EXCLUSIVE: À La Carte has tapped Pauline Dyer (A Stone Cod Christmas) , Jessie Woo (Wild N’ Out) , Kendall Kyndall (Games People Play) , Jenna Nolen (Animal Kingdom) and Courtney Burrell (Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home) as its lead cast. The series hails from Breanna Hogan and executive producers Dijon Talton and Meagan Good. The six-episode show centers on one girl’s journey to the last place she ever thought she would end up…on the side. It’s been described as a cross between Sex & The City, Girlfriends and Insecure . Dyer stars as Mahogany Rose, a gorgeous, young go-getter who is the epitome of perfection. The type who usually makes the right decisions, Mahogany has always had somewhat of a whimsical idea of how her love life would turn out. But when she meets Kaleb Myles (Burrell), a charming and charismatic man who checks off nearly all her boxes, she’s forced to reconsider her typical standards as she discovers that he falls short of …
A DEA Raid Meant to Clean Up a New Mexico Town. Instead, It Made Everything Worse
This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is published here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone. Additional reporting by Don J. Usner. Francesquita Martinez’s words are slow and deliberate, perhaps a result of the methadone she’s taking to kick her addiction, perhaps because she is lost in the memory of Sept. 29, 1999 — the Archangel’s day. The day the war on drugs came to Chimayó. Francesquita, eight years old at the time, had slept overnight at her grandparents’ house, where her father was living. She was getting ready for school that morning when she came across him, looking worried. “Good morning, baby,” he said, placing his index finger over his mouth and listening as if he heard movement outside. “Shhhhh.” Within seconds, men in SWAT gear battered down the door of the house. “GET DOWN ON THE FLOOR!” they shouted, assault rifles drawn. “I sat on the couch watching my dad being slammed to the floor, guns pointing at him, …
Charlie Weber Joins Ryan Phillippe, Kate Bosworth In ‘The Locksmith’; Denise Richards Boards Thriller ‘Among The Ashes’
EXCLUSIVE : Charlie Weber ( As Sick As They Made Us , How to Get Away with Murder ) will star alongside Ryan Phillippe and Kate Bosworth in The Locksmith , a crime thriller helmed by veteran first assistant director Nicolas Harvard , which is currently in production in New Mexico. The film centers on Miller (Phillippe), a thief fresh out of prison after a job gone bad who tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-girlfriend, Beth (Bosworth), who is now a police detective. Determined to make a clean start, he is forced to use the only skills he has, as a gifted locksmith, to make ends meet. But things soon get complicated after an unexpected kidnapping and from there, take a tumultuous turn. Weber will play Garrett, a real estate developer with a dark secret who keeps dirty cops and politicians on his payroll. John Glosser, Joe Russo & Chris LaMont, and Ben Kabialis penned the screenplay, based on an original story by Blair Kroeber. …