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After the week that was, there's nothing more satisfying than watching a young racehorse rampaging through a French betting bar.

A newly released report from the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that the pilot of a small plane that crashed into a duck pond in Palo Alto was confused about the location of the airport. The pilot, W. John Spencer, died in the crash Sept. 4 that injured his two passengers, a 16-year-old girl and her mother, who were on an Angel flight from Redding to Stanford Medical Center. Angel Flight provides free, non-emergency transport to adults and children with serious medical conditions. Читать дальше...

Trailing clouds of glory from runs at London’s Old Vic and on the West End, Conor McPherson’s Depression-era treatment of classic Bob Dylan material vividly transforms individual songs into an extended cohesive narrative about America adrift in hard times. In this production now playing at Off Broadway’s Public Theater, songs like “Slow Train” and “Duquesne Whistle” […]

AICC observer Khuntia fears manipulation of EVMs by TRS

Of all of the awful things I have seen and heard in my days as a chronicler here at the Real Housewives Institute — the flopping mermaid that Camille ran from, Countess Luann being savaged by a camel in Morocco, Ramona’s eyes in any given frame — I have never seen nor ... More »

Using Bob Dylan’s song catalog, the Irish playwright Conor McPherson has written a play with music set in America. And to hear him tell it, and his characters sing it, we the people of the United States have absolutely no sense of humor. I guess it takes a lot to ... More »

Those poor souls at Hector’s nursing home, doomed to hear him ring that stupid concierge bell for potentially the rest of their days. It would come as cold comfort to know that Lalo’s gift — a souvenir he retrieved from a smoldering hotel Hector had vengefully lit ablaze — would ... More »

Dylan songs sprinkle 'Girl From the North Country.' So do clichés.

What the hell is going on?

In today’s news roundup, the Bible’s Elijah is getting a movie; Will Patton, Mark O’Brien and Michael Masini get acting roles; and “Roma” will open the Savannah Film Festival. PROJECT UNVEILED Winter State Entertainment is launching “Elijah” as a supernatural feature film interpretation based on the Biblical prophet of the same name who confronted rulers […]

The federal government's fiscal year 2018 is over. In some ways, it was a banner year: Economic growth quickened, average paychecks fattened, and there were more jobs available than there were people looking for work.

If you love Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Betty Carter and you live in the 2010s, you have a pretty clear choice about what to do with your buying choices: keep picking up reissues of Vaughan, Fitzgerald, Holliday, Smith and Carter. Hold on and check that, though — we now have […]

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The first surprise is that Girl From the North Country, which marries the playwriting of Conor McPherson and music and lyrics of Bob Dylan, doesn’t major on Dylan’s raw folkiness. You’d think it might. The play, opening Monday night at New York’s Public Theater, is set in the threadbare, Depression-era year of 1934 in a boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota, full of characters variously luckless, desperate, loving, scamming, and scrabbling.

The allegations are part of a blockbuster French criminal case where Nessim El Maleh, formerly a director at HSBC Private Bank Suisse, and his sibling Meyer, who ran Geneva wealth-management firm GPF SA, are on trial for multiple counts of money laundering.

The All Assam Motor Transport Association (Aamta), which is still waiting for the government's nod to its proposed revision in fare charts, has decided to go ahead on its own and hike bus fares in the state - barring in case of city buses in Guwahati - from Wednesday.

Matilda the echidna was born with an unfortunate allergy: she was allergic to ants, her primary food group. She was taken to the Australian Wildlife Health Centre at Victoria’s Healesville Sanctuary in 2010 as a three-month-old puggle after being accidentally dug up from her burrow on a property in Yarra Valley. When Matilda was around two years old, keepers noticed some red inflammation around her eyes. After specialist allergen testing, vets discovered the unfortunate little echidna was allergic to ants... Читать дальше...

October 02, 2018. Dr. Joe Crameri and Elizabeth Lodge, CEO of the Children First Foundation speak to the media about the conjoined 14-month-old twins arriving in Melbourne from Bhutan to meet with surgeons at the Royal Children's Hospital to have a life-changing operation. Crameri discusses the logistics of the procedure and huge team involved in separating Nima and Dawa Pelden. Lodge says the twins are beginning to become frustrated and cranky with each other and asks for public support to pay for... Читать дальше...

The Russian land forces will receive over 2,500 new main weapon systems in 2018, army chief Colonel General Oleg Salyukov said at a press conference on 1 October. This will increase the share of modern armaments in service with the land forces to 54%, he added. He reported that the service is being

On 20 September, Montenegro adopted its first strategic defence review (SDR) since it joined NATO in 2017. The SDR states the aim of raising defence spending from the current EUR71 million (USD82 million), or 1.6% of GDP, to 2.02% by 2024, with military modernisation accounting for 20% of the budget

Firm plans are afoot at the European Commission to create a new department, or directorate-general, for defence industrial policy, according to industry and government sources in Brussels. Whether space, aeronautics, and certain aspects of security policy would be grouped under the new DG Defence

Key Points The Pentagon instituted a production line performance incentive fee for its most recent F-35 contract This is designed to spur all F-35 contractors to increase delivery rates The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), for the first time, instituted a production line performance incentive fee

A US Navy (USN) destroyer has had an “unsafe” encounter with a Chinese warship during a freedom-of-navigation operation (FONOP) conducted on 30 September near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS), according to US media reports. Quoting US Pacific Fleet spokesperson

Australia has released a request for information (RFI) for a special operations forces (SOF) that can be transported aboard Boeing C-17 Globemaster III strategic transport aircraft for rapid forward deployment. The RFI, released in late September, is for a fleet of light helicopters optimised for

Key Points The Royal Canadian Navy Victoria-class submarine HMCS Corner Brook is to be fitted with the L3 Calzoni Universal Modular Mast, acquired under the US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme The system will provide extremely high-frequency satcom capability for the RCN’s submarines

The third annual ‘Cyber Blitz’ exercise showed US Army officials that soldiers will need to be more literate in Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA). “They need to be able to speak to the lexicon and understand what is being spoken to them,” Richard Wittstruck, the US