The initial time I heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform the politically charged Shostakovich 10th was during the first week of October 1990. The second time was last weekend, the first week of April 2024. The 1990 performance stays in my mind for many reasons. The Berlin Wall had fallen the previous November, leading to…
El conocido Museo Nacional de Cerámica-González Martí de la ciudad de Valencia, se ubica en el Palacio del Marqués de Dosaguas, puesto que en su día y durante décadas fue vivienda de la familia de este noble. El espectacular edificio, uno de los que más visitas recibe a lo largo del año, está considerado como…
FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks before entering the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. A dozen Manhattan residents are soon to become the first Americans ever to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime. Jury selection is set to start Monday in former…
Have you ever been in a situation where you’re cruising down the road, enjoying a smooth ride, when suddenly — wham — you hit a pothole? It jolts your car and reminds you of the never-ending battle against these road menaces. Well, that scenario could be over very soon. Tech firm Robotiz3d is developing three…
A Dolton village employee has named Mayor Tiffany Henyard, the village, Thornton Township and a village official in a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the village official of performing non-consensual sex with the employee after she had “blacked out” during a May trip to Las Vegas led by the mayor. The suit states the employee…
Shortly after wrapping up an inaugural legislative session in 2019 that included hiking the state’s minimum wage, legalizing cannabis and passing a historic $45 billion statewide construction program supported by expanded gambling and a host of increased taxes and fees, Gov. J.B. Pritzker sought to reassure a group of Chicago business leaders that he wasn’t…
“El vestido Ginger está formado por un cuerpo sin mangas con cuello tipo bufanda largo que se puede atar en el costado o en la espalda. La falda, de cintura caída, tiene bolsillos y plisados, y se balancea contigo y con el viento”. Así describe la diseñadora de Los Ángeles Heidi Merrick en su página…
Long ago Oscar Wilde cautioned, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” The COVID-19 pandemic is winding down, but the truth about the original source of the virus remains as contentious and elusive as ever. Experts’ positions have hardened, but at least the facts about the two competing theories are clear enough today for the…
