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☆ How Florence Welch Turned Rage Into Power
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Lauren Groff | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +37 min

The musician Florence Welch, photographed in London on July 5, 2024. When I rang the Camberwell, South London, doorbell of Florence Welch, I held a tribute: “The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse” (2022), edited by Kaveh Akbar. Exacerbating the mixed craving for and fear of having a baby and what it would mean for her art, Welch feels the intense pressure of aging as a female performer. In the latter part of the song, Welch raises her voice in a long howl of rage. Art begins in the body; art is limited by the limitations of the body; at some point, art exceeds the body and can live beyond the scope of flesh.

Persons: Florence Welch, Valentino, Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Vanessa Reid FLORENCE, Florence Welch’s, Inanna, Enheduanna, Jane Hirshfield PROPHETESS, “, Kaveh Akbar, I’ve, Welch, they’re, enormity, Madame Blavatsky, ”, Fleetwood, Taylor Swift, William Morris, Evelyn Welch’s, Vanessa Reid, Welch wouldn’t, who’ve, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Stevie Nicks, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, ” Welch, Ganavya Doraiswamy, who’s, Welch’s —, Doraiswamy, Uyir, Federico García Lorca’s, it’s, Shakespeare, Mozart, Toni Morrison, Lorca, It’s, Jack Antonoff, she’s, Chanel, Nick Welch, Sebastians, she’d, dryly, Bugsy Malone ”, Grace, squats . Welch, Isabella Summers, hasn’t, didn’t, Fiona Apple, Kate Bush, Regina Spektor, Annie Lennox, Joanna Newsom, Sinead O’Connor, thrall, ’ She’s, Gustav Klimt, who’d, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, She’d, Dave Grohl, Scott Fitzgerald’s, Thomas Bartlett, Nico Muhly, Yoko Ono, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Carraway’s, Jay Gatsby, —, hadn’t, spiraled, Louis Vuitton, John, John Singer Sargent, Sargent, Miss Elsie Palmer ”, I’d, “ I’ve, Britney Spears, Dolly Parton, ” I’d, de Wilde, ” de Wilde, Julia Margaret Cameron, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Loie Fuller, Ellen Terry, Lady MacBeth ”, ’ ” Welch, they’d, King ”, King, Elvis Presley, revel, Ovid, Apollo, preternaturally, Anthony Turner, Thom Walker, Afra Zamara, Jack Symes, Sam Hearn, Daiki Tajima, Federico Covarelli, Emily Rose Lansley, John Allan, Samanta Falcone, Ollie Kariel, Pip Long, Karen Avenell, Andreea Georgiana Rădoi, Sam Wright Organizations: Machine, YouTube, Enheduanna, University of Bristol, Smiths, Big, Camberwell College of Arts, Foo Fighters, American, Theater, Antonoff, Tate, John Singer, Jolly, Art, Digital Locations: London, FLORENCE, Camberwell, South London, Florence, Florida, ”, Camberwell —, British, Tamil, Spanish, Strasbourg, dyscalculia, Toronto, squats ., Cambridge, New York City, Tate Britain, American, “

The musician Florence Welch, photographed in London on July 5, 2024. When I rang the Camberwell, South London, doorbell of Florence Welch, I held a tribute: “The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse” (2022), edited by Kaveh Akbar. Chanel coat, price on request, (800) 550-0005; Valentino tights (worn underneath), $1,000; and Welch’s own dress, headband and jewelry. An aversion to definition is a great gift to an artist like Welch. Art begins in the body; art is limited by the limitations of the body; at some point, art exceeds the body and can live beyond the scope of flesh.

The musician Florence Welch, photographed in London on July 5, 2024. When I rang the Camberwell, South London, doorbell of Florence Welch, I held a tribute: “The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse” (2022), edited by Kaveh Akbar. Chanel coat, price on request, (800) 550-0005; Valentino tights (worn underneath), $1,000; and Welch’s own dress, headband and jewelry. Exacerbating the mixed craving for and fear of having a baby and what it would mean for her art, Welch feels the intense pressure of aging as a female performer. Art begins in the body; art is limited by the limitations of the body; at some point, art exceeds the body and can live beyond the scope of flesh.

☆ The Greats: Florence Welch, Lorna Simpson, Jonathan Anderson and Theaster Gates
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( The New York Times | Lauren Groff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +37 min

The musician Florence Welch, photographed in London on July 5, 2024. For nearly two decades, Florence Welch’s songs have offered a mythic view not only of pop music but of the glories and rages of being a female artist today. When I rang the Camberwell, South London, doorbell of Florence Welch, I held a tribute: “The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse” (2022), edited by Kaveh Akbar. Exacerbating the mixed craving for and fear of having a baby and what it would mean for her art, Welch feels the intense pressure of aging as a female performer. Art begins in the body; art is limited by the limitations of the body; at some point, art exceeds the body and can live beyond the scope of flesh.

The musician Florence Welch, photographed in London on July 5, 2024. For nearly two decades, Florence Welch’s songs have offered a mythic view not only of pop music but of the glories and rages of being a female artist today. When I rang the Camberwell, South London, doorbell of Florence Welch, I held a tribute: “The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse” (2022), edited by Kaveh Akbar. An aversion to definition is a great gift to an artist like Welch. Art begins in the body; art is limited by the limitations of the body; at some point, art exceeds the body and can live beyond the scope of flesh.

That opportunistic vocalist was named Otis Redding, who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. Jimmy Jam, a music producer and the master of ceremonies for the unveiling of the star, lauded Redding as legendary. Santiago started off by thanking Zelma Redding, Otis Redding's wife, who attended the ceremony. But this means the world, that here we are, traveling all the way to the West Coast for this honor that will live on forever as the legacy of Otis Redding does," Redding-Andrews said. “I am not a blues singer or an R&B singer,” Redding once said.

Persons: Johnny Jenkins, Jenkins, Otis Redding, Jimmy Jam, Redding, Jam, Michael Santiago, Mike, Santiago, Zelma Redding, Otis Redding's, Martin, Coretta, Malcolm, Betty, Otis, Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Karla Redding, Redding's, “, ‘, ’ ”, Andrews, ”, Rolling, Little Richard’s, Carla Thomas, Phil Walden, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, “ Otis Redding, Bill Graham, ” Redding Organizations: Stax Records, Stax, Hollywood, Rolling Stone, Memphis DJ, Fillmore, Monterey Pop Festival Locations: Memphis, Andrews, West, Macon , Georgia, Georgia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sausalito, Madison, Wis, Monterey

☆ Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dead at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Los Angeles AP —Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokesperson Ebie McFarland said in an email. Kristofferson, who could recite William Blake from memory, wove intricate folk music lyrics about loneliness and tender romance into popular country music. “There’s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,” Nelson said during a November 2009 award ceremony for Kristofferson held by BMI. Producer Jon Peters, from left, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson appear at a preview of the film, "A Star is Born," in Dec. 23, 1976, in New York.

Persons: Kris Kristofferson, Kristofferson, Ebie McFarland, McFarland, Bobby McGee, ” Kristofferson, Ray Price crooning, Janis Joplin, ”, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Scorsese’s, Alice Doesn’t, Barbra Streisand, Wesley Snipes, William Blake, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, John Prine, Tom T, “, ” Nelson, Barbara Streisand, Dylan, Jon Peters, Suzanne Vlamis, Cash, Grand Ole Opry, I’d, Fred Foster, Foster, Bobby McKee, Frederico Fellini, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Rob Verhorst, Joplin, Jesus, Rita Coolidge Organizations: Los Angeles AP, Hollywood, Times, BMI, Golden Gloves, Merton College, University of Oxford, U.S . Military Academy, West, Columbia Records, US Army, Associated Press, Grand Ole, Monument Records, “, Getty, Joplin Locations: Rhodes, Maui, Hawaii, Brownsville , Texas, England, West Point , New York, Nashville, New York

☆ Red Lobster closings: These are the locations it wants to shut down
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Red Lobster wants to close several dozen more restaurants following its bankruptcy, and it has identified which ones are in danger of shutting down if the court approves its plan. The chain, which brought affordable shrimp and lobster to middle-class America and grew to become the largest seafood restaurant chain in the world, filed for bankruptcy last month. Red Lobster said that it had more than $1 billion in debt and less than $30 million in cash on hand. Part of its plan is to close some locations of its nearly 600 restaurants in the meantime. A few weeks prior to its bankruptcy, it abruptly closed around 50 locations across the United States.

Persons: Fort Smith, Callaghan Lane, Fort, Elizabeth, Merritt, Port Richey, Dale Mabry, Ames, Charles Rock, Noland, Pike, Miller, Monroe, King of Prussia, Knox Abbott, Sam Rittenburg, Anderson Lane, Michael, Van Dorn, Murdock Organizations: New, New York CNN, Beulah, Bell, Oracle, Yuma Palms, Hospitality, College, Run, Fort Myers, Fort Walton, Biscayne, , Michigan City, Charles, Bartow, Pittsburgh, Lamar, Fairfax Locations: New York, America, United States, . Alabama, E, Tuscaloosa Arizona, Flagstaff, Peoria, Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma Arkansas, Shiloh, Fayetteville, Springs, Little Rock California, Citrus Heights, Calaveras, Milpitas, Ave, Monrovia, Pittsburg, Salinas, Hospitality Lane, San Bernardino, San Jose, Lane, Stockton, Vallejo Colorado, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Greeley, Pueblo Connecticut, North Haven Delaware, Talleyville Florida, Altamonte Springs, Clermont, North, Clearwater, Coral Springs, Fort Lauderdale, Cleveland, Fort, Fort Walton Beach, Hwy, Kissimmee, Worth, Lake Worth, Lakeland, Leesburg, Haven Ave, Melbourne, Merritt, St, Miami, North Miami, Orange, Alafaya, Orlando, Pensacola, Port, Petersburg, Tampa, The, West Palm Beach Georgia, Columbus, Jonesboro, Rome, Smyrna Illinois, Bourbonnais, Champaign Indiana, Kokomo, , Michigan, Richmond Iowa, Ames Kansas, Topeka Kentucky, Louisville, Paducah Maryland, Salisbury, Salisbury Michigan, Bay City, Waterford Minnesota, West, Bloomington, Golden Valley Mississippi, Tupelo Missouri, Charles Rock Rd, Bridgeton, Independence, Joplin New Jersey, Delran, Paramus New York, Bartow Ave ., Bronx, Copiague, Lakewood, Manhattan, Glen Street, Queensbury, Stony Brook North Carolina, Cary, Jacksonville Ohio, Dayton, Findlay, Maumee, S.E, , New Philadelphia, Parma, Strongsville, Monroe St, Toledo Pennsylvania, Chambersburg, DeKalb Pike, Pittsburgh South Carolina, Cayce, Charleston Tennessee, Chattanooga Texas, Austin, Padre, Corpus Christi, Duncanville, Frisco, Houston, Lubbock, Bedford, Richland Hills, San Antonio, San Marcos, Shenandoah, Texarkana, Wichita Falls Virginia, Alexandria, Blvd, Chesapeake, Fairfax, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Richmond, Broad, Virginia Beach, Pkwy, Virginia Beach Washington, Lynwood, Randall Way, Silverdale West Virginia, Parkersburg

☆ White House plans to limit Biden's graduation speeches as campuses erupt in protests
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Mike Memoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Two White House officials noted that the number of speeches for Biden and Harris is similar to the two previous years. Another White House official declined to preview how Biden might address the campus unrest. Biden campaign officials say that despite the media focus on campus protests, public polling and their own research show that young voters are more concerned with other issues. "We know from the conversations we have that young voters are planning to vote, and voters are planning to vote for us," she said. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., visited multiple Wisconsin college campuses this week as a member of the Biden campaign's national advisory board.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Biden, Harris, Jill Biden, Barack Obama, Karine Jean, Pierre, John Della Volpe, Della Volpe, Eve Levenson, aren't, Levenson, Ro Khanna, It's Organizations: U.S, Capitol, Montgomery County Community College, Morehouse College, U.S . Military Academy, West, Air Force Academy, White House, Barnard College, Joplin High School, White, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, Biden campaign's, Freedoms, Democratic, Biden, Harvard Locations: Blue Bell, Valley Forge , Pennsylvania, U.S, West, Virginia, Florida, Gaza, Wisconsin

☆ Clive Davis reflects on the music he and Whitney Houston were planning before her sudden death
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Legendary music producer Clive Davis remembers too well when Whitney Houston suddenly died over Grammys weekend 12 years ago. Davis and Houston remained close throughout her life. We agreed to go on and celebrate her life and her unique talent with the music that she loves so much.”Whitney Houston at Clive Davis' annual Grammy party in 2011. Getty ImagesThis weekend, Davis will host his party, once again, which began in 1976 and still reigns supreme as the most exclusive soirée of the biggest weekend in music. When asked what the biggest headline is from the past year in music, Clive smiled and said simply, “Taylor.”“Look, it’s a phenomenon that’s occurred rarely in the history of pop music.

Persons: Clive Davis, Whitney Houston, ” Davis, Davis, Houston, “, ”, ’, ’ ” Davis, “ We’ve, ” Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow –, Jay, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Hanks, Chris Rock, “ It’s, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Santana, Pink Floyd, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, Manilow, Clive, “ Taylor, Swift, Kansas City Chiefs ’ Travis Kelce Organizations: CNN, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Getty, Houston, Kansas City Chiefs, ” Locations: New Jersey

Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key," has died. Her publicist Billy James told The Associated Press that Melanie died Tuesday. With a voice that could shift from high-pitched and coy to a deep soulful rasp, Melanie wrote and sang hits including “Look What They’ve Done to My Song Ma" and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)." “I probably have a quirky way of writing, and I think I was misunderstood,” she told the Tennessean newspaper in 2014. Melanie was married to her manager and producer Peter Schekeryk from 1968 until his death in 2010.

Persons: Melanie, Billy James, Leilah, Beau Jarred, coy, I’ve, you’ve, “, ”, Paul Thomas Anderson's, Jimmy Fallon, Melanie Safka, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Ray Charles, Miley Cyrus, Peter Schekeryk Organizations: New, Woodstock, Associated Press, “, Tennessean, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Party, Woodstock Music, Fair Locations: New York, Tennessee, U.S, Queens , New York, Greenwich, York, Europe, City

☆ No. 4 Marquette set for test against No. 1 Kansas' star duo
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

4 Marquette will try to figure out how to stop the dynamic duo of Hunter Dickinson and Kevin McCullar Jr. as No. McCullar had 22 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, recording just the seventh set of back-to-back triple-doubles in NCAA history and the first in Kansas history. McCullar had just the third official triple-double in school history in the Jayhawks' victory over Kentucky in Kansas' previous game. Self expected Adams to play around 10 minutes, but Adams had eight points and four assists in 26 minutes. David Joplin led Marquette with 19 points, followed by Ighodaro with 14 and Kam Jones with 12.

Persons: Marquette, Hunter Dickinson, Kevin McCullar Jr, Dickinson, McCullar, Chaminade, Hunter, Bill Self, Kevin, We've, KJ Adams Jr, Adams, KJ, he's, Sean Jones, UCLA's Lazar Stefanovic, Sebastian Mack's, Ighodaro, David Joplin, Kam Jones, Mack Organizations: Golden Eagles, Maui Invitational, Chaminade, McCullar, UCLA, Eagles, Jayhawks, Kentucky, KU, Marquette, The Bruins, Bruins, Thomson Locations: Kansas, Honolulu . Kansas, McCullar . Marquette, Marquette, Dallas

☆ Why tornadoes are more destructive than ever in the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Katie Koontz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

One hundred sixty-one people were killed in the Joplin tornado. The May 2011 Joplin tornado left behind almost $3 billion in damage, making it the costliest U.S. tornado on record. "Tornadoes are a big problem in the United States," said Anne Cope, chief engineer at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety. Based on estimated wind speeds and damage, tornadoes can range on a scale from EF0 to EF5. "The reality is, is that all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, receive tornadoes."

Persons: Troy Bolander, Ann Leach, Ann, Troy, Anne Cope, Cope, Joplin, Leach, Victor Gensini, Gensini Organizations: Joplin, Insurance Institute for Business & Home, of Commerce, Resilience Victoria, Department of, Northern Illinois University Locations: Joplin , Missouri, Kansas, Joplin, Troy, United States, U.S, Plains, Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Midwest, Mississippi, Memphis, Indianapolis, Nashville

“Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the hall said Saturday, a day after Wenner's comments were published in a New York Times interview. Wenner co-founded Rolling Stone in 1967 and served as its editor or editorial director until 2019. He also co-founded the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which was launched in 1987. Last year, Rolling Stone magazine published its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and ranked Gaye's “What's Going On” No. ___This story has been updated to correct that Wenner was a co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine and not the founder.

Persons: — Jann Wenner, “ Jann Wenner, Wenner, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Bono, “, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Joni, Mitchell, ”, —, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, ” Wenner, Prince, Lauryn Hill's, Lauryn Hill ”, ___ Mark Kennedy Organizations: Stone, Roll Hall of Fame, Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, New York Times, Times, Rolling Stone

☆ Opinion: Here are the jobs AI will impact most
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Bethany Cianciolo | Jessica Chia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +42 min

Dan’s research and teaching focus is on using AI for legal services and the regulation of AI in society. For instance, we can develop AI tools to help individuals understand their responsibilities and rights, and preserve and enforce those rights. People in businesses, large and small, are already using chatbots, AI assistants and other AI tools to help them comply with laws, regulations and internal policies. Additionally, new roles are emerging in the legal industry, such as legal engineers who build systems, legal data scientists and legal operations professionals. AI tools will then quickly re-optimize decisions associated with inventory shipments, staffing and promotions.

Persons: ” That’s, Dropbox, Goldman Sachs, isn’t, Erich S, Huang, ” Erich S, Huang I’ve, Regina Barzilay, Barzilay, Geoffrey Hinton, radiologists, —, ’, Daniel W, Linna, Dan, …, ” Daniel W, Refik, Anadol, ”, Adam Elmachtoub, Nisreen, Theodore Kim, don’t, ” Theodore Kim Moreover, Janis Joplin, Jackie Jormp, We’re, Baz Luhrmann’s “, Gatsby, That’s, Leonardo DiCaprio, mockbusters, Eirini, GitHub Copilot, Ashok Goel, Jill Watson, ” Ashok Goel, Kristen DiCerbo, Alireza, Davis Organizations: CNN, CNET, International Association of Machinists, Aerospace Workers, Informatics, Verily, Duke Health, Biomedical Informatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Adobe, Apple, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Department, MIT, Jameel Clinic, Machine Learning, MacArthur, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University’s CS, Center, Better Housing, UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts, The Museum, Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Walt Disney Concert, Department of Industrial Engineering, Research, Columbia University, NBA, Spice, Digital Organisation and Society, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Academy of Information Systems, Yale, Pixar, Technical, Writers Guild of America, SAG, Hollywood, YouTube, Tech, Developers, Georgia Institute of Technology, National AI, Adult, Education, US National Science Foundation, Georgia Tech, Khan Academy, Systems, Studies, Agricultural Engineering, University of California, university’s, Agriculture, Labor Locations: outplacement, Iceland

... Read moreAug 14 (Reuters) - Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) has dropped a lawsuit against Triller over allegations the short-form video platform used the label's music without permission, according to a filing in Manhattan federal court. Sony Music and Triller told the court on Friday they would end the copyright case with prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled. Sony Music sued Los Angeles-based Triller last year. A Triller spokesperson said at the time that it had removed Sony Music's catalog from the platform, and the complaint "grossly mischaracterizes" their relationship. Triller later denied Sony Music's allegations in court.

Persons: Read, Triller, Britney Spears, Harry Styles, Janis Joplin, Blake Brittain, Chris Reese Organizations: Sony, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music, Los, Thomson Locations: Tokyo, Manhattan, Los Angeles, Washington

☆ A ‘Thoroughly American Opera’ and More: The Week in Reporter Reads
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“He has created an entirely new phase of musical art and has produced a thoroughly American opera.”The anonymous critic who wrote these bold words didn’t have a performance of Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha” to evaluate, or a recording. In June 1911, all the reviewer had to go on was Joplin’s 230-page piano-vocal score. “Its production would prove an interesting and potent achievement,” the critic added, “and it is to be hoped that sooner or later, it will be thus honored.”It turned out to be decidedly later. More than half a century passed before the opera finally premiered. When it did, its brilliance, shortcomings and unfinished aspects made it a work begging to be completed — giving creative artists room to experiment boldly with this “new phase of musical art.”◆ ◆ ◆Written and narrated by John Leland

Persons: Scott Joplin’s, “, John Leland

☆ Has Scott Joplin’s ‘Thoroughly American Opera’ Found Its Moment?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | More About Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The singers who played the couple became Treemonisha and her adoring friend, Remus, in the opera proper. More stylized — and effective, and relevant — was the conception, in an entirely different sound world than Joplin’s, by the Isango Ensemble. “We wanted to show quite clearly that if Monisha doesn’t take that child, that child is going to die,” Dornford-May said. With the poverty in the townships — life expectancy of 49, TB rife, H.I.V. rife — with that sense of poverty, disease and death hanging over people, to take in another mouth to feed is extraordinary.”

Persons: Louis, Berlin, Chilton, Joplin, Remus, Alexander —, Rajendra, Justin Austin vibrated, Mark Dornford, wasn’t, “, Monisha, ” Dornford, ” Locations: St, Joplin, Cape Town, South Africa, Caen, France, America

☆ My Experience as a Black Dancer at the American Ballet Theater - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Gabe Stone Shayer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I am a ballet dancer and a Black man, in that order. I left the United States to train at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow at age 15 so that people would see my skill first and not my skin. My nearly 12 years dancing for the American Ballet Theater could not have been more different. Back in the United States, my skin color seemed to snap into the spotlight. The leadership of the American Ballet Theater does not agree with the way I am characterizing my tenure with the company.

Persons: Monet, Janis Joplin, fakir, Harlequin Organizations: Bolshoi Ballet Academy, American Ballet Locations: United States, Moscow, Russia, “ Swan, “ La

☆ American, Delta, and United have collectively dropped 74 US airports since the pandemic — see the full list
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Taylor Rains | Bianca Giacobone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines have exited 74 airports since 2020. Some of the airports are in the Essential Air Service program and are now served by a new airline. In September 2022, the company's research revealed American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines had exited 59 airports. In total, American has left 19 airports, Delta has exited 17, and United has departed 38. American, Delta, and United have all cut routes in recent years, citing poor performance and the pilot shortage as contributing factors.

☆ Mississippi tornado and storms kill at least 23
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Search and rescue teams were also out in Rolling Fork, a town of 1,700 people that saw the brunt of the tornado, CNN reported. "My city is gone, but we are resilient," Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker said on CNN. According to Walker, 12 of the people who died were in Rolling Fork, adding several people were trapped in their homes. Terrell compared the destruction to a tornado in Joplin, Missouri, that killed 161 people in 2011. The reports stretched from the western edge of Mississippi north through the center of the state and into Alabama.

☆ American is cutting 3 more cities and leaving one without airline service entirely — see the full list of 19 cities it has dropped since the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

American Airlines is cutting 3 cities from its network, blaming the pilot shortage and "soft demand." One small airport — Del Rio, Texas — will lose airline service entirely after the carrier's exit. Del Rio, a tiny city in southern Texas with only about 35,000 people, is currently served by American from Dallas/Fort Worth. However, the airline's announced exit will leave Del Rio without any air service link to the rest of the country. Del Rio joins a growing list of 19 cities that American has dropped since the pandemic, the carrier confirmed to Insider.

☆ Missouri investigating hospital's denial of an emergency abortion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Missouri’s health department is investigating whether a hospital violated federal health care rules in denying a woman an emergency abortion, an agency spokeswoman confirmed Monday. But because her fetus still had a heartbeat and her condition wasn’t considered a life-threatening medical emergency at that moment, they couldn’t terminate the pregnancy in Missouri, they told her. Farmer criticized Missouri’s abortion ban in a campaign ad for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine, who is running against Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Missouri’s abortion ban includes exceptions for medical emergencies, although doctors and hospitals have said they’re unsure exactly what that covers. Additionally, physicians may also be subject to exclusion from the Medicare and State health care programs.”

☆ Clinics offer free vasectomies, citing a surge in demand
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Sixty vasectomies will be offered over three days in and outside Planned Parenthood clinics in St. Louis, Springfield and Joplin to uninsured patients during the first week of November amid what the clinics say is a surge in demand for the procedure. Guarin also plans to offer discounted vasectomies that month at his regular clinic in the Des Moines area. Guarin, who serves on the medical advisory board for the World Vasectomy Day, helped offer vasectomies last year at the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis to raise awareness about the procedure. In July alone, the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri performed 42 vasectomies, compared to 10 in the same month last year. Dr. Margaret Baum, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, will be partnering with Guarin to provide the free vasectomies.

☆ Mountain Girl’s heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Now 76 and living in Oregon, Mountain Girl has gave us an exclusive look at her memoir. Altamont, the free concert that Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia helped organized, was meant to revive the spirit of the Sixties. Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved.

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