![]() ![]() ![]() Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls and goddesses who, for so long, have been silent. These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all. The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. ![]() Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash. ![]() Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. In Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before. Prenez May December, de Todd Haynes, dont le titre colle comme un gant à ce printemps passablement hivernal. In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Todd Haynes et Natalie Portman, à Cannes, le. This was never the story of one woman, or two. But unlike her character, Portman’s preparation for the part was mostly. In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. There were long conversations with Haynes and Moore as they prepared to make May December in a 30-day shooting spring. ![]()
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![]() Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel Lovecraft Country was one of the first attempts at an answer. For the past decade or so, as the extent of his racism has become more widely known and acknowledged, horror and fantasy writers whose landscapes are saturated with Lovecraft’s influence have been trying to figure out what to do about him. He injected many of his most famous and beloved stories with overt racist metaphors and frequent blunt literal racism. Lovecraft leaves no room for a debate about separating the artist from their art. ![]() Lovecraft and his works of literary horror are long overdue for a cultural reckoning - because Lovecraft may have been one of the 20th century’s most influential writers, but he was also one of its most gallingly racist. There’s a prehistoric sea cucumber named after his most famous creation, Cthulhu. Giger to the otherworldly tentacle monsters of Stranger Things to True Detective’s Rust Cohle. His monsters - and the men who encounter their cosmic evil - have left imprints everywhere from Alien designer H.R. ![]() He has directly influenced countless writers of modern horror, from Stephen King to Junji Ito to Guillermo del Toro. His work saturates modern horror and literary fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his remarks, Rothstein will discuss his book and how racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the United States and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems. Previous influential books include Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Improvement to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, and Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right. He welcomes questions and comments after the presentation. 23, beginning at 7 p.m.Ī Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley), Rothstein is the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found at his web page at the Economic Policy Institute. Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of the Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, on Sept. ![]() ![]() Wittenberg University will be hosting a live virtual presentation featuring Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the same reason, medieval women often wrote their wills before going into labour. In the fourteenth century, it was considered especially important for pregnant women to confess a guide for parish priests says that when the mother is close to giving birth she must ‘schryve hem clene’ (make her full confession), because of ‘drede of perele that may befalle’ (fear of the physical injury that may happen). ![]() She knows she should have been absolved by going to confession and revealing her sins to a priest. There’s a guilty secret on her conscience. ![]() But the pregnancy has been utterly wretched, and fever and sickness ravage her body.Īt the same time her mind is in a state of torment. This is her first child, and she became pregnant shortly after marriage. She has a good house in the town centre and many material comforts. She is from a well-off background, a daughter of the town’s elite. In the bustling town of Bishop’s Lynn, Norfolk, around the year 1394, a young woman is going through a difficult pregnancy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Made of solid gold, this was the supreme Inca deity: during the conquest, they succeeded in spiriting it away to their last jungle stronghold. The architect of the medieval world's largest empire, who brought death to millions, has so far succeeded in keeping his own grave undisturbed. Surrounded by treasure and slaves - buried alive alongside him - the great khan was interred on top of an as yet unidentified mountain in Mongolia. The only certain fact is that - pace Indiana Jones - it has never been rediscovered. ![]() Different theories have suggested that it is concealed beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem or that it was taken to Babylon, Rome, Arabia or Ethiopia. Kept in the Holy of Holies in the Temple in Jerusalem, it vanished when the Babylonians captured the city in 587BC. Made of acacia wood and solid gold, this most sacred of ancient Israelite artefacts contained the original tablets of stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed. ![]() THE GRAIL TRAIL - AND UNKNOWN RESTING PLACES The body is out there somewhere - but I suspect it is still under the streets of Alexandria." The corpse of Alexander's father, Philip, was discovered in Greek Macedonia in 1970, so there's no reason why we shouldn't find Alexander. Dr Paul Doherty, another recent biographer, said: "Alexander was regarded as almost a divine figure, and if we could get to the body, with DNA testing, we could find out a great deal about him - for instance, why he died so quickly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The real love story in Eureka Street involves Belfastthe city’s soul and spirit, and its will to survive the worst it can do to itself. Chuckie falls in love with an American who is living in Belfast to escape the violence in her own land the best Jake can do is to get into a hilarious and remorseless war of insults with a beautiful but spitfire Republican whose Irish name, properly pronounced, sounds to him like someone choking. In the meantime, they try to carve out lives for themselves in the battlefield they call home. Chuckie and Jake are as mystified as everyone else. The harder they try to decipher it, the more it reflects the passions and paranoias that govern and divide them. ![]() When a new work of graffiti begins to show up throughout the cityOTG”the locals are stumped. Set in Belfast during the Troubles, Eureka Street takes us into the lives and families of Chuckie Lurgan and Jake Jackson, a Protestant and a Catholicunlikely pals and staunch allies in an uneasy time. ![]() ∺ll stories are love stories,” begins Eureka Street, Robert McLiam Wilson’s big-hearted and achingly funny novel. When your street address can either save your life or send it up the creek, there’s no telling what kind of daily challenges you’ll face in the era of the Northern Irish Troubles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, there was no notice on the website about the Dec. Also, there was some confusion about the forum notification and if it violated N.C. There was no notice on Anson County’s website about any emergency meetings. At that time I will definitely cast my vote to fill the Anson County Sheriff vacancy with the most qualified candidate.” I plan to exercise my legal statutory authority as a County Commissioner and place my vote to fill the Sheriff vacancy at tomorrow’s regularly scheduled 6:00 meeting. I did not hear from or participate in any conversation with any Commissioners during this time. She placed me on a brief standby and after 4 minutes of static, I just hung up. At 5:24pm, I received a second call from the Commission Clerk. Attorney Forbes stated he was not aware of the meeting and had not been contacted. ![]() I questioned under what authority? At 5:15 pm I immediately contacted Commission Attorney Forbes for details. At 5:14pm I received a phone call notice from the County Commission Clerk, in reference to an upcoming Emergency Commisioner Meeting. 74 near Whiteville NC this evening with my wife. Mr Whippy on a beach in Northumberland: my summer has started - Gaby Soutar. IN REFERENCE TO TODAY’S UNAUTHORIZED MEETING: Labour wont just save the NHS from the SNP and Tories, well transform it. Commissioner Jeff Bricken, appointed as the new chairman for the Board of Commissioners during the meeting, posted on Facebook about an unauthorized gathering Sunday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chaired by Caroline Raphael.īoston Room, George IV, Chiswick High Road, £8ġ2pm: Finding Home – Louise Hare and Luan Goldie Historian Andrew Lownie discusses the revelations in his book which follows events in the years after the abdication of Edward VIII. Drawing on extensive research into hitherto unused archives, it tells the story of a royal exiled with his wife, turning his back on duty, his family and using his position for financial gain. – Saturday September 11thġ0am: The Duke of Windsor: Traitor King – Andrew Lownie The events at the George IV on the main Festival weekend will be introduced by Bridget Osborne, editor of The Chiswick Calendar. See the lineup here.Ħ.45 for 7.15pm: Boston Room, George IV, Chiswick High Road (opposite Waterstones). £5, including first drinkĢ. 20 authors each have just two minutes to speak about their book, making this a fast-paced, fun and fascinating evening. Presentations are expected to start at 7.15pm, with doors opening at 6.45pm. On the eve of the Festival, Torin Douglas and Jo James showcase the wealth of local talent that Chiswick has to offer. Pre-Festival event – Tuesday September 7th: Waterstones Local Authors Party 2021 ![]() ![]() ![]() “In the first seven lines of ‘Hamlet,’ you learn everything you need to know - the place, time, weather, situation and all the characters’ names. “Go back to Shakespeare,” Wagner would often say. ![]() “A Chorus Line’s” set was so minimal, he liked to say, that once you added the white line on the floor, “That’s all you needed to do the show. ![]() For Larry Gelbart’s “City of Angels,” a musical comedy thriller about private eyes, moviemaking and Hollywood romance, he came up with 46 scene changes - one every three or four minutes. The versatility of his work was similarly impressive. Between 19, he designed 63 Broadway plays and musicals, according to his daughter Christie Wagner Lee, garnering Tony Awards for the original Broadway productions of “The Producers,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “City of Angels.” Another seven of his shows brought him Tony nominations. ![]() Wagner, who died in his sleep May 29, was 89. Robin Wagner, the legendary Broadway set designer who created the stage worlds of “The Producers,” “Angels in America,” “Crazy for You,” “Hair,” “Dreamgirls” and dozens more, framed “ A Chorus Line” in black velour and mirrors, and once plopped Mick Jagger in the center of a chromium lotus for the Stones’ 1975 Tour of the Americas, has died at his Manhattan home. ![]() ![]() He didn’t get the opportunity to complete his education, grow up and get a well-paid job, get married and have a family of his own, among other things. Unfortunately for Conor Clapton, his life was cut short and he was unable to achieve a lot of things. ”ĪLSO, READ Devin Sardi: Where is Silvio Sardi’s Son now? This thing did not affect him physically: he was an athlete, no defects, he has never seen a doctor. ![]() Now I understand immediately who suffers from it. What we thought were characteristics of his personality were characteristics of his illness that I did not know about. ![]() He had a congenital disease that developed over the years. “Loren’s death is also a problem of nature. After Loren’s death, his mother Lory said: It is a disease that prevents those affected from experiencing pleasure, feelings, or emotions of any kind. Loren Del Santo killed himself in August 2018 at the age of 19 years after long suffering from anhedonia, a psychiatric illness. ![]() Loren Del Santo and Devin Sardi are his half-siblings from his mother’s side.Īlso Read: Julie Rose Clapton: Everything About Eric Clapton’s Daughter Julie Rose Clapton, Sophie Belle Clapton, Ella May Clapton, and Ruth Clapton are Conor’s half-siblings from his father’s side. ![]() He has half-siblings from both parents’ sides. Conor Clapton’s parents were never married. ![]() |