In Texas, ex-oil and gas workers champion geothermal energy as a replacement for fossil-fueled power plants Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source. 03/25/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
‘Shogun’ Episode 6 Recap: Know Your Enemy In this week’s episode, we get to know Lady Ochiba no Kata: daughter of a brutal warlord, consort to the Taiko who replaced him, mother to the Heir, commander of the Council of Regents (as of Episode ... 03/25/2024 - 10:02 pm | View Link
There was something strange in my neighborhood — the day I saw ‘Ghostbusters’ As "Frozen Empire" hits theaters, the Globe’s film critic looks back at the original, which turns 40 this year. 03/21/2024 - 7:17 am | View Link
March Madness highlights: Oakland stuns Kentucky; Duquesne upsets BYU; Kansas escapes Madness tipped off in earnest Thursday with 16 first-round games scheduled in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The biggest headline of the day came from Pittsburgh, where No. 14 seed Oakland, a ... 03/21/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
Anonymous Resume: Which Teams Are Most Deserving of a 2024 Men's NCAA Tournament Bid? Championship week in men's college basketball means the time has finally come for America's favorite game of deceptively partial information: anonymous ... 03/14/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
ASIAN CINEMA CELEBRATION Veteran Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming edition of the Festival of Far East Film in Italy’s Udine (April 24 – May 2). The lineup will include three films by Zhang: his 2023 political thriller “Under the Light” in its competition section; as […]
The Busan International Film Festival has postponed the appointment of a permanent festival director. A new leader may be appointed after this year’s edition in October. Pak Dosin, a former senior programmer, has been appointed as co-deputy director in a dual-leadership structure, alongside co-deputy director Kang Seung-ah. That means that this year’s festival will be […]
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is set to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures with a retrospective featuring classic titles spawned by the Hollywood studio between the dawn of sound and the late 1950s. The Locarno retro, titled “The Lady With the Torch –– The Centenary of Columbia Pictures,” is being curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director […]
Just 48 hours after a show in San Diego and less than 24 hours before he is set to perform at San Francisco’s Chase Center, Bruce Springsteen logged some serious (private) air miles for a surprise performance at country superstar Zach Bryan’s concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night.