Khazonim, or cantors, like Yossele Rosenblatt and Gershon Sirota once household names that commanded massive respect and even bigger paychecks have lost their luster since their heyday in the “Golden Age” of the early 20th century. To the dismay of fans of khazones the unique blend of traditional prayer and classical opera that once dominated the Ashkenazi synagogue and stage few people today have the specialized cultural knowledge required in passing the musical tradition down from teacher to student. Another traditional Jewish musical genre once found itself in a similar situation: klezmer music. Then, in the 1970s, the Balkan Arts Center of New York City, which later became the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, became the focal point for a remarkable klezmer revival. They recorded legends like Dave Tarras who taught new generations of musicians, and became a supportive ecosystem for a genre that had been nearly discarded. Following this example, Jeremiah Lockwood and Judith Berkson, founders of the new Brooklyn-based record label Khazones Underground, are using a combination of recordings, concerts and community organizing to achieve a revival for this genre as well. They are well-qualified for this massive undertaking: Lockwood is the grandson of khazn Jacob Konigsberg, and a scholar. He is also the long-time frontman of the khazones-infused-rock group The Sway Machinery. Berkson is a cantor, composer and teacher. Aside from a symposium and concert at the upcoming Yiddish New York festival, they have been teaching and writing about khazones, cultivating a new generation of dedicated performers from diverse backgrounds. As part of their efforts, Lockwood and Berkson are officially releasing three albums on Dec. 1 that includes a reissue of an album of contemporary Hasidic cantors; an album from The Sway Machinery which uses surreptitiously-taken “bootleg” recordings of Golden Age cantors as jumping-off points, and perhaps most excitingly an album of all-female cantors, or khazntes. The album, The Return of the Immortal Khazntes featuring Judith Berkson, Riki Rose, Rachel Weston and Shahanna McKinney-Baldon, draws on the history of female cantors who used to perform on the theater stage. Berkson noted in an interview that what made this album special was that their inspiration is the sound of the old khazntes. “A lot of women cantors now are trained to sing quite high, in a soprano range,” Berkson said. But these four khazntes sang in a wider range, including alto, imitating the often baritone ranges of their male counterparts. Berkson opens the album with “V’hu Yashmiyeynu,” accompanied by San Francisco’s renowned Kronos Quartet. The piece, originally performed by the cantor and Yiddish actor Moishe Oysher, is, as Lockwood describes it, “an amazing kind of knock-’em where it hurts, showstopper piece.” Riki Rose, originally from the Satmar Hasidic community, expressed a similar kind of revelatory feeling. Even though she didn’t hear women singing this kind of music earlier in her life, it seemed very natural to her to sing in a lower register. The other two featured cantors have equally interesting backgrounds: McKinney-Baldon is researching Madame Goldie Steiner, the only known African American woman performer of khazones in the Golden Age; and Weston is a British cantor trained extensively in Yiddish music. The album, The Dream Past, is, on the face of it, aggressively different from “The Return.” Lockwood, reviving The Sway Machinery, which once toured the world inserting khazones themes under the guitar and drums, is now more revealing about the Jewish background of its pieces. Each song begins with an introduction from a “bootleg” recording of live prayer as a jumping-off point. Golden Ages: Brooklyn Chassidic Cantorial Revival Today is a reissue from 2022, but it’s every bit as notable for bringing in modern Hasidic cantors. Interestingly, even the deeply traditional Hasidic community had abandoned khazones, leaving the few remaining Hasidic fans of the genre feeling marginalized by their own community. Singer Yanky Lemmer, whom Lockwood met while observing Brooklyn’s Hasidic khazones singing circles, will be part of the performance at Yiddish New York a truly remarkable occurrence due to the well-known chasm between the Hasidic and Yiddishist worlds.
https://forward.com/yiddish-world/786049/record-label-album-young-female-singers-cantorial-music-yossele-rosenblatt/
Yearly Archives: 2025
Tracking Controversial Deportations and Detainments Under the Trump Administration
Track the latest developments and updates on controversial deportations under the Trump administration.
https://www.allsides.com/blog/tracking-controversial-deportations-and-detainments-under-trump-administration
Elphaba’s ‘Wicked: For Good’ sex cardigan is driving people insane
The sweater that changed Oz, for good. The internet is going wild over Elphaba’s (Cynthia Erivo) “sex cardigan” that she wears during an intimate scene with Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) in “Wicked: For Good.” After fleeing Emerald City with Fiyero on the day of his wedding to Glinda (Ariana Grande), Elphaba takes him to her secret tree house, where they share their true feelings to each other in a duet to “As Long as You’re Mine.” Elphaba, smitten for Fiyero, takes off her usual black attire and slips into sexy black lingerie before she puts on an enormous gray knit cardigan. The fashion piece has gone viral on the internet, with fans sharing their epic reactions to Elphaba’s unexpected outfit choice. Sharing a photo of the sweater on Anne Hathaway’s character in “The Devil Wears Prada,” one fan wrote, “are you wearing the-,’” adding, “Elphaba’s sex cardigan? Yes, I am.” “Y’all are laughing at Elphaba’s ‘sex cardigan’ as if Anthropologie isn’t currently planning to sell that thing for $140 and people will buy it. #WickedForGood,” another fan said on X. Someone else tweeted, “Elphaba was taking no chances when Fiyero got in that treehouse. Broke out the good lingerie and her sex cardigan.” “Those who are hating on elphaba’s cardigan just don’t know the powers a truly comfy cardigan can hold over a girl,” a different “Wicked” fan wrote. “Coming out as someone who likes the elphaba sex sweater,” another twitter user confessed. Erivo herself reacted to the fandom’s infatuation with the sexy sweater in a recent interview with Bustle. “I am plugged in a little bit. I love that everyone is so invested in the little details,” said Erivo, 38. “Especially if they’re invested in the outfit, I’m happy, because that was one of those things that I wanted for her. I was like, if she’s in her home where she lives, why would she still be in her war outfit? Why wouldn’t she be in something comfortable, the thing that makes her the most vulnerable?” “I wanted a moment of real softness for her,” the Oscar nominee continued, “so it was something that I had talked to [costume designer] Paul [Tazewell] about, to find something that made her really womanly, like that she was there in her space as comfortable as could be. So I’m glad people are clocking all those little details.” While Elphaba’s cardigan turned up the heat in the “As Long as You’re Mine” scene, director Jon M. Chu revealed he actually made the moment less horny. “I just felt like, ‘Is this movie the type of movie where you just sit and stare at each other and sing?’ I was like, ‘There’s nothing happening,’” Chu, 46, told Entertainment Weekly. “And passion can only happen. They didn’t have time to. We need a scene where they go out on a date or something. How do they know each other?” The filmmaker also recognized that Erivo brought “dignity” to Elphaba in the steamy scene. “She’s like, ‘I would have a home, I would make it smell nice. I would put my hair up,’” he added. “She’s not just a caricature that we’re making fun of in learning the backstory. It’s not fan fiction; this is a real character to her.” “Wicked: For Good” is in theaters now.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/entertainment/elphabas-wicked-for-good-sex-cardigan-is-insane-reactions/
A French Rightist Is, for the First Time, Predicted To Win the Presidential Election in 2027
The authoritative French pollster, Ifop Group, just released shocking data about young French Muslims. It is part of a survey for Ecran de Veille, a magazine that specializes in strategic issues and geopolitics. While born in France and raised as equal citizens, young French Muslims are not joining the mainstream French culture, unlike most youths from other immigrant groups. Instead, they “re-Islamize.” They are turning toward a much more radical Islamic way of life than their own parents. Between 7 percent and 10 percent of the 68 million citizens or residents of France in 2025 are Muslim, against 1 percent in 1975. That’s a seven-fold to ten-fold increase. Fifty percent of the French Muslims are under 24, against 28. 7 percent of the French as a whole. This means that, no matter what, Islam is thus expected to carry weight in French society in the coming decades. Some 80 percent of the French Muslim youths describe themselves as religious, against a French global youth average of 48 percent. Muslims’ religious commitment is steadily increasing. Forty years ago, only 7 percent of the French Muslim youths under 24 were attending prayers at mosque. Today, 84 percent of the Muslim youths attend public prayers on a regular basis, against fewer than 3 percent of the non-Muslim youths as a whole, and 8 percent of the “affiliated” young Christians. Likewise, Ramadan fasting has grown to 83 percent from 51 percent among the young Muslims. In 2003, some 16 percent of French Muslim girls under 24 would don the veil or wear any kind of Islamic garb. That has risen to 45 percent today. Nearly 50 percent of the young Muslim men and nearly 60 percent of the young Muslim women frown upon shaking hands or kissing with the other gender, being medically attended by the other gender or engaging in mixed-gender sport activities. Most French Muslims used in the past to follow the moderate guidelines of the Maliki or Hanafi schools of religious jurisprudence regarding halal food. They partook of regular Christian or Jewish French food as long as pork and alcohol were avoided. Young Muslims today seem to be so influenced by more restrictive views as to insist on fully certified halal products and services. Some popular restaurants owned and managed by non-Muslims, like the Five Guys chain, serve certified halal meat only and have withdrawn wine or beer from their beverages list. The fundamentalist shift is apparent in the realm of theology, philosophy, and science. Whereas in 1998 some 41 percent of the young French Muslims used to support a “modernization” of Islam, only 21 percent express similar views today. Conversely, only 19 percent supported fundamentalism or “Islamism” in 1998, against 42 percent today. Asked a multiple choice question about the fundamentalist groups they support, 24 percent express today sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood, 9 percent for Salafism, 8 percent for Wahhabism, 8 percent for Tabligh, 8 percent again for Tafkir and 3 percent for Jihadism. Many of these groups are illegal in many Muslim countries. In 1995, the primacy of Sharia over French law was rejected by 62 percent of all Muslims; today, by only 49 percent. Among the young, it is backed by 57 percent. The primacy of la loi is the main tenet of the quasi-constitutional law of 1905 separating Church and State in France. Although most young Muslims attend French secular schools, and large numbers of them go to college, 82 percent tend to discard the standard scientific views and hypotheses on the universe, the growth of life or evolution when it seems to contradict the Kuranic revelation. Youths from other religions tend to separate science and religious tradition. François Kraus, who managed the survey for Ifop, wonders whether this re-Islamization should not be primarily understood “as a way for Muslim youth to assert their identity and collective power” within French society. The fact is that this re-Islamization goes hand in hand with a kind of symbiosis with an ultra-left party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise. In the 2022 presidential election, 69 percent of Muslims voted for Mr. Mélenchon, compared to 22 percent of the French population at large. In the 2024 European elections, 62 percent of Muslims voted for La France Insoumise, meaning France Unbowed. In the subsequent legislative elections, this party achieved its best results in constituencies with large Muslim populations. The identification works both ways. The more La France Insoumise strengthens its foothold among Muslims, the more it aligns itself with radical Islamism or, since October 7, 2023, with an equally radical anti-Israel stance. Many observers conclude that France is undergoing a process of ‘Lebanonization,’ which in turn could lead to a war that would be not merely civil but also ethnic and religious. Mr. Kraus notes that the rise of fundamentalist Islam is fostering, as a mirror effect, an incipient Christian revival, marked by the return of baptism a rite neglected for some 30 years as well as religious services, pilgrimages, and monasticism. Meanwhile, the National Rally continues to climb in the polls. For the first time, an Odoxa-Mascaret poll predicts victory for its leader Jordan Bardella in the 2027 presidential election, regardless of his main opponent.
https://www.nysun.com/article/a-french-rightist-is-for-the-first-time-predicted-to-win-the-presidential-election-in-2027
Celina Jaitly seeks Rs 10 lakhs monthly maintenance, and Rs 100 crores in damages; court to hear case on December 12
Actor Celina Jaitly’s legal team has confirmed that a domestic violence complaint has been filed against her husband Peter Haag, an Austrian national, before the Judicial Magistrate First Class in Andheri, Mumbai. The case was taken up on Tuesday for verification, following which the court issued a notice to Haag, returnable on December 12. Celina Jaitly seeks Rs 10 lakhs monthly maintenance, and Rs 100 crores in damages; court to hear case on December 12 Advocate Niharika Karanjawala, appearing for Jaitly, told ANI that the complaint details years of alleged abuse. “Yes, we filed a complaint under the Domestic Violence Act for cruelty and domestic violence, both physical and emotional, that has lasted for many years through Miss Jaitly’s marriage with Mr Peter Haag,” she said. Karanjawala added that the allegations include prolonged physical and emotional cruelty, manipulation, and coercion. Alongside the domestic violence case, separate civil proceedings are also underway in Mumbai regarding a property Jaitly owns. According to her counsel, the property’s gift deed was allegedly obtained by Haag “through coercion.” The petition seeks multiple forms of relief. “Our prayer is manifold with regards to compensation to be paid to Celina, alimony, as well as determinations with regards to her children,” Karanjawala stated. Jaitly’s primary concern, she noted, remains her three children, who are currently in Austria with Haag. As per the filing, Jaitly has requested a monthly maintenance of Rs 10 lakhs. The petition also seeks Rs 50 crores for loss of potential earnings. Karanjawala explained that this figure accounts for the period when Jaitly was allegedly compelled to stop working “at a very lucrative time in her career.” A separate sum of Rs 50 crores has been claimed for pain and suffering. The matter will now be heard on December 12, following the court’s issuance of notice to Haag. Also Read: Celina Jaitly shares emotional note after filing domestic violence case against husband Peter Haag: “Life stripped everything away” BOLLYWOOD NEWS LIVE UPDATES.
https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/celina-jaitly-seeks-rs-10-lakhs-monthly-maintenance-rs-100-crores-damages-court-hear-case-december-12/
4 Shocking twists we could see in John Cena vs. Dominik Mysterio at WWE Survivor Series
Dominik Mysterio is set to face John Cena in a rematch for the Intercontinental Championship at WWE Survivor Series: WarGames.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/4-shocking-twists-see-john-cena-vs-dominik-mysterio-wwe-survivor-series
A new ‘kind’ of cafe opened in Brentwood this month
With the goal of not just serving drinks and their signature toasts, but also providing a bit of kindness too, La La Land Kind Cafe opens a new location in Brentwood. “First and foremost we believe in normalizing kindness and we do that through generally complimenting people”, said Francois Reihani, CEO of the growing Dallas Texas-born chain. “For us as people are leaving the store we say ‘love you.’ We believe those words should be normalized and human beings should be a lot closer than they are,” he said. The new 1, 500-square-foot cafe opened Nov. 22 at 11698 San Vicente Blvd. It marks the eighth Los Angeles area location for the chain. The eatery is known for programs that offer training and paid internships to help transition youth from foster care into adulthood. “When we talk about giving back we want to be hands on and do it ourselves,” Reihani said. “The company was founded on that. Since our first store opened we run our own programs that hire and mentor kids aging out of foster care and our youth director also helps them with their personal life including help with housing, schooling, therapy and that whole side of life.” Besides offering jobs to youth in need, the cafe serves iced drinks like the Lavender Bloom, French Toast Latte, and the Strawberry Fields. The food menu includes elevated versions of toasts such as the La La Classic Avocado Toast, the Truffle Burrata Toast and “The Queen” Avocado Toast, which mashes cream cheese with avocado and other seasoning. With the focus on spreading a good vibes, Reihani dedicated the latest cafe to his 5-year-old niece who inspired the cafe’s angel logo and helped design the coffee sleeves on the cups.
https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2025/11/25/a-new-kind-of-cafe-opened-in-brentwood-this-month/
FBI Interviewing Democrats Trump Has Called ‘Seditious’
A group of Democratic lawmakers who made a video encouraging service members to go against orders that seemed illegal will be interviewed by the Capitol Police at the direction of the FBI and the Department of Justice, according to a report The group includes Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.; Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N. H.; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; and Rep. Jason Crow. They released a video last week saying in part, “Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.” President Donald Trump responded to the video by calling for their arrests and labeling their conduct “seditious. THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social Saturday. Newsweek reached out to the FBI by email Tuesday for comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-interviewing-democrats-trump-has-called-seditious-11106602
‘Stranger Things’ Season 5: Release Date, Cast & Series Finale Theatrical Premiere
The countdown to the Upside Down’s final chapter is officially on. Stranger Things season 5 has fans buzzing as Netflix’s hit sci-fi series prepares to wrap up its story after nearly a decade. Since its explosive debut in 2016, the show has become a cultural phenomenon, and now, the long-awaited final season is almost here. While production was originally set to begin in 2023, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes caused major delays across Hollywood, pushing filming for season 5 into 2024. But now, things are back on track and it won’t be long before Eleven and the gang return for one last ride. Hollywood Life has rounded up all the latest news we know about the fifth and final season. ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Release Date Stranger Things will release its season 5 episodes in three parts: four episodes on November 26, 2025, three on December 25, and the finale on December 31 in select theaters in the U. S. and Canada. How to Watch the ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Finale Screenings of the season 5 finale will be available in 350 theaters across the country and in Canada starting at 5 p. m. PT on December 31, and it will run through January 1, 2026. The finale’s global premiere will still take place on Netflix. What Is ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 About? The show will be coming full circle in the final season. The focus will be back on Will Byers in Stranger Things 5. “Will really takes center stage again in 5,” Ross Duffer told Variety for Noah Schnapp’s Power of Young Hollywood cover story, which was released on August 7. “This emotional arc for him is what we feel is going to hopefully tie the whole series together. Will is used to being the young one, the introverted one, the one that’s being protected. So part of his journey, it’s not just sexuality it’s Will coming into his own as a young man. Just as filming was about to get underway in May 2023, the Duffers released a note on the official Stranger Things writers’ page and gave an update about the status of season 5. “Duffers here. Writing does not stop when filming begins. While we’re excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then over and out. #wgastrong,” the Duffers tweeted. The Writers Guild of America went on strike on May 1 after negotiations broke down between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which includes companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Disney. The members of the WGA are asking for increased pay, better residuals, staffing requirements, and clarification about the use of AI. Almost two months later, SAG-AFTRA also went on strike. As of August 2023, both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are still on strike. On March 21, 2023, the Stranger Things writers’ Twitter account gave a little Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Noah Schnapp (Will), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas), Sadie Sink (Max), Natalie Dyer (Nancy), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan), Joe Keery (Steve), and Maya Hawke (Robin). The series veterans Winona Ryder (Joyce) and David Harbour (Hopper) will also return, rounding out the original lineup. In addition, Brett Gelman (Murray Bauman), Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler), and Amybeth McNulty (Vickie) are all confirmed to return in Season 5. Hollywood Life spoke exclusively with Cara Buono in 2023, and she shared her hopes for one last classic Wheeler family dinner scene. “I hope that there are more of like, in season one, there were a lot of family dinners,” Cara said. “And I loved when the kids came over for dinner. so I hope there’s at least one big dinner at the Wheelers where the kids come over and there’s a lot of awkward stuff going on. That would be really, really fun.” Jamie Campbell Bower is also set to return as Vecna, and according to him, the villain is far from finished. “He’s pissed, he’s properly vexed,” Jamie told NME. “He’s rebuilding, and he’s out for blood. That classic Jason Voorhees thing-you’ve made a big mistake.” Maya Hawke opened up to Rolling Stone in 2022 about what she hopes for Robin in the final season. “Well, it’s the last season, so people are probably going to die. I would love to die and get my hero’s moment. But I love the way that the Duffer Brothers love their actors. and they don’t want to kill them. I think that’s a beautiful quality.” She also teased she’d be down for a spinoff-but only if it included co-star Joe Keery, who plays Robin’s best friend, Steve. “He’s so funny and wonderful and smart. I would do anything with him.” And in a surprise reveal at Netflix’s 2023 TUDUM event, Arnold Schwarzenegger helped announce that Linda Hamilton his legendary Terminator co-star joined the cast. I’ll see you in Hawkins.” Netflix later confirmed Hamilton’s casting with a signature upside-down photo on the Stranger Things Instagram account. Additional new cast members include Nell Fisher as Holly Wheeler, Jake Connelly as Derek, and Alex Breaux as Lt. Akers, among others. ‘Stranger Things’ Run So Far Stranger Things became a global phenomenon when it premiered on Netflix in 2016. The series catapulted the young stars to superstardom, and they have grown up before our eyes. Following the success of the second season, the cast reportedly scored major pay raises for season 3 and beyond, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cast was divided into “different pay tiers” with Winona and David making up the “A tier” that earned them up to $350,000 an episode. The “B tier” included the younger stars like Finn, Gaten, Caleb, and Noah, who started making $250,000 an episode. The “C tier” featured the older kids Natalia, Charlie, and Joe who began making $150,000 an episode in season 3. At the time, it couldn’t be confirmed exactly what Millie was making. After making $30,000 per episode alongside Finn, Gaten, and Caleb, Millie separated herself from the rest of the cast during renegotiations. For season 3, Millie was at least making $250,000 like her fellow young actors, but sources told THR she could be making as high as $350,000 per episode or in her own tier of $300,000 per episode. What Happened In Season 4? Stranger Things season 4 introduced the show’s biggest bad yet: Vecna. The Upside Down was created after Eleven battled Henry Creel, who also happened to be One, the first child to be experimented on by Dr. Brenner. When Eleven was a child, Henry/One posed as Peter Ballard at the Hawkins Lab. Once he gained Eleven’s trust, he betrayed her and killed the other children at the lab. Henry/One faced off against a young Eleven, and she opened the first gate to the Upside Down as she tried to destroy him. Henry/One didn’t die when he was thrown into the Upside Down. Vecna was born. Vecna is the one behind all the chaos that’s been wreaking havoc in Hawkins. In Volume 2 of Stranger Things season 4, the Hawkins crew (with Eleven’s help) tried to take down Vecna. In the midst of this fight, Eddie sacrificed himself and died in Dustin’s arms, Eleven infiltrated Max’s mind, Jason and Lucas got into a brutal fight, and Max was nearly killed by Vecna. Joseph Quinn became an instant star after his breakout performance as Eddie Munson. Even though Eddie died in season 4, many fans hope that Eddie will return in season 5. “He feels kind of gone, it feels pretty hard to bring him back, I’d say, but, I don’t know,” Joseph told Access about possibly returning. Shawn Levy spoke about Eddie’s possible return in an interview on the 2022 Emmy Awards red carpet. “A lot of people can’t even handle the thought of a season five without some excuse for Eddie present, he told The Hollywood Reporter. “Highly unlikely, but we hear you world. We know you’re obsessed with Eddie. So are we.” Joyce and Hopper finally kissed and got out of Russia with Murray. They returned home where they reunited with their kids. However, the current state of Hawkins is borderline ruin. Max did die for a moment before she was brought back to life by Eleven. Max’s death allowed Vecna to get that fourth kill he needed to open the last gate. The faultlines created by the 4 collided at the center of Hawkins, creating massive openings to the Upside Down. The end of the season 4 finale showed the effects of the Upside Down creeping in on Hawkins, and the biggest fight for Eleven and the others is still ahead. Meanwhile, Max is in a coma after her confrontation with Vecna. “Now that I’m here in Hawkins, I can feel him,” Will said to Mike about Vecna. “And he’s hurt. He’s hurting. But he’s still alive. It’s strange, knowing now who it was this whole time, but I can still remember what he thinks and how he thinks. And he’s not going to stop. Ever. Not until he’s taken everything. And everyone. We have to kill him.” Is ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 the Last One? Yes, Netflix and the crew behind the series have said that season 5 is its final one.
https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/stranger-things-season-5-release-date-4741342/
How to get Gigantes in Kirby Air Riders
There are some pretty fantastic moments in Kirby Air Riders, and seeing Gigantes rolling across a City Trial game is definitely one of them. Getting access to this is difficult, however, so this is what you need to do if you want to play with this legendary machine. How to get Gigantes in Kirby Air Riders To get access to Gigantes, you will first need to get the Normal ending in Road Trip. That means playing through and completing a full Road Trip and taking part in the final battle at the end. When you have done that, you will be able to activate Gigantes in City Trial mode. Now, Gigantes is not like a normal machine. You cannot unlock it or buy it in the store and then choose to drive it. It will only be available in the City Trial mode after you unlock it, and you will need to collect three pieces of the machine from red boxes to be able to drive it. These appear randomly on the map and can be picked up by anyone in the game, including CPU riders. When someone is carrying a piece, or two for that matter, they will be marked on the screen, making them the center of attention, so keep your eyes peeled for people carrying parts. You should also be cautious when you have one, as people will come gunning for you. Just smash the other person’s machine until they drop the part, and you can pick it up. Once you get all three pieces, you will be transformed into the massive Gigantes and will be able to crush buildings beneath your immense bulk.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/146931/how-to-get-gigantes-kirby-air-riders