Saturday, November 8, 2025

 
Home Blog Page 22

Are Ripley And Sadie Done For Good?

TVLine
-
0
Are Ripley And Sadie Done For Good?








NBC

Goodwin isn’t just dealing with a family emergency, she’s facing a longtime family secret. 

In Tuesday’s episode of “Chicago Med,” the Goodwin family comes together to rally around Bert after his medical emergency last week. But things get increasingly tense and emotional for the clan when they learn Bert has an advanced directive that forbids surgery. Goodwin’s son David wants to go against Bert’s wishes, effectively disagreeing with the rest of the family over his father’s care; he’s not ready to give up. 

David’s siblings resent him for not having been around, and are annoyed that he’s now showing up out of the blue trying to control a situation he hardly knows anything about. He hasn’t had to see Bert’s slow and painful decline, and they feel it’s time to let him go. It’s what Bert wanted.

David goes off on his own and reads the directive, finding a legal loophole which would allow the family to overturn the directions outlined in the document. He then calls another doctor to get a second opinion, which enflames the rest of his family. His siblings yell at him for being absent and difficult not just now, but for their whole lives.

Then, David drops a bombshell: Bert is not David’s biological father. He says Bert chose to love him, but their relationship was always different than everyone else’s. That’s why things have been complicated.

Goodwin then steps in to provide the backstory about how she got pregnant right before she and Bert started dating. Though she thought the other man was the love of her life, he became cold once she revealed she was pregnant. They broke up, and she went out with Bert. When Goodwin told him the news, he responded in a loving and committed way. They decided not to tell David until the boy was 12 years old, and then left it up to him to share his story when he felt comfortable. 

Are Novak and Frost Flirting?!


chicago med season 11 episode 6 recap ripley holly
NBC

Meanwhile, Violet and Novak of “Chicago Fire” stop by to drop off a young boy and girl who got attacked by a swarm of hornets. Frost starts treating them, and learns the two are best of friends — maybe even crushes! — and the boy wants to find the girl’s rabbit. (Whose name, by the way, is Bridget Bardot. You know, after the Chappell Roan song?)

Frost is a little distracted during work, however, after he asks Naomi out on a date, she rejects him. He spends some time venting about it to Ripley and his patient. Ripley gives Frost a piece of colorful advice, saying it’s for the best: “Archer might’ve knocked her up after it ended.” Ouch!

But the man seems to recover quickly after he and Novak embark on a mission to go save that rabbit. The pair gets pretty flirtatious in a treehouse, giving each other googly eyes all over the place. While it was pretty cute, we can’t help but root for Novak and Vasquez. (Perhaps that one is a slow burn! She can flirt with Frost in the meantime!)

That makes things all the more awkward when Naomi goes back to Frost, having regretted that rejection. When she turns the corner — ready to accept his love! — she sees him flirting with Novak in the Gaffney halls. She walks away without sharing her feelings at all. 

Are Ripley and Sadie Done for Good?


chicago med season 11 episode 6 recap ripley holly
NBC

Elsewhere, Sadie and Ripley are going through some growing pains. Holly is struggling with her prosthetic, but is trying to keep her pain from Ripley. She confides in Hannah during a mild parking lot breakdown, and Hannah encourages her to ask Ripley for help. But Sadie is hesitant because Ripley always takes on problems in an overbearing way. 

Complicating things further, Emelia has started calling Ripley “dad,” causing all kinds of powerful emotions to bubble up between the couple. But Ripley is blind to the tension brewing, so he later asks Sadie to move in together, so he can help support her. She gets mad, telling him he’s always trying to step in and save the day. That’s how they met, after all, when he saved her from that well.

Ripley apologizes, saying he just loves her so much. Sadie then freaks out, and alleges Ripley doesn’t love her at all. He simply thinks he loves her. She decides she needs to protect Emelia before her daughter gets too attached. After Sadie professes her own love for Ripley, the pair tearfully parts ways. 

What did you think of Goodwin’s family secret in “Chicago Med”? And do you think Sadie and Ripley are done for good?





This story originally appeared on TVLine

Charlie Javice co-defendant Olivier Amar sentenced to over 5 years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan

NYPost
-
0
Charlie Javice co-defendant Olivier Amar sentenced to over 5 years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan


A former finance executive convicted of helping Charlie Javice defraud JPMorgan Chase into buying the college financial aid startup Frank for $175 million was sentenced on Wednesday to 68 months in prison.

Olivier Amar, who was Frank’s chief growth officer, was sentenced by US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan.

Hellerstein also sentenced Javice to 85 months in prison on Sept. 29. She is expected to appeal her conviction.

Olivier Amar, shown in March, was sentenced to 68 months in prison for his role in helping Charlie Javice defraud JPMorgan Chase into buying the college financial aid startup Frank for $175 million Bloomberg via Getty Images

Lawyers for Amar did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Javice founded Frank in 2017 and won praise for simplifying college financial aid for students and parents.

But prosecutors said that when it came time to sell the business, the defendants created a fake customer list, containing real names they bought from data brokers.

Prosecutors said the defendants did this to convince JPMorgan that Frank had about 4.25 million customers, not the approximately 300,000 it actually had.

Both defendants were convicted of bank fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud.


Charlie Javice looking at the camera.
Javice founded Frank in 2017 and won praise for simplifying college financial aid for students and parents. Alec Tabak

Prosecutors said Amar deserved at least six years in prison. Lawyers for Amar sought no prison time, saying he did not engineer the fraud, and lost his livelihood and reputation.

The Montreal native expects to be deported following his sentence, court papers show.

JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon called buying Frank a “huge mistake.”

The largest US bank on Monday asked a Delaware judge to end its court-ordered obligation to continue paying Javice’s and Amar’s legal bills, which it said have totaled a “breathtaking” $115 million.



This story originally appeared on NYPost

Graceless sore winner Zohran Mamdani immediately drops his mask and declares war on NYC

NYPost
-
0
Graceless sore winner Zohran Mamdani immediately drops his mask and declares war on NYC

Having fallen in love with the sound of his own voice and apparently convinced he is heaven-sent, a besotted Zohran Mamdani missed the warning that you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

So it was that his victory speech Tuesday night had no hint of grace or gratitude to New York or America.

Its sneering, triumphalist tone was especially unbecoming for an immigrant in a city that generously opened its arms to embrace him and his family decades ago.

Rather than any expression of appreciation, his relentless criticism of his political predecessors and successful New Yorkers sounded like a battle cry coming from the interior of a Trojan Horse.

Without doubt, he was declaring war against President Trump and, by extension, anyone else who has the nerve to oppose our newly crowned ruler.

Especially striking was the fact that Mamdani offered only the back of his hand to the more than 1 million New Yorkers who voted for his opponents.

Had the better angels been able to get through his self-aggrandizing armor, Gotham’s next mayor surely would have included at least perfunctory promises and pleas for civic unity.

But there was not a word of fellowship to those who didn’t buy the discount-store bromides he’s been selling.

Now that he’s been elected, he expects 8 million people to keep their mouths closed and accept him and his socialist agenda unconditionally.

His actual opponents were scorned or ignored, as if the election marks only a brief timeout in his war against them, and against disagreement itself.

Traditional niceties and graciousness apparently are far beneath chosen ones, who see themselves as the end all and be all.

In their minds, election night is only a respite in the battle for power and ideological supremacy.

If there is any upside to such a downbeat speech, it is that the image of a smiling nice guy that Mamdani worked hard to cultivate has now been exposed as a fraud.

When the mask dropped, we saw clearly the fangs of contempt and bitter grievance.

His dark heart came through loud and clear in his depiction of New York City as something of a modern slave state where a ruling class of landlords, bankers and even neighborhood merchants sucks the life out of everyone else.

Back to class war

In a sweeping statement that clearly didn’t apply only to the Adams administration, he claimed that “those in City Hall have only helped those who can help them.

But on January 1st, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone.”

Our new savior also decried a “prism of misinformation,” apparently referring to the fact that his opponents were able to raise money to run commercials against him.

“Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them,” he declared.

It’s called politics, and nothing is so off-putting as a sore winner, which is what he is.

From there he was back to his Bernie Sanders-like obsession with class and wealth.

“As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour,” he insisted.

Naturally, Mamdani tossed around the favorite socialist words of the day, promising a fight against “oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.”

He then declared that “if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”

Then it was back to all property owners, declaring that “We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.”

Picks fight with Trump

He vowed to put an end “to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.”

It might be news to him that tax breaks for developers and others are written into laws by Albany, where he still serves as a Queens assemblyman.

Perhaps he should have a word with his new best friend, the clueless Gov. Hochul, about how laws are written and why incentives are needed to coax builders into working in New York.

He might even learn what an enormous hindrance state and city taxes are and how endless red tape and regulations inflate the cost of even modest construction plans.

Not that he would even then have any sympathy.

See, he’s a Big Government man, and having never held a private sector job his parents didn’t give him, his contempt for the way the world works crowds out common sense.

Biz leaders fooled

If there is any potential upside to such a sour, sneering debut, it is that his speech should serve as a belated alarm to the business and political leaders who played footsie with him in the belief that underneath his radical rhetoric, there existed a reasonable man who could be charmed into cooperation.

Oh, how pleased they were with themselves when he visited their plush high-rise offices and flashed that toothy grin and put his hand over his heart, as if to signal that he and they were fellow members of the brotherhood of the enlightened.

Surely, he was someone they could work with, and that was all they wanted.

They were flattered by his attention, and now they should be prepared to be fleeced and condemned.

Similarly, significant numbers of Jewish leaders and voters were snookered by the first Muslim mayor’s promises of protection from the ravages of antisemitism.

Their capitulation is impossible to defend, given Mamdani’s virulent opposition to Israel as the Jewish homeland, and his failure to denounce Hamas and other terrorists during the last two years.

To his benighted ilk, anything Israel does to defend itself proves it’s guilty of genocide.

Jew-hating mentor

It’s not insignificant that the Jew-hating Linda Sarsour is one of his closest advisers, and she recently promised to keep him in line at City Hall.

“The story is not just that it’s random that Zohran ascended to this place, it is our Muslim-American community,” she said cryptically at an event sponsored by the radical Council on American-Islamic Relations event last month.

The image of Mamdani as a puppet whose strings are pulled by her recalls that his parents also both hate Israel.

They don’t seem to be fond of America, either.

His father, Mahmouod Mamdani, is a Columbia University professor who can be seen on a video from a 2022 conference arguing that Hitler got his idea for the Holocaust by studying how Abraham Lincoln and America dealt with native Americans.

“The US put Indians in reservations. . . . They herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things: One, that genocide was do-able, it is possible to do genocide. That’s what Hitler realized,” Mamdani’s father said.

The one concession the next mayor has made on the topic is a promise not to again use the phrase “globalize the intifada.”

That’s worth next to nothing if he continues to support the policies of antisemites and surrounds himself with terrorist sympathizers.

Good luck, New York.

You’ll need it.



This story originally appeared on NYPost

This FTSE 250 stock is up 300% in 5 years — and it might just be getting started

Motley Fool
-
0
This FTSE 250 stock is up 300% in 5 years — and it might just be getting started


Image source: Getty Images

 Shares in FTSE 250 industrial firm Senior (LSE:SNR) are up 300% over the last half-decade. But the firm’s about to complete what could be a really interesting transformation for investors.

The company’s agreed to sell its aerostructures unit to private equity. And the remaining fluid conveyance and thermal management (FCTM) division has some attractive properties.

Divestiture

Senior’s aerostructures operation makes parts for aircraft. And the regulated nature of this industry means there’s a lot to like about this business. Despite this, the unit’s achieved relatively weak margins and returns on invested capital. Its flexonics division however, has fared much better in making ducts, hoses, and tubes. 

Senior’s agreed a deal with Sullivan Street Partners to sell its aerostructures operation for £200m. Of this, £150m is up front with £50m to follow, depending on future performance. The agreed price represents a slightly higher EBITDA multiple than the FTSE 250 firm currently trades at. And the company has big plans for the money.

Outlook

Senior plans to use the proceeds to strengthen its financial position and reduce its outstanding share count. And the impact of this could be quite significant. The proposed £40m share buyback amounts to 5% of the firm’s current market value. And the remaining cash could make a big dent in the company’s £162m net debt (excluding leases). 

The real highlight though, is the remaining FCTM business. On the revenue line, Senior’s looking to increase growth rates from 1% in 2024 to 5% going forward. On top of this, it’s looking for operating margins to triple and returns on invested capital to more than double. Given this, I think investors have to be interested in taking a look. 

Valuation

There’s clearly a lot to like about Senior’s proposed restructuring. The remaining business should be in a stronger financial position with much more attractive economic properties.

Senior currently has a market value of £810m, with £162m in debt. Subtracting £150m for the sale of the aerostructures division brings the enterprise value to around £820m. The flexonics unit currently makes around £35m in annual operating income. And with the firm targeting 85% cash conversion, this should amount to just under £30m a year in free cash. 

That makes me wary, especially given the cyclical nature of the company’s end markets. A free cash flow multiple of 27 seems high to me, especially with the sectordoing well recently.

Foolish conclusion

I think Senior’s restructuring move makes a lot of sense. If it can achieve the kind of operating metrics it’s anticipating, the remaining business should be a high-quality operation.

Strong demand, supply chain constraints, and significant backlogs suggest to me that the end markets the firm sells into are near cyclical highs. So considering a buy right now looks risky to me.

One thing about the industry is that a crisis – and therefore an opportunity – always seems to show up sooner or later. So I’m going to keep watching this one for a bit.



This story originally appeared on Motley Fool

Zohran Mamdani’s signature housing policy is widely loathed by economists. Here’s why

Fortune
-
0
Zohran Mamdani’s signature housing policy is widely loathed by economists. Here’s why

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani swept to victory Tuesday evening on a platform of affordability, anchored by a plan to freeze rents across nearly 2 million rent-stabilized apartments. 

But economists, universally, hate rent control. In a 2012 poll of top economists, just 2% agreed that rent-control laws have had “a positive impact” on the supply and quality of affordable housing. The Nobel laureate Richard Thaler even quipped in the survey that the next question should be: “Does the sun revolve around the Earth?”

Why do economists revile a plan that seems to promote fairness and equity in a housing market that is clearly broken? 

Seductive simplicity

To most voters, freezing rents looks like common sense: If prices are out of reach, stop them from rising. But to economists, that’s like treating a fever by breaking the thermometer: It suppresses the symptom without curing the disease, the persistent shortage of housing.

“Freezing rents doesn’t fix scarcity,” said David Sims, a Brigham Young University economist whose research on Massachusetts rent control remains a touchstone. “It just reshuffles who bears the cost.”

Sims’s work examined the rent-control regime that once governed Cambridge, Mass., where tenants could stay indefinitely at below-market rents. The policy was meant to keep housing affordable, but it led to what he calls misallocation. 

“People who could do better by moving tend to stay,” he told Fortune. “Older households hang on to large units they no longer need, while young families can’t find space. Over time, you end up with the wrong people in the wrong apartments.”

When Massachusetts voters repealed rent control in 1994, property values in Cambridge rose 45%—not only for the deregulated apartments, but for entire neighborhoods. It turned out that years of capped rents had discouraged investment and dragged down surrounding property values, meaning that when controls were finally removed, landlords were empowered to upgrade and renovate their apartments. Neighborhoods that had been frozen along with the rents suddenly seemed to revitalize.  

That dynamic is already visible in New York. According to the city’s Housing and Vacancy Survey, roughly 26,000 rent-stabilized apartments are sitting empty, many uninhabitable because renovation costs far exceed what landlords can legally recover. The state’s 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act caps recoverable renovation expenses at $50,000 spread over 15 years. Rehabilitating a century-old tenement can cost twice that, leaving owners little incentive to do anything but lock the door.

Short-term relief, long-term pain

Rent control’s immediate benefits, for current residents, are undeniable. It offers stability to tenants living paycheck-to-paycheck and reduces the risk of displacement. But over the long term, economists argue it functions the same way as throwing sand in the gears of the housing market. Landlords defer maintenance they can’t recoup, new construction slows, and the available housing stock quietly erodes.

A 2018 Stanford study led by Rebecca Diamond, one of today’s leading experts in housing markets, found that when San Francisco expanded rent control in the 1990s, the supply of rental housing fell 15% over the next decade. Many landlords converted apartments to condos or owner-occupied housing to escape regulation. The policy helped existing tenants, but ultimately raised market rents citywide and accelerated gentrification, causing the opposite of what policymakers intended.

“It’s not about pitying landlords,” Sims said. “It’s about understanding incentives. You can’t expect people to invest in something if they’ll never break even—just like you can’t expect tenants to volunteer to pay more rent.”

For economists, the deeper problem with rent freezes is conceptual: They imply that affordability can simply be decreed against the logic of supply and demand. 

“It creates this belief that the problem can be solved by fiat,” Sims said. “But rents are high because people want to live in New York. The only lasting fix is to make it easier to build more housing that people actually want.”

He offers a visceral analogy of market pressures: Black Friday. People don’t wait in line for stores anymore on Black Friday, Sims said, but there was a time when, for a $1,000 TV at $200, there’d be a line around the block at 4 a.m., and only a few lucky people would get the TV.

“But housing isn’t like a $200 TV,” Sims observed. “Everyone kind of needs a place to live, but if housing is priced like the $200 TV, then there’s a bunch of people in that line who don’t get it.”

That’s the thing about rent control, economists say: It benefits insiders at the expense of outsiders. Over time, it can deepen inequality by keeping younger, lower-income, or newly arrived residents locked out of regulated neighborhoods that effectively become closed clubs.

Band-Aid policy in a broken market

Supporters of Mamdani’s plan counter that New York’s crisis is so severe, temporary freezes are a moral necessity. 

With median rents above $4,000, they argue, the city cannot wait for zoning reforms and construction projects that take years to materialize. But even sympathetic economists warn that without parallel measures to boost supply, a freeze simply defers the reckoning.

“If you don’t pair a rent freeze with a credible plan to add housing,” Sims said, “you’re not solving the problem. You’re just pushing off accountability without really solving the underlying problem.”



This story originally appeared on Fortune

Today’s Dylan Dreyer Finally Opens Up About Brian Fichera Separation

RealityTea
-
0
Today’s Dylan Dreyer Finally Opens Up About Brian Fichera Separation


Weatherwoman Dylan Dreyer has shared intimate details on her separation with husband Brian Fichera. The popular meteorologist on The Today Show joined fellow friend and host Jenna Bush Hager for the first time on Today With Jenna & Friends to discuss how she is navigating this new chapter in her personal life. Dreyer, 44, shared she was in the process of separating from her husband in an Instagram post in July and revealed she was getting a divorce in August on social media, according to The Independent.

Dreyer says the story on why she separated will need “a lot of wine”

When asked by Jenna on her dating life now that she is single, Dreyer shared that she will remain friends with Fichera, whom she married in 2012. He will be co-parenting their three children, Cal, Ollie, and Rusty.

Dreyer began the discussion by making a sarcastic response to all the messages she has received about what she should be doing. “I appreciate everyone’s comments that have spoken up about my life and our decision and what we have decided as a family, thank you for your opinions on that.”

Dreyer didn’t want to go into specific reasons for what lead to their separation. “That’s another story with a lot of wine and that’s a whole different thing,” she explained, “but either way we’ve gotten to this place.”

The weatherwoman admitted that something broke in their marriage and while they could try to fix things, they decided to “accept that it’s broken” and move forward. Instead, they have “reframed” their relationship.

Dreyer continued, “We are no longer husband and wife and all those things that were broken, I don’t hold them against you because we’ve accepted they’re broken. That’s why we’re separated. So now let’s move forward as friends.”

She believes that she could “be a better friend than wife” with Brian. This echoes her Instagram post in July when she wrote, “We began as friends. And We will remain the closest of friends.”

As far as their co-parenting duties, she revealed that Fichera is typically in charge of dropping their kids from school and that they eat dinner together most nights, which will include Thanksgiving later this month.

The pair decided to sell their New York City apartment in September for a reduced asking price of nearly $2 million, as noted by Realtor.com. In November 2024, they had put the apartment up for sale for $2.49 million.




This story originally appeared on Realitytea

Rising Awareness of Breast Implant Illness: Dr. Pryor Explains

UpScaleLivingMag
-
0
Rising Awareness of Breast Implant Illness: Dr. Pryor Explains


For decades, women with breast implants who developed unexplained fatigue, brain fog, or chronic pain were often told their symptoms were “in their heads.” Today, that’s beginning to change. As awareness of Breast Implant Illness (BII) continues to rise, more patients are finding answers — and hope — through trusted medical advocates like Dr. Landon Pryor and his team at PryorHealth, a national leader in explant and recovery care.

Understanding Breast Implant Illness

“Breast Implant Illness, or BII, is a condition that many women experience after receiving breast implants, though it’s still not fully recognized by all in the medical community,” explains Dr. Pryor, founder of PryorHealth and a board-certified plastic surgeon with more than 20 years of experience. “Common symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, chronic pain, joint and muscle aches, autoimmune-like reactions, and unexplained inflammation. Each patient experiences it differently, which is why listening to their story is so important.”

That approach — listening first, healing second — is the foundation of PryorHealth’s BII Initiative, which aims to raise awareness and deliver compassionate, patient-centered care to those suffering from the condition.

Recognizing the Signs

Because BII presents differently for each woman, recognizing potential symptoms can be difficult. “If you have implants and are experiencing chronic, unexplained symptoms that started or worsened after surgery, it’s worth exploring the possibility of BII,” says Dr. Pryor. There is no single diagnostic test, which makes patient awareness and self-advocacy critical. “The key is to track your symptoms, seek a knowledgeable surgeon or advocate, and understand that your experiences are valid—even if the medical community hasn’t fully recognized the condition yet.”

Dr. Pryor operanting on a patient

A Focus on Total Healing

Dr. Pryor is one of the few plastic surgeons in the country who made the rare decision to stop performing breast augmentations altogether — dedicating his practice exclusively to explant surgery and whole-body recovery. At PryorHealth, the standard procedure for BII patients is a total capsulectomy, which removes both the implants and the surrounding scar tissue capsule.

“This is critical for safety and symptom relief, especially if the implant has ruptured,” he explains. “Recovery varies by patient, but many notice symptom improvement shortly after surgery. Typical downtime is about two weeks, and most patients resume full activity without restriction by six weeks.”

While total capsulectomy is the most direct solution for addressing the root cause of BII, Dr. Pryor and his team also emphasize holistic recovery. “Without removing the implants and capsules, nonsurgical therapies can only do so much,” he notes. “However, after proper en bloc explant and total capsulectomy, additional detox treatments can definitely help in reducing toxins and inflammation in the breasts, body, and brain.”

To support patients’ long-term wellness, PryorHealth offers complementary therapies such as IV treatments and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, designed to accelerate detoxification and healing.

The BII Centers of Excellence: Expanding Access and Awareness

Recognizing how many women were struggling to find knowledgeable care for Breast Implant Illness, Dr. Pryor established the PryorHealth BII Centers of Excellence — a national model dedicated exclusively to safe explant surgery, advocacy, and recovery.

The Centers of Excellence reflect Dr. Pryor’s commitment to making specialized BII treatment more accessible. Each center combines board-certified surgical expertise, dedicated patient advocacy, and comprehensive wellness programs, creating a trusted environment for patients seeking answers and relief.

Since the launch of the Centers in Illinois, PryorHealth has expanded into Florida, broadening access for women across the country who often have few local options for BII-specific care. The Centers also collaborate with the University of Illinois Chicago Rockford campus to study inflammatory responses linked to implants — bridging the gap between lived experience and scientific understanding.

PryorHealth’s BII Initiative is about more than surgery — it’s about giving women validation after years of being dismissed. The team includes BII advocates and survivors Laura Bowden and Yvette Melby, who provide hands-on guidance and emotional support throughout the explant journey. Their personal experiences make them invaluable advocates for patients navigating the same uncertainty they once faced.

Dr Pryor empowering women to be heardDr Pryor empowering women to be heard

Empowering Women to Be Heard

Ultimately, Dr. Pryor hopes women understand one thing: their symptoms are real and deserve to be taken seriously. “You don’t have to accept unexplained fatigue, pain, or autoimmune-like issues as your new normal,” he says. “With the right care, advocacy, and treatment — including total capsulectomy — recovery is possible. You deserve to be believed and supported every step of the way.”

For thousands of women, that message of validation is life-changing. As BII awareness continues to grow, PryorHealth’s BII Centers of Excellence stand at the forefront — not only as hubs of advanced surgical expertise, but as beacons of empathy, advocacy, and healing for women reclaiming their health nationwide.



This story originally appeared on Upscalelivingmag

What to Watch This Month – Hollywood Life

Hollywood Life
-
0
What to Watch This Month – Hollywood Life


Image Credit: Prime

Now that the clocks have turned back and we’re transitioning from autumn to winter, TV fans are looking for something new to binge-watch after a long day at work. From true-crime documentaries to fictional dramas, what better way to wind down than by starting a brand-new series — or better yet, catching up on a favorite show returning for another season?

Hollywood Life has rounded up this month’s hottest new and returning shows for you to watch below.

November 4:

All’s Fair (Hulu)

November 2025 TV Shows to Stream: What to Watch This Month
(Disney)

November 5:

Just Alice (Netflix, new drama series)
Heweliusz (Netflix, new drama series)
Start Up, Fall Down: From Billionaire to Convict (Netflix, new docuseries)
The Manipulated (Hulu, new drama series)
House of Payne (BET, Season 12)
Expedition Unknown (Discovery, Season 16)
Expedition Files (Discovery Channel, Season 3)
Tournament of Champions: All Star Christmas (Food Network, new competition series)

November 6:

All Her Fault (Peacock, new drama series)
Death by Lightning (Netflix, new drama series)
The Vince Staples Show (Netflix, Season 2)
The Bad Guys: Breaking In (Netflix, new children’s animated series)
Dear X (HBO Max, new drama series)
Alex vs. Arod (HBO, new documentary miniseries)
The Basement: A Vanishing in Apple Valley (Sundance Now, new documentary miniseries)
Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas (Food Network, new competition series)
The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 19 Reunion (Bravo, new unscripted miniseries)
The Meaning of Life (Viaplay, Season 2)
Heartland (Up Faith & Family, Season 19)

November 7:

Happy’s Place (NBC, Season 2)
Stumble (NBC, new comedy series)
Fox Primetime Hoops (Fox, Season 4)
Pluribus (Apple TV, new drama series)
Maxton Hall – The World Between Us (Prime Video, Season 2)
Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 (Prime Video, new anime series)
Seventeen: Our Chapter (Disney+, new docuseries)
The Worst Trip Around the World (Disney+, new docuseries)
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films (Disney+, new docuseries)
Power Book IV: Force (Starz, Season 3; final season)
As You Stood By (Netflix, new drama limited series)
Let’s Go Bananas (HBO Max, Season 1B)
The Vallecas Files (HBO Max, new docu-miniseries)
My Lottery Dream Home (HGTV, Season 17B)
Gold Rush (History, Season 16)
The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd (History, Season 3)
Murder in the Mountains (PBS, Season 2)
Ready to Love (OWN, Season 11)
The Mistletoe Murders (Hallmark Channel, Season 2)
Vantara: Sanctuary Stories (Animal Planet, new docuseries)
This Is the Turning Point (Fox Nation, new docuseries)

November 8:

ACC Men’s Basketball (The CW, Season 3)

November 9:

Snapped: Behind Bars (Oxygen, Season 3)
Killer Relationship with Faith Jenkins (Oxygen, Season 4)
Killer Grannies (Oxygen, new docuseries)
Sweet Empire (Food Network, new competition series)

November 10:

The Paper (NBC, new comedy series; broadcast premiere)
Sesame Street (Netflix, Season 56; new network)
Marines (Netflix, new docuseries)
Bat-Fam (Prime Video, new animated comedy series)
Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth (Hulu, new documentary miniseries)

'The Paper' TV Series: 'The Office' Spinoff Release Date, Cast & More
(Photo by: John P. Fleenor/PEACOCK)

November 11:

Beat Bobby Flay: Holiday Throwdown (Food Network, Season 4)
Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo (History, Season 2)
Hoarding for the Holidays (HGTV, new docuseries)

November 12:

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour – The End of an Era (Disney+, new docuseries)
Palm Royale (Apple TV, Season 2)
Selling the OC (Netflix, Season 4)
Mrs Playmen (Netflix, new drama series)
The Murder Tapes (ID, Season 9)
Body Cam (ID, Season 9)

November 13:

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Hulu, Season 3)
The Beast in Me (Netflix, new drama series)
Last Samurai Standing (Netflix, new drama series)
Had I Not Seen the Sun (Netflix, new drama miniseries)
Delhi Crime (Netflix, Season 3)
50 Seconds: The Fernando Báez Sosa Case (Netflix, new docuseries)
Angela Diniz: Murdered and Convicted (HBO Max, new drama limited series)
Blue Lights (BritBox, Season 3)

November 14:

The Seduction (HBO, new drama series)
Malice (Prime Video, new drama series)
The Last Woodsmen (Discovery, Season 3)
The Creep Tapes (Shudder, Season 2)

November 2025 TV Shows to Stream: What to Watch This Month
Courtesy of Prime

November 16:

Landman (Paramount+, Season 2)
The American Revolution (PBS, new docuseries)
Street Outlaws: Locals Only (Discovery, Season 3)
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints (Fox Nation, Season 2)
The Dolls (Brandon TV, Season 2)

November 17:

Gabby’s Dollhouse (Netflix, Season 12)
Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks (Peacock, new documentary miniseries; moved from September 29)
June Farms (Prime Video, new unscripted series)
Gingerbread Land: The Biggest Little Holiday Competition (Magnolia Network, new competition series)

November 18:

Vanguard (Viaplay, Season 1 of Swedish drama series)

November 19:

The Mighty Nein (Prime Video, new animated series)
Envious (Netflix, Season 3)
Southern Charm (Bravo, Season 11)

November 20:

A Man on the Inside (Netflix, Season 2)
The Assassin (AMC+, new drama series)

November 21:

The Family Man (Prime Video, Season 3)
Karaoké Club (Prime Video, new competition series)

November 24:

Bel-Air (Peacock, Season 4; final season)

November 25:

Is It Cake? Holiday (Netflix, Season 2)

November 26:

Stranger Things (Netflix, Season 5A; final season)
WondLa (Apple TV, Season 3; final season)
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age (Apple TV, new docuseries)
The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder (ID, new documentary miniseries)

November 27:

Royal Doctor Service (PBS, Season 3)

November 28:

Paradise (PBS, Season 9)

November 30:

Words + Music (MGM+, new performance series)
Married to Medicine (Bravo, Season 12)



This story originally appeared on Hollywoodlife

Budget airline launches two new destinations from UK airport | Travel News | Travel

Express.co.uk
-
0
Budget airline launches two new destinations from UK airport | Travel News | Travel


A budget airline has launched two new destinations from a UK airport to two major European cities. EasyJet has begun its flights to Munich in Germany and Zurich in Switzerland.

The first flights from Bristol Airport took off on October 26 and 29, respectively. These new flights from the airport start at £23.99 one-way, with the Munich route operating three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) and the Zurich route operating twice a week (Wednesday and Sunday) over winter.

Kevin Doyle, easyJet’s UK country manager, said: “We are delighted to have launched the first flights on two of our new winter routes from Bristol Airport to Munich and Zurich providing both our business and leisure travellers in the South-west with direct connections to both cities. We continue to grow and invest in Bristol and are committed to providing our customers in the South West with even more choice, connectivity, and great value fares for our business and leisure travellers alike.”

Similarly, Rupert Lawrie, commercial director at Bristol Airport, said: “It’s great news for Bristol Airport to be able to offer this new route into Germany. easyJet is the only airline to offer flights to Munich and with such good travel options it should appeal for both business trips and long weekends.

“Customers can also benefit this winter with regular flights to Zurich, which is perfect for the ski season or business meetings, as well as soaking up Swiss culture.”

This announcement follows the airline’s announcement that it will be launching two new routes from Bristol Airport, starting in June 2026, to Reus in Spain and Thessaloniki in Greece.

EasyJet is also introducing a direct route from Manchester to Ljubljana in Slovenia twice a week (Tuesday and Saturday). Another route to the Slovenian city will launch in Edinburgh next year.

Last week, the airline launched its new flights between Aberdeen and Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, which will run twice a week starting at £29.99 one-way.

This is the first flight to go between the two cities since Air France axed the route in 2020. The company cancelled half of its flights due to Covid travel restrictions.



This story originally appeared on Express.co.uk

‘Frankenstein’ Fans Must Watch Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’

MovieWeb
-
0
‘Frankenstein’ Fans Must Watch Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’


Visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro recently resurrected Frankenstein on the big screen. In many ways, it’s the perfect vehicle for the longtime horror master, who has always gravitated toward outwardly frightful characters who possess goodness and innocence deep down. One prime example is del Toro’s excellent, wildly overlooked third feature, The Devil’s Backbone.

More to the point, watching The Devil’s Backbone alongside Frankenstein will give horror fans and del Toro followers great insight into how he views his monstrous characters and ghoulish creations, treating them with tremendous compassion. Far from one-dimensional caricatures, del Toro has made a career out of making audiences care about his creatures, with The Devil’s Backbone providing a thematic throughline that has persisted until Frankenstein‘s revival.

What Is ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ About?

Warner Sogefilms/20th Century Fox

A deeply immersive period ghost story that defies genre conventions, The Devil’s Backbone (2001) is set in Spain in 1939 as the Spanish Civil War draws to a close. The story is set in a Spanish orphanage, where Dr. Casares (Federico Luppi) and his wife, Carmen (Marisa Paredes), hide a stash of gold reserved for the Republican treasury.

Fascist dictator Francisco Franco deploys troops to retrieve the gold, putting everyone on edge. With tensions high all around, the R-rated ghost movie introduces Carlos (Fernando Tielve), a 12-year-old boy unaware that his father has died, who is taken to the orphanage by caretaker Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega) and his fiancée, Conchita (Irene Visedo), and looked after there.

As Carlos adjusts to his surroundings, he befriends the other orphans, including bully Jaime (Íñigo Garcés) and Gálvez (Adrián Lamana). Carlos also begins experiencing strange visions, which the others tell him come from the ghost of an orphaned boy named Santi (Junio Valverde). One night, Jaime dares Carlos to go into the kitchen to get water. Upon entering the kitchen, Carlos hears a distant voice warning, “Many of you will die.”

Mortified beyond belief, Carlos storms out of the kitchen. The following night, Carlos encounters Santi alone, who appears as a pale apparition with a fatal head wound. Without spoiling the rest, Carlos forms a tender, touching, and wildly unexpected bond with Santi, who, despite appearing as a frightening ghost, shows far more benevolence than malevolence as he helps Carlos survive and understand the orphanage’s dark secrets.

‘The Devil’s Backbone’ Ranks Among del Toro’s Best Movies

Íñigo Garcés and Federico Luppi in The Devil's Comeback Warner Sogefilms/20th Century Fox

Although it still hasn’t received the appreciation it deserves, The Devil’s Backbone ranks among Guillermo del Toro’s best movies. The way he sidesteps genre clichés, subverts audience expectations, and toys with how ghost stories are conceived shows a filmmaker in complete control of his craft.

At first, viewers fully anticipate a classic ghost story in which Santi haunts the orphanage and exacts revenge on those who wronged him. On the contrary, del Toro is much too intelligent for that. Instead, he completely flips the dynamic, making Santi a kindhearted spirit whose outward scariness is misunderstood. As viewers wait for Santi to act with evil intent, del Toro reminds us that the real threat is Franco’s incoming troops and the greed of those inside the orphanage protecting the stash of gold.

In the end, The Devil’s Backbone reveals itself to be an incredibly moving coming-of-age tale, in which Carlos finds solace in his bond with Santi. Meanwhile, Santi’s good-hearted redemption, rather than malicious revenge, allows a sense of closure to his unfortunate fate as he acts as an ally, not a threat, to Carlos. A profound tale of unlikely friendship in the guise of a ghost story, The Devil’s Backbone deserves to be mentioned among del Toro’s all-time best movies, not just as a standalone effort, but also for how it has informed the rest of his career ever since.

‘The Devil’s Backbone’ Establishes Guillermo del Toro’s Biggest Thematic Motif

Carlos and Santi face off in The Devil's Backbone Warner Sogefilms/20th Century Fox

Looking through Guillermo del Toro’s decorated filmography, here’s a filmmaker who consistently sides with his monsters, often showing as much compassion and adoration for them as his human protagonists. It wasn’t as apparent in his sophomore film, Mimic, but The Devil’s Backbone helped del Toro establish one of the most glaring thematic motifs of his career: sympathizing with the monster.

Following The Devil’s Backbone, del Toro adapted Mike Mignola’s comic book, Hellboy. Played perfectly by longtime del Toro favorite, Ron Perlman, Hellboy is a demonic antihero who appears rough, gruff, and terrifying on the outside, but has a soft, kitten-loving heart of gold on the inside. Once audiences get over the frightening facade of the character, they realize that Hellboy is just like them deep down. This allows viewers to overcome their fears, relate to, and identify with the so-called monster.

In arguably his most famous movie, Pan’s Labyrinth (also set in 1944 Spain), del Toro makes us care about the Faun (the incomparable Doug Jones). This mythical creature may appear scary, but it helps ferry Ofelia into the fantastic underworld. The best example of all, del Toro’s Best Picture-winning creature feature, The Shape of Water, turns a mutated fishman into a romantic protagonist who is impossible not to feel for by the end. Time and again, del Toro humanizes the inhuman, giving his creatures and monsters as high emotional stakes as his human characters.

And that brings us to Frankenstein. Given his thematic penchant for making audiences see a bit of themselves in his monsters, Frankenstein couldn’t be a more perfect, on-brand project for del Toro. As far as classic horror goes, few iconic characters are as sad and tragic as Frankenstein’s monster (Jacob Elordi), a physical patchwork of random body parts with the mental acuity of a child. It’s always been Dr. Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), who is the overambitious villain driven by mania and self-achievement.

Dr. Frankenstein is responsible for his creation’s actions, giving del Toro ample opportunity to inspire sympathy for the monster and disdain for Frankenstein. It’s as if del Toro’s career was destined to arrive at this moment, with this classic monster movie, to reinforce his filmmaking mission from the beginning: bringing a little light to the darkness. The Devil’s Backbone is available to rent on Prime Video and Apple TV.



This story originally appeared on Movieweb

1...212223...2,919Page 22 of 2,919

EDITOR PICKS

POPULAR POSTS

POPULAR CATEGORY

ABOUT US

Pagegoo.com serves as a news aggregator website. We provide the top trending news online. Our website exercises third-party content for information purpose only and are not liable for any web content related to or denoted to from these pages. All news, images & videos associated to content are hosted on third-party sites or users. We also often used third-party links.

Contact us: Info@Pagegoo.com

FOLLOW US

© 2025 Pagegoo.com. All Rights Reserved.