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Spider Man: No Way Home (2021) Free online Streaming : Where to watch

Spider Man: No Way Home (2021) Free online Streaming : Where to watch

Marvel’s Movie! Here’s options for downloading or watching Spider-Man: No Way Home streaming the full movie online for free on 123movies & Reddit, including where to watch the anticipated movie at home. Is Spider-Man: No Way Home available to stream? Is watching Spider-Man: No Way Home on Disney Plus, HBO Max, Netflix or Amazon Prime? Yes we have found an authentic streaming option / service. Details on how you can watch Spider-Man: No Way Home for free throughout the year are described below.

If you want to see the Spider-Man Multiverse yourself, you may want to know how to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online for free and when it will be available to stream on Disney Plus.

Spider-Man: No Way Home—a sequel of 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming and 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home—is the third Spider-Man movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the 27th film in the franchise overall. The movie stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man), a high school student with spider-like superpowers. The film is set after the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home, which saw Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) expose Peter as Spider-Man and frame him for his murder.

Spider-Man: No Way Home sees Peter ask Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for help to restore his life and secret identity. However, Dr. Strange’s spell doesn’t go as planned and the magic breaks open the multiverse to allow supervillains from alternate realities who fought other versions of Spider-Man to arrive in the MCU’s Spider-Verse.

To see whether the spoilers you’ve read are true, you may want to know how to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online for free. Read on for when the movie will be available to stream on Disney Plus and the hacks you can use to watch it at no cost.

When does Spider-Man: No Way Home come out?

Spider-Man: No Way Home premieres in theaters on December 17, 2021.

How to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online

How can one watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online? The movie will be available to stream on Starz some time between December 2021 and July 2023. Starz costs $8.99 per month or $74.99 per year, which saves users around $32 compared to the monthly rate. After July 2023, Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to stream on Disney Plus, which costs $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year (saving subscribers around $16 from the monthly rate).

How to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online for free

How can one watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online for free? Read on for how to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online for free when the movie will stream on Starz and Disney Plus.

Watch Spider-Man: No Way Home With Fubo TV’s

Another way to get a Starz free trial is with FuboTV’s seven-day free trial. FuboTV’s free trial offers access to the entire FuboTV list of channels and premium add-ons, which includes Starz. This means that by signing up for FuboTV’s seven-day free trial, users will automatically get a Starz free trial for seven days too. The regular service costs $65 per month after your free trial ends, so be sure to remember to cancel your trial before it expires if you decide not to stick with it.

Watch Spider-Man: No Way Home With Prime Video’s

Amazon Prime Video is currently offering a seven-day free trial of Starz in addition to its own streaming service. To sign up for Amazon Prime Video’s Starz free trial, users will need to be Amazon Prime members. Amazon Prime Video offers a 30-day free trial that comes with the same benefits of Amazon Prime, such as free two-day shipping, Prime Music and more.

If you’re a student, the free trial is even longer. Compared to the regular 30-day Prime free trial, Student Prime‘s free trial is six months, which is five months more than the regular free trial. But perhaps the best part about Amazon Prime Video’s free trial is that customers can sign up for it multiple times. According to Amazon, users can sign up for Amazon Prime Video’s free trial over and over again as long as it isn’t within the same 12 months. This means that if you haven’t been an Amazon Prime member for more than 12 months, you’re eligible to receive another 30 days for free—which can include seven days of Starz free. After the trial ends, customers can subscribe to Amazon Prime (which includes Amazon Prime Video) for $12.99 per month or $119 per year (which saves them around $36.) Those who just want an Amazon Prime Video subscription can also subscribe for $8.99 per month.

Watch Spider-Man: No Way Home With Verizon’s Free Disney Plus

If you’re a Verizon customer (or know someone who is), Verizon offers free Disney Plus subscription with its Unlimited plans (a.k.a. Get More Unlimited, Play More Unlimited, Verizon Plan Unlimited, Go Unlimited, Beyond Unlimited and Above Unlimited.) If you have one of these plans, you can sign-up for a free six-month Disney+ subscription (which saves you about $42.) Click here for Verizon’s FAQ on how to sign up for its free Disney+ subscription.

Verizon customers with Get More Unlimited and Play More Unlimited plans are also eligible for their Disney Bundle, which offers not only a free Disney Plus subscription for as long as you have your Verizon plan, but also free Hulu and ESPN+ subscriptions too, which saves viewers about $12.99 per month. Click here for Verizon’s FAQ on how to sign up for its Disney Bundle. So there you have it—a way to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home online for free.

Who’s in the Spider-Man: No Way Home cast?

The Spider-Man: No Way Home cast includes Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Zendaya as MJ, and Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds. The Spider-Man: No Way Home cast also includes Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange from the MCU’s Doctor Strange franchise. Before the premiere Spider-Man: No Way Home, it was rumored that the cast also included Tobey Maguire, who reprised his role as Spider-Man / Peter Parker from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, and Andrew Garfield, who reprised his role as Spider-Man / Peter Parker from Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man films. There are also villains from both past Spider-Man franchises in the Spider-Man: No Way Home cast. See the full Spider-Man: No Way Home cast below.

Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man:

  • Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
  • Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
  • Zendaya as MJ: Parker’s classmate and girlfriend
  • Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange
  • Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
  • Jon Favreau as Harold “Happy” Hogan
  • Marisa Tomei as May Parker
  • J. B. Smoove as Julius Dell
  • Benedict Wong as Wong
  • Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon / Electro
  • Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
  • Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
  • Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko / Sandman
  • Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors / Lizard

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BU announces new testing, isolation requirements for Spring semester as COVID-19 cases hit all-time high

Undergraduates will be tested twice a week and the isolation period has been reduced from 10 to 5 days.

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Bradley Newcomer Named Executive Director and CEO of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

BATON ROUGE, LA — Bradley Newcomer, dean of the Honors College at James Madison University, has been named executive director and CEO of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, making him the 12th individual to hold the position since 1900.

Newcomer will assume stewardship of the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline honor society on Jan. 18. The appointment comes at an exciting time for the Society as it will be celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.

“We are delighted to welcome Bradley Newcomer as the next Executive Director and CEO of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi,” said Society President Dan Sandweiss. “Bradley’s record of service to the Society, his deep knowledge of higher education trends, his commitment and experience in honors education and his outgoing, collaborative style all make him an ideal addition to Phi Kappa Phi’s leadership.”

Newcomer was initiated into Phi Kappa Phi in 2012 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and most recently served as president of the JMU chapter. He will take over for Acting Executive Director Traci Navarre, who has been serving in that capacity since Mary Todd retired in May 2021 after nearly 9 years of service, while continuing her long-standing role as chief operating officer.

As executive director and CEO, Newcomer will work with the Society’s board of directors to develop a strategic plan for Phi Kappa Phi that supports its mission “to recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.” He also will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Phi Kappa Phi national office and participate in field activities such as campus visits and chapter installations.

Newcomer, who was appointed following a six-month national search, said, “Since its founding almost 125 years ago, Phi Kappa Phi has created a tradition of recognizing academic excellence across all disciplines and service to others. It is my great honor to join the Society’s board and national office staff as executive director and CEO.  Together, we will work with all of our partners to uphold and expand upon the traditions that are the heart of Phi Kappa Phi.”

While at JMU, Newcomer directed the process of establishing the Honors College. He formulated and initiated a strategic plan, led the revision of curricula and creation of a portfolio-based Honors Capstone Project pathway, transformed operations to assist strategic investments and increased the total endowment funds of the College. Under his leadership, the College’s enrollment grew almost 60 percent and was recognized by the Fulbright Program as a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Students for consecutive years.

Before joining JMU in 2015, Newcomer served for 18 years at UAB in a variety of positions.

Newcomer earned a bachelor of science in physics from Juniata College, a master of physics and Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from Wright State University and a master of business administration from UAB.

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About Phi Kappa Phi
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Phi Kappa Phi inducts approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni annually. The Society has chapters on more than 325 select colleges and universities in the United States, its territories and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify. The Society’s mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and engage the community of scholars in service to others.” For more information, visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org.

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Carlton’s double-double powers No. 12 UH past USF

Josh Carlton's double-double powered the 12th ranked Cougars past USF on Wednesday night in Tampa, Florida. | Eshter Umoh/The Cougar

Josh Carlton’s double-double powered the 12th ranked Cougars past USF on Wednesday night in Tampa, Florida. | Eshter Umoh/The Cougar

USF had no answer for Josh Carlton, as the senior center’s double-double powered No. 12 Houston past the Bulls 83-66 on Wednesday night in Tampa, Florida.

From the tip, Houston exerted its dominance in the paint led by Carlton, who scored 18 points and pulled down eight boards in the first half.

The Cougars pulled down nine offensive rebounds which led to eight second-chance points in the first half.

USF’s knocked down five first half 3-pointers, led by three from Javon Green, allowed the Bulls to keep step with the Cougars.

A stretch of seven consecutive makes late in the first half helped the Cougars take a 40-37 lead into the locker room.

The second half was all UH.

Coming out of the locker room, Carlton scored eight quick points and the Cougars’ lead reached double-digits less than four minutes into the second half.

The Cougars’ lead would not fall below the double-digit mark for the remainder of the game.

Carlton finished with a game-high 30 points and 11 rebounds

Senior guard Kyler Edwards returned to the UH starting lineup after missing Sunday’s victory over Temple with an ankle injury and flirted with a triple-double, scoring 15 points to go along with eight rebounds and eight assists.

Senior forward Fabian White Jr. scored 15 and sophomore guard Jamal Shead added 13.

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USC to require surgical or N95 masks for spring semester

The University Care Crew will provide surgical or N95 masks for all students and visitors at entrances around campus. (Charles McCollum | Daily Trojan file photo)

USC will require faculty, students, staff and visitors to wear surgical or N95 masks on campus for the spring semester rather than cloth or other facial coverings, said Chief Health Officer Dr. Sarah Van Orman in a Student Health media briefing Monday. 

The change follows the California Department of Public Health’s Dec. 13 updated guidance that recommends wearing surgical, N95, KN95 or KF94 masks. Following the omicron variant’s spread, Van Orman wrote in an email to the Daily Trojan Tuesday, the University decided to follow that guidance. 

The Care Crew, located at entrances around campus, will provide students and visitors with acceptable masks if they do not have one that day, Van Orman wrote. Further information on the new masking requirement will be available within the coming days. 

Van Orman said in Monday’s briefing that the University is “completely committed” to an in-person return on Jan. 18. While a high amount of student and faculty infections or airline cancelations could force a class or program to stay remote, there are currently “no plans to delay the instruction.”

“Certainly, if something were to change in terms of Los Angeles County or the number of cases or staff or faculty who were ill or students who were ill, we certainly would change the return. But there’s no plans in the works to do that,” Van Orman said. 

Twenty-five percent of faculty, staff and graduate students and 23% of undergraduate students have uploaded their booster shots to MySHR, but many are still receiving their booster shots or have not yet uploaded them, Van Orman said. 

For the week of Dec. 19, the positivity rate for students was 10.2% for students and 7.4% for employees, with 402 student and 46 employee cases. The overall positivity rate for faculty, staff and students during the week of Dec. 26 was 13%, with the addition of “roughly 500 new cases,” Van Orman said. In comparison, the highest positivity rate during the fall semester was 0.5%.

The University provided about 35,000 tests a week during the fall semester, and Van Orman said it has the ability to conduct approximately 50,000 tests a week for the spring semester. Students will continue to be required to test once a week. 

Students are required to be fully vaccinated — including booster shots if eligible — by Jan. 18. For people who got the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, they must get their booster shot six months after their second dose. For Johnson & Johnson, a booster shot is required two months after the first dose. Students will lose campus access if they do not meet the requirement by Jan. 31. 

USC will follow the L.A. Department of Public Health’s recent isolation recommendation, which requires a negative antigen test in addition to wearing a face covering to leave isolation after five days, rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s. However, Van Orman said there is currently a “real shortage” of antigen tests, and that not everyone will have access to them to leave isolation. If a student is unable to access a test, they will be required to isolate for 10 days.  

Faculty and staff who returned from break on Monday were encouraged to test upon their arrival. Van Orman said some staff are currently choosing to work remotely because of recent travel or symptom concerns. 

“I think we’re cautiously optimistic that we can get through this. I don’t view this as like a permanent situation right now, but we do need people to be very cautious right now,” Van Orman said.

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Letter to the Editor: Concerning President Fenves’s failure to respond to calls to remove Emory’s tributes to L.Q.C. Lamar and Robert Yerkes

Dear Editors,

We are Emory University faculty, alumni and students. We write in protest of Emory’s continued celebration of historical figures who were leading figures of racism, slavery, antisemitism and eugenics. President Gregory L. Fenves has claimed to be committed to addressing these shameful elements of Emory’s history but has taken little meaningful action, despite receiving ample advice from alumni, faculty members and a committee that President Fenves himself called into existence.

In fall 2020, President Fenves announced that he was reappointing the University Committee on Naming Honors and charging it with reviewing the University’s celebration of “contested historic names” on the Emory campus. In its report, which was completed in May 2021, the Committee unanimously recommended that Emory remove from campus its tributes to five such historical figures: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Robert Yerkes, Atticus Greene Haygood, George Foster Pierce and Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. In response, President Fenves chose in June 2021 to remove but one name — that of Longstreet — while promising to “continue to review the research and seek consultation” on the remaining four.

President Fenves has shown little interest, however, in hearing or responding to any such “consultation.” Members of the Emory community have urged the administration to remove two names in particular — those of L.Q.C. Lamar and Robert Yerkes — but President Fenves has not shown that he is even listening — much less taking action.

In July 2021, a coalition of 61 Emory Law School alumni sent President Fenves a letter urging him to remove from the school its tributes to L.Q.C. Lamar, who was no hero of American history but instead an unrepentant white supremacist. Lamar held human beings as slaves, drafted Mississippi’s Ordinance of Secession from the United States, played a leading role in ending Reconstruction after the Civil War, and presided over the implementation of the Dawes Act, which led to the dispossession of about 100 million acres of land owned by Indigenous Americans.

The sentiments in the Emory Law alumni’s letter concerning L.Q.C. Lamar has been echoed by numerous others in the Emory community who have also communicated with President Fenves, including the Black Law Students Association Alumni Board, the Rollins School of Public Health Alumni Board and Professor Barbara Bennet Woodhouse, who holds one of three L.Q.C. Lamar professorships at the Law School. They have all urged Fenves to cease Emory’s tributes to this hateful figure, but Fenves has taken no action in response.

President Fenves has shown similar disinterest in ceasing the University’s celebration of Robert Yerkes, namesake of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Yerkes was a racist, an antisemite, and a founder and leader of the eugenics movement who, even during the Holocaust, praised the Nazis and advocated for killing of people with mental disabilities. A faculty member at Yale and Harvard, he was a central force in the passage of the racist Immigration Act of 1924, which barred millions of Jews from the U.S. in the years before World War II.

Emory Law Professor George Shepherd, one of the signatories of this letter, has written repeatedly to President Fenves and the Emory administration, starting 19 months ago, to ask that Emory stop celebrating Yerkes. Professor Shepherd has provided Fenves with both his op-ed piece in the Wheel about Yerkes along with a law review article that Shepherd published about Yerkes’ sordid career. After the Committee on Naming Honors cited Shepherd’s work in recommending removal of Yerkes’ name, Shepherd wrote again to President Fenves offering to consult with him. Fenves has not responded, despite his promise to “seek consultation” concerning Yerkes and the other names in the Committee’s report.

President Fenves’ silence and inaction are baffling. In his opening remarks at Emory’s “In the Wake of Slavery and Dispossession” symposium last fall, the President called for our community to “explore Emory’s history . . . and examine the ongoing impact of slavery and racism.” Such words ring hollow, however, when the President and the administration fail to remove Emory’s tributes to Lamar, Yerkes, and the other names in the Committee’s report. For months, rumors have circulated around campus that the administration will soon take action on such names, but to date no action has been taken.

We call on President Fenves and the Emory administration to immediately remove from our campus these symbols of oppression and hate. The damage these men did to our country should never be forgotten, but they should no longer be celebrated as heroes at our beloved school.

Sincerely,

Emory Community Members for Historical Accountability

John P. Figura (09L), Brooklyn, NY

Currey Hitchens (09L), Atlanta, GA

George B. Shepherd, Professor of Law, Emory Law School, Atlanta, GA

 

Simran Ahluwalia (19C, 22L)

Silas W. Allard (11L, 11T, 25G)

Shabib Ansari (23L)

Sarah Babcock (07L)

Brandon A. Bullard (07L)

Alexa Christianson (22L)

Simon Cohen (23L)

Rhani Lott Choi (10L)

Kasey Chow (06C, 11B, 11L)

Brent Douglas (09L)

Kaleigh Emerson (10PH)

Jason Esteves (10L)

Niles Friedman (98PH)

Christian Gant (10L)

Hillary Gardner (09L)

Bradford S. Glick (09, 09)

Nina Goodall-Bernal (22L)

Bess Greenberg (19C, 22L) 

Molly Guy (05N, 05PH)

Monica Hanna (09L)

Jay Burhan Haider (01C, 10L)

Nathan A. Hartman, Adjunct Professor of Law, Emory Law School (00C, 06L, 06T, 07B)

Joseph R. Hicks (10L)

Jacqueline Himmelfarb (22L)

Thomas Izzo (09L)

Candace Jackson (09L)

Erica M. Jackson (09L)

Simone Jenkins (10L)

Shijuade Kadree (03Ox, 05C, 09L, 09PH)

Julia Krauss (17B, 17PH)

Anna Kurien (08L)

Samantha Lie Tjauw (14PH)

Daniel Maland (10L)

Sarah Maness (11PH)

Benton Martin (10L)

Monique Martin (12PH)

Alex Ian Passe (24L)

Karyl Patten (08PH, 15L)

Yakob Peterseil (09L)

Leslie A. Powell (09L)

Kier Prince (18L, 18PH)

Kim Ramelow (10L)

Wyatt A. Robinson (10L)

Mark Richardson (09L)

Pamela K. Rosen (10L, 10PH)

Claudia Saari (87L)

Brandon Schecter (09L)

Brian Spielman (09L)

Elizabeth Sprouse (17PH)

Justin Starnes (09L)

Sarah Stein (13L)

Joshua Stern (10L)

Lauren Taylor (11PH, 16A)

Kaytna Thaker (14PH)

Katerina Velanova (22L)

Jared Welsh (09L)

Nathanael Watson (08L)

Stephanie Weathers-Lowin (09L)

Stephen Weyer (00Ox, 02C, 10T, 10L)

Danielle Barbour Wilson (09L9)

Lisa Wolff (11L)

Professor George Shepherd (86L) is from Atlanta, Georgia, and joined the Emory School of Law faculty in 1995. Currey Hitchens (09L) resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves low income Georgians in the metro-Atlanta area. She focuses on keeping kids in school and getting needed services in place for students. John P. Figura (09L) lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is an attorney in the public service.

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Berkeley’s decision to incorporate blockchain into microbond financing program sparks controversy

Berkeley’s decision to incorporate blockchain into microbond financing program sparks controversy

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After Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín announced the city’s plans to incorporate blockchain into the municipal bond system, several residents expressed their concerns, particularly regarding the technology’s security and environmental impact.

Berkeley residents expressed their concerns and frustrations following an announcement by Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín on Twitter sharing the city’s plans to incorporate blockchain into the municipal bond system

The concerns raised by the residents include the environmental impact of blockchain and the security of the technology. 

“Crypto and blockchain applications have—so far—taken a path that I believe is directly opposed to the city’s stated goals around mitigating climate change,” said Berkeley resident Marc Hedlund in an email. 

According to City Councilmember Ben Bartlett, who is credited with introducing the idea to the city, the mining operations of earlier blockchain applications were environmentally caustic, but newer applications of blockchain are not

However, Hedlund alleged in an email that only 4.2% of transactions use the more environmentally friendly blockchain technology, which requires far less electricity.

“If our intention is to make bonds available to people with lower net worth so they can invest more easily, should we be relying on systems that are the vast minority of an already just-emerging technology—the cutting edge of the cutting edge, so to speak?” Hedlund said in the email. 

Berkeley resident Peter Seibel said in a Twitter direct message that he sees the value of microbonds but cites similar concerns and believes incorporating blockchain technology does not necessarily make it less risky for the city or the people who invest in them

However, Bartlett refuted security concerns, stating the decentralized nature of blockchain makes it less hackable and less penetrable. 

“Blockchains provide a real-time audit. You cannot erase what happened on it. It is immutable as they say,” Bartlett said. “They are more secure and they allow programmability, so you can have the instruments do whatever you imagine they should be doing for the community.” 

The idea to introduce blockchain technology into the municipal bond market came after the federal tax cuts imposed during the Trump administration, according to Bartlett. He added that incorporating blockchain technology as a new tool for community finance creates a system that has the ability to withstand changes to federal policy

Bartlett affirmed his faith in the consultants working to develop this project, citing their experience and “technological prowess” and believes criticism of the initiative is premature, asserting that the project is merely a pilot and participation is optional.

The council member further highlighted that the city has prior financing successes, such as the invention of Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, financing, and that blockchain continues this legacy.

“This is our tradition of financial innovation for the people,” Bartlett said.

Contact Anna Armstrong at aarmstrong@dailycal.org, and follow her on Twitter at @annavarmstrongg.

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Terrier Hockey Talk: Dec. 3, 2021

In this week’s episode of THT, the BHB discusses the wins for both the men’s and women’s teams from this weekend. They also discussed key players and the chances of a win against BC this upcoming weekend. This episode was edited by Nellie Maloney. Click here to stream this episode of “Terrier Hockey Talk” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your streaming platform of your choice. Music: RetroFuture Clean Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Utah Women’s Basketball Games Canceled for Second Straight Week Due to COVID-19

 

The University of Utah women’s basketball team will have to wait another week to get into Pac-12 play as their games against UCLA and USC this weekend have been canceled.

This will mark the third and fourth games postponed by COVID-19 due to problems within the Utah program, via a Utah press release sent earlier Tuesday.

The Utes have now not played a game since Dec. 21 in a game against Oklahoma.

Utah is coming off a 83-76 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners, concluding out-of-conference play for Utah this season. The Utes enter conference play with an extremely impressive 8-3 record. Against Oklahoma, rising star Gianna Kneepkens dropped 19 points and had five rebounds. Kneepkens has been extremely impressive throughout non-conference play. She is currently averaging 10.8 points per game.

Also impressive against Oklahoma was Peyton McFarland who grabbed 11 boards in the loss to the Sooners. McFarland has started the season slowly on the rebounding end, averaging only 4.7 per game thus far. But this latest performance showed just how high her upside can be.

Several times last year and this year, coach Lynne Roberts remarked that COVID-19 had made last season one of the most challenging to coach in her time at the helm. It seems that same reality is setting in this year for the Utes.

The constant starting and stopping of this season will be yet another challenge for this group to overcome.

It is unclear how severe the problems are within the program. However, games being canceled for two weeks straight points toward the conclusion that the team has had a very serious outbreak.

The Utes will now either have to find a way to make up these four crucial conference matchups or give them up on their schedule, which would seriously hurt the team’s chances come March when the NCAA looks at resumes for March Madness.

The Utes next two games will come on Jan. 13 and 16, assuming the current COVID-19 chaos surrounding the team has gotten under control by then. The Utes are scheduled to play Cal and national powerhouse Stanford the next time they step on the court, which will be a pair of extremely tough games coming off what has already been a very challenging month.

 

e.jensen@dailyutahchronicle.com

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Alana Haim talks acting debut in ‘Licorice Pizza’

Alana Haim talks acting debut in ‘Licorice Pizza’

Scene from the film Licorice Pizza

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It’s not every day that you get a call from Paul Thomas Anderson, or PTA, asking you to star in his latest film. 

For Alana Haim, one of three sisters who make up the Los Angeles pop-rock band HAIM, playing the lead in a PTA movie was the opportunity she never knew she wanted until she had it. Though Haim has frequently collaborated with the acclaimed director for her band’s music videos, carrying one of his films alongside a veteran ensemble cast marks a drastic step up for the rocker turned actress.

Watching “Licorice Pizza,” you wouldn’t be able to tell that it’s Haim’s first time in a starring role and her feature debut. Not only is she a natural star with an abundance of charisma, her performance as the fictional Alana Kane joins the list of all-time great PTA characters, and she absolutely steals the show. 

In an interview with The Daily Californian, Haim recounted a moment working with Anderson which led to her eventual star turn. As she recalls, while working with HAIM during one of their festival appearances, Anderson told her that one day, he’d put her in one of his movies.

“I was like, ‘Okay, you’re gonna put me in a movie one day, like what? I don’t — that’s not gonna happen,’” Haim said, her own Valley girl charm flashing. “Like, how — why would I assume Paul Thomas Anderson would want me, as a musician — I’ve never acted in anything before, that’s insanity!”

The conversation, which happened years ago, was one she would barely come to remember, but she would go on to hear bits and pieces of stories revolving around the San Fernando Valley and the director’s secretive work. 

“I was in London one day, because we were about to release ‘Summer Girl,’ which we did with Paul, and I got this email, and it had a Word document in it,” Haim said, smiling as she remembered the moment where it all came together. “And it was an untitled Paul Thomas Anderson script. And I read it, and one of the first names was Alana.”

Haim’s character is a 25-year-old floating aimlessly through a ‘70s Encino and eager to leave the San Fernando Valley for bigger dreams just about anywhere else. On a chance encounter during picture day at a local high school while working as a photographer’s assistant, she meets Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), a 15-year old child actor with enough sense of purpose to  sincerely believe the sky’s the limit. The friendship between the two, in turn, brings out the most honest versions of each other.

Hoffman, as Gary, makes his on-screen debut alongside Haim. Yet, the search for a suitable co-star didn’t always start with a fresh face in mind. After reading alongside many experienced young actors, Anderson and the Haim sisters decided to go with the son of the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, whom they had met some time earlier. Upon their initial meeting, Hoffman stood out, his engaging personality leaving a lasting impression on the director and Haim.

“All three of us were like, ‘Oh my god, like how did we not? That’s so obvious!’ ” Haim said. “We had dinner with Gary Valentine two years ago, like, he was Gary then!”

It makes sense that the electric on-screen chemistry between Haim and Hoffman is the crux of the film, bringing to life a plot strung together from a series of memories that shape the contours of their connection. Haim says their newcomer status was crucial to solidifying the relationship of the pair’s characters. 

“We just had that connection in the sense of like, it was so comforting to be with someone that also had never worked before, because I was so insecure, and so was he — in a good way. It really did band us together just being like, okay, I have your back and you have mine,” Haim said. “And that’s really what it was. I mean, it was, it was really us against the world, because we didn’t know any better. We stuck together because we were, you know, untrained.”

“Licorice Pizza” is one of the most blissful, hilarious films of the year, a rare sunny two hours of coming-of-age and emotion truly seen in the effervescent Encino sun. For Haim, the experience behind the camera is just as memorable as what audiences see in front of it. 

“I mean, we had such an incredible time making this movie, and I hope when people leave the theater, they have a big smile on their face,” Haim said. “Movies are slowly coming back and it’s kind of like my life motto. I just want to make people smile and laugh. I want to make people happy.”

“Licorice Pizza” is now playing in theaters.

Contact Vincent Tran at vtran@dailycal.org.

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