Meet Arif Zahir, the new Cleveland on ‘Family Guy’

Crime and chaos have overtaken the streets of many American cities. Shootings and gun violence have increased. Reported homicides are up 24 percent so far this year among the nation’s 50 largest cities, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Ellise Shafer editorSacha Baron Cohen has disclosed several important plot points within the upcoming “Borat” sequel, aptly titled “Borat Subsequent Movie Film: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.”In a new interview with the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Cohen revealed that the iconic Borat character uses the flower beds in front of the Trump hotel as a bathroom and keeps his daughter in a cage, among other unbelievable

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York was returned Thursday after 87 years.The painting “Winter” by American artist Gari Melchers was part of a cache of more than 1,000 pieces of art and artifacts seized from the Mosse family, prominent and well-off Jewish residents of Berlin who became early targets of the Nazi Party.

6 min read As all eyes are on the United States Presidential Election at the moment, many may not have registered that New Zealand polls close soon, this Saturday in fact.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeArif Zahir knows he’s living a bit of a Cinderella story: The aspiring young actor has gone from impersonating the “Family Guy” character Cleveland Brown on YouTube to starring as the character’s voice actor starting next season.“It doesn’t seem real,” said Zahir, who officially landed the gig last month, as “Family Guy” was renewed for its 19th and 20th seasons.

Megan Thee Stallion has published a powerful new op-ed championing Black women which also sees her address the alleged Tory Lanez shooting incident.In a piece for The New York Times titled Why I Speak Up For Black Women, Megan opened by observing how Black women have become “a highly courted voting bloc” who are “expected once again to deliver victory for Democratic candidates” in next month’s US election.“Despite this and despite the way so many have embraced messages about racial justice this

Eddie Van Halen by briefly turning the Van Siclen Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York into ‘Van Halen Avenue’.The late guitarist passed away last week at the age of 65 following a battle with cancer.Street artist Adrian Wilson paid a unique tribute to Van Halen over the weekend by creating a stickered station sign in the style of the New York subway system and placing it on a wall at Van Siclen Avenue station.After he paid a similar tribute to the late US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader

Hopefully, this doesn’t happen a third time. A car struck a coffee shop in Cleveland, forcing the business to temporarily close for the day.

NEW YORK -- A new report on racial representation on New York stages has found that little has been changing — there remains an over-representation of white actors, writers and directors.The annual study, “The Visibility Report: Racial Representation on NYC Stages,” from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, analyzed the 18 largest nonprofit theaters as well as Broadway companies in New York City during the 2017-18 season.Over 61% of all roles on New York City stages went to white

Netflix has hit back at criticism levelled at a new TV series helmed by Game Of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B.

Lily Collins has lots of reasons to celebrate right now. Not only has the British actor become engaged to boyfriend Charlie McDowell (the writer-director proposed while the pair were holidaying in New Mexico), but her hotly-anticipated new TV series launches on October 2.

Family Guy have announced that YouTuber Arif Zahir will voice the role of Cleveland Brown on the show going forward.Original voice actor Mike Henry stepped-down from the role back in June, saying that while it had been an “honor” to play the character since the show’s inception, “persons of color should play characters of color”.Zahir, who has done a number of impressions of Cleveland on his YouTube channel, will take on the role from season 19 of the Fox series.

“Family Guy” has a new voice for its beloved Cleveland Brown. YouTube star Arif Zahir, known as Azerrz in the YouTube space, is revered for his many voice impersonations as well as his “Cleveland Brown Plays ‘Call of Duty’” series which incapacitates online gamers with uncontrollable bouts of laughter as they listen to phrases queued up by Zahir in real-time.