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Time of India
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
NYT Connections Hints June 13: Here's how to break down each category of puzzle #733 for complete answers
What Is NYT Connections? Today's Puzzle Setup (June 13, 2025) Yellow: PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE Green: SEEN AT AN ICE CREAM SHOP SEEN AT AN ICE CREAM SHOP Blue: HIT SONGS OF 1998 HIT SONGS OF 1998 Purple: HOT _ _ _ Hints to Get You Started Live Events Yellow (#easiest): "Seeing this will solve a lot of arguments." Green: "Often found near ice creams." Blue: "A particular year had all these tunes." Purple: "A hot word comes before all these." Solutions: Word Sets and Categories Yellow (Perspective): think angles, lenses, and that familiar expression 'point of view.' Green (Ice Cream Shop): what you hold — cone, cup, little spoon, scoop. Blue (1998 Hits): songs that defined that year—Closing Time (Semisonic), Iris (Goo Goo Dolls), One Week (Barenaked Ladies), Too Close (Next). Purple (Hot _ _ _): common pairings: hot dog, hot potato, hot rod, hot water bottle. Tips and Observations Start with the Yellow category, which is usually the easiest; today it refers to viewpoint-related words. Notice Green and Blue both rely on contexts—desserts and music history—so thinking of where each word belongs matters. The Purple set is a classic fill-in-the-blank theme: 'Hot ___' cues four familiar terms. FAQs What is NYT Connections? How difficult was today's puzzle? (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel For word puzzle enthusiasts, NYT Connections continues to be a daily must-do. This unique game challenges players to group 16 words into four thematic sets, each colour-coded by difficulty. Here's a detailed guide to correctly solving today's puzzle (#733), with useful NYT connections hints June 13 and the full answer by the success of Wordle, the New York Times launched Connections — a 4×4 word-association game available for free on mobile and desktop. Players must identify thematic clusters of four words and sort them into Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple categories based on increasing day features fresh categories. For Friday, June 13, the themes, as mentioned in a report by Beebom, included:These themes are hinted at through today's connections June 13 prompts, helping set your mental clues in make your job easier, here are more refined hints, as per a Beebom report:These clues are curated to nudge built-in wordplay logic, guiding you to match each cluster NYT Connections ranked moderate in complexity — about 3 out of 5. Beginning with perspective-related words reveals your mental flow, while the ice-cream cluster soon follows with its familiar vocabulary. Songs from 1998 may trip up younger solvers, but a quick recall exercise helps, and the Purple 'Hot ___' category ties everything Connections is a daily word association puzzle by The New York Times. Players must group 16 random words into four categories of four words each, based on shared themes or concepts. Categories are color-coded from easiest (Yellow) to hardest (Purple).June 13's puzzle was moderately difficult — approximately 3 out of 5 in complexity. While the Yellow and Green sets were fairly straightforward, the 1998 song references in the Blue group may challenge younger players. The Purple category required recognizing common compound phrases beginning with "Hot."
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Minnesota Yacht Club Festival adds another band after Semisonic cancellation
Minnesota Yacht Club Festival adds another band after Semisonic cancellation originally appeared on Bring Me The News. In hopes of avoiding fans feeling like all they can do is read a book to stay awake, the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival has added another band to the lineup. This week, the festival announced the addition of Blind Melon to the bill on Sunday, July 20. The group, best known for its '90s hit "No Rain," will perform on the fest's final day, which also features Green Day, Sublime, 311, Garbage, Beach Bunny, The Beaches, Grace Bowers & the Hodge Podge, Winona Fighter, and Landon Conrath. The festival was expected to add another band after Semisonic announced last week that it would cancel its summer tour dates as bassist John Munson continues to recover from a stroke that occurred earlier this year. Last week, Blind Melon was announced as the series opener for the Riverside Music Series in Rochester, Minn. The group will headline a free outdoor concert there on July story was originally reported by Bring Me The News on May 29, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Semisonic cancels summer shows, including Yacht Club Fest, as bassist continues recovery
Semisonic is canceling its summer concerts as bassist John Munson continues to recover from a stroke suffered in February of this year. "As John continues his recovery from the stroke he had in February, we've made the difficult decision to cancel our summer touring plans," the band wrote on social media. "We look forward to playing together before too long, and we thank everyone for their understanding and support." Among its summer shows was an appearance at the second Minnesota Yacht Club Festival. The group, which also includes Dan Wilson and Jacob Slichter, was scheduled to play the third day of the festival alongside Green Day, Garbage, and Sublime. While Munson continues to mend, he has performed in public a couple of times in recent weeks, but only as a singer and not as a bassist. He told the Star Tribune in April that he was still having some troubles with the motor skills needed to play bass. Representatives for the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival did not respond to a request for comment about whether it plans to replace Semisonic. Festivals generally replace acts that cancel when there's as much advance warning as the festival currently has. On the other hand, when a band cancels at the last minute, like The Black Crowes canceling the day before the inaugural edition of the fest, that's not possible. The New Standards, one of Munson's other groups, plan to move forward with the pair of Twin Cities shows it has on the calendar, a representative tells Bring Me The News. That includes a June 19 Lowertown Sounds concert at Mears Park in St. Paul billed as the New Standards and Friends, which will feature a larger band. At that show, Munson will sing, and Ken Shastain will play bass with the group. The second show is a Sept. 7 concert on the rooftop of The Hewing Hotel. Details around that performance are still being determined.
The Guardian
05-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
John Oliver on Trump deportations: ‘usually blatantly racist and always cruel'
John Oliver took a deep dive through the Trump administration's brutal and bewildering campaign of deportations on Sunday evening, starting with the White House's 'nauseating social media posts'. Posts to the official White House Instagram account include a video of shackled people led on to a plane soundtracked to the song Closing Time by Semisonic, along with the caption 'you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.' The track 'obviously isn't the right song choice', the Last Week Tonight host said. 'The right song choice would be no song at all, because deportation Instagram reel is a combination of words that should never exist, like 'Oscar winner Mr Beast' or 'Stephen Miller nudes' or 'Bill Belichick speaks about his relationship with 24-year-old girlfriend.'' (Semisonic has denounced the choice of the song.) The video underscored one of Oliver's key points: 'For all this administration's talk of prioritizing hardened criminals, in practice it seems to value speed, volume and spectacle over all else.' Though Trump's administration has claimed to focus on 'violent criminals', CBS 60 Minutes was unable to find criminal records for over 75% of 238 migrants sent to a Salvadorian prison, and the government even conceded that one man, Kilmar Ábrego García, was sent there due to an 'administrative error'. 'For weeks now, it has been scrambling to come up with reasons why it was OK to send that man to a foreign prison,' said Oliver, 'which has been hard for them to do, given that it had a court order protecting him from deportation to El Salvador and no criminal record.' So Trump posted an image on social media of a photo of Ábrego García's hand with markups attempting to show that his tattoos indicated that he was a member of the gang MS-13. And in an interview with the ABC News correspondent Terry Moran pegged to his first 100 days in office, Trump tried to argue that the clearly superimposed text of 'MS-13' were actually tattooed on Ábrego García's hand. Oliver played the 'absolutely incredible' 90-second clip in full before responding himself: 'Terry, Terry, Terry, you're in hell, Terry. Terry, this is hell right now. I'm genuinely shocked Trump doesn't drink alcohol because that is the most 'drunk at an Ihop' conversation I think I've ever heard. 'And no disrespect to Terry, but maybe don't move on from that,' he continued. 'I know you've got other questions to get to, but if the president of the United States is trying to tell you that this amateur-hour Photoshop is real, let him go get the picture and make him say it again. Point to that Helvetica-looking 'M', and make the president say, 'Yes, I believe that artless M that's weirdly clearer and darker than all the other tattoos is real.' Make him say I believe that man went to a tattoo parlor and said, 'The skull's pretty spooky, but what I'd really like is a neatly aligned '3' directly on the bone of my knuckle, and can you please make it so that it doesn't stretch or bend with the natural curves of the human hand and also make it look like a typewriter did it?' 'Because, Terry, sometimes when Trump's doing his normal racist blue sky, you do need to cut him off to slow the flow of hatred into the world,' he added. 'But if he wants to tell America that this laughably doctored picture is evidence of a major threat to American safety, you have an obligation to let the man cook. 'And for what it's worth, if Trump's going to hash out those claims, he probably should be doing that in court, not on TV, and after he's already shipped someone off to a foreign prison,' he continued. 'But Ábrego García is just one of many horrifying stories surrounding immigration right now,' as the administration has embarked on a fear-based crackdown with blatant disregard for the rule of law. In the first 100 days of his term, Trump's administration undertook 181 immigration-specific executive actions – a sixfold increase over that same period in his first term. To do so, it has bent arcane laws and scoured databases to absurd ends. Oliver pointed to the case of Suguru Onda, a PhD student at Brigham Young University in Utah, who had his legal status revoked after appearing on a criminal records database by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). Onda, who is from Japan, had no criminal charges, just two speeding tickets and a citation for catching one too many fish. 'That is ridiculous,' Oliver fumed. 'If you can be flagged for deportation for catching one too many fish, then I truly fear for Henry Winkler. We could be just days away from seeing him in an El Salvador prison, which I'm sure the White House will then justify by badly Photoshopping an MS-13 tattoo on to his neck.' Ice later reversed the decision on Onda's legal status, 'but this all feels like the inevitable result of a campaign that fearmongered about an epidemic of so-called migrant crime which, as we've discussed before, was wildly overblown', Oliver explained. 'But having promised mass deportations and even printed signs for people to wave around demanding them, they're now scrambling to deliver.' According to multiple reports, the administration has instructed Ice officials to ramp up arrests to 1,200-1,500 people a day, and no longer target the supposed 'worst offenders' first. 'What the administration is doing is sometimes targeted, sometimes arbitrary, usually blatantly racist and always cruel,' said Oliver, such as deporting a child back to Honduras without his medication for stage four cancer. The cruelty is 'the heart of all of this', Oliver detailed, 'which is Trump loudly selling his supporters the lie that he'll protect them from existential threats, only to further government overreach and state violence while deporting makeup artists, unlucky soccer fans and four-year-olds with cancer'. The host called for pressure on elected officials to try to stop Trump's illegal overreach. 'To their credit, a number of prominent Democrats have gone to El Salvador to call attention to this,' he said. 'Which is definitely preferable to the approach others have taken.' He cited anonymous House Democrats quoted as asking, 'Should it be the big issue for Democrats? Probably not,' and 'complaining that rather than talking about the tariff policy and the economy, we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser? 'Which is absolutely enraging,' he continued, 'especially as many voters do seem to get the clear problem with deporting people without due process to a prison for life, even in red states.' Oliver urged viewers to call their representatives and make them aware of public opinion. 'It can make a difference,' he said, pointing to the former supreme court chief justice William Rehnquist's assertion that, 'no honorable judge would ever cast his vote because he thought the majority of the public wanted him to vote that way but that in certain cases, judges are undeniably influenced by the great tides of public opinion.' 'I would argue the moment we're in right now isn't just worthy of a great tide,' Oliver concluded. 'It is worthy of a fucking tsunami because this is an absolute outrage and it is one where it is important to remind our elected leaders that all people are worthy of safety, protection and due process.'
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Munson Fest' will benefit Semisonic/New Standards musician's recovery from stroke
John Munson — a Minnesota musician who has played in groups like Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare, The Twilight Hours, and The New Standards — suffered a stroke in late February. Since then, friends and fans have rallied together, raising more than $135,000 to support his recovery and medical expenses. Now, a benefit concert, dubbed Munson Fest, has been launched to continue that support. The one-night fest will take place at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul on May 1. The concert features friends and collaborators like Chan Poling and Steve Roehm of The New Standards, Aby Wolf (Champagne Confetti), Matt Wilson and His Orchestra, The Dust of Suns, Dlyan Hicks, and more acts that will be announced in the lead-up to the show. Tickets are on sale now — though, seating is already looking pretty limited — with prices starting at $35.
