Month: January 2022

Raw recap & reactions (Jan. 17, 2022): Don’t boo education – Cageside Seats
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Raw recap & reactions (Jan. 17, 2022): Don’t boo education – Cageside Seats

I need to clear my throat for my best Vince McMahon impression. Welcome everyone, to Monday Night Raw!. This is your weekly recap written by me, the guy with the byline. Be sure to check out Claire’s stellar blog for more details of the night, then come back here for some insights. Back? Good. And before we get there, Happy birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Let’s talk Raw! Freakin’ All Mighty There must be a better way to feature Seth Rollins and Bobby Lashley on Raw. One week before their respective championship matches, pitting them against each other can’t be the brightest idea WWE had. Will it be a quality match? Of course. These two cats know how to tell a story and they’re both at the top of their physical game. But c’mon! The second WWE announced this match, it ...
Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber says he and Jon Voight agreed to never talk about politics – Daily Mail
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Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber says he and Jon Voight agreed to never talk about politics – Daily Mail

Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber says he and Jon Voight 'made an agreement years ago to just never talk about politics' By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 01:49 EST, 18 January 2022 | Updated: 02:41 EST, 18 January 2022 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- (function (src, d, tag){ var s = d.createElement(tag), prev = d.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0]; s.src = src; prev.parentNode.insertBefore(s, prev); }("https://www.dailymail.co.uk/static/gunther/1.17.0/async_bundle--.js", document, "script")); <!-- DM.loadCSS("https://www.dailymail.co.uk/static/gunther/gunther-2159/video_bundle--.css"); <!-- Liev Schreiber and his Ray Donovan co-star Jon Voight don't talk politics. The Ray Donovan sta...
Handmade Stories: Puja Rao
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Handmade Stories: Puja Rao

Text by Shirin Mehta. Photography by Anupama Sebastian and Afroz Ulla. Styling by Sarah Rajkotwala. Art direction by Aishwaryashree Puja Rao, 39Ceramic Artist and DesignerBengaluru  What initially drew you to this art/craft form? Are you a full-time ceramicist or do you balance it with a “regular” job? After completing NIFT [National Institute of Fashion Technology] Mumbai’s fashion design programme in 2004, I worked in Hyderabad for a year and then shifted to Bangalore and worked with Munch Design Workshop in the areas of research and trends and forecasting, and apparel, graphic, product and packaging design. Along the way, while planning my home garden I discovered a huge gap in the market for garden products and services. Followin...
Handmade Stories: This contemporary crop of ceramicists is reinvigorating the age-old craft
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Handmade Stories: This contemporary crop of ceramicists is reinvigorating the age-old craft

Text by Shirin Mehta. Styling by Sarah Rajkotwala. Art direction by Aishwaryashree   I am inescapably drawn to pottery. Is it because the thought often strikes me that these artefacts of clay are culled from the very dust that we are made from? Is it because these objects connect me to the earth itself, to the very creation of man, to death and renewal? Or because there is something so basically nourishing about vessels made originally to store food and water, symbolising the fundamentals of human life? All these, yes, as also the skills displayed by their makers. And the perfection often inherent in silhouettes so marvellously shaped. Isn’t there something almost primal in the pr...