart since she was a young girl. "I never got to meet my mom's mother, but her sister, Daphne, stepped in as a grandma figure to me," the model and former Miss Universe wrote, calling the elder Daphne "the epitome of grit and grace" and someone who "made everyone feel seen and special." "I used to tell my mom, 'I want to be just like Ouma Daphne one day,'" she continued. "I've loved this name since I was a little girl and for as long as I can remember I always said that if I ever get blessed with a daughter, I'll name her Daphne. Shortly after Tim and I got married, I shared that desire with him, and thankfully he loved the name just as much as I did!" The newborn's middle name also holds special significance, according to her mother. "And Reign… it's a name that holds so much meaning," Demi-Leigh Tebow wrote. "It's inspired by a precious little girl Tim and I have loved deeply for years. Her story has shaped our hearts in ways I can't even begin to explain." The Tebows first announced they were expecting back in January. Instagram post at the time. The couple were engaged in 2019 and tied the knot in 2020.
UPI
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Look: Tim Tebow, wife Demi-Leigh introduce daughter Daphne
Tim Tebow arrives on the red carpet for ESPN The Party in 2016. He is a new dad. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo July 8 (UPI) -- Former NFL player Tim Tebow and his wife, Demi-Leigh, are introducing their baby girl to the world. The couple's first child, daughter Daphne Reign, was born Sunday, and they shared her name in an Instagram post Monday. "Daphne is a name that's been close to my heart since I was a little girl," Demi-Leigh Tebow wrote. "I never got to meet my mom's mother, but her sister, Daphne, stepped in as a grandma figure to me. She was so special to my mom and I -- a tiny, kind and strong South African woman who always had shortbread in the house, was the epitome of grit and grace, loved Jesus, had the voice of an angel and made everyone feel seen and special." She added that she looked up to her aunt, and has wanted to name her future daughter Daphne "for as long as I can remember." "Thankfully he loved the name as much as I did!" she wrote. She said Reign was inspired, in part, by "a precious little girl Tim and I have loved deeply for years," and in part by their religious beliefs. The photo carousel includes images of the new parents with Daphne Reign. In an earlier post announcing their daughter's birth, they expressed their deep gratitude for the "gift of this new little life." Tebow and his wife got married in 2020.
