It’s time for the first gamethread of the year. With the San Francisco Giants set to visit the Oakland A’s for the penultimate preseason game — and things finally televised — it seemed like we should have a place to talk about the action. During the regular season, I usually use this space to talk a tiny bit about the pitching matchup, but today there are two other things to talk about instead. First, it’s of note that Marco Luciano is in the lineup, starting at shortstop. We’re at the point in...
The A’s are finally back in the Bay Area. The team is set for the first of two games against the cross bay rival Giants, hosting them tonight in the second to last game of Spring Training. Lefty JP Sears is on the mound for the Green & Gold in his final tune up start of the spring. Sears has had a great spring training and looks poised to build on his very solid rookie campaign. Entering his sophomore year the hope is that he won’t fall off as hard in the second half. Based off his spring it...
Canada’s housing minister openly mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford on social media Friday over his concerns over fourplexes. Throughout the week, the premier has made it clear that he does not support a provincial mandate to build fourplexes in residential neighbourhoods—something that both the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force and the federal government have recommended. Later, he clarified he was just against four-storey “towers.” “You have to differentiate between putting four...
Photo: cspan India-West Staff Reporter WASHINGTON, DC – On March 25, the independent United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) expressed its apprehension regarding the Indian government’s implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Enacted in 2019, the CAA aims to provide citizenship to […]
The Oktay family, which owns Istanbul Kebab House on Burlington's Church Street, will launch a second business nearby in May. The Oktays plan to open a shop selling Turkish spices, wines and specialty foods, along with carpets and handcrafted gifts, at 99 Church Street, former home of the Sox Market. The shop will be called Little Istanbul, like a similar store the family opened in 2018 in White River Junction, where they also own Tuckerbox. Seven Days recently reported that the Oktays...
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen blew up a house Tuesday in a town southeast of the capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people from the same family, officials and residents said. This came a day after two Houthi fighters were killed in an ambush allegedly set up by the house’s owner, Ibrahim al-Zalei. The deceased […]
A family traveling overseas were shocked when they returned to find a T-Mobile bill worth $78,000 waiting for them.
The film hits theaters on April 12.
"Whenever the subject comes up, [my mother-in-law] just says, 'Don't you have to water down everything? It's all horse-trading. And nowadays the incoming abuse is unthinkable.'" — Hugh Grant
Many Jewish faith leaders and commentators are decrying what they say are inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump.
After accusing Apple of allegedly monopolizing the smartphone market, the US DOJ is more ready to put the company in an uncomfortable position where it will face several "distractions."
As he stages Shakespeare’s bracing tragedy with a cast who share the main role, the choreographer and his company’s managing director Iiris Autio discuss the upswing in Finnish danceIs this a dagger I see before me? Not at all. Macbeth is centre-stage and thrusting a hand towards a juggler’s ring instead of a weapon. A handful of rings are then fashioned into a crown that is precariously balanced atop the acrobat’s head. There are no other props, and not a damned spot of stage blood, in this...