• MMA Junkie

    UFC 301 video: Alessandro Costa chops down Kevin Borjas with leg kicks to set up TKO

    Alessandro Costa "kicked" off UFC 301 with a bang when he finished Kevin Borjas, much to the delight of the Rio crowd.

  • Local Journalism Initiative

    A ‘F-ABBA-lous’ evening at the Village Playhouse Gala

    Tweed and Company held a Gala evening at the Bancroft Village Playhouse to raise money for maintenance and renovations on April 27. Featuring the talents of Canada’s ABBAmania, the night also had a pass around dinner provided by the Granite and a live auction put on by Paul Switzer from Switzer Auctions. Overall, the gala evening raised about $10,000 toward procuring new curtains for the Playhouse stage. Tim Porter, artistic director at Tweed and Company, told Bancroft This Week on April 25 that

  • The Daily Beast

    J.K. Rowling Is So Transphobic Even Elon Musk Wants Her to Shut Up

    Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesJ.K. Rowling has been on the anti-trans train for years, but her ramblings have gotten so exhausting that even anti-LGBT loudmouth Elon Musk wants her to move on.Replying to a verbose (700+ words!) post by the Harry Potter author from nearly a month ago, Musk voiced his agreement with the general thrust of her points—which amounted to several blocks of reheated ideas on why she thinks transgender women aren’t women—but gently guided her to other