Daily 30: Sat 11.01.2014

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Best & Worst Celeb Costumes

12 Best & Worst Celeb Costumes Complex

Ah, Halloween. The one time a year where everybody can play costume designer, including those who actually have costume designers. Yes, celebrities are getting in on it yet again this year, and like normal people, they range from the creative and brilliant (Swaggy P) to the terribly inappropriate (hi, Lily Allen). Special shoutout to Kate Hudson's Halloween party, which featured a barrage of high-profile stars wearing significantly better-fitting outfits than the ones you'll find at your local costume shop.
A-Town 8mo
T.I. & Jeezy Doing a Joint LP

16 T.I. & Jeezy Doing a Joint LP 2DBZ

Backstage at Powerhouse 2014, T.I. spoke with MTV News about the project, pointing out that both rappers just released an album (Paperwork and Seen It All) so they now have time to put the proper actions in motion. “We’ve been talking about it for years, but we finally putting the execution part of it in the works. Usually, when we talking about it, either he’s working on finishing his album or I’m working on finishing mine. This is like one of the first times that we both putting our albums out around the same time. I’m done with my process, he’s done with his process, now we can collectively come together and do something together. We already have probably about six, seven records. It don’t take us long to put it together. It’s just a matter of actually finding the time to promote it, market it, and actually get it done.” Jeezy also spoke on the possibility. "Keep your eyes and your ears open. That’s my brother from another right there. We stay in our bag, so, you know, I would just stay focused if I was you. It’s like we brothers, man. We just vibe. We go in there, have a good time, we make good music. It’s nothing that’s rehearsed or nothing that’s thought about; it’s organic."
Sneaker News 8mo
Leaked Nike Free Flyknit Chukkas

17 Leaked Nike Free Flyknit Chukkas Complex

Fans of Nike's Flyknit technology might be in for way more colorways next year. Leaked images of all-new Free Flyknit Chukkas have just surfaced, and they're all pretty amazing. The mid-top iteration of the Flyknit runner, equipped with a Free sole, appears to be coming out in striking color schemes that are perfect for spring, including orange, teal, and siren red. An official launch date has not yet been confirmed, but let's just hope these samples make it to production because everything we see so far is FIRE. a7y5jw9x7apylzv9mpji   u916dpe3qglzvtlrcfen
Weed & Hip Hop Doc 8mo
Married to Marijuana

18 Married to Marijuana Klub Kush

Produced by Klub Kush, Married to Marijuana is the documentary that tries to explain the passionate relationship between weed & hip hop told thru the eyes of Jason 'BIGKUSJAY' Berry. Featuring exclusive interviews from B-Real of Cypress Hill, Method Man and Chef Raekwon of Wu Tang Clan, west coast dons Too $hort, DJ Quick & Kurupt, and of course we can't forget the young boys Schoolboy Q and Curren$y just to name a few.
Was It a Set up? 8mo
Jeezy on Gun Charges

21 Jeezy on Gun Charges Vlad TV

Jeezy sat down with Jenny Boom Boom for an exclusive interview with VladTV, where the Atlanta rapper spoke about his recent gun charges and how he may have been set up. The "Seen It All" rapper says that things started "getting funny" after he was protesting hard during the violence in Ferguson, MO., and believes he might have been targeted. Jeezy also spoke about waiting to bond his crew out of jail, and admits that his about to be released record was the last thing on his mind. Check out what else the Atlanta rapper had to say about the incident, and stay tuned for more exclusive interviews from VladTV
How He Turned It All Around 8mo
Chris Brown On Drug Use

23 Chris Brown On Drug Use HOT 97

Chris Brown came by Ebro In The Morning to talk about a series of things. Chris Brown covered everything from his unfortunate domestic violence situation, his drug addiction, Rihanna dating Drake, getting back with Rihanna, the love of his life Karrueche and meeting Michael Jackson.
Featuring Michael Myers! 8mo
The Roots Halloween Rap

24 The Roots Halloween Rap Late Night

The Roots put together a hip-hop version of the Halloween movie theme song and get a visit from the horror classic's antagonist.
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SpaceShip Crashes During Test Flight

25 SpaceShip Crashes During Test Flight Huffington Post

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space plane crashed during a test flight over California's Mojave Desert this afternoon, the company said. A report issued by the California Highway Patrol indicated that one pilot died and another suffered a major injury, the Associated Press reported. At a press conference on Friday afternoon, Kern County Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt said that the injured pilot had ejected from the craft, and was "doing as well as can be expected" at the hospital. The company said White Knight Two, the jet-powered craft used to launch the space plane, landed safely. The debris field from the space plane covered several miles, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said. Mojave Air and Space Port CEO Stuart Witt said at the press conference that flight crews had "detected nothing that appeared abnormal" before the crash. "The test community is very small. We are human, and it hurts," CEO of Mojave Air and Space Port said of the incident. The NTSB would be sending a team to investigate the incident, Kyle Harvey of Bakersfield Now reported. More details from the Associated Press: The accident occurred just as it seemed space flights were near, after a period of development that lasted far longer than hundreds of prospective passengers had expected. When Virgin Group licensed the technology from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who funded about $26 million for SpaceShipOne, Branson envisioned operating flights by 2007. In interviews last month, he talked about the first flight being next spring with his son. "It's a real setback to the idea that lots of people are going to be taking joyrides into the fringes of outer space any time soon," said John Logsdon, retired space policy director at George Washington University. "There were a lot of people who believed that the technology to carry people is safely at hand." Friday's flight marked the 55th for SpaceShipTwo, which was intended to be the first of a line of craft. But this was only the fourth flight to be powered by a rocket. During the other flights, the craft was either not released from its mother ship or it functioned as a glider. SpaceShipTwo was designed to provide a suborbital thrill ride into space before returning to Earth as a glider. At 60 feet long, it featured two large windows for each of up to six passengers, one on the side and one overhead. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. One difference on this flight was the type of fuel being used. In May, Virgin Galactic announced that SpaceShipTwo would switch to a polymide-based fuel -- a type of thermoplastic. It had been fueled with a type of rubber called HTPB. Scaled Composites, the company that is building the spaceship for Virgin Galactic, had extensively tested the new fuel formulation on the ground, President Kevin Mickey said. He said the rocket motor configuration had not changed on this flight and characterized the new fuel as "a small nuance to the design." Officials said they had not noticed anything wrong before the flight. "I detected nothing that appeared abnormal," said Stuart Witt, CEO of the Mojave Air and Space Port. Virgin Galactic -- owned by Branson's Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS of Abu Dhabi -- sells seats on each prospective journey for $250,000, with full payment due at the time of booking. The company says that "future astronauts," as it calls customers, have visited Branson's Caribbean home, Necker Island, and gone through G-force training. Stephen Hawking, Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher and Russell Brand are among the celebrities to sign up for flights. Virgin Galactic reports taking deposits totaling more than $80 million from about 700 people. A related venture, The Spaceship Co., is responsible for building Virgin Galactic's space vehicles. During testing for the development of a rocket motor for SpaceShipTwo in July 2007, an explosion at the Mojave spaceport killed three workers and critically injured three others. A California Division of Occupational Safety and Health report said the blast occurred three seconds after the start of a cold-flow test of nitrous oxide -- commonly known as laughing gas -- which is used in the propulsion system of SpaceShipTwo. The engine was not firing during that test. Friday's accident was the second this week involving private space flight. On Tuesday, an unmanned commercial supply rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after liftoff from a launch site in Virginia. Virgin Galactic had planned to launch space tourism flights from the quarter-billion-dollar Spaceport America in southern New Mexico once it finished developing its rocket ship. Christine Anderson, executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, did not want to comment on the events unfolding Friday in the California desert or what effect they might have on Spaceport America and the future of commercial space travel. Virgin Galactic is in line to be the main tenant at the spaceport that was built specifically to launch paying customers into space, a dream of Branson's. His company has repeatedly pushed back the timetable for when the $250,000 flights were to begin, pointing to delays in development and testing of the rocket ship. Taxpayers footed the bill to build the state-of-the-art hangar and runway in a remote stretch of desert in southern New Mexico as part of a plan devised by Branson and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Critics have long challenged the state's investment, questioning whether flights would ever get off the ground. SpaceShipTwo is based on aerospace design maverick Burt Rutan's award-winning SpaceShipOne prototype, which became the first privately financed manned rocket to reach space in 2004. "It's an enormously sad day for a company," Burt Rutan told The Associated Press in a call from his home in Idaho, where he lives since retiring.
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Ex-FAMU Band Member Found Guilty

26 Ex-FAMU Band Member Found Guilty Huffington Post

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A former Florida A&M band member accused of being the ringleader of a brutal hazing ritual known as "Crossing Bus C" that killed a drum major was convicted Friday of manslaughter and felony hazing. Prosecutors said Dante Martin, 27, was known as "the president of Bus C" and organized the initiations that required fellow band members to try to make their way through a pounding gauntlet of fists, drumsticks and mallets from the front of the bus to the back in November 2011 after a football game. Two other band members went through the bus before Robert Champion, 26, of Decatur, Georgia. Martin was convicted of misdemeanor hazing counts in their beatings. Champion's parents sat silently as the verdicts were read. Martin sat with his head down. Martin's sentencing was set for Jan. 9 and he was taken into custody. Manslaughter is punishable by up to 15 years in prison in Florida. Champion complained of trouble breathing and vomited after the ritual, then collapsed and died in a parking lot. His death cast a pall over the school's nationally acclaimed band, which had played at Super Bowls and before U.S. presidents. The band was suspended for more than a year after the death and several school officials resigned in the aftermath. Defense attorneys told jurors the ritual was more akin to a competition and that there was no actual hazing. They said Champion and the others voluntarily took part. "You can't take it in isolation and act like it was just any other band," defense attorney Richard Escobar said during closing arguments. "Brutal as it was, foolish as it was...it was competitive." Prosecutor Jeff Ashton said testimony made it clear that band members were looking for a measure of respect and acceptance by "crossing Bus C." But he challenged the defense's argument. "Tradition didn't kill Robert Champion," Ashton said. "Tradition isn't to blame. Tradition is not an excuse...It's not a defense to those that got caught." Several other former band members have pleaded guilty to lesser charges, and three others await trial.
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BIRDMAN

27 BIRDMAN Fox Searchlight Pictures

A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service

28 Kingsman: The Secret Service Marv Films

Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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Interstellar

29 Interstellar Paramount

With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron

30 Avengers: Age of Ultron Marvel Studios

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to The Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.