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The Cabaret Vert Festival is one of the largest music festivals in France, and takes place at Charleville-Mézières August 17-20. This year’s festival is headlined by Calvin Harris, Black Eyed Peas, The Chemical Brothers, Cypress Hill, and Juliette Armanet, and spans genres from EDM to soul music. Stateside readers may recognize such names as 070 Shake, Kenny Beats, Clipping., Foushée, KennyHoopla, Ashnikko, Yungblud, and R.A.P Ferreira, among others performing across five days and five stages. The set times were previously released by the festival, but if you’re planning to travel — or already in France for the festival — here they are to help you plan your trip. You can also see the times on the official app.

Black Eyed Peas were added to the lineup after an original headliner, French rapper Lomepal, was accused of rape earlier this month. The festival announced the cancellation in a statement last week in order to “make the best possible decision for our community, our partners, our volunteers, and our entire teams.” You can read the full statement — translated by Google — below.

We have learned, at the same time, all of you, that the artist Lomepal, scheduled for Thursday, August 17, 2023 at Cabaret Vert, was targeted by a preliminary investigation, opened by the Paris Prosecutor’s Office following a complaint filed in 2020.

The Green Cabaret believes that the presumption of innocence is a fundamental principle. As such, it is up to the Justice first to do its job independently.

Nevertheless, the Green Cabaret cannot remain indifferent to the emotions that this complaint arouses, in accordance with its values.

In this context, we sought to make the best possible decision for our community, our partners, our volunteers and our entire teams.

The priority is to allow Justice to do its job. In this anticipation, the festival organization estimates that a time of retreat and silence is necessary. That’s why we decided to cancel his appearance at Cabaret Vert.

What do you do when you find out your kid bullied someone? For many parents, the first step is forcing an apology. While this response is of course warranted, is it really effective? Some might argue that there are more constructive ways of handling the situation that teach a kid not only what they did wrong, but how to make things right again.

Single dad Patrick Forseth recently shared how he made a truly teachable moment out of his son, Lincoln, getting into trouble for bullying. Rather than forcing an apology, Forseth made sure his son was actively part of a solution.

The thought process behind his decision, which he explained in a now-viral TikTok video, is both simple and somewhat racial compared to how many parents have been encouraged to handle similar situations.

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“I got an email a few days ago from my 9-year-old son’s teacher that he had done a ‘prank’ to a fellow classmate and it ended up embarrassing the classmate and hurt his feelings,” the video begins.

At this point, Forseth doesn’t split hairs. “I don’t care who you are, that’s bullying,” he said. “If you do something to somebody that you know has the potential end result of them being embarrassed in front of a class or hurt—you’re bullying.”

So, Forseth and Lincoln sat down for a long talk (a talk, not a lecture) about appropriate punishment and how it would have felt to be on the receiving end of such a prank.

From there, Forseth told his son that he would decide how to make things right, making it a masterclass in taking true accountability.

“I demanded nothing out of him. I demanded no apology, I demanded no apology to the teacher,” he continued, adding, “I told him that we have the opportunity to go back and make things right. We can’t take things back, but we can try to correct things and look for forgiveness.”

@thehalfdeaddad Replying to @sunshinyday1227 And then it’s my kid 🤦‍♂️😡 #endbullyingnow #talktoyourkidsmore #dadlifebestlife #singledadsover40 #teachyourchildren #ReadySetLift ♬ Get You The Moon – Kina

So what did Lincoln do? He went back to his school and actually talked to the other boy he pranked. After learning that they shared a love of Pokémon, he then went home to retrieve two of his favorite Pokémon cards as a peace offering, complete with a freshly cleaned case.

Lincoln would end up sharing with his dad that the other boy was so moved by the gesture that he would end up hugging him.

“I just want to encourage all parents to talk to your kids,” Forseth concluded. “Let’s try to avoid just the swat on the butt [and] send them to their room. Doesn’t teach them anything.”

In Forseth’s opinion, kids get far more insight by figuring out how to resolve a problem themselves. “That’s what they’re actually going to face in the real world once they move out of our nests.”

He certainly has a point. A slap on the wrist followed by being marched down somewhere to say, “I’m sorry,” only further humiliates kids most of the time. With this gentler approach, kids are taught the intrinsic value of making amends after wrongdoing, not to mention the power of their own autonomy. Imagine that—blips in judgment can end up being major character-building moments.

Kudos to this dad and his very smart parenting strategy.

This article originally appeared on 3.24.23

A local reporter at Hometown Life shared a unique and heartfelt story on March 16 about a mother struggling to find shoes that fit her 14-year-old son. The story resonated with parents everywhere; now, her son is getting the help he desperately needs. It’s a wonderful example of people helping a family that thought they had nowhere to turn.

When Eric Kilburn Jr. was born, his mother, Rebecca’s OBGYN, told her that he had the “biggest feet I’ve ever seen in my life. Do not go out and buy baby shoes because they’re not gonna fit,’” Rebecca told Today.com. Fourteen years later, it’s almost impossible to find shoes that fit the 6’10” freshman—he needs a size 23.

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The teen’s height doesn’t stem from a gland issue; he comes from a family of tall people. Both his parents are over 6 feet tall.

Eric plays football for Goodrich High School in Goodrich, Michigan, but doesn’t wear cleats, which led to a sprained ankle. He also suffers from ingrown toenails that are so severe he’s had two nails on his biggest toes permanently removed.

Last year, the family was lucky enough to stumble upon five pairs of size 21 shoes at a Nike outlet store. It was discovered they were made especially for Tacko Fall, the NBA player with some of the most enormous feet in the game. To put things in perspective, Shaquille O’Neal wears a size 22.

However, Eric soon grew out of those as well. The family was left with one more option: have orthopedic shoes made for Eric at the cost of $1,500 with no guarantee he won’t quickly grow out of those as well.

After his mother’s heartfelt plea to Hometown Life, the family got much-needed help from multiple companies, including Under Armour and PUMA, who are sending representatives to Michigan to measure his feet for custom shoes.

CAT has reached out to make him a custom pair of boots. Eric hasn’t had any boots to wear for the past five Michigan winters.

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Kara Pattison started a GoFundMe campaign on behalf of the family to help them purchase custom shoes for “the rest of the time Eric has these feet.” It has raised nearly $20,000 for the family in just over a week.

“The success of this fundraiser is well beyond what was ever expected,” Pattison wrote on the site on March 18. “The Kilburns plan to open a bank account dedicated to Eric’s future footwear and some specialized sports equipment. He can use this to get a helmet that fits for football along with pads. They will also look into a football and track jersey for him.”

The sense of relief felt by Rebecca, Eric and the rest of the Kilburn family must be incredible. It has to be frustrating to be unable to provide your child with something as basic as footwear.

“It’s been overwhelming,” Rebecca told Hometown Life. “I have been this puddle of emotions, all of them good…It’s the coolest thing to be able to say we did it! He has shoes! I am not usually a crier, but I have been in a constant state of happy tears…We are so grateful.”

This article originally appeared on 03.23.23

Sure, it’s lovely to see pristine, perfectly curated homes that look like they belong in Architectural Digest. A little inspo never hurt anyone. But as we all know, the spotless life is simply not an achievable reality, especially for those with busy lives and limited budgets (read: most of us).

But you know what? Maybe even the messy homes deserve some love. The ones with constant junk piles and unfinished projects and dirty dishes and misplaced toys. The homes that will never grace the cover of a magazine but still do a wonderful job of containing all the moments life has to offer—the big, small, extraordinary, mundane and everywhere in between. Cause at the end of the day, isn’t that a home’s true purpose anyway?

Stephanie Murphy, a mom and TikTok creator, seems to think so. Murphy recently took viewers on an “average house tour,” and it was the exact opposite of aspirational.

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Highlighted in Murphy’s tour are the pantry door that’s remained unpainted for three years, blinds held together with binder clips, air conditioners held in place by duct tape, a full dish rack tray that’s “a permanent fixture” on their countertops, and not one but two junk drawers (honestly, that’s a little low by my count).

@steph_murphy

Lets normalize “average” because there is nothing wrong with it. Everywhere you look on social media you see big gorgeous houses in perfect condition and its hard not to compare yours to them. But its not the norm and half the time its staged. Our house is lived in, and its filled with love and tons of memories and at the end of the day thats all that matters.

♬ vampire – Olivia Rodrigo

You’ll also notice a fridge that is covered in her kid’s artwork and school pictures. Not in any cohesive way, but merely thrown on randomly, as nature intended.

Meanwhile, in the master bedroom, Murphy and her husband’s bed have two separate blankets because neither of them like to share. A genius idea, and just another example of how we really, really don’t need to continue with marital sleeping norms that don’t actually feel comfortable. Another way is possible!

As for why Murphy decided to showcase her “average, middle-class house,” it’s all in the caption of her video:

“Let’s normalize ‘average’ because there is nothing wrong with it. Everywhere you look on social media, you see big gorgeous houses in perfect condition and it’s hard not to compare yours to them. But it’s not the norm and half the time it’s staged. Our house is lived in, and it’s filled with love and tons of memories and at the end of the day that’s all that matters.”

Judging from the comments sections of this now-viral post, it seems like other people are ready for more average content.

“This is awesome!” one person wrote. “I’m constantly feeling inadequate when people have a perfect house that looks like nobody lives there!”

“I feel seen,” added another.

Hear, hear. No need to feel inadequate about having a home that’s lived in. Imperfection has its own kind of beauty.

Stephen A. Smith has spent decades firing off takes on national television, and as such there have been some occasions when he’s crossed a line. While Smith is never one to fully retract something he’s said, he does recognize there are times where he’s taken things too far and wishes he had the opportunity to go back and take a different approach to certain topics.

Smith joined Paul George and the Podcast P show this week and was asked about any regrets he has in his career, noting he has several. Among them are his beef with Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson, who has said he wants to fight Stephen A., with Smith saying he stands by his reporting on Robinson being the reason Randy Ayers got fired in Philadelphia, but wishes he never let it get to this point. From a national perspective, the moment he wishes he had back on ESPN was his infamous rant about Kwame Brown being a “bonafide scrub” after he was traded to Memphis as part of the Pau Gasol trade.

Again, as Smith told George and company, he doesn’t think he said anything that wasn’t correct, but he does wish he hadn’t been quite as theatrical about it to the point that it became a meme — with Kwame, like Glenn Robinson, hating Stephen A. to this day, which Smith has come to accept.

I do love that even though Stephen A. seems to genuinely wish he’d approached these topics differently he can’t help but note while semi-apologizing for them that he was correct at the time, it was just his delivery that was a bit uncouth. I don’t know if Robinson or Brown will be willing to accept Stephen A.’s remorsefulness here, but it is nice to see Stephen A. recognize when he’s gone a bit too far.

[via Wave Sports & Entertainment]

Harry Styles’ “As It Was” had an amazing chart run in 2022: It spent 15 weeks at No. 1, which was (and remains) tied for the third-longest chart-topping run in Billboard Hot 100 history. All the other songs above it and tied with it were collaborations, so Styles had the biggest solo song ever. However, he no longer holds the record. On the new Hot 100 dated August 19, Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” is No. 1 for a 16th total week, making it the new longest-running non-collaboration No. 1 song of all time.

As far as the longest-running songs over all, Wallen is now behind just one: Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Old Town Road,” which was No. 1 for 19 weeks. It’s tied with Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day.”

Other noteworthy placements in the top 10 include Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” as the 2019 song has reached a new high at No. 3. Dua Lipa’s Barbie movie song “Dance The Night” has also achieved a new peak, at No. 7. SZA’s “Snooze” just entered the top 10 for the first time at No. 10, making it her eighth top-10 single and the fifth from her album SOS.

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Do you guys ever think about multi-million paydays? Margot Robbie does.

Variety reports that the actress “stands to make roughly $50 million in salary and box office bonuses” for starring in and producing Barbie, the global hit that decimated the world’s supply of pink paint. If true, that’s one of the biggest single-movie salaries ever. The Greta Gerwig movie is up to $1.18 billion, including $526.3 million at the domestic box office; it will soon pass The Super Mario Bros. Movie to become the highest-grossing film of the year (it’s already in the top 25 all-time).

In addition to bringing the popular children’s toy to glittering life, Robbie produced the film through her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, which she founded in 2014 with her now-husband, Tom Ackerley, and friends Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr. The goal of the company was to tell women’s stories on screen and support women creators behind the scenes.

LuckyChap is also behind two Oscar winners, I, Tonya and Promising Young Woman; the Harley Quinn spin-off, Birds of Prey; and an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation, possibly directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

A Barbie sequel has been’t announced yet, but if (when) it does get made, Warner Bros. Pictures better prepare the dump trucks full of money (is there a Sanitation Worker Barbie?) for Robbie and Gerwig. Their job isn’t beach, it’s making good movies.

(Via Variety)

Over the weekend, the Jonas Brothers played their two-night run at NYC’s Yankee Stadium — and it included a truly massive setlist. With 60 songs, the band took fans through all five of their albums, from the Disney days to the present era.

As they are set to bring the same show to Boston’s TD Garden this week, those going might be wondering what songs they should start preparing for.

Here is the Jonas Brothers’ setlist for their Five Albums, One Night Tour. A complete list of tour dates can also be found here.

1. “Celebrate!”
2. “What A Man Gotta Do”
3. “SOS”
4. “Hold On”
5. “Goodnight And Goodbye”
6. “That’s Just The Way We Roll”
7. “Still In Love With You” / “Australia” / “Hollywood” / “Just Friends” / “Games” (medley)
8. “Hello Beautiful”
9. “Inseparable”
10. “Take A Breath”
11. “When You Look Me In The Eyes”
12. “Year 3000”
13. “Summer Baby”
14. “Vacation Eyes”
15. “Sail Away”
16. “Little Bird”
17. “A Little Bit Longer”
18. “Can’t Have You”
19. “Sorry”
20. “BB Good”
21. “Shelf”
22. “Got Me Going Crazy” / “Video Girl” / “One Man Show” (medley)
23. “Pushin Me Away”
24. “Tonight”
25. “Lovebug”
26. “Burnin Up”
27. “Americana”
28. “Summer In The Hamptons”
29. “Waffle House”
30. “Montana Sky”
31. “Miracle”
32. “Fly With Me”
33. “Hey Baby”
34. “Poison Ivy”
35. “Don’t Speak”
36. “Much Better”
37. “World War III”
38. “What Did I Do To Your Heart”
39. “Paranoid”
40. “Turn Right”
41. “Before The Storm”
42. “Black Keys”
43. “Jealous”
44. “Cake By The Ocean”
45. “Walls”
46. “Comeback”
47. “Rollercoaster”
48. “Strangers”
49. “Used To Be”
50. “Cool”
51. “Trust”
52. “Every Single Time”
53. “Happy When I’m Sad”
54. “Don’t Throw It Away”
55. “Love Her”
56. “Hesitate”
57. “I Believe”
58. “Only Human”
59. “Sucker”
60. “Leave Before You Love Me”

Vladimir Putin is still in it to win it, but as time wears forth, Ukraine’s determination does not bode well for the former Russian “superman.” His war began with troops injuring themselves in order to escape battlefield-hell on earth, and the situation has not improved. After running out of replacements, the Kremlin apparently greenlit the drafting of war protestors, and from there, Putin has reportedly pitched a fit and increased fines for those who resist the draft. And he cannot be happy about the latest significant news coming out of Russia.

CBS News reports that the Russian ruble has fallen to a new wartime low, certainly due in part to the fallout of Western sanctions over Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. At this point, it’s “now worth less than one cent,” and the downfall accelerated in January to the point where one-third of the currency has evaporated. Oddly enough, the ruble rose in 2022, but those days are over, and Putin’s talking heads aren’t pleased. One of them popped off on air and blamed Russia’s central bank, via Reuters:

Popular pro-Kremlin television presenter Vladimir Solovyev, whose Rossiya 1 shows are watched by millions of Russians, launched into an aggressive, expletive-ridden criticism of the central bank late last week.

“…every other country is laughing at us, at our rouble being one of the three weakest currencies, thanks to the ‘genius’ policy of the central bank,” he said.

Maybe we’ll receive some dour comments from Putin soon as well. That is, if he’s not busy hanging in his pickle hideout and fretting over cabbage.

(Via Reuters & CBS News)

Despite big name stars like Hawaii native Jason Momoa warning people not to vacation in Maui while wildfires continue to cause massive death and destruction, Paris Hilton posed for photos not even 30 miles away from the ongoing disaster.

According to the Daily Mail, Hilton was spotted frolicking with her husband Carter Reum and their son on Saturday while a “city of tombstones” was forming just miles away:

Hilton was pictured at a resort in Wailea, only 30 miles from the devastated town of Lahaina, as the death toll rose to 96, making the disaster the worst wildfire in the United States in 100 years. A smaller fire, in south Maui’s Kihei area, was still burning on Sunday, only five miles from her vacation spot.

The 42-year-old heiress arrived on the island on Tuesday with her husband Carter Reum and eight-month-old Phoenix – the same day the wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina and burnt it to the ground.

The Daily Mail reports that the Hawaii Tourism Authority “asked tourists to leave” a day after Hilton’s arrival. The hotel heiress is now being slammed on Twitter by people who can’t believe she’s still on the island staging photoshoots.

“Paris Hilton is vacationing in Maui at a resort 30 min from Lahaina,” one user tweeted. “Imagine watching thousands of ppl lose their homes, loved ones, families etc and then expecting them to SERVE YOU DRINKS WHILE U FROLIC ON THE BEACH INFRONT OF THEM OMG.”

“Paris Hilton heard about the Maui wildfire devastation and said, ‘That’s hot,’” another user wrote.

“Paris Hilton literally had the whole world to choose from, but…” tweeted another angry user.

“Wow. Read the room,” Vegas radio personality Heidi Harris commented.

“Tone. Meet my friend Deaf,” a user tweeted.

The photos of Hilton arrive shortly after Momoa joined others in urging people to stay away from the island.

“Maui is not the place to have your vacation right now,” the Aquaman star wrote before busting out the all-caps. “DO NOT TRAVEL TO MAUI.”

(Via Daily Mail)