An Operatic New Season for the IN Series
Pre-pandemic, the IN Series hadn’t so much as considered expanding its online presence, let alone produce original digital content. “Even if we had thought about it, we would have really struggled…because our audience wouldn’t have known how to work the technology,” Nelson says. “All of that will be available to stream for free.”The new season of the IN Series officially kicks off next weekend with the COVID-inspired “A Festival Through Grief to Hope.” The core of the four-event, multi-venue Opening Weekend Festival is a trilogy of opera films created by the IN Series in 2020, featuring music by Gluck, Schumann, and Wagner. As Nelson puts it, “we’re trying to find hope amidst all of the terrible wreckage.”The Opening Weekend Festival runs Thursday, Sept. 23, through Sunday, Sept. 26, at various venues around town. All past and upcoming IN Series productions can be accessed at https://invision.inseries.org.
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September 20, 2021 15:11 UTC
Dutch Girl Donuts owner dies at 75, leaving the future of the Woodward Avenue shop uncertain
Steve NeavlingDutch Girl Donuts is located at 19000 Woodward Ave. in Detroit. According to The Detroit News, Timmer had succumbed to a battle with cancer that the Dutch Girl Donuts' owner, husband, father, and grandfather, had quietly endured for more than a year and a half. Timmer's parents, John and Cecilia, founded Dutch Girl Donuts in 1947 after taking over a former Dixie Cream Donut location. However, as a result of low staffing and health issues, Dutch Girl Donuts has since been forced to close and reassess its business strategy. If Dutch Girl Donuts can survive through to next year, the doughnut shop will reach its 75th anniversary, though Parrow says that maybe after 75 years, it might be time to call it quits.
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September 20, 2021 15:00 UTC
2021 National Book Festival: Everything You Need to Know
Organized around the theme “Open a Book, Open the World,” the 2021 National Book Festival presented by the Library of Congress is a 10-day event featuring more than one hundred authors in programs entirely available online. Bisexual New York Times contributing opinion writer Roxane Gay will talk about her approach as a Black feminist and her path as a writer. The National Book Festival runs through Sunday, Sept. 26. For a complete list of programs available online visit www.loc.gov/bookfest. Read More:The Eyes of Tammy Faye humanizes the late, larger-than-life televangelistMovie Review: Everybody’s Talking About JamieMusic Review: Foy Vance’s Signs of Life
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September 20, 2021 14:37 UTC
The Eyes of Tammy Faye humanizes the late, larger-than-life televangelist
“When this scandal hit, I was in sixth grade in Norman, Oklahoma,” says Abe Sylvia, the 46-year-old screenwriter of The Eyes of Tammy Faye. In the movie, the avarice and sins are mostly relegated to Jim Bakker, played with deliberate, unassuming blandness by Andrew Garfield. (Tammy Faye, who later remarried, passed away in 2007.) It also shows, quite pointedly, how Tammy Faye attempted to bring change to a religious system that wasn’t inclusive. The movie includes a key moment in which Tammy Faye interviews, via closed-circuit TV in 1985, Steve Pieters, a gay man afflicted with HIV/AIDS.
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September 20, 2021 14:15 UTC
Stage Review: Quixote Nuevo at Round House
An epic journey rendered in the space of a well-lit stage, Round House Theatre’s regional premiere of Quixote Nuevo (★★★☆☆) enchants and entertains, without delivering the knockout punch implied by playwright Octavio Solis’ poignant Don Quixote adaptation. Quixote insists that he left his beloved Dulcinea on the other side of the border and he must return to her. Similarly, the puppetry, used to depict the love story of young Quixote and Dulcinea, reflects the atmosphere and expressiveness of the production, without fully transmitting the requisite emotion. Quixote Nuevo in-person performances run through October 3 at Round House, 4545 East-West Highway in Bethesda. Read More:Movie Review: Everybody’s Talking About JamieMusic Review: Foy Vance’s Signs of LifeBHT Foundation doles out more than $35,000 to local LGBTQ and HIV nonprofits
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September 20, 2021 13:47 UTC
Movie Review: Everybody's Talking About Jamie
It wasn’t long before Jamie and his mother’s inspiring story, and the not-insignificant popularity of all things high school prom, begat the 2017 hit London stage musical, and now film adaptation, Everybody’s Talking about Jamie (★★☆☆☆), with music by Dan Gillespie Sells, and book and lyrics by Tom MacRae. It would take confidence and courage for him to be himself anywhere, let alone in high school. His persuasive performance betrays the contrivances of a first act that follows Jamie slowly building up nerve that’s already apparent. Everybody’s talking only about Jamie might be a more accurate heading. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is available for streaming on Prime Video.
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September 20, 2021 13:01 UTC
Ashland teen, grandmother sent home on latest episode of 'Top Chef Family Style'
ASHLAND – An Ashland middle-schooler who teamed up with her grandmother to compete on the reality cooking show "Top Chef Family Style" may not have taken the cake, but she cooked up some delicious memories. However, at the beginning of the round, Brooke began turning as “white as a ghost,” said Weiss on the show. “But I think there’s more for me in the future.”Her favorite dish to make from the show was the lemon pistachio biscotti, which she made on the second episode. Guest judges for this round included Jesse Tyler Ferguson from “Modern Family” and two-star Michelin chef Josiah Citrin. For the first elimination challenge, they were asked to upgrade a favorite family recipe to a five-star dish.
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September 20, 2021 11:48 UTC
Pope Francis 'clearly' opposes same-sex marriages, but won't condemn LGBTQ people
Pope Francis has once again stated that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex marriages, calling it a divine sacrament that the church cannot change. Speaking to reporters last week, Francis was asked if he approves of European countries passing laws recognizing marriage equality, the Associated Press reports. Marriage is a sacrament,” the Pope replied. Despite opposing Catholic Church blessings same-sex marriages, Pope Francis rejected those who would condemn gay people. “Marriage is marriage, but this does not mean condemning [homosexual] people,” he said.
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September 20, 2021 11:37 UTC
Middlesex County's COVID-19 cases up 11.1%; Massachusetts cases surge 21.8%
Mike StuckaUSA TODAY NETWORKNew coronavirus cases shot up 21.8% in Massachusetts last week, as 13,931 new cases were reported as of Sunday. Last week, coronavirus cases in the United States increased 1.1% from the week before, with 1,030,256 new cases reported. Middlesex County reported 2,101 new cases and 14 deaths last week. In the week ending Sunday, Massachusetts reported administering another 69,400 vaccine doses, including 33,330 first doses. In all, Massachusetts reported it has administered 9,673,546 total doses.
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September 20, 2021 11:15 UTC
Body found in Wyoming is “consistent” with missing Gabby Petito
(Reuters) – Police and FBI agents searching a national park in Wyoming have found a body “consistent” with missing Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman whose disappearance has captivated the United States. “Earlier today human remains were discovered consistent with Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito,” Jones told a news conference. North Port is on the west coast of Florida, some 70 miles (112 km) south of St. Petersburg. They have since been combing a nearly 25,000-acre (10,000-hectare)wilderness preserve near North Port for him, without success. “Saddened and heartbroken to learn that Gabby has been found deceased,” North Port police said on Twitter.
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September 19, 2021 22:52 UTC
Soccer-Man City facing injury crisis as key battles loom large
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester City will have to field several youngsters in Tuesday’s League Cup clash against Wycombe Wanderers as a number of players are suffering from injuries, manager Pep Guardiola said. “I don’t have any alternative (against Wycombe)… we are going to play a few young players,” Guardiola was quoted as saying by the club’s website on Sunday. “We have John (Stones), Aymeric (Laporte), Oleks (Zinchenko), Rodri and I think (Ilkay) Gundogan all of them injured. “Some players might rest for the games we have coming up ahead of us,” he added. “Ruben (Dias) played all of the minutes so far and Joao (Cancelo) played all of the minutes, too, so I don’t think they will be able to play in this game.”(Reporting by Peter Hall, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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September 19, 2021 22:52 UTC
Soccer-Juve’s Allegri relieved to hear final whistle in Milan draw
TURIN, Italy (Reuters) – Angry Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said it was lucky the final whistle blew in the 1-1 home draw with AC Milan on Sunday because his team could have lost. Ante Rebic equalised late in the second half and Milan had chances to win as the Turin side failed to keep a Serie A clean sheet for the first time since early March. “Luckily the referee whistled for the end otherwise we could have lost it,” Allegri told DAZN. The team played well in the first half, only conceding a long shot to Milan. “As always, Milan do not lack desire, character, determination and grit, so we continued seeking the victory throughout the match.
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September 19, 2021 22:07 UTC
Soccer-Real Madrid stage late comeback to win at Valencia
VALENCIA (Reuters) -Real Madrid forwards Vinicius Jr and Karim Benzema scored within the space of three minutes deep in the second half to propel their side to a 2-1 win at Valencia in LaLiga on Sunday after the visitors were outplayed for most of the game. Valencia went ahead in the 66th minute with a thumping low strike from forward Hugo Duro, who spent last season on loan with Madrid. Valencia would have gone top had they held on for the win but instead Carlo Ancelotti’s Real side lead the standings on 13 points from five games, with the hosts third on 10. “We know what Real Madrid are like, we know they can turn the game around at any stage,” said Duro. We were very unlucky to not at least get a draw today.”(Reporting by Richard Martin; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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September 19, 2021 21:33 UTC
French minister in Mali to pressure junta over Russian mercenaries
BAMAKO (Reuters) -France’s Armed Forces Minister arrived in Mali on Sunday to pressure the military junta to end talks to bring Russian mercenaries into the country and push it to keep a promise to return the country to constitutional order in February. The visit by Florence Parly to Mali is the highest-level trip by French officials since the talks with Wagner emerged. French officials describe the relationship with the junta as “complicated”, although it still relies on Paris for counter-terrorism operations. Paris said on Thursday it had killed the leader of Islamic State in Western Sahara in northern Mali. The French army started redeploying troops from its bases in Kidal, Tessalit and Timbuktu in northern Mali at the start of the month, French army sources have said.
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September 19, 2021 20:15 UTC
Rivals allege mass fraud as Russian pro-Putin party wins big majority
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Opponents accused Russian authorities of mass fraud on Monday after the ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, won a bigger than expected parliamentary majority despite unease over living standards. The scale of the victory means United Russia will have more than two-thirds of deputies in the 450-seat State Duma lower house of parliament. United Russia, a party that Putin helped found, had always been expected to win. Candidates opposed to United Russia in the capital had been ahead in more than half of 15 electoral districts, but all lost after electronic voters were added in. The near complete results showed the Communist Party finishing in second, followed by the nationalist LDPR party and the Fair Russia party with around 7.5% each.
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September 19, 2021 15:42 UTC