Author: Elsa

‘Jumping’ Jack Ury passed away a couple of years ago at the ripe ol’ age of 97. He was a great character in the world of poker and a friend to many. Perhaps his greatest ever moment came just a year before his death when he ‘slow rolled’ a cocksure opponent in the shape of  Stephen Friedlander. As the hand was being played, it looked as though the old-timer was about to lose. The commentators wrote off Ury. But Jack had an ace up his sleeve. Not literally – that’d be cheating. He just had a killer hand. It was…

The new Star Wars movie is due to be called ‘The Last Jedi’ and shouldn’t be long in heading to theaters. But the one after that (after the Han Solo spin-off) is due out in 2020 and hasn’t begun casting yet. Someone who has just thrown their hat into the audition ring, though? Kanye West… Yeezy is actually pretty obsessed with the Star Wars universe. So much so that he’s even references the franchise in tracks. The 2005 song Gone, for example, features the line: “But if they ever flip sides like Anakin…” West played a Stormtrooper with Kim Kardashian as…

Portland, Oregon. A young woman named Ashley Glawes puts her pet snake on her shoulders, like she’s done a thousand times before. But this time, Bart the python was to get into serious trouble. Ashley felt a yank and pain in her ear. Bart had managed to squeeze through the enlarged hole she had had punched through her earlobe. And was stuck fast. “I froze instantly. I didn’t move because I really thought he was like attacking the side of my head,” she said. Ashley said she then tried to get the snake out of her ear hole using olive…

Detroit, Michigan. Two open carry advocates walked into Dearborn Police Station recently brandishing GUNS as a ‘protest’ to what they see as unfair harassment for carrying their rifles in public. The men, believed to be one James Baker and a man known only as ‘Brandon’ at this time strolled in expecting to be able to lodge a formal complaint. Instead? They got guns pointed at them and handcuffs on their wrists. The incident was filmed by the men and streamed onto Baker’s Facebook account live. Before they entered the building, one of them addressed the camera, referencing a previous encounter with…

The skies about Wisconsin and Illinois lit up GREEN recently. An odd green fireball tore through the sky, causing hundreds of frightened residents to call 911 and report what scientists now believe was a meteor. There are reports that some people even saw it in Michigan, Iowa, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota and Ontario. “I woke up to the reports that there was this bright meteor going across the sky. Tons of meteors hit Earth every day, but the big ones are sort of rare, where you see it like that in the sky and have it explode like that…

Danish charity worker Anja Ringgren Loven, is without a shadow of a doubt, a truly compassionate humanist. It was almost a year ago to the day that she was in Nigeria on a charity work mission when she stumbled across a tiny little toddler who would be later be known as ‘Hope’. He had spent eight months surviving by himself in the streets. Naked, terribly emaciated and dying. He had been cast out by his parents who believed him to be a witch. He was left to die. But Anja found him. She saved him and pictures of her giving the…

32 year-old Thomas Breeding is a boat captain from Florida. One day, while out fishing, he managed to catch a truly HUGE haul. A whopper. Altogether it weight over 50lb. But it wasn’t a fish. Or even a ray or a shark. Nope, it was a drug shipment. A cocaine haul worth between $500,000 and $620,000 on the street, to be exact. Breeding found it entirely by chance (that’s his claim, anyway). But instead of handing it over to police or the coastguard, he decided – with the help of four friends – to try and fence the coke. But got caught. Now?…

Foxtel is a large television network in Australia. There are, as their name suggests, part of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox empire. They have a sports wing that shows boxing. Their main money spinner, though? Their pay-per-view boxing. But at $60 Aussie Dollars (around $45 US Dollars) per fight – it’s obscenely expensive. So, a lot of people stream it. And now? With Facebook Live? You can find it on the social networking site. That doesn’t make it legal, though. As one Aussie guy found out when he streamed a recent bout on there and they called him to tell him to…

Kensal Rise, North-West London. In a damp apartment, a discovery is made. It’s a cache of old tapes. But these are no ordinary tapes. They’re master tapes. With original tracks on never heard before. The recording artist? Bob Marley! The legendary Jamaican reggae icon and his band, The Wailers, used to stay in the flat in England’s capital when they were touring Europe. But the tapes of these jams? Lost. Until now… The tapes were rescued from the garbage by London-based Marley fan and businessman Joe Gatt. “My friend was doing a building refuse clearance that included some discarded two-inch…

Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Helen Mirren, Tyrese Gibson, Scott Eastwood, Nathalie Emmanuel, Elsa Ptaky and Kurt Russell. That’s quite a cast, huh? Well, yeah. And it needs to be. The Fate of the Furious (aka The Fast and the Furious 8, aka Furious 8) is looking like being quite the movie… It’s due out in about four months and could well be 2017’s first unmissable blockbuster. Up until now, though? We’ve had to make do with teaser trailers and rumors. But the Super Bowl commercial aired on Sunday night gave us our first real glimpse…