Month: February 2022

Denounce Putin or lose your job: Russian conductor Valery Gergiev given public ultimatum – The Guardian
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Denounce Putin or lose your job: Russian conductor Valery Gergiev given public ultimatum – The Guardian

Valery Gergiev Star conductor and close friend of Putin dropped by his management ahead of deadline to speak out or be fired from Munich Philharmonic Russia’s star conductor, Valery Gergiev, has been dropped by his management over his close ties to Vladimir Putin as he faces a looming deadline to publicly denounce the Russian president or lose yet another role in his rapidly crumbling career.The 68-year-old Russian, an old friend and supporter of Putin, has faced increasing pressure to speak out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over the last week. He has been removed from performances around the world and faces more professional punishment if he does not condemn Putin’s aggression in the next 24 hours.On Sunday, his manager, Marcus Felsner, announced he would be dropping Gergiev,...
Photos: The SAG Awards 2022 – CNN
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Photos: The SAG Awards 2022 – CNN

"Squid Game" star Lee Jung-jae reacts after it was announced that he had won a Screen Actors Guild award on Sunday, February 27. He and his co-star Jung Ho-yeon each won an award for outstanding performance in a drama series. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Updated 10:34 PM ET, Sun February 27, 2022 "Squid Game" star Lee Jung-jae reacts after it was announced that he had won a Screen Actors Guild award on Sunday, February 27. He and his co-star Jung Ho-yeon each won an award for outstanding performance in a drama series. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The Screen Actors Guild Awards took place on Sunday night, honoring the best performances in film and television. The show was held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. Last year, there was no live show; because of Covid-19, ...
Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe
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Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe

A Classic Roman Dish - Bucatini all'Amatriciana Like many of you, Meg and I watched the Stanley Tucci special on CNN called Searching for Italy. In the Rome episode, he has lunch at Armando Al Pantheon to enjoy their famous rigatoni all'amatriciana, one of Rome's famous pastas. I made it a little different and call it bucatini all'Amatriciana. Of course I had to run out and buy the ingredients so we could make it at home. Not a lot of ingredients and very simple to prepare and absolutely delicious. Let's look at some of the ingredients. Bucatini Bucatini is a pasta that looks a lot like spaghetti but it is thicker and has a whole running down through the strand. My kids like to say it looks like a straw made out of pasta.  If you lived in Naples, Italy, you would call...
Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe
Food & Nutrition

Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe

A Classic Roman Dish - Bucatini all'Amatriciana Like many of you, Meg and I watched the Stanley Tucci special on CNN called Searching for Italy. In the Rome episode, he has lunch at Armando Al Pantheon to enjoy their famous rigatoni all'amatriciana, one of Rome's famous pastas. I made it a little different and call it bucatini all'Amatriciana. Of course I had to run out and buy the ingredients so we could make it at home. Not a lot of ingredients and very simple to prepare and absolutely delicious. Let's look at some of the ingredients. Bucatini Bucatini is a pasta that looks a lot like spaghetti but it is thicker and has a whole running down through the strand. My kids like to say it looks like a straw made out of pasta.  If you lived in Naples, Italy, you would call...
1883 Finale: Tim McGraw on [Spoiler]s Death Scene in Episode 10 – TVLine
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1883 Finale: Tim McGraw on [Spoiler]s Death Scene in Episode 10 – TVLine

Warning: This post contains spoilers from 1883‘s Season 1 finale. So now we have a definite, devastating answer as to how Yellowstone‘s Duttons came to settle in Montana. As last week’s 1883 heavily hinted, Elsa “Lightning Yellow Hair” Dutton succumbed to her arrow wound in Sunday’s season finale. As she started to fade, her father, James, rushed her to the land that would eventually become his family’s ranch, and she picked the spot where she wanted to be laid to rest. A short time later, as she and James sat under the tree she’d selected, she died. (Read a full recap here.) “Elsa was his heart and soul,” Tim McGraw tells TVLine. “Elsa meant everything to him, and he wanted to find a place that he could lay her down and put her to rest where he could see her every day.” ...
SAG Awards: Winners List (Updating Live) – Hollywood Reporter
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SAG Awards: Winners List (Updating Live) – Hollywood Reporter

The 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are being handed out Sunday night. Awards are being handed out in 15 categories, encompassing film and TV, including best performances by stunt ensembles. After becoming the first deaf actor to score an individual nomination at the SAG Awards CODA’s Troy Kotsur became the first deaf actor now to win a SAG Award, taking home the best supporting actor trophy in the first award of the night. Using a sign-language interpreter, he professed his love to his wife, seated in the audience, and joked that his daughter can’t use the statuette to hold his jewelry. Ariana DeBose won the award for best supporting actress for West Side Story, calling the film a great cinematic experience and thanking director Steven Spielberg in h...
The brain activity of a dying person was recorded for the first time ever – BGR
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The brain activity of a dying person was recorded for the first time ever – BGR

A patient’s unexpected death during a study has given us the first recording of a dying human brain. Scientists managed to capture the unique event while monitoring the brain waves of an 87-year-old-epilepsy patient. During the study, the patient experienced a heart attack and died while still being monitored. It’s a unique situation and one that has given us a new glimpse into how the brain reacts at the time of death. Here’s what a recording of a dying human brain told us Image source: Andrea Danti / AdobeWhile the study wasn’t designed to record a dying human brain, it did give us some great insight. The researchers recorded around 15 minutes of brain activity surrounding the time that the heart stopped beating. To see how the brain reacts at death, though, the...
Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe
Food & Nutrition

Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe

A Classic Roman Dish - Bucatini all'Amatriciana Like many of you, Meg and I watched the Stanley Tucci special on CNN called Searching for Italy. In the Rome episode, he has lunch at Armando Al Pantheon to enjoy their famous rigatoni all'amatriciana, one of Rome's famous pastas. I made it a little different and call it bucatini all'Amatriciana. Of course I had to run out and buy the ingredients so we could make it at home. Not a lot of ingredients and very simple to prepare and absolutely delicious. Let's look at some of the ingredients. Bucatini Bucatini is a pasta that looks a lot like spaghetti but it is thicker and has a whole running down through the strand. My kids like to say it looks like a straw made out of pasta.  If you lived in Naples, Italy, you would call...