Payday lending can expand in states where they have been previously restricted. The dangers of payday loans: What you need to know. An initiative on the ballot was passed by more than half Nebraskan voters to limit the interest rates for payday loans, which are short-term but high-interest. Previous law allowed annual …

Filmmaker Goutam Ghose’s film “ Raahgir ”, starring Adil Hussain and Tillotama Shome, won four awards at the South Asian Film Festival in Washington DC. According to the film’s producers, the film won awards for Best Feature Film, Best Director for Ghose, Best Female Actor for Shome and Best Male …

ROME (AP) – Visitors to Venice could be forgiven for not realizing that beyond the majesty of St. Mark’s Square and the romance of gondola rides lies a city that helped provide a base reference point for what the world knows today about controlling pandemics. It was here that the …

Four / four Presents, a curatorial platform that commissions collaborations between musicians, choreographers and dancers, is producing its first series of collaborative outdoor live performances this summer called Open Air. The series offers artists the opportunity to connect and re-create new works in a live setting, breaking out of their …

CII’s Media and Entertainment Committee hosted the second edition of CII SummitFX, which lasted for six days and saw some interesting sessions from August 24-29. Fittingly, the theme for 2021 was “The Reset”. Emerging from the two waves of COVID 19, many industry verticals in the Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming …

Directed by Jared Cohn, Lifetime’s “Cheer For Your Life” is a thriller centered around a young high school girl who enthusiastically joins the cheerleading squad without the knowledge of the horrors that are about to unfold. When the “Introductory Cheerleader Week” turns out to be humiliating instead of uplifting, high …

PrideArts today announced a documentary film festival relating to facets of queer life in America that have been largely unexplored in the mass media. The 11-day film festival will include the feature documentary DYKES, CAMERA, ACTION! – a history of lesbian cinema by the women who made it, PS. BURN …

Lovi Poe Photo from Instagram / @ lovipoe Filipino actress and singer Lovi Poe is set to star in the upcoming Hollywood film “The Chelsea Cowboy”, a biopic based on the life of actor, gangster and lothario John Bindon. According to Deadline, Poe will play the British blues singer Dana …

The City of San Mateo is undertaking a further review of its general plan. It is a regular exercise designed to meet municipal needs and anticipated changes with a view to the future. For some of us of a certain age and temperament, the late 1950s and early 1960s, a …

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Hong Kong is set to expand its film censorship regulations with an amendment that will allow the government to retroactively ban old films, according to reports. Under a proposed amendment to the Film Censorship Ordinance on Tuesday, August 25, unauthorized showing of retroactively banned films will …