If you were playing any Fortnite Festival last weekend, odds are you had seen The Weeknd, Madonna, and Playboi Carti’s new video for “Popular,” as it debuted exclusively on the platform and was available to watch from February 15 to 18. If you’re not a gamer but would still like to see the clip, though, they’ve given the visual a wider release and it’s available on YouTube as of today, February 22.
It’s a video that shows off the high life, as the three artists find themselves performing and flexing in a gorgeous castle environment.
The tune is a relic from the era of The Idol, The Weeknd’s 2023 HBO show that ultimately kicked the bucket after a short and controversial run. The song was intended for The Idol, but while it was initially shared and promoted in association with the show, it ultimately never ended up on any of the show’s soundtrack releases.
The Weeknd previously said of the song, “I’m proud of it. I’m definitely proud of it. Me and Carti had this… I mean, we’ve jammed out before. We’ve had a different version of this song prior. So I’ve had these vocals for a while and I’ve kind of just worked around it, and then kind of kept it in the tuck. But now it felt like it was time. It was time. And it felt right and it felt cohesive with this album that I’m working on right now. Or that I just actually finished. The Idol soundtrack, yeah. And so I’ve been producing the song for a while. And then Madonna, Madge. She’s the ultimate co-sign for this song, for this album, and for this TV show. And you’ll hear more of her in the show as well, too. She is the ultimate pop star.”
Bad Bunny started his Most Wanted Tour last night in Salt Lake City, Utah, and he kicked it off in style. The theme for the tour takes inspiration from the American Old West — i.e. “wanted” posters and t-shirts with bull rider designs on them — so, fittingly, he entered the arena in true cowboy fashion, riding a horse up to the lane leading to the stage. Check out the video below.
Now that the tour has officially gotten underway, fans can check out the setlist here, and questions like “How long is the concert” and “When does Bad Bunny start the show” have been answered. You can also see all the remaining tour dates below.
Bad Bunny’s Most Wanted Tour Dates
02/23/2024 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
02/24/2024 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
02/27/2024 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
02/28/2024 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
03/01/2024 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
03/02/2024 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
03/05/2024 — Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center
03/07/2024 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
03/09/2024 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
03/13/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
03/14/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
03/15/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
03/20/2024 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
03/23/2024 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
03/26/2024 — Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center
03/28/2024 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
03/29/2024 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
03/30/2024 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
04/04/2024 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
04/06/2024 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
04/09/2024 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
04/11/2024 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
04/12/2024 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
04/13/2024 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
04/17/2024 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
04/19/2024 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
04/20/2024 — Hartford, CT @ XL Center
04/22/2024 — Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
04/24/2024 — Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
04/26/2024 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
04/27/2024 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
04/30/2024 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
05/01/2024 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
05/03/2024 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
05/04/2024 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
05/07/2024 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
05/10/2024 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
05/11/2024 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
05/14/2024 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
05/15/2024 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
05/17/2024 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
05/18/2024 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
05/21/2024 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
05/24/2024 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
05/25/2024 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
05/26/2024 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
Freshly minted late-night host Taylor Tomlinson is back with another standup special at Netflix. This one covers dream job, love, and anxiety, which… yeah. That seems pretty relatable. Looks like a fun little weekend watch.
Netflix’s reigning rom-com queen Gina Rodriguez is back at it. This one kind of flips things on its head, though. Now it’s the ladies who are out partying and having one-night stands with no intention of settling down. At first. Will there be a twist? Maybe a meet-cute that makes our main character question everything they’ve believed to that point in their life?
The fourth season of this NatGeo series focuses on Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and will, as per the promotional materials “explore the formative years, where they were molded by strong fathers and traumatic injustices, and their rich, parallel stories as they shaped their identities and became the change they wished to see in the world.” Which sounds cool and informative and like everything television can be. The trick is making it work. Worth diving in to check it out.
17. The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy (Prime Video)
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High-stakes alien adventure and future medicine smush together in a star-studded animated comedy from Amazon about a pair of renegade doctors, their hospital, and their patients. Featuring the voice talents of Natasha Lyonne, Stephanie Hsu, Keke Palmer, and Kieran Culkin, the show is the kind of place where the line, “I will now sing my planet’s song of orgasmic death” seems right at home. If you’re a fan of Rick And Morty or Star Trek: Lower Decks looking for your fix, this might be one to check out.
Let’s go straight to Prime Video’s official description for this one: “This Is Me…Now is like nothing you’ve ever seen from Jennifer Lopez. Alongside director Dave Meyers, Jennifer has created a narrative-driven, cinematic original which showcases her journey to love through her own eyes.”
Hmm. As long as it features a minimum of 20 visits to Dunkin’ with her longtime partner Ben Affleck, we can support this.
Tom Hollander (not Tom Holland) stars in Ryan Murphy’s latest FX creation that’s already dubbed itself the tale of the “Original Housewives of New York.” Hollander plays Truman Capote (yes, that Truman Capote) a writer with a standing invitation to the brunch table of New York’s wealthiest women. He trades on his status as their confidante, writing a book about the scandals and secrets harbored within their Upper East Side brownstones which leads to an all-out society war that no one escapes unscathed. Come for the clothes, stay for the drama and the veteran actresses like Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart, and Naomi Watts who make this thing so deliciously messy.
Paul Giamatti is picking up awards left and right for his performance in Alexander Payne’s latest film, which is great. For Paul Giamatti. But also for us. Like, as a society. Look at this: “A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.”
Our official position here is twofold: one, we support anything where Paul Giamatti gets to be curmudgeonly; two, we love to see Paul Giamatti thrive. This checks both boxes.
Greta Gerwig’s massive summer blockbuster hits streaming. There’s not much to say that hasn’t been said. It’s wickedly smart and funny and sly. It’s much weirder than people expected, in the best ways possible. Margot Robbie is incredible as Barbie, providing layers of depth to a character who has rarely before had more than one. Ryan Gosling is a delight as the deeply confused Ken who is watching his simple little world crumble around him. There are cameos galore and touching moments and belly laughs. If you haven’t seen it yet, now’s the time. If you have, well, now’s the time to watch it again. This one is worth a rewatch. Or two. Or five. How you spend your time is your business.
Two important things to know here. The first is that the premise of it all, summarized by Apple as “the story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries, including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain and Cristóbal Balenciaga, navigate the horrors of World War II and launch modern fashion,” sounds interesting.
The second is that the cast is straight-up loaded. Ben Mendelsohn, Maissie Williams, John Malkovich, etc. They really went all out on this one. That’s commendable.
Here’s a stellar Band Of Brothers followup from Steven Spielberg (Amblin Television) in conjunction with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (Playtone). This new series is based upon Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name about the “Bloody Hundredth,” i.e. the 100th Bomb Group, who risked everything they had to conduct bombing raids upon Nazi Germany. Austin Butler dropped his Elvis voice to portray a U.S. major alongside Callum Turner. There’s a “Buck” and a “Bucky” in the character list, and there’s also the ever-present Barry Keoghan joining in the camaraderie while the U.S. carries out perilous missions to take down Hitler’s Third Reich. It’s an adventure-filled yet harrowing viewing experience but fully worth the ride.
Yes, there’s been a live-action adaptation of this IP already. And yes, people overwhelmingly prefer the Nickelodeon animated series, but here is another reimagining that will hopefully make everyone forget about that M. Night Shyamalan project. The setup will be familiar, of course. The story takes place in a world where the four nations (represented by the elements of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air) no longer live in harmony. Fire Nation destroyed the Air Nomads, and one young Air Nomad (Aang) must now ascend to his rightful ruling position and restore peace between the elements and realms. The Fire Nation is very angry, however, so watch out, Aang and friends.
Pablo Schreiber is back as Master Chief, and if he has any say in the matter, there won’t be Sexy Master Chief on display this season. Officially, he will be fretting about the changing tide of his war and how to prepare for what he believes is an imminent attack by the Covenant on the most valuable stronghold known to mankind. Can he finally find the Halo, which will either help humanity survive or kill it off forever? So much pressure! Yeah, please don’t have him wasting time getting down and dirty this season.
24 years, 12 seasons, and countless social assassinations; Curb Your Enthusiasm is set to begin its end, promising a season filled with familiar faces (Ted Danson, Richard Lewis, Cheryl Hines, Vince Vaughn, JB Smoove) and misanthropic delights as Larry David readies to walk off into the sunset so he can strangle more muppets or do whatever else he does when he isn’t kvetching about required niceties and other peccadilloes. Whether this season will be funny is not in question. Whether Larry’s “character” makes it out alive is.
No streaming service is doing sci-fi quite like Apple TV+ and this entry into the genre continues that winning streak. Starring Noomi Rapace as an astronaut who survives a disaster in space only to return to a slightly off-kilter existence on Earth, Constellation is the kind of mind-melding thriller that sparks those most philosophical of questions: What? Why? Huh? More timeline hopping, government conspiracies, a truly fed-up Jonathan Banks, and some exquisitely directed Scandinavian night shots elevate the central mystery propelling most of the action here, as does Rapace who plays a woman on the brink in the most heartbreaking of ways.
Here comes “the Godmother” of cocaine. Original Narcos co-creator Doug Miro and Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman team up to tell the story of Colombian drug cartel leader Griselda Blanco, a prolific cocaine trafficker as portrayed by Sofia Vergara. We haven’t seen the Modern Family star get dramatic on TV yet, so this series should attract eyeballs for more reasons than one. Griselda reigned in Miami in the 1970-’80s, and her tour of terror included operating under 20 aliases, moving hundreds of kilos per month, and ordering dozens of murders.
Rick Grimes has been missing from TV screens for a handful of years and in The Walking Dead timeline for over a decade. Now, Michonne is about to save his ass and hopefully torch the CRM while she’s at it. Too much? Nah, this franchise went off the rails a long time ago, and that’s part of the fun. This spinoff ends up being a worthy love story within the parameters of this world, and existing viewers will adore it. Meanwhile, Daryl is still in France, now with added Carol, so they won’t be reinforcements for the “Save Rick” cause, but we can hope for a reunion.
Did we really need a reimagining of the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie movie? Watch the first few episodes, and you might agree that this effort was not wasted. Donald Glover and Maya Erskine pick up as assassins who happen to be paired together (and “married”), and you aren’t ready for the rollicking, madcap, action-packed set of missions that they must complete (or else?). Even better: John and Jane Smith’s onscreen relationship is as much of daredevil stunt as the action scenes.
School’s back in session at Abbott Elementary and the show has made some big changes after the romantic cliffhanger that ended season two. Janine has a new job (and a new love interest), Gregory’s struggling to move on, Josh Segarra from The Other Two is auditing classrooms, and Ava Coleman is a Harvard (adjacent) graduate. Lord help Mrs. Howard. After a longer-than-expected hiatus it’s nice to see the Emmy-winning comedy reinventing itself instead of resting on its laurels, but don’t worry, there are plenty of Janelle James one-liners and Tyler James Williams pans to camera to keep things comfortably familiar.
Bottoms is a screwball comedy about two gay teenage girls who start a high school fight club as a ploy to hook up with their cheerleader crushes. Ayo Edebiri is in it. So is Marshawn Lynch. There are acts of vandalism set to 80s bangers and football players in cages and none of it makes any sense but it’s absolutely worth just rolling with it.
This one is a blast. And it’s streaming on the same website you bought your coffee maker on. The future is kind of wild.
With this historical biopic, Christopher Nolan unknowingly created an atomic amuse-bouche for a double-feature blockbuster viewing experience that saved cinema last year. But, watching Cillian Murphy’s cheekbones cut glass as he chain-smokes his way to becoming Death, Destroyer of Worlds for three-plus hours is just as much fun at home as it was in a packed movie theater. Sporting a packed line-up of A-list talent (hello future Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr.), a bone-rattling score, and some clever monochromatic cinematography to distinguish between its multiple timelines, Oppenheimer has more than earned its place on every nominations list this awards season. Now, go enjoy it in the way Nolan intended – streaming on Peacock.
There is nothing like the thrill (and sometimes horror) of seeing your face on the big screen at a major sporting event. For most people, that is the only time they will ever see themselves projected on such a scale, which is probably a good thing. But for celebrities, and actors in particular, they should be used to seeing their faces plastered for hundreds of thousands of people to see. Not Jeff Goldblum, though!
Goldblum went viral at this year’s Super Bowl after he appeared on the big screen during the little event. He was met with applause, tears, and excitement, much like his appearance in The Fly. The actor recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live when he gushed about the moment. He said, “I didn’t know they were going to come upon me. And I was just thrilled to be there. I was eating it up.” Who knew those Apartment.com commercials had such a dedicated fan base?
As it turns out, Goldblum is no stranger to historical sports moments. He revealed that he was at the infamous 1997 boxing match when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear. You know the one. “I went to the [Mike] Tyson fight where he bit [Evander] Holyfield’s ear,” Goldblum shared, adding that he had a third-row seat to the bizarre match. He continued the story:
Holyfield is king of getting his licks and Mr. Tyson is frustrated. Sure enough, something happens and Holyfield goes, ‘No, no!’ I see blood, I was close enough to see blood. And I go, ‘What, what? What happened?’ He bit his ear! He bit his ear! I jump up and I said something. I’m yelling. And then he did it again, of course.
Clearly, Kimmell has not had the privilege of attending a major sports event or appearing on the jumbotron, because he was amazed at the story. He will be hosting the Oscars next month, and in many ways, that is similar to appearing before millions of sports fans, if not scarier.
In 2022, Netflix launched an ad-supported plan that allows subscribers to watch shows and movies for a cheaper price, as long as they’re cool with a few pesky commercials. “While the vast majority of TV shows and movies are available on an ad-supported plan,” the fine print on the streaming service’s website reads, “a small number are not due to licensing restrictions.”
That “small number” includes many popular titles.
The list of unavailable tiered-off movies includes Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, which is currently #3 in the Netflix top 10; the Jennifer Lawrence comedy No Hard Feelings; and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. In terms of Thanksgiving, the issue is that the horror film is “distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment’s TriStar Pictures — and it appears that the studio’s movie output deal with Netflix excludes titles from ad-based viewing,” according to Variety. Other Sony movie titles that aren’t on the ad-supported plan: Boyz N the Hood; Morbius (no loss there); Bullet Train; 13 Going on 30; and Whiplash.
On the TV side, The Walking Dead, Peaky Blinders, The Tourist, Dragons: Race to the Edge, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and the series that helped Netflix turn into an empire, House of Cards, are all unavailable on the least expensive plan. Which is about to get a little more expensive.
Montréal’s Osheaga Festival is returning to Parc Jean-Drapeau this year, with the fest taking place from August 2 to 4. SZA, Noah Kahan, and Green Day will be headlining throughout the weekend. Hozier, The Smashing Pumpkins, Justice, Reneé Rapp, Dominic Fike, Skepta, Martin Garrix, Melanie Martinez, Lil Tjay, Jungle, Hamza, Still Woozy, and more are also some key acts on the 2024 lineup.
If you’re looking to head to Osheaga this summer, here’s what to expect in terms of ticket costs.
How Much Are Tickets For The 2024 Osheaga Festival?
Right now, the 3-day General Admission passes are currently on sale and start at $284 (395 CAD). The next ticket tier above that is a 3-day Gold pass which starts at $536 (745 CAD) and includes access to a premium viewing terrace, along with private bathrooms and faster entry. Finally, the Platinum weekend pass starts at $1,167 (1,620 CAD).
As for some other options, Osheaga offers a Gold Table package for four people starting at $4500 (1125 CAD per person). This includes festival tickets, a reserved table on the terrace, and a “speed rail bottle” per day. Their ticket and accommodation package starts at $437 (593 CAD).
The spring/summer of Maggie Rogers is coming: Her new album Don’t Forget Me drops in April, and shortly after that, she’s going on The Don’t Forget Me Tour. If you want in on that, here’s what to know about getting tickets.
When Do Maggie Rogers’ The Don’t Forget Me Tour Tickets Go On Sale?
Ticket sales will begin with an artist pre-sale, with opens February 27. There will be other pre-sales ahead of the general on-sale, which begins on March 1 at 10 a.m. local time. Find more information on Rogers’ website.
Maggie Rogers 2024 Tour Dates: The Don’t Forget Me Tour Part 1
05/04 — Charlotte NC @ Lovin’ Life Festival
05/23 — San Diego, CA @ Gallagher Square at Petco Park #
05/24 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre *
05/27 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
05/31 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory *
06/01 — The Woodlands, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman *
06/03 — Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP *
06/05 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park *
06/07 — Cincinnati, OH @ The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park *
06/08 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Pavilion *
06/09 — Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre *
06/11 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre *
06/14 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
06/16 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion *
06/19 — Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park *
06/20 — Charleston, SC @ Credit One Stadium *
06/22 — Miami, FL @ FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park *
# support to be announced
* with The Japanese House
Don’t Forget Me is out 4/12 via Capitol Records. Find more information here.
Sylvester Stallone was not subtle in revealing that Tulsa King‘s first season was an excruciatingly tough shoot for him due to the oppressive Oklahoma heat. He might not find much relief on that subject with the show moving to Atlanta for second-season production, but on an even rougher note, Stallone is getting real about how doing his own stunts has caught up with him.
Specifically, he spoke of lingering effects from the first Expendables film. On an episode of Paramount+’s The Family Stallone, he revealed how a body-slam by the WWE’s Steve Austin left so many lasting effects that he recently had his seventh back surgery. Yikes:
“There’s something romantic about doing your own stunts… There’s something very unromantic about after doing your own stunts…. I never recovered from Expendables 1. After that film, it was literally physically never the same. So I warn people, don’t do your own stunts.”
The Expendables came out in 2010, and Sistine Stallone (age 25) followed up by adding, “I think my whole childhood he was in pain.” And meanwhile, Tom Cruise keeps insisting that he wants to do stunts as an octogenarian. Are we sure Tom isn’t a robot? That’s a half-serious question.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler handed the power of Jewish cultural life in Nazi Germany to his chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels established a team of of regulators that would oversee the works of Jewish artists in film, theater, music, fine arts, literature, broadcasting, and the press.
Goebbels’ new regulations essentially eliminated Jewish people from participating in mainstream German cultural activities by requiring them to have a license to do so.
This attempt by the Nazis to purge Germany of any culture that wasn’t Aryan in origin led to the questioning of artists from outside the country.
In 1938, English author J. R. R. Tolkien and his British publisher, Stanley Unwin, opened talks with Rütten & Loening, a Berlin-based publishing house, about a German translation of his recently-published hit novel, “The Hobbit.”
Privately, according to “1937 The Hobbit or There and Back Again,” Tolkien told Unwin he hated Nazi “race-doctrine” as “wholly pernicious and unscientific.” He added he had many Jewish friends and was considering abandoning the idea of a German translation altogether.
The Berlin-based publishing house sent Tolkien a letter asking for proof of his Aryan descent. Tolkien was incensed by the request and gave his publisher two responses, one in which he sidestepped the question, another in which he clapped back ’30s-style with pure class.
His publisher sent the classy clap-back.
In the letter sent to Rütten & Loening, Tolkien notes that Aryans are of Indo-Iranian “extraction,” correcting the incorrect Nazi aumption that Aryans come from northern Europe. He cuts to the chase by saying that he is not Jewish but holds them in high regard. “I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people,” Tolkien wrote.
Tolkien also takes a shot at the race policies of Nazi Germany by saying he’s beginning to regret his German surname. “The time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride,” he writes.
Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.
My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject — which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.
Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung. I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully,
These are called “anti-homeless spikes.” They’re about as friendly as they sound.
As you may have guessed, they’re intended to deter people who are homeless from sitting or sleeping on that concrete step. And yeah, they’re pretty awful.
The spikes are a prime example of how cities design spaces to keep homeless people away.
Not all concrete steps have spikes on them, but outdoor seating in cities like Montreal and Tokyo have been sneakily designed to prevent people from resting too comfortably for too long.
This guy sawing through a bench was part of a 2006 protest in Toulouse, France, where public seating intentionally included armrests to prevent people from lying down.
Of course, these designs do nothing to fight the cause or problem of homelessness. They’re just a way of saying to homeless people, “Go somewhere else. We don’t want to look at you,”basically.
One particular set of spikes was outside a former night club in London. And a local group got sick of staring at them.
“Spikes do nothing more than shoo the realities of poverty and inequality away from your backyard — so you don’t have to see it or confront what you can do to make things more equal,” Borromeo told Upworthy. “And that is really selfish.”
“Our moral compass is skewed if we think things like this are acceptable.”
The move by Space, Not Spikes has caused quite a stir in London and around the world. The simple but impactful idea even garnered support from music artist Ellie Goulding.
“That was amazing, wasn’t it?” Borromeo said of Goulding’s shout-out on Instagram.
“[The project has] definitely touched a nerve and I think it is because, as a whole, humans will still look out for each other,” Borromeo told Upworthy. “Capitalism and greed conditions us to look out for ourselves and negate the welfare of others, but ultimately, I think we’re actually really kind.”
“We need to call out injustice and hypocrisy when we see it.”
These spikes may be in London, but the U.S. definitely has its fair share of anti-homeless sentiment, too.
Spikes are pretty obvious — they’re a visual reminder of a problem many cities are trying to ignore. But what we can’t see on the street is the rise of anti-homeless laws that have cropped up from sea to shining sea.
Legislation that targets homeless people — like bans on panhandling and prohibiting people from sleeping in cars — has increased significantly in recent years.
Thankfully, groups like “Space, Not Spikes” are out there changing hearts and minds. But they need our help.
The group created a video to complement its work and Borromeo’s hoping its positive underlying message will motivate people to do better.
“[The world] won’t always be happy-clappy because positive social change needs constructive conflict and debate,” she explained. “But we need to call out injustice and hypocrisy when we see it.”
Check out their video below:
This article originally appeared on 07.24.15
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