Monday 2/6/23
Celebrate:
Lame Duck Day
National Frozen Yogurt Day
Pay-A-compliment Day
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For all the Grammy winners and news check it out here.
10:07pm George Solti's reign as the person with the most Grammys ever fell. Beyonce with 88 Nominations and 32 wins is the Queen!
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Viola Davis has earned the rare and coveted EGOT status — becoming the third Black woman in history to achieve the honor.
On Sunday, Davis, 57, won her first Grammy for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir, “Finding Me.”
“EGOT” is the grand slam of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony over a career. Only 18 people have achieved the status. Davis is the fourth Black person, alongside Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson.
Davis won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2017 for her role as housewife Rose Maxson in 2016’s “Fences.” She won an Emmy in 2015 for her role as Annalise Keating in "How to Get Away with Murder," and has two Tony awards, for “King Hedley II” and the Broadway production of “Fences.”
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A Dutch production of the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot" was canceled because the show's Irish director only allowed men to audition, despite Beckett clearly stating that the cast should be five men.
The play, which features two central male characters Vladimir and Estragon who are joined by other male characters as they wait for someone who never arrives, had been in rehearsals since November.
It was due to be staged at the University of Groningen’s Usva student cultural center in March, but the production was canceled when the venue discovered the casting call had been open to men only.
The venue subsequently informed the production team that the male-only casting call went against the university's inclusivity policy.
Donegal native Oisín Moyne, 24, who hoped to make his directorial debut with the Beckett play, told the Irish Times that his life has become "utterly absurd" in the past few weeks.
Moyne told the publication that he originally considered casting people of other genders but could not do so because of explicit rules set down by Beckett before his death.
In 1988, one year before his death, Beckett sued a Dutch theater company for choosing to cast a woman in the play, while his estate holds the rights to the play until 2059 and has continued to oppose productions that deviate from Beckett's instructions.
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/beckett-waiting-for-godot-canceled?fbclid=IwAR2FpFkqXJzlwx8tzJMLQ24CVuGaIUSOg4vzrRXh26-XYl5vY5K4ChJ6M04
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Growing up, your parents may have got you into the habit of trying to go for a wee before leaving the house ‘just in case’.
Tiffany Sequeira, a specialist pelvic health physiotherapist, says that forcing yourself to have a wee when you don’t really need one could be storing up problems for your bladder later in life. Not ideal.
Tiffany told the Metro: “It’s actually a really bad habit for your bladder.
If you do this repeatedly on a regular basis, you’ll end up confusing the signals between your brain and your bladder.
“Over time your bladder becomes accustomed to passing urine at a lower capacity than normal resulting in a ‘weak bladder’, as some refer to.”
Tiffany also recommends people do some pelvic floor exercises to help support your bladder, bowel and uterus - if you have one.
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Although you might think coffee is the only way to wake up in the morning, a health expert has explained why this isn't the case.
In fact, drinking a cup of joe on an empty stomach could be causing more harm than good.
Nutritional therapist Olivia Hedlund says "If you drink coffee first thing on an empty stomach in the morning, stop what you're doing and listen.
"You are messing with your hormones."
She goes on to explain that coffee is acidic, which can be hard on our stomachs in the morning.
But, most significantly, it causes our body to go into stress mode.
"That's why a lot of people get jittery, shaky when they drink coffee on an empty stomach in the morning.
But don't fret - this doesn't mean you have to completely cut coffee out of your diet.
Olivia recommends having something small to eat or drink beforehand such as 'water, bone broth, or food'.
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Today's Useless Fact of the day - When L. Frank Baum was writing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", he got the name "Oz" from his filing cabinet. One drawer was "A to G" . . . one was "H to N" . . . and one was "O to Z."
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