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Bronner Bros. Mid Winter Show Moves To New Orleans

Mardi Gras comes to an end this week but the good time will keep rolling into late March (March 30th – April 1st at New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center) when Bronner Bros. mid winter show arrives in Nola for the first time. We see celebrities with wild styles all the time, but we look to Bronner Bros. every year to come up with some truly creative looks. The show, which has been family owned since 1947, attracts an estimated 30,000 people every year and one of the biggest draws is the fantasy competition where hair has no limits and stylists push their creativity beyond all bounds.

This year’s fantasy competition theme is Mardi Gras — so you know the stylists are really going to show out considering they’ll be in the home of Mardi Gras! Creative hair isn’t limited to the Fantasy competition either. Check out some of the barber’s work from last year:

Very unique right?

Check out a video from last year’s Fantasy competition HERE.

For more information on the show visit their website.

The Spice Of Life Keeps A Man And His Dog Alive

One Oregon man and his dog found themselves in a life-threatening situation and by the grace of taco sauce, they were able to survive.

According to CNN, it all started when Jeremy R. Taylor and his dog Ally drove to get gas for his Toyota 4Runner on Sunday.

Taylor told investigators that in the midst of traveling, his SUV got stuck in the snow. He then fell asleep and awakened on Monday only to find more snow that had him trapped in his vehicle. Eventually, he tried to walk out on Monday, but the snow was too deep, which made it hard to walk. Thus, Taylor had to return to his vehicle with his dog, according to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. Taylor was last seen on Sunday and by Wednesday, a missing person’s alert was released.

 

During the time Taylor was stuck in his car, he told authorities that he stayed warm by “periodically starting his vehicle and used a few taco sauce packets he had as food,” the sheriff’s office said.

It’s not clear how he and his dog received water although, melted snow comes to mind.

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a person can go on for five days without water and six weeks without food.

By the time Friday rolled around, a snowmobile rider had finally spotted Taylor and they called 911. Authorities responded by sending an Oregon Water Resource SnowCat, which is a construction vehicle, and they were able to dig out Taylor and his dog.

Thankfully, Taylor and Ally were found in good condition, according to the sheriff’s office, but they definitely were “hungry after being stuck in the snow for five days.” They were eventually reunited with family and friends, and Taylor went on to make a Facebook post, writing:

“Thank you everyone, I’m safe my Ally dog is safe. I really appreciate all the help. Got lucky, lets never do that again. I’ll be in touch with everyone soon.”

So next time someone comes at you for having a bunch of condiment packets in your car, let ’em know.

Taco sauce saves lives.

Janelle Monae Looks Like A Doll At Chanel

Sitting pretty is an understatement if we are talking about Janelle Monae’s front row presence for Chanel’s Paris Fashion Week show Monday. How stunning does the singer/actress look sitting next to Kristen Stewart?! We STAN!

Here’s a better view of the whole LEWK! Beautiful right?

Sis even got an assist from the GOAT Naomi Campbell…

Check out more photos from the Chanel show below:

Self-Driving Cars More Likely To Harm Black People

There is a serious problem affecting the AI world, the programmers are racist. according to Forbes, the way self-driving vehicles are being programmed is putting the lives of Black an brown folks in danger.

As Sam Huang, a Senior Associate at BMW i Ventures shared on Medium: “I was riding in the back of an autonomous driving car… Every time a pedestrian came into our vicinity, an alert would pop up on the tablet screen… There were two pedestrians that the car failed to detect… All the previous other pedestrians had been white. These two men the car had failed to detect were black.”

The issue has been called out by not just figures at BMW, but also by Apples head on AI.

“The real safety question, if you want to call it that, is that if we give these systems biased data, they will be biased,” said John Giannandrea, once Google’s and now Apple’s head of AI. “It’s important that we be transparent about the training data that we are using, and are looking for hidden biases in it, otherwise we are building biased systems.”

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been raising awareness within the AI industry to correct the problem with their own research. Are YOU shocked by any of this???

 

Fat Joe Is Being Sued Over His Hit “All The Way Up”

Fat Joe is in some legal trouble.

The rapper’s been hit with a lawsuit that accuses him of stealing “All the Way Up,” his smash hit single from 2016 that features appearances from both Remy Ma and French Montana.

According to reports from TMZ, Eric A. Elliott–who goes by the rap alias Fly Havana–filed court documents claiming that he initially co-produced the track with Infared in 2015. The Miami rapper says that he worked on the beat for five hours and gave the “unfinished version” to his co-producer Infared, The Blast reports.

Elliott then goes on to say that Infared introduced him to Fat Joe, which led to the beat was being passed on to the Bronx rapper. Havana then claims that he never heard back from Infared, so he was shocked when he heard “All the Way Up” playing on the radio a few years back.

Later, when Elliott contacted the Bronx native about his credit and compensation for the song, they agreed to meet at an IHop in March 2016, where Joe is said to have written out a check for $5,000.

Elliott is seeking a co-writing credit and profits from the song, also claiming that Joe then promised him more money once “All the Way Up” generated more income–but he hasn’t seen anything since their meetup at the pancake house. Elliott also alleges that he confronted French Montana about the situation in 2017, but French simply brushed him off.

As of now, Fat Joe, French Montana, and Remy Ma have all continued to keep quiet about the suit.