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Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums

The Observer 13 Apr 2025
Britain’s head of counter-terrorism, Matt Jukes, told the Guardian that a joint taskforce would be set up between his force and the NCA to tackle those fixated with violence online, in what he called a “decisive moment” ... Jukes said ... Jukes added.
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Start your week smart: Tax deadline, Trump’s trade war, Blue Origin launch, ‘The Last of ...

News-Press Now 13 Apr 2025
By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN ... Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. Sunday spotlight ... 2⃣ What’s new ... Jordan playing identical twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow-era South to open a juke joint.
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EDITORIAL: Welcome to Juke Joint

The Clarksdale Press Register 12 Apr 2025
That opportunity comes once again to Clarksdale this weekend with Juke Joint Festival ... These are people who came to Clarksdale to get some barbecue, pick up a T-shirt, pop into a juke joint and soak up Clarksdale culture.
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Downtowb Clarksdale hosts Juke Joint this weekend

The Clarksdale Press Register 12 Apr 2025
The hotels are full, the restaurants are full and Downtown Clarksdale will be full this weekend as the 2025 Juke Joint Festival gets underway ... Juke Joint Remembers. Juke Joint remembers its supporters who died since last year’s event they are.
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FLOYD INGRAM: I’m a proud Son of the South

The Clarksdale Press Register 12 Apr 2025
My very first visit to Clarksdale, Mississippi was Juke Joint Saturday six years ago ... Festivals ... Think about it ... I have even been told that the Juke Joint website has a following from Nepal ... Clarksdale, let’s welcome the world to Juke Joint this weekend.
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Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan sink teeth into vampire genre with 'Sinners'

Canoe 12 Apr 2025
Story continues below ... Told over the course of one day in the 1930s in a small town in the southern U.S., Sinners casts Jordan as twin brothers — Smoke and Stack — who return home with their sights set on becoming proprietors of their own juke joint ... .
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Sinners: Michael B Jordan’s wild Southern Gothic horror is an utterly thrilling oddity

AOL 11 Apr 2025
Using their liquor-running connections from a turbulent spell in Chicago, this effortlessly slick pair, Smoke and Stack, are opening a juke joint in a derelict barn near the home town of their cousin Sammie (newcomer Miles Caton).
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‘Sinners’ review: Ryan Coogler’s latest film is his best yet

The Mercury News 11 Apr 2025
They’re back on their home turf where they scurry about to put on one hell of a show at a hastily created juke joint ... He assembles some disciples hellbent on becoming the ultimate juke joint party crashers.
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‘Sinners’ review: Ryan Coogler, Michael B Jordan draw blood in period vampire thriller

Screen Daily 10 Apr 2025
takes its time building suspense, first establishing the world of 1932 Mississippi in which a group of Black characters gathers at a newly-opened juke joint, only to discover that some of their white neighbours are vampires.
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'Sinners' review: Michael B. Jordan takes on vampires – as twins!

The Star - Shelby 10 Apr 2025
In 1930s Mississippi, twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both Jordan) have returned home from Chicago to buy a sawmill and set up their own juke joint, wanting to fill it with whiskey and Irish beer, paying customers, and plenty of blues.
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It's on! Red Dirt parents show up as bands rock out, kicking off Boys from Oklahoma shows

The Oklahoman 10 Apr 2025
A short walk away in a tent across from the iconic Stillwater juke joint Eskimo Joe's, popular Norman-based one-man band Hosty started to draw a flock of early birds as he opened up the iconic ...
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‘Sinners’ Review: Even Vampires Get the Blues in Ryan Coogler’s Awe-Inspiring Horror Film

The Wrap 10 Apr 2025
If you love brain-teasers, give this one a whirl. Try to think of something, anything, that vampires haven’t done yet ... Jordan (and also Michael B ... Yes sir, it seems like Smoke and Stack’s juke joint really is going to be the best there ever was ... .
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With Sinners, Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler finds the racial heart of American vampirism

Polygon 10 Apr 2025
There are two kinds of messy big-budget movies, and as of 2025, Ryan Coogler has made them both ... Together, they lure former friends and colleagues to work for them during the grand opening night of their ramshackle juke joint ... ....
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Red Dirt ready: Stillwater prepares for 'Boys from Oklahoma' with more food, gas and people

The Oklahoman 10 Apr 2025
The music tent will be set up across the street from Stillwater's iconic juke joint and will feature performances by Oklahoma songwriters like Hosty, Jacob Tovar Trio, Monica Taylor and Travis Fite, ...
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Live music in Montgomery area for April 10-16

Montgomery Advertiser 09 Apr 2025
Venues or artists who would like their performances included should email Shannon Heupel at [email protected] with "Live Music" in subject ... What bands are playing this week. April 10. The Exchange ... B.B. King's. Skylar 6 p.m. April 11 ... Jerry's Juke Joint.
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