#Sarah Khan interviews

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Sarah Khan Biography | Wiki, Career, Photos & More

Renowned Pakistani actress Sarah Khan is well-known for her roles in dramas on television. She started her acting career in the early 2010s and received popularity for her various performances. She was born on January 22, 1992, in Karachi, Pakistan. In 2012, Khan made her screen debut in the drama “Bari Aapa,” which launched a lucrative career. Her parts in well-known plays like “Mohabbat Subh Ka Sitara Hai,” “Kaisi Terii Khudgarzi,” and “Raqs-e-Bismil” have earned her praise. Khan has gained both a devoted fan base and critical acclaim for her captivating performance and magnetic persona. In addition to her acting profession, she is well-known for her social problem campaigning and charitable work. Sarah Khan is still a prominent figure in Pakistan’s entertainment sector, and her influential work has helped it to expand and become more diverse.

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ISRAEL REALTIME - erev Shabbat parshat Chaya Sarah ✡️

"Connecting the World to Israel in Realtime"

🔻NORTHERN ALERT… 12:08.   Residents in Raon, Avivim and Dobb are asked to stay near a protected area.

▪️HOSTAGES… Oren Goldin, a father of two young children, who was believed to be kidnapped by Hamas, was just declared dead.  The delay?  Bodies are still being found, and others badly damaged still being identified.  May Hashem avenge his blood.

▪️ISRAELI HACKERS TAKE DOWN INTERNET IN YEMEN… Multiple reports this morning that the internet was down in Yemen.  The Red Evils - Israeli black-hat hacking team: “We managed to bring down the entire internet throughout the country of Yemen and disconnected over 10 million people from the internet. We managed to hack the primary Yemen communication provider and take info on hundreds of thousands of users. The next blow is tougher.  We will continue to act and together we will win.”

▪️IDF IN GAZA… IDF D-9 bulldozers have reached the outskirts of Shifa Hospital.  Israeli tanks are encircling Shifa hospital and Israel is demanding the evacuation of the hospital, to which the director says ‘will not leave’.

▪️IDF NAVY… enemy channels: 18 fishing boats were destroyed in the attack on the marina in Khan Yunis.

▪️LEBANON ACTIVITY… Reports of anti-tank fire at a military position on the northern border.  Lebanese channels: Israel is attacking in the area of Meiss Ej Jabal in southern Lebanon.

▪️HAMAS SAYS… The official channels of Hamas, especially that of the military branch, tell lies about dozens of weapons that they destroy for the IDF every day. These lies are echoed by Arab media outlets that support Hamas (as well as other major ones) and create a different picture for their consumers.  Senior Hamas officials also claim in interviews with the media that the IDF has not advanced at all since the ground entry, but only occupied "soft areas" that have no military significance. The photos of the Israeli tanks in the Netzer neighborhood this morning and near A-Ranteesi Hospital are shaking Gazans on social networks.

▪️EILAT - IRANIAN BLOGGER SAYS… An Iranian blogger who specializes in the military of the Shia axis:  The suicide drone that fell yesterday in the city of Eilat is the Shahad 101 long distance UAV made in Iran.  This UAV could have arrived in Eilat from either Iraq, Yemen or Syria.

▪️IDF OFFERS BOUNTIES… flyers are being shared with the IDF offering bounties for information, particularly for locations of Hamas leadership and hostage info.  Sources in the Arab media and indicate the cooperation of thousands of Gazans with the IDF in handing over locations of Hamas forces, locations of tunnels and IDF warehouses and launch sites.  The sources report that, most of the information transmitters do not demand money but safe passage for them and their families.

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2023 Reading Roundup

Everything what I read in 2023

I read a whole bunch.

Heartily Recommend Visceral Bleh Reread *Audiobook*

Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (where is the fucking humidity in your swamp, Delia??)

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Lot by Bryan Washington

Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Trust by Hernan Diaz

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell (but everyone is called Thomas)

Verity by Colleen Hoover (awful but wacky and hilariously awful)

Katalin Street by Magda Szabo

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

Animorphs #24 The Suspicion by KA Applegate (a trip)

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Trio by Johanna Hedman

At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

Silence by Shusaku Endo

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Babel by RF Kuang (was so disappointed by this one)

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen

The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani

Must I Go by Yiyun Li

The 1,000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel

Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow

The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno

Yellowface by RF Kuang

The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

Game Misconduct by Ari Baran

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Uprooted by Naomi Novik (sorry Naomi :/ )

The Foot of the Cherry Tree by Ali Parker

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Matrix by Lauren Groff

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

Wild by Kristen Hannah

*The Fraud by Zadie Smith*

The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (weirdly, one of the best depictions of a marriage I’ve read)

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abdulhawa

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather

The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht

Animorphs: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by KA Applegate

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Animorphs #13 The Change by KA Applegate

Animorphs #14 The Unknown by KA Applegate

Animorphs #20 The Discovery by KA Applegate (snuck in two more under the wire… #20 is when shit REALLY kicks off. From there it gets darker and darker).

Poetry

Black Cat Bone by John Burnside

Women of the Harlen Renaissance (Anthology) by Various

The Analog Sea Review no. 4 by Various

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

Non-Fiction

Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick

Atlas of Abandoned Places by Oliver Smith

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews

City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth Century London by Vic Gatrell

The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance by Geoff White (fully available as a podcast)

The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Stories by Leslie Leyland Fields (very niche but fascinating. Transcribed interviews)

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.

Freedom by Margaret Atwood (just excerpts from novels repackaged)

*Born a Crime by Trevor Noah* (Noah’s narration is superb)

The Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak (was expecting stories, but it was mostly academic essays)

Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels

Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco

The Way of the House-Husband, vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono

SAGA vol. 1-6 by Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughan

Top of the Top:

Born a Crime was probably my favourite non ficition, and most of that probably is due to Trevor Noah's narration skills. It was very entertaining and heartfelt.

Less uplifting but just as gripping in a different way was Empire of Pain. Excellent book that went deep into the why and what and hows of Purdue Pharma. Anger inducing.

Lazarus Heist is great and available as a podcast. The book is more or less the podcast word for word.

Fictionwise: I read Trust at the start of the year and it was a bit soon to declare as favourite of the year, but it's stil made the final cut. Just very imaginative and intriguing. Just my kind of MetaFiction. Clever without being cleverclever.

Demon Copperhead I read right off the back of Empire of Pain so maybe that coloured my experience. I've not read any Dickens so loads of references no doubt flew past me, but the language was acrobatic and zingy. I loved it.

Wrapped up the year on a high with North Woods. That was so unexpected and entertaining. Again with the playful language, memorable characters and a unique approach to tying all the various stories together. One that sticks in the mind and makes the writer in me wonder how I can replicate his style (with my own personal twist of course.)

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[ look down, look down, upon your fellow man! ]

PITIÉ, PITIÉ, POUR TOUS CEUX QUI N'ONT RIEN!

an independent mixed-media multimuse roleplay blog, by doe. originally established june 16th, 2022. currently under construction. see old information here.

mobile muse list under the cut.

main blog: @swede.

pinterest.⠀inbox prompts.

musicals and literature and movies ( mostly )

queen titania, a midsummer night's dream

puck, a midsummer night's dream

king oberon, a midsummer night's dream

'count' vladimir popov, anastasia

anya, anastasia ( imposter oc )

dmitri sudayev, anastasia

alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland

the mad hatter, alice's adventures in wonderland

betelgeuse, beetlejuice

miss argentina, beetlejuice

barbara maitland, beetlejuice

adam maitland, beetlejuice

delia deetz, beetlejuice

charles deetz, beetlejuice

countess carmilla karnstein, carmilla

laura blackwood, carmilla

velma kelly, chicago

roxie hart, chicago

lucy westenra, dracula

mina murray, dracula

elizabeth lavenza, frankenstein

persephone, hadestown and greek myth

hades, hadestown and greek myth

demeter, hadestown and greek myth

eurydice, hadestown and greek myth

orpheus, hadestown and greek myth

ophelia, hamlet

veronica sawyer, heathers

heather chandler, heathers

jason dean, heathers

claudia, interview with the vampire

meg giry, le fantôme de l'opéra

madame giry, le fantôme de l'opéra

erik / the phantom, le fantôme de l'opéra

la sorelli, le fantôme de l'opéra

little jammes, le fantôme de l'opéra

raoul, le vicomte de chagny, le fantôme de l'opéra

the daroga / nadir khan, le fantôme de l'opéra

éponine thénardier, les misérables

azelma thénardier, les misérables

gavroche thénardier, les misérables

fantine, les misérables

cosette fauchelevent, les misérables

enjolras, les misérables

marius pontmercy, les misérables

jean valjean, les misérables

inspector javert, les misérables

montparnasse, les misérables

donna sheridan, mamma mia!

sophie sheridan, mamma mia!

wendy darling, peter pan

peter pan, peter pan

tinker bell, peter pan

elizabeth swann, pirates of the caribbean

juliet capulet, romeo and juliet

romeo montague, romeo and juliet

lucy barker, sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street

johanna barker, sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street

bella swan, twilight

edward cullen, twilight

esme cullen, twilight

comics and mcu / decu

doctor harleen quinzel / harley quinn, detective comics

cleo cazo / ratcatcher 2, dceu

raven / rachel roth, detective comics

natalia romanova / black widow, marvel comics

peter parker / spider-man, mcu-adjacent

michelle jones / mj, mcu-adjacent

loki, mcu-adjacent, norse myth

thor, mcu-adjacent, norse myth

sigyn, mcu-adjacent, norse myth

sif, mcu-adjacent, norse myth

ramona flowers, scott pilgrim vs the world

fairytales, disney, animation, horror, misc

ella tremaine, into the woods and cinderella

the baker's wife / sarah, into the woods

rapunzel's prince, into the woods

emily,  corpse bride

victoria everglot,  corpse bride

victor van dort,  corpse bride

edward scissorhands,  edward scissorhands

kim boggs, edward scissorhands

anna of arendelle,  frozen

elsa of arendelle,  frozen

sophie hatter,  howl’s moving castle

the beauty, la belle et la bête

the beast, la belle et la bête

san,   princess mononoke

eloise turner, last night in soho

rapunzel,   into the woods and rapunzel

aurora, sleeping beauty

arielle,   original interpretation of the little mermaid

clara stahlbaum, the nutcracker

dorothy gale, the wizard of oz

morticia addams,  the addams family

wednesday addams, the addams family

fester addams,  the addams family

sabrina spellman,  the chilling adventures of sabrina

prudence night,   the chilling adventures of sabrina

princess brea,  the dark crystal:  age of resistance

sally finkelstein,  the nightmare before christmas

shock,  the nightmare before christmas

thomasin,  the witch

nadja of antipaxos,  what we do in the shadows

original characters

lenore blackwood ( mute medium oc, ask for more info )

miss louisa ( living porcelain doll oc, ask for more info )

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Sisters Crystal Wilson Blackmon and Penni Wilson, the singer-songwriter duo known as  Crystal Penny, have released a new song, “Standards,” a timeless R&B tune brought to life by their trademark vocal harmonies, an engaging melody and lyrics that praise the legendary divas of soul music.

Already embraced by UK audiences, Crystal Penny’s new single is a follow-up to their original soul classic recordings (performed under the group name The Lovations) that have gone viral and will be available on all music app platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon starting April 21, 2023.

The core sentiment of their new single is a celebration of the Queens of the Quiet Storm. Many of these legendary ladies’ personal and professional journeys hit close to home to the Wilson sisters. “The women mentioned in the song are our icons,” says Crystal Blackmon Wilson. “We grew up listening to Sarah Vaughan and idolized Etta James and Dionne Warwick. These women inspired us to sing in the first place.”

Crystal and Penni understand how love songs affect the way we love, live, and interact with one another. “Our favorite vocalists express the grand illusion of what love should be and what we should feel,” Penni adds.  “We hear it on the radio and strive to find it in our lives.”

Standards’ catchy hook is a list of famous divas’ names, including Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Phyllis Hyman, and Patti LaBelle. These women taught higher standards of romance to generations of Quiet Storm listeners.

Discover the inspiring artist’s music on Spotify and Facebook at the following link  https://www.facebook.com/CrystalPennyMusic. Follow the artist’s official social media page on Instagram for updates on newer music. For interviews, reviews, collaborations, and bookings, reach out through this mrdivabetic@gmail.com.

ABOUT

Crystal Penny is the dynamic duo of singer-songwriter sisters Crystal and Penni Wilson, who have shared the stage or recorded with such icons as Rick James, Barry White, Maurice White, Lou Rawls, and Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions, among many others. Their sweet harmonies accompany the late maestro Barry White on his classic hit “Practice What You Preach.” The two also appeared on OWN network’s Realty TV show, “Flex & Shanice,” starring Crystal’s daughter, Grammy-nominated recording artist Shanice Wilson, her husband, actor and comedian, Flex, and their children.

Sisters Crystal Wilson Blackmon and Penni Wilson’s five decades in the music industry are filled with sweet vintage soulful tunes. They started singing young, growing up in a family of gifted singers. Their music is a brilliant source of support for all listeners. These two eclectic stars have singing in their blood which makes them the perfect duo to listen to!

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t u r n i n g s: writings on residency

Lucy Rose Cunningham, MLitt Curatorial Practice at GSA

Sustaining sites of discussion, my work is a form of durational attentiveness. Through enabling time and space for conversations I forge close relations to practitioners; curating as a mode of learning from one another, of reflection and re-consideration.

Earlier this year I interned at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, assisting in the running of the artist residencies there and learning more about such programmes. This period of work and active research, combined with being in residence previously at Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire, led to the production of my publication t u r n i n g s, designed in collaboration with Glasgow-based illustrator Saffa Khan.

t u r n i n g s seeks intimate encounters with artists and curators across the UK, to explore the open-ended notion of ‘residency.’ Through a combination of prose, poetry and interviews, co-authors Lily Lavorato, Eliza Coulson, Ruth Dorber, Cicely Farrer, Dr Sarah Forrest and Alexia Holt address hosting; connectivity; precarity in the arts and housing today; access and positioning oneself beyond familiar environs. This piece of collective research holds regard for what ‘residency’ might mean for people, and how spaces of reflection and communing can enable sustenance of both practices and wellbeing; interdisciplinary learning and outcomes; and cross-organisational relations.

The publication’s launch was celebrated this August at Glasgow’s Woodlands Community Gardens, a space of growth and community building echoing the publication as a site of dialogue and attentiveness. The launch featured an introduction to the project, followed by readings from contributors Eliza Coulson and Dr Sarah Forrest, inviting the audience to consider different approaches to ‘residency’ - residency as a reckoning with afforded time and space; as a connection or confrontation; a home-body. Residency as an object or feeling to bring, to hold, shaped something like a leisure centre, a bolt of energy, a waiting book - each page to inhabit and turn - together. 

by publication convener and editor Lucy Rose Cunningham,

MLitt Curatorial Practice at GSA

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When Sara Ali Khan said to the director, take me out of the film, what was she afraid of? - Sara ali khan was afraid to do atrangi ray named anand l rai to replace her after love aaj kal failure tmova

Sara Ali Khan is in talks these days about her upcoming movie ‘Gaslight’. The actress not only promotes it loudly, but also talks openly about the mistakes made in her previous films. During an interview, Sara talked about how nervous she got when she saw her own acting in her flop movie. Sara called the director and asked him to remove himself from his upcoming movie. Sarah discovered her own…

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CRYSTAL PENNY Celebrates The Greatest Divas of All-Time with New Single “Standards”

Sisters Crystal Wilson Blackmon and Penni Wilson, the singer-songwriter duo known as CRYSTAL PENNY, have released a new song, “Standards,” a timeless R&B tune brought to life by their trademark vocal harmonies, an engaging melody and lyrics that praise the legendary divas of soul music. Already embraced by UK audiences, Crystal Penny's new single is a follow-up to their original soul classic recordings (performed under the name 'The Lovations') that have gone viral and will be available on all music platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon.

The core sentiment of their single is a celebration of many of the greatest female vocalists of all time, who sang with their hearts on the Quiet Storm. Many of these icons' personal and professional journeys hit close to home to the Wilson sisters. “The women mentioned in the song are legends to my sister and me," says Penni Wilson. "We grew up listening to Sarah Vaughan and idolized Etta James and Dionne Warwick. They inspired us to sing in the first place."

Sisters Crystal Wilson Blackmon and Penni Wilson understand that love songs affect the way we love, live, and interact with one another. "Our favorite vocalists express the grand illusion of what love should be and what we should feel," Penni adds.  "We hear it on the radio and strive to find it in our lives."

Standards' catchy hook is a list of famous divas' names, including Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Phyllis Hyman, and Patti LaBelle. These women taught generations of Quiet Storm listeners the standards by which they live and love.

Discover the inspiring artist’s music on Spotify and Facebook at the following link  https://www.facebook.com/CrystalPennyMusic. Follow the artist’s official social media page on Instagram for updates on newer music. For interviews, reviews, and collaborations, reach out through this mrdivabetic@gmail.com.

ABOUT

CRYSTAL PENNY is the dynamic duo of singer-songwriter sisters Crystal and Penni Wilson, who have shared the stage or recorded with such icons as Barry White, Maurice White, Rick James, Lou Rawls, and Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions, among many others. Their sweet harmonies accompany the late maestro Barry White on his classic hit “Practice What You Preach.” The two also co-starred on OWN network’s reality TV show, "Flex & Shanice," starring Crystal's daughter, Grammy-nominated recording artist Shanice Wilson, her husband, actor and comedian, Flex, and their children.

Growing up in a family of gifted singers, the sisters started singing at young age. With music in their souls, they continue to thrive after five decades of brilliant song.