ENSCHEDE/UTRECHT De spanning in de Grolsch Veste stijgt. Vanmiddag om 14 uur doet rechter Maarten Heinemann uitspraak in het kort geding dat FC Twente tegen de KNVB heeft aangespannen. Mag de club verder in de eredivisie of wordt het degradatie?
Muhammad Ali understood that one of the requirements of an icon is to let the iconographers through the door. He happily greeted photographers in his gym, his dressing room, his mosque, even his hotel room, where he held court for reporters and posed in bed, naked. And in the days after his death we returned to the myriad images of Ali in his glory: scowling in triumph and looming over the fallen Sonny Liston; shadowboxing underwater; peeking under the toupee of his adenoidal Boswell, Howard Cosell. Читать дальше...
BAMcinemaFest, the eighth edition of which runs June 15-26, is, in effect, the New York Film Festival for independent films. Few of the screenings in the BAM series are world premières; rather, the programmers scoop up notable movies first seen at other festivals.
In Paris, especially on beautiful summer nights, Chez Omar still has a line out the door, almost forty years after it opened. The French-Algerian restaurant has a full bistro menu, but few people bother with it, because everyone comes for the same thing: dunes of couscous served with vegetable stew and expertly charred meat. Four months ago, Yasmina Guerda, the daughter of Omar himself, opened the first extension of her father’s restaurant, promising Brooklyn the same dreamy offerings.
If you’re a composer from a small country without a long tradition of great classical music—say, Denmark—and you want to reach the kind of heights that the Germans and the French have summited for centuries, there are two radical approaches you might take. The first is that of Carl Nielsen: burrow into yourself until you hit gold, producing an irreducible, sui-generis style that communicates your essential self. The opposite way would be that of Per Nørgård: open yourself to the world and absorb anything you find interesting... Читать дальше...
For fifteen years, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River to River Festival (June 16-26) has been staging free events in public places. The current crop is strong on magnetic female performers. Okwui Okpokwasili (above) revisits Nigerian protest movements, in a Governors Island fort; Alicia Hall Moran sings about African-American finance, in Federal Hall; and the wraithlike Japanese dance legend Eiko indicts Wall Street.
If you’ve ever longed to follow your Katz’s pastrami-on-rye experience with an Elyx spritz, served poolside and al fresco, you’re in luck. Mr. Purple, a rooftop bar fifteen stories above Ludlow and Orchard Streets, atop the Hotel Indigo, opened in November, amid controversy. Aiming for a kind of neighborliness, the proprietors named the bar after the eccentric L.E.S. icon Adam Purple, a community-garden activist with a dark past, offending locals and relatives alike. The luxury-on-Ludlow vibe is equally uneasy. Читать дальше...
George Stevens’s greatness as a filmmaker is in part attributable to his ability to clear sentimentality out of the way and focus on the emotional realism of his characters’ lives. After directing Katharine Hepburn in the 1935 adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s underrated, if a trifle treacly, novel “Alice Adams,” Stevens went to work, in 1948, on “I Remember Mama.” The piece began as a novel. Written by Kathryn Forbes and published in 1943, “Mama’s Bank Account” describes how a family of Norwegian immigrants... Читать дальше...
South Korean forces in speedboats and the U.S.-led command launched a rare operation against illegal fishing Friday amid growing complaints about unauthorized Chinese boats in crab-rich waters near the North Korean border.
The military action happened amid growing complaints about unauthorized Chinese boats in crab-rich waters near the North Korean border.
The squadron now has 15 fully trained pilots out of the roughly 50 that will be needed. The goal is to be fully operational and capable by June 2017.
I prepared this flavorful strudel for my craft club meeting, and everyone asked me for the recipe. It makes such a nice presentation, so it’s great to serve at gatherings. View the recipe at TasteofHome.com >>
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Oregon State junior catcher Logan Ice was taken in the second round of Thursday's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Cleveland Indians.
The following is a rundown of area concerts.
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OPAL CREEK WILDERNESS, Ore. – Michael Donnelly’s legs were laced with cuts and bleeding, Daniel Dundon had been attacked by a swarm of hornets and I had hiked through enough devil’s club to make my backside feel like a pincushion.
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US-based online payments gateway Stripe announced a full launch in France on Wednesday.
During its beta test in France, which lasted for over a year, the gateway saw “thousands” of businesses test the platform, including large companies, software firms, and online marketplaces, according to a company blog post. The launch marks Stripe’s tenth overall fully live market, according to Fortune. Читать дальше...
Based on a painfully old franchise and filled with meathead orcs, it’s easy to mock Warcraft
Moviegoers should know this isn’t a horror film made just for teenagers – though they’ll be on the edge of their knapsacks, all right – but for adults as well
Arendt passionately embraced humanity in theory and her lovers in practice, yet the harshness of some pronouncements betray a person at once removed from fellow feeling
The acceptance of fancy tricks and misdirection twists dependent on an audience’s love of a good hoodwink
In the end, the power of Minervini’s pseudo-fiction gives way to a much blander version of pseudo-reality
Comparisons to vintage Woody Allen are inevitable – smart-talky urbanites flummoxed by love – but Miller’s characters are complete, singular people, and her take is thoroughly female
Filmmaker Nettie Wild skillfully juxtaposes a soundtrack of gentle ruminations about nature, culture and economics spoken by local band members, white hunters and mine workers with a meditative film of ceaseless activity
