5 things you need to know this weekend
It's America's first weekend with a President-elect Trump
Since Donald Trump won Tuesday's election, he has been busy making his first public appearances as president-elect and deciding on the people who will fill the key positions in his administration — and of course, he made time for a few tweets. So what can expect in the first weekend since Trump's victory? First, there is the question of who will play Trump when Dave Chappelle hosts Saturday Night Live. Alec Baldwin probably didn't foresee, as many pollsters didn't, that his Trump impersonation would be needed past Tuesday and he's unlikely to keep up the role. The there's the first television interview with Trump and his family since his victory on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday night. And finally, you can expect the anti-Trump protests that sprang up across the nation this week to continue through the weekend, especially in Los Angeles and Portland.
A shattered city comes together at Orlando's pride festival
On June 12, Orlando’s LGBT community — and our nation's — changed forever when a gunman took the lives of 49 people at Pulse Nightclub. Five months later, the city continues to heal. Orlando’s 12th annual pride festival, hosted Saturday by the nonprofit organization Come Out With Pride, will celebrate the city's LGBT community but also remember those killed in the massacre. Saturday night, the names of the Pulse victims will be read and fireworks will light up the city's skies.
Bataclan concert hall, site of Paris terror attack, reopens — with Sting
Three-hundred-and-sixty-four days after terrorists killed 89 people at the Bataclan theater in central Paris, the venue is to reopen with a concert Saturday headlined by Sting. The massacre at the hall, in which three men laden with explosives stormed a concert by the California band Eagles of Death Metal, was one of several attacks in the French capital that killed 130 people. The theater has invited the families of slain concertgoers and the survivors from that night, with proceeds going to support the groups who are helping them rebuild their lives.
Let the madness begin!
College basketball is finally back. Take a break from politics and distract yourself with this season's first full weekend of games — it might be just what the doctor ordered. Duke's loaded roster makes it the consensus preseason No. 1 NCAA team. You'll want to pay close attention to the Blue Devils' freshmen though (we're predicting they'll have a huge storyline), as well as traditional title contenders like Kentucky and Kansas. With five months to go before the Final Four meet in Arizona, some teams have already emerged as favorites. See where the top teams in the land sit in the first edition of bracketology. For this weekend's schedules, scores, stats and more, head here.
Can they feel the feels? 30-hour game event aims to teach teens empathy
Played on computers, tablets and smartphones, a game event called Face the Future aims to encourage young people in schools worldwide to discuss, share each others' ideas and think deeply about a key topic: empathy. The game — its creator actually calls it a “collaborative simulation” — will run for just 30 hours, starting Sunday. Coming less than a week after the end of a bruising presidential election, the game, which asks students to imagine a time in the near future when we’ll wear digital devices that allow us to share the actual neurological fingerprints of our feelings, is a timely lesson. Players can join anytime Sunday or Monday.
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