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☆ Rom-coms like 'Hot Frosty' and 'Notting Hill' understand a key ingredient for love: walkable towns and cities
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Netflix's latest holiday rom-com, "Hot Frosty," begins like this: A lonely young widow named Kathy hangs a magical scarf on a snowman in the public square of her idyllic fictional New York town. In "Notting Hill," the London neighborhood is a central character in the romance between a famous Hollywood actor and a bookshop owner. In some cases — think "Sex and the City" and "Emily in Paris" — the characters are in love with the city itself. As policymakers, they're tasked with building affordable housing, creating safe public spaces and accessible transit, and creating jobs. AdvertisementOne attendee at a "romantic urbanism" event in Brooklyn suggested cleaner public spaces will promote human connection.

Persons: Harry Met Sally, Kathy, Jack, Linda Poon, Daphne Lundi, Louise Yeung —, —, Yeung, Sparks, Amelie, Harry wouldn't, Sally, Emily, they're, Andris, Georgia Tech who's, Schuyler deVos, Eliza Relman, Henry McKenzie, He'd, Trey Shaffer, Sarah Dolan, Lundi, we're Organizations: New, City Department, Georgia Tech, Department, New York City Department, Brooklyn -, Long, Long Island City Locations: New York City, Brooklyn, New York, York City, Rye, Seattle, Paris, Manhattan, London, Brooklyn - Queens, Long Island, Yorker

☆ Russia is already fighting NATO, just not with tanks and fighter jets, argues a former top US general
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Recent covert acts of sabotage are far from the level of aggression and brutality that Russia has put on display in Ukraine. But make no mistake, a former top US general argued this week, Moscow is already fighting NATO. "We face wider Russian aggression directed at our own democracies, from hybrid attacks to threats in the high north," he added. "We, ourselves, have been experiencing hybrid attacks from Russia for decades, so that's why the threat has been quite clear, what we're facing." The Russian hybrid attacks were a notable discussion point on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington this week.

Persons: —, Ben Hodges, Vladimir Putin's, Vladimir Putin, Pavel Byrkin, John Healey, We've, Andris Sprūds, Healey, Hodges, Antony Blinken, Blinken, It's Organizations: Service, NATO, Business, US Army, NATO Public Forum, Ukraine, Security, Sputnik, Public, Latvian Defense, Alliance Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, US Army Europe, Washington ,, Russian, Baltic, Washington

☆ Front-line NATO allies say the West needs to give Ukraine the 'technological superiority' it needs to beat Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe West should send Ukraine the kind of weapons it needs to inflict a lasting, strategic defeat on Russia, NATO countries on the front lines of the military alliance said Tuesday. With this threat in mind, the Baltic nations have long pushed for increased defense spending among NATO member states. "The goal must be [the] strategic defeat of Russia in Ukraine," said Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds. The Baltic states say enabling Ukraine to win will require a massive political buy-in and support from the West. "We have to say clearly: 'Yes, we will help Ukraine to win this war.'"

Persons: —, Hanno Pevkur, Pevkur, Serhii, Laurynas, Kasčiūnas, Andris Sprūds, Joe Biden, Jens Stoltenberg, Andrew Mellon, Kevin Dietsch Organizations: Service, Lithuania —, Kyiv, Business, Estonian, POLITICO, NATO, Artillery, System, Getty, Russian, Moscow, Chamber of Commerce, Latvian Defense, Andrew Locations: Ukraine, Russia, NATO, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Baltic, Moscow, Washington ,, West, Europe, AFP, Kyiv, Washington , DC

☆ Russia rebuilt its war machine 'faster than we expected' and is now cranking out artillery shells at a breakneck pace, NATO defense official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewRussia has successfully rebuilt its "war-stage" economy much faster than expected, and it is now cranking out far more artillery ammunition than it was prior to the beginning of the Ukraine war, a NATO defense chief said Tuesday. Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow was producing up to 400,000 152mm rounds per year. But that figure has since swelled to 2 million rounds annually, according to Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Lithuania's minister of national defense. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via APDespite international efforts to inflict economic pain on Russia over its war, through actions like sanctions, Kasčiūnas said Moscow's "war-stage economy" has recovered "faster than we expected." Dmytro Smolienko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesKasčiūnas delivered his remarks alongside Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur and Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds.

Persons: —, Laurynas, Kasčiūnas, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Dmytro Smolienko, Hanno Pevkur, Andris Sprūds Organizations: Service, NATO, Business, POLITICO, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, —, Publishing, Getty, Estonian Defense, Latvian Defense Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Soviet, Washington ,, Europe, Zaporizhzhia Region, Baltic

BOSTON (AP) — Andris Nelsons has agreed to a rolling contract as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The 45-year-old Latvian has been the BSO's music director since the 2014-15 season, when he began a five-year contract. That was replaced by an eight-year deal through 2021-22 and in October 2020 a three-year extension through the the 2024-25 season. The BSO said Thursday Nelsons also had been given an additional title as head of conducting at Tanglewood, the music and educational center that is the orchestra's summer home. Nelson also has been music director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra since 2017-18.

Persons: — Andris Nelsons, Nelsons, Nelson Organizations: BOSTON, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Associated Press Locations: Latvian

☆ The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Oussama Zahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When orchestras come to Carnegie Hall, their programs typically tell you two things: who they are and what they can do. Or when the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko opened up the complex worlds of Mahler’s Seventh with coordinated virtuosity. And over two nights at Carnegie this week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Andris Nelsons, told their story gradually, one piece at a time, in canonical works by Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and Mozart. Among American orchestras, the Boston Symphony’s sound is enviably rich. That opulence was readily apparent in the ceaseless flow of cantabile melodies in Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony.

☆ Teatrul Naţional ”Mihai Eminescu” readuce în scenă trei spectacole
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-21 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +1 min

Trei spectacole vor fi jucate în perioada 23-25 octombrie la Teatrul Naţional ”Mihai Eminescu” din Chişinău. Potrivit Moldpres, vineri, 23 octombrie, la ora 18.00, în Sala Mare a teatrului va avea loc spectacolul ”Cântec de leagăn” de Dumitru Matcovschi, în regia lui Alexandru Cozub. Potrivit regizorului, "Cântec de leagăn" este o dramă a oamenilor de la sat, care îşi duc cu greu povara vieţii. Duminică, 25 octombrie, la ora 18.00, pe scena teatrului va fi prezentat spectacolul ”Familia TOT” de dramaturgul maghiar István Örkény, în regia lui Alexandru Cozub. E o poveste despre natura schimbătoare a omului, de transformare a caracterului în nişte condiţii de frică pentru a sluji orbeşte unui nebun ajuns la putere”, a specificat Alexandru Cozub, director artistic al teatrului.

Persons: Mihai Eminescu, Dumitru Matcovschi, Alexandru Cozub, îşi, Vitalie Rusu, Angelina Ciobanu, Margareta Pântea, Ion Mocanu, Valentin, Mihaela Damian, Diana Decuseară, Ana Tkacenko, Angela Ioan, Cărăuş . Sâmbătă, Petru Hadârcă, Chele, Margaretei, Ion Moraru, Stalin, Boris Vasiliev ş.a, István Örkény Organizations: Radio Bucureşti Locations: Chişinău, GULAG, Siberia

☆ Trei spectacole se vor juca pe scena Teatrului Mihai Eminescu, în perioada 1-4 octombrie
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-29 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

Trei spectacole se vor juca, în perioada 1-4 octombrie, pe scena Teatrului Naţional ”Mihai Eminescu” din Chişinău. Potrivit organizatorilor, piesa este o dramă a oamenilor de la sat, care îşi duc cu greu povara vieţii. Limbajul şi comportamentul eroilor aminteşte de perioada anilor 80-90, perioada „Marii Restructurări Sovietice”. Pe 2 şi 3 octombrie, la 18.00, teatrul readuce în scenă spectacolul ”Dosarele Siberiei”, de regizorul Petru Hadârcă. Duminică, 4 octombrie, pe scena Naţionalului revine spectacolul „Steaua fără nume” de Mihail Sebastian, în regia lui Alexandru Cozub.

Persons: Mihai Eminescu, Dumitru Matcovschi, Alexandru, îşi, Teofil Augustinovici, Vitalie Rusu, Angelina Ciobanu, Margareta Pântea, Ion Mocanu, Valentin, Mihaela Damian, Diana Decuseară, Ana Tkacenko, Angela Ioan, Petru Hadârcă, Stalin, Boris Vasiliev ş.a, Mihail Sebastian, Alexandru Cozub, Miroiu îşi Organizations: Radio Bucureşti Locations: Chişinău, Siberia

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