“Nobody knows anything.” William Goldman’s refrain in “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” his classic dissection of the movie business, has always held true for Broadway, but never more so than in a season in which long shots overshadowed safe bets. The Tony nominations, announced in New York on Tuesday morning, paint a portrait of another year of transition on Broadway. Artistic frustration with the status quo continues to bump up against unyielding economic realities. Yet the old producing...
Tens of thousands of visitors came to the Adirondacks & North Country to watch the spectacular Solar Eclipse. And it turns out, they spent millions of dollars, while they were here. Some preliminary numbers out this week show the economic impact of the eclipse last week. According to New York’s Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism or ROOST, an estimated $2.7 million was spent in Essex County for overnight tourism for the eclipse. That’s at least 500-thousand more compared to last […]
Every year, at dawn on April 25, Australians, New Zealanders and our friends from across the world come together. We remember the soldiers from the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps who landed at the beaches of Gallipoli on this date in 1915.
Jane McAlevey, labor organizer, columnist for The Nation and the author of several books, including (with Abby Lawlor) Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023), reflects on her life's work in organizing and recent wins for labor, and what she sees as crucial for workers to do if they want to continue the positive streak for unions.
SEATTLE -- Jarred Kelenic acknowledged the chasm of the setting almost immediately. As he sat atop a dugout bench at T-Mobile Park on Monday, faced a handful of cameras and answered questions in a pre-arranged setting, even Kelenic recognized the backdrop from last July, after a self-inflicted injury from kicking
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Two years ago, the world was shocked by the sudden and unexpected retirement of action star Bruce Willis. We learned the actor has been suffering from aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, which brought an end to the beloved actor’s career. Reports later suggested he was struggling on the sets of his last few movies. While video footage and updates have been sparse, recent news is that the 69-year-old actor will likely spend his remaining years progressively deteriorating, surrounded by his wife,...
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Ivy Lacsina is fitting right in with new team NXLED Chameleons as she is set to finish her first conference with the Akari-backed team with some respectable performances under her belt.
THE Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) will commemorate World Intellectual Property Day on Friday at a time copyright infringement has become a To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions
It was a long shot to trust the northern New England weather in early April, especially after a strange winter of warm spells followed by massive snowstorms. But hundreds of thousands of people gambled, or trusted their weather apps, and, as the atmospheric gods would have it, we were all in for a spectacular celestial treat. Clear blue skies, low humidity, great visibility. I drove for about 2.5 hours from Hanover to the north of New Hampshire with my two sons to an iconic mountain outcrop...
Canadian nature photographer Liron Gertsman captured one of the best total solar eclipse photos PetaPixel has ever seen. Gertsman's remarkable wildlife photo, The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring, was years in the making and the culmination of research, hard work, practice, scouting, and a pinch of luck. After all, while you can control a lot, you can't control the weather. [Read More]