![]() ![]() When he was in the process of writing the musical, Miranda was torn over whether he should play Hamilton or Burr the two are intrinsically linked yet opposites of each other - one quiet where the other is loud, one cocky where the other is deliberately reserved, one who rushes into things headfirst where the other is cautious. Related: Hamilton: Biggest Differences Between Broadway & The Disney+ Movie Odom Jr.'s vocal talents shine particularly bright as Burr, who gets some of Hamilton's best musical numbers, but what would it look like if Miranda played him instead? While the roles have since been inhabited by many different people both on Broadway and elsewhere, they remain synonymous with the two historical figures. ![]() are a huge reason for Hamilton's popularity, from the songs to the actual acting both are doing on stage. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The two formed the group Los Cangris, which was active from the late 1990s to 2004. Distinto a los demás (1995), and eventually caught the attention of Daddy Yankee. He began recording music at age fourteen with his first EP. While his early music exemplified traditional fast-paced reggaeton, his newer compositions place more emphasis on sung vocals and romantic lyrics.īorn in Lawrence, Massachusetts to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, his family moved to Puerto Rico when he was ten years old. He has frequently collaborated with other Latin artists such as Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Ozuna, Plan B and Anuel AA. ![]() He is best known for hits such as " X", " Travesuras", "En la Cama", "Te Busco", " El Perdón", " Hasta el Amanecer", and " El Amante" the latter three are from his 2017 album Fénix. Nick Rivera Caminero (born March 17, 1981), known professionally as Nicky Jam, is an American singer and actor. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, the series received fourteen nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and acting nominations for Keaton, Dever, Will Poulter, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Mare Winningham, with Keaton winning for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. ![]() The series received mostly positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for the performances of the cast, most notably those of Kaitlyn Dever and Michael Keaton. Based on the non-fiction book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy, it premiered on October 13, 2021, and concluded on November 17, 2021, after eight episodes. Dopesick is an American drama miniseries, created by Danny Strong for Hulu. ![]() ![]() In the early 1980’s Hancock’s writing began to move consistently in the direction of books. He was co-editor of New Internationalist magazine from 1976-1979 and East Africa correspondent of The Economist from 1981-1983. He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism, writing for many of Britain’s leading newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. ![]() ![]() Later he went to school and university in the northern English city of Durham and graduated from Durham University in 1973 with First Class Honours in Sociology. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity’s past.īorn in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock’s early years were spent in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. His public lectures, radio and TV appearances, including two major TV series for Channel 4 in the UK and The Learning Channel in the US – Quest For The Lost Civilisation and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age – have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. ![]() GRAHAM HANCOCK is the author the forthcoming Magicians of the Gods, and of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, and Heaven’s Mirror. ![]() ![]() “I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions-much good it did me.” Turn off your phone and huddle around your proverbial fire: this story is compulsively readable, infinitely complex, and-in every sense-magical. Like Kaikeyi’s enchanted threads, Vaishnavi Patel weaves an intricate tale of motherhood, fate, courage, sacrifice, and the nuances of female power. But in defying destiny, Kaikeyi puts herself in the path of angry men and vengeful gods-and the choices she makes will determine not only her legacy but the future of all women in her kingdom. Through guile and nerve, she elevates herself to the status of warrior, diplomat, and, eventually, the king’s most valued advisor and confidant. Not content to be a passive daughter or a silenced wife, Kaikeyi cultivates a secret magic, one which allows her to manipulate the capricious threads of power around her. ![]() Kaikeyi lives in a world shaped by the whims and ambitions of men, her value determined by the arrangement of stars and potential marriage alliances. ![]() Gods, prophecies, magic, monsters-these essential elements of fantasy are given striking new life in Kaikeyi, a reimagining of the vilified queen from Hindu mythology. ![]() ![]() The best retellings are ones that surprise and enthrall, yet feel so resoundingly true and timeless that you can picture yourself hearing them for the first time huddled by firelight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But in “The Rose That Grew from Concrete,” Tupac also honors and celebrates the resilience and perseverance of Black people in America. This poem follows in the tradition of African American writers like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, who helped expose the injustices suffered by Black people in America through their literature. It’s worth noting that Tupac considered himself a revolutionary and an activist, and much of his family including his mother were members of the Black Panther Party. Much like in Tupac’s rap verses, the poet makes use of rhyme, slant rhyme, repetition, assonance, and other poetic techniques that effect the rhythm and musicality of the poem. ![]() In this poem and others in the collection, Tupac explores various English and American poetic traditions and techniques but creates a unique style, displaying his mastery over language. Tupac read and wrote poetry from a young age, so his poetry writing no doubt influenced his music, especially in songs like Thugz Mansions and Dear Mama, where he shows a sensitive side not commonly associated with the “Gangsta Rap” for which he was known and often criticized. Although Tupac was most known as a rapper and an actor, his other interests included poetry writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.Īnd Kit has a couple secrets of her own-including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.īy midnight the party will be completely out of control. Oh, and maybe Hud-because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. ![]() The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer and their adored baby sister, Kit. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. ![]() ![]() “The beauty in his writing wasn’t just style or ornament but an unparalleled ability to see what was before him clearly and then lay that vision, with that same clarity, before the world.”īeautiful prose, for Coates, is necessarily honest prose. ![]() ![]() “The beauty of Baldwin’s prose that I connected to was not ancillary to the dream-breaking but central to it,” he writes. His model is James Baldwin for Coates, Baldwin’s writing is beautiful specifically because it is honest. ![]() For Coates, style and content are inextricably linkedĬoates thinks of the aesthetics of his sentences as being inseparable from their content. “It was a blues with a beat dirtier than anything I had ever heard anywhere in the world.” He didn’t, he concludes, capture such a voice in the profile, but as you read We Were Eight Years in Power, you’ll hear Coates incrementally refine and clarify his distinctive voice - steeped in poetry and hip-hop and the rhetoric of black liberation - into the formidable tool it’s become today. “I could hear what that voice sounded like in my head,” Coates writes of the voice he was aiming for as he profiled Michelle Obama. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not the place to post your daily/weekly AT vlog. Similar to art selling posts, you may post your Youtube content here if you so desire. 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He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. ![]() WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE Booklist ?#1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR,? Publishers Weekly ,? BookPage, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Booksellers, ARTnews, and more * Amazon Editors' Pick * Carnegie Medal of Excellence Longlist "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. ![]() |