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  • Levi's Woke jeans let you show the world how tuned in you are

    On Saturday Night Live, Levi’s Woke jeans ask a simple question: If you’re woke, why aren’t your jeans? This faux-ad, featuring Ryan Gosling, some random kid, and an assortment of SNL cast members, is built to appeal to a generation that sometimes seems more concerned with getting the lingo right than actually fostering positive change …

    October 1, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Thanks to 'SNL,' Ryan Gosling, and 'Avatar,' Papyrus is the new Comic Sans

    Ryan Gosling knows the truth about Avatar. Just as James Cameron’s move “from like nine years ago” is confirmed (again) for multiple sequels, here comes Saturday Night Live and Ryan Gosling to out a horrible secret: The original movie’s logo is just an all-caps “AVATAR” in the Papyrus font. Gosling knows. And the truth is …

    October 1, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Go to PR school without the PR school

    Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. Maybe you’re thinking about going into the PR industry. Or maybe you just want to pick up some essential communications skills that’ll help you in any industry. Whatever it is, you probably don’t want to go back to …

    October 1, 2017 | by Raheel
  • The newest version of the famous Ostrich Pillow is here to banish jet lag forever

    Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. World, meet the heir to the Ostrich Pillow’s throne. SEE ALSO: Sleep so well you practically die with this 3-in-1 system Back in September 2012, a squishy, spherical pillow with four holes in it stole Kickstarter’s collective heart and …

    October 1, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Characters like this are why 'SNL' star Kate McKinnon has won 2 Emmys in a row

    The three alien abductees with wildly different experiences have returned to Earth — and Saturday Night Live, reprising their first appearance from 2015. This time, at least poor Kate McKinnon gets a Ryan Gosling gropefest out of the deal. Gosling and Cecily Strong returned to form as unassuming rednecks recounting blissful experiences of meeting beings …

    October 1, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump returns to 'SNL' wearing a golf shirt, of course

    Alec Baldwin decided not to retire his Emmy-winning President Trump impression after all, kicking off season 43 of Saturday Night Live with a catch-all cold open that brought The Donald back from his important golf trip to deal with such national crises as … disciplining a naughty little “bad boy” Jeff Sessions. “Sometimes, when you’re …

    October 1, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Ryan Gosling almost saved jazz on 'SNL' until Emma Stone showed up

    Ryan Gosling saving jazz in La La Land is inarguably the Oscar-winning film’s greatest legacy, and certainly one of Gosling’s — thanks to him we have jazz, because he saved it — and Gosling used his Saturday Night Live season-premiere monologue to remind us of his jazz-saving. But like every jazz-savior’s tale, this one ended …

    October 1, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Bear chills out on garbage dump's couch after a long day

    Bears don’t have any interest in your miserable standing desks, thank you very much. Mandy Stantic was visiting a garbage dump in Northern Manitoba last spring when she came upon a black bear sitting on a discarded sofa. Stantic, whose photos just recently went viral, had specifically driven to the dump with her daughter to …

    September 30, 2017 | by Raheel
  • NBA to players and coaches: You must stand for the national anthem

    For our latest edition of “professional sports organizations really don’t get it” we highlight the National Basketball League. A Friday memo sent by the league to all players and coaches made a point of reinforcing an existing rule that everyone is required to stand for the national anthem. It then goes on to suggest other …

    September 30, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Air France flight to LA makes emergency landing in Canada after engine blows out

    An Air France flight en route from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Goose Bay, Canada after its engine blew out over the Atlantic Ocean Saturday.  The Airbus A380 left Charles de Gaulle Airport Saturday morning and landed around 1:40 p.m. in Canada, CBC reported.  SEE ALSO: Air France launches an ‘airline …

    September 30, 2017 | by Raheel