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Rosa Salazar: ‘Is my life story true? Of course it is. Is it sensational? Yeah’

Rosa Salazar: ‘Is my life story true? Of course it is. Is it sensational? Yeah’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Rosa Salazar never meant to do Hollywood first. After a tumultuous childhood, a period spent living out of her car, and a stint in standup comedy, the wily American actor formulated a plan. “I was going to earn my stripes with theatre, and then TV, and then I was going to do movies…” she says. “None of that happened.” Instead, within just a few years of starting out, Salazar was neck-deep in the business of blockbusters. Supporting roles in large-scale films like The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), and Netflix’s Bird Box (2018) led to a starring one: the title part in James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel, playing an all-action cyborg in a child’s body. Co-starring Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly and Mahershala Ali, Alita was somehow both an ardently pored-over cult object and a considerable commercial …

Who is Namibia Rosa? Meet Love Island 2026 contestant and customer service officer

Who is Namibia Rosa? Meet Love Island 2026 contestant and customer service officer

It’s time for more bombshells to shake things up in the Love Island villa and tonight, Namibia is headed in to do just that. As teased by ITV, tonight the boys must secretly leave the villa to meet Namibia and Victoria all while the girls get to watch on a screen as the boys get to know the bombshells. “Has he lost his head?” one girl asks in disbelief, after watching the Islander she’s coupled up with suggest he’d be open to a kiss with one of the new arrivals… As the drama lies ahead, let’s get to know Love Island 2026 contestant Namibia Rosa. Namibia Rosa – key facts Namibia. ITV Age: 25 Job: Customer service officer From: Leeds Instagram: @namibiarosaa Who is Namibia Rosa? Namibia Rosa is a customer service officer from Leeds who is in the villa looking for love, with no time for drama. “But if someone comes to me, I’ll back myself. I won’t start it, but I’ll finish it,” she said. Coming into the villa as a bombshell is never …

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court further hollowed out the Voting Rights Act, continuing a decades-long project of dismantling the legal infrastructure that protected Black suffrage. Observing the responses to the decision, The Nation’s Elie Mystal noted the distinct tenor of celebration from conservatives delighted at the possibility of vanquishing Black political power through gerrymandering.  Now the right-wing media ecosystem appears ready for the next phase of the project. If Black political gains are to be rolled back, then the historical basis for those gains must also be discredited. The Civil Rights Movement cannot remain a sacred democratic triumph if modern conservatives hope to argue that anti-discrimination laws represented a constitutional mistake.  In the trailer for a new Daily Wire series titled “The Real History of the Civil Rights Movement,” the voice of right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh drips with the practiced solemnity of a whistleblower exposed a grand conspiracy. “Since the 1990s, America’s classrooms have turned Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks into sacred Civil Rights icons,” he says. “But what if almost everything …

Meet Bandidos do Cante, Portugal’s Eurovision 2026 entry singing ‘Rosa’

Meet Bandidos do Cante, Portugal’s Eurovision 2026 entry singing ‘Rosa’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Portuguese five-piece Bandidos do Cante are formed of Miguel Costa, Duarte Farias, Francisco Raposo, Luís Aleixo and Francisco Pestana. Their song “Rosa” might not be the most attention-grabbing of Eurovision entries, but it comes from a beautiful (and traditional) style of singing in Alentejo – which has been recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity – melded with a more modern pop sound. The song’s themes, too, explore ideas of nostalgia and more specifically “saudade”, a Portuguese term for a deep and bittersweet longing for someone or something absent, loved and perhaps lost forever. Bandidos do Cante are competing on Tuesday 12 May in the first semi-final at Eurovision 2026, in Vienna, Austria. What should our readers know about you? One thing people should know about us is that we started singing from a very young age in traditional …

Di Rosa Art Center Lists Estate for .9 M. Amid Financial Strife

Di Rosa Art Center Lists Estate for $10.9 M. Amid Financial Strife

The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, a beloved art park in Naples, California, that is in the midst of a prolonged period of financial difficulty, has listed its estate for $10.9 million, according a report by the San Francisco Chronicle from last weekend. The park is host to a range of notable works by Northern California artists from the postwar era, most notably an iconic Mark di Suvero sculpture that presides over the 217-acre estate. Also included in its collection are important pieces by Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, and Deborah Butterfield, many of them purchased by the park’s founder, the collector Rene di Rosa and his wife Veronica, who died in 2010 and 1991, respectively. Related Articles Ever since 2019, the center has been attempting to rectify a shaky financial situation behind the scenes. That year, the di Rosa announced that it would no longer purchase artworks for its collection and that it would begin the process of selling its holdings. The announcement was met with such sharp condemnation from …

Apple Store in Santa Rosa is Moving Later This Month

Apple Store in Santa Rosa is Moving Later This Month

Apple’s retail store in Santa Rosa, California will be moving from the Santa Rosa Plaza shopping mall to the open-air Montgomery Village shopping plaza later this month. Apple Santa Rosa Plaza The new store at Montgomery Village will be holding its grand opening on Friday, January 23, at 12 p.m. local time, according to Apple’s website. Apple’s existing store at the Santa Rosa Plaza opened in 2004. Elsewhere in California, Apple continues to renovate its store in Carlsbad, north of San Diego. Apple has a temporary location there, at 1925 Calle Barcelona. Apple is also operating out of a temporary store at the South Coast Plaza shopping mall in Costa Mesa, south of Los Angeles, while it renovates its original location there. Thanks, Filip Chudzinski! Popular Stories Apple Is Expected to Launch These Four MacBooks in 2026 2026 could be a bumper year for Apple’s Mac lineup, with the company expected to announce as many as four separate MacBook launches. Rumors suggest Apple will court both ends of the consumer spectrum, with more affordable options …