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CNET
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for June 28
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? It's Saturday, so it's extra-long, and might take you a while. Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips. The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times' games collection. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET's NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword Let's get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for June 28, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNET Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: Detachable parts of a dress form Answer: ARMS 5A clue: Catering container containing caffeine Answer: TEARUN 8A clue: Climbing structure offered in pet stores Answer: CATTREE 9A clue: Gets into town Answer: ARRIVES 10A clue: Frédéric Chopin or Ray Charles, notably Answer: PIANIST 11A clue: They don't hold water Answer: SIEVES 12A clue: ___-jerk reaction Answer: KNEE Mini down clues and answers 1D clue: With some chance of failure Answer: ATARISK 2D clue: Prepare for a new job, maybe Answer: RETRAIN 3D clue: Midday Broadway showing Answer: MATINEE 4D clue: Goal of a noted reality show set on an island Answer: SURVIVE 6D clue: Witherspoon who portrayed June Carter in "Walk the Line" Answer: REESE 7D clue: Lodgings for larks Answer: NESTS 8D clue: Souvenir from a baseball game Answer: CAP
Forbes
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Saturday, June 28
Mini Crossword In case you missed Friday's NYT Mini, you can find the answers here: The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays. Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you'll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives. The NYT Mini is a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all. I try to beat the standard weekday grid in less than a minute. But sometimes I can't quite figure out one or two clues and need to reveal the answer. To help you avoid doing that, here are the NYT Mini Crossword answers (spoilers lie ahead, of course): FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers ACROSS 1) Detachable parts of a dress form - ARMS 5) Catering container containing caffeine - TEAURN 8) Climbing structure offered in pet stores - CATTREE 9) Gets into town - ARRIVES 10) Frédéric Chopin or Ray Charles, notably - PIANIST 11) They don't hold water - SIEVES 12) __-jerk reaction - KNEE DOWN 1) With some chance of failure - ATARISK 2) Prepare for a new job, maybe - RETRAIN 3) Midday Broadway showing - MATINEE 4) Goal of a noted reality show set on an island - SURVIVE 6) Witherspoon who portrayed June Carter in "Walk the Line" - REESE 7) Lodgings for larks - NESTS 8) Souvenir from a baseball game - CAP Mini Well, you've got to always start with the easy ones, and here that was definitely going to be knee-jerk and I mean, how many other Witherspoons are there in Hollywood? Matinee was easy except for us non-fancy non-NYC people, we call midday movies that. Only one real 'multi-word' one here, At a Risk and I like to avoid those as much as possible, as figuring out one word is enough, much less a phrase. Long puzzle, but not awful. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Glasgow Times
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Singer Joy Crookes announces Glasgow O2 Academy show
Joy Crookes, famous for songs like Feet Don't Fail Me Now and When You Were Mine, will be performing at the O2 Academy in the Southside. (Image: Image supplied) The gig will take place on Monday, November 10. READ NEXT: Indie band to perform in Glasgow after TRNSMT performance The singer, who has over two million monthly listeners on Spotify and has performed at the likes of Glastonbury and BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, first rose to fame in 2013 after she uploaded a cover of Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles to YouTube at the age of 15. The video gained the attention of over 600,000 viewers, one of which included her current manager. The upcoming Glasgow show follows the singer's latest release, Carmen. READ NEXT: Popular Irish band announce huge Glasgow show Tickets for the show go live at 10am on May 30. Pre-sale tickets will go live on May 29 at 10am. To purchase and/or sign up for pre-sale tickets, visit
Elle
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour Is a Reminder That Black Art—and History—Can't Be Erased
When Beyoncé initially announced the Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour on the very first day of Black History Month, I immediately began to wonder how she planned to meet this moment in history. So much had changed in the past year since she first released the album itself. Many of her fans, myself included, were still trying to process the truths that the 2024 presidential election affirmed about America, only to be met in the new year with an onslaught of executive orders, natural disasters, plane crashes, deportations, and tariffs. The news cycle was so bleak that Beyoncé's tour announcement, and the overdue Album of the Year Grammy win she nabbed a few days later, felt like the first bits of positivity all year. The Grammy wins for Cowboy Carter, especially, were so satisfying. Music's biggest award show was giving its highest honor, as well as the Best Country Album award, to a project that received so much backlash simply because Beyoncé dared to defy genres and infuse country music motifs into her sound. Critics and the country music community reacted as if a Black woman born and raised in Houston, Texas, had no claims to the culture or sound she grew up with. As if enslaved Africans didn't create the banjo and use washboards and bone castanets to try and emulate the music of their homelands with whatever was available. As if Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Linda Martell never existed. It's almost too on-the-nose how much the rejection she received mirrors the rejection Black women are currently feeling in America. Both the country and its namesake genre have gone above and beyond to downplay, shut out, or outright erase the fundamental ways Black people contributed to their origin. We saw it in the way the Country Music Awards completely shut out the Cowboy Carter album. And we're seeing it now in the various attempts to gut all things dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to censor our libraries and museums. So as I walked into So-Fi Stadium for Beyoncé's fifth and final L.A. tour date—a record-breaking run that spanned two weeks—I was excited to see how the greatest performer of our time would set the stage for these parallels to converge. Like the album itself, the Cowboy Carter Tour doesn't take long to let you know what it's trying to say. Opening with the LP's first two tracks, 'American Requiem' and 'Blackbiird,' it's like Queen Bee is holding her own sort of mass for our divided states. She comes straight out of the gate with messages like, 'Nothing really ends, for things to stay the same they have to change again,' 'Take these broken wings and learn to fly,' and 'You were only waiting for this moment to be free,' that address the elephant in the room and hold space for our collective emotions. This feeling is only heightened as she mixes in 'The Star-Spangled Banner' with her cover of 'Blackbird,' a Beatles song Paul McCartney wrote as a message of hope and encouragement to Black people during the Civil Rights Movement. As she sings alone on stage, a visual of the her sitting in front of a large tattered American flag with gaping holes appears on the massive panoramic LED screen behind her, then a bold message flashes into view as she holds the song's final note: 'Never ask permission for something that already belongs to you.' Before you can fully register what's happening, the beat to 'Freedom' drops, a song from her Lemonade album that also soundtracked Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign videos and rallies. Its placement at the end of the medley of ballads shifts the entire energy in the stadium. Now here's Beyoncé marching down the catwalk of the stage, stomping out any and all notions of defeat with each step. Then, as the song ends, another image of Bey appears on the big screen; this time she's wearing nothing but the pageant-like sash she wears on the Cowboy Carter album cover, except this time the message reads: 'The Reclamation of America.' In this moment, it's crystal-clear we're not just experiencing a concert, we're in the midst of a revival. Before getting to the big dance numbers, stunts, props (a golden mechanical bull, flying car, and giant horseshoe awaited), and custom couture costume changes, Beyoncé was making a pointed effort to refuel our spirits and remind us of our power. Without missing a beat, she takes us right into a spirited performance of 'Ya Ya,' perhaps Cowboy Carter's most direct critique of the country at this moment in time. Visuals of the issues discussed in the song (pay inequality, wildfires, floods, freedom marches) flash across the screen to the beat, as well as poignant lyrics like, 'history can't be erased.' To close out this portion of the show, a series of video clips that feel like a short film you'd see projected in a museum begin to play on the screen as the stadium goes dark. Scenes from various facets of Black culture fill the screen: Black cowboys, country musicians, gospel choirs, jazz bands, dance parties, family gatherings; performance footage from greats like James Brown, Nina Simone, Chuck Berry, and Tina Turner; and clips of Beyoncé through the years. Then, the montage cuts to footage of talking heads on cable news (their faces blurred out) who criticized the singer's foray into country music. The video concludes with a visual of Beyoncé turning a stack of TVs off before reappearing on stage to perform 'America Has a Problem' and, the song whose music video launched #BoycottBeyoncé, 'Formation.' The mother of three is holding no punches at this point. She sees the parallels, and she's calling them out one by one. Political messages continue to be sprinkled throughout the entirety of the show, but it's really in the first 30 minutes (yes, all of this happened that quickly!) of the almost three-hour show that Beyoncé's state of the union message is clearest. Donning cowboy motifs and American flag-patterned fabrics throughout, she is the picture of a citizen loving and critiquing her home at the same time. She stands two-boots-on-the-ground down in the truth that both things are possible—and necessary—when you are from a country that was built by your ancestors, but not for them. If part of Renaissance's mission was to uplift us post-pandemic, I'd argue that this second act is here to embolden us as we embark on the difficult road ahead. The Cowboy Carter Tour reinforces the power we have to use our voice and our gifts to protect ourselves and our culture in ways that cannot be touched. I'm sure some critics will write off these moments in the show as symbolic activism, or note ways Beyoncé could be doing more (despite the millions of dollars in charity she donates annually). Some valid points might be made, and (not but) it cannot be denied that Black art is revolutionary. Much like Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show, it stands as a powerful reminder that no amount of effort can erase us from the fabric of American culture.
Washington Post
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Red carpet looks from a low-wattage White House correspondents' dinner
A White House correspondents' dinner that lacks the traditional comedy act doesn't necessarily translate to a more somber-than-usual evening. In 2019, the historian Ron Chernow gave a lecture and everyone had a pretty decent time; in 2003, Ray Charles sang instead. Hard to imagine that was anything less than a treat for guests. But at the 2025 White House correspondents' dinner, which took place against the backdrop of a Washington in turmoil, the vibes were in fact a little off. The red-carpet fashion statements — and the celebrity attendance — were similarly half-hearted. Jason Isaacs, fresh off a memorably stressed-out performance on HBO's 'The White Lotus,' looked less so on Saturday, showing off an all-black ensemble and some surprisingly fancy footwork ahead of the dinner. White House Correspondents' Association president Eugene Daniels and his husband, Nate Stephens, attended in white and black tuxes, respectively, while libertarian commentator Kennedy went a more colorful route, in a bubblegum-hued gown with a headpiece to match. Joanna Coles, chief creative and content officer for the Daily Beast, added some much-needed sparkle to the red carpet with her metallic blazer and shoes. Republican strategist and MSNBC frequenter Scott Jennings followed Coles's lead and went the shiny route with his three-piece tux. Former deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley's footwear choice was one of the few surprises of the early evening: Gidley wore what looked to be black ballet flats with a bow on each toe. Leo Braudy, a participant on the Washington edition of 'Love Is Blind,' wore the accessory he talked the most about on the show: his Rolex watch. In another daring footwear move, the original Wonder Woman came to the dinner and revealed she'd paired her gown with comfy slip-ons. Dean Norris, America's favorite TV cop, reached for a different kind of uniform on Saturday: the classic black and white tuxedo. Actress Alex Borstein's peekaboo gown in blue velvet stood out as one of the evening's more dramatic color choices.
