‘Ascent” is the title for the National Youth Orchestra’s current tour, and the dominant theme is mountaineering, at once taken literally and as a metaphor for artistic aspiration and striving. Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, pitting man against the impersonal magnificence of nature, is the main work, to which the evening’s curtain raiser, a new piece by … Read more
Roddy is one of the stable of Slow Horses in the runaway hit Apple TV+ series of the same name. But true to his readily offered opinion, he’s, “king of the world, top man in the room … and that’s nowhere near the kind of person I am. I’m very self-deprecating!” says his alter ego. … Read more
When: Wednesday 8 June 2022, 12.25 – 12.55 CEST Where: Press corner in the protocol entrance area, right side of the European Parliament hemicycle in Strasbourg, level 0 How: Accredited media representatives can attend the press point physically. The press point will also be web streamed live and recorded on the Parliament’s Multimedia Centre. The … Read more
Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine performs during the “Rock The Bells” Tour on Aug. 18, 2007, in San Francisco. Albert Chau/FilmMagic Rage Against the Machine is calling it quits again. The legendary band formed in Los Angeles in 1991 and became world-renowned for its anarchic stage presence, radical … Read more
Last week, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report on the “rapid deterioration” of conditions in the West Bank following Hamas’s October 7th attack. Israeli security forces have killed nearly three hundred Palestinians, sometimes using “unnecessary or disproportionate force”; thousands of Palestinians have been arrested for minor incidents; … Read more
If you’re one of the 3,600 people who searched “Who is Simone Biles’s husband?” on Google this month, you likely learned his name is Jonathan Owens, he’s an NFL player for the Green Bay Packers, and, according to his most recent interview, he considers himself to be the “catch” in the relationship. The 28-year-old safety … Read more
$50,000 grant will help transitioning military service members, veterans and their families LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — USA Cares, a national non-profit organization dedicated to providing financial and advocacy assistance to post-9/11 veterans and their families, is proud to announce that it has been named a recipient of the Boeing Company’s Global Engagement … Read more
Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a favorite source for sampling by Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and hundreds of other hip-hop performers, has died. He was 88. McCann died Friday in Los Angeles a week after being hospitalized with pneumonia, according … Read more
An Indigenous superhero gets her own Marvel spinoff next week — the first of the company’s bets on projects that don’t require prior knowledge of its popular cinematic universe. The Disney+ series Echo stars Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez, a.k.a. Echo, the Indigenous-Latin American leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a criminal gang run by the villainous Wilson Fisk, … Read more
Arenicola, or lugworms, make some of the most beautiful structures on the beach. Little piles of wet sand are cast in a swirl from their rear end as part of their feeding cycle. They are but one of an untold number of other participants in the constant evolution of forms at our water’s edge. Co-contributors … Read more
