Author: Michelle Korhonen
In April 1948, the 32-year-old playwright Arthur Miller set out to build a 10-by-12-foot studio—two windows, clapboard walls, a desk fashioned from an old door—on land he’d bought in rural Connecticut. Once it was done, he sat down and began to write. By the next morning, he had completed the first act of what would become his most famous work; he’d known only its opening lines, he said, and that it would end in the calamity presaged by its title, Death of a Salesman. The play was finished in six weeks, and it debuted 75 years ago, on February 10,…
A DPD delivery driver took a photo as proof a fragile parcel containing a printer for coronavirus masks had been delivered before launching it over a 6ft wall.Jonathan Ward, 51, sold the £625 fabric printer via eBay and said he posted it to the buyer inside a box covered in eight stickers marking it as fragile or delicate.But he was horrified when the buyer in Enfield, north London, got in touch to say it had arrived broken beyond repair.CCTV footage shows the delivery driver taking a ‘proof of postage’ photo, before lifting the 25kg parcel over his head and pushing…
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is a triumphant—and tragic—look at the cost of power.Niko Tavernise / Warner Bros. PicturesFebruary 28, 2024, 9:44 AM ETListen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.Paul Atreides, the central figure of the Dune series, is a very special boy. This is something the audience is told over and over, both in Frank Herbert’s first, totemic sci-fi novel and the Denis Villeneuve film adaptations that bifurcate its intricate narrative into two sand-swept epics. The first installment of Dune was all about Paul’s potential, surrounding him with vague prophecies of his…
The Smokehouse Creek Fire, which was sparked on Monday, has already burned across more than 500,000 acres, pushed by high winds and dry conditions. It is the largest of several brush fires now burning across the Texas Panhandle and parts of northwestern Oklahoma, prompting evacuations and disaster declarations, as authorities warn that the weather will remain dangerously dry for at least another week. Gathered below are some early images from the region.
King Charles paid a sweet tribute to his late cousin King Constantine as he was spotted en-route to Buckingham Palace after missing the largest gathering of royalty on British shores since his Coronation.Camilla lead the British and international royals in a Thanksgiving Service for King Constantine of Greece yesterday, after Prince William pulled out of speaking at a memorial service for his late godfather, a year after his death.Dressed in a dark overcoat, navy suit and a smart white shirt, Charles could be seen today wearing a tie covered in fluttering Greek flags in an apparent tribute to the former King.King Charles…
Comirnaty, a new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination booster for COVID-19, is displayed at a pharmacy in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Joe Burbank/AP hide caption toggle caption Joe Burbank/AP Comirnaty, a new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination booster for COVID-19, is displayed at a pharmacy in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Joe Burbank/AP NEW YORK — Older U.S. adults should roll up their sleeves for another COVID-19 shot, even if they got a booster in the fall, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Americans 65 and older should get another dose of the updated…
Last fall, when Netflix hiked the cost of its top-tier Ultra HD plan by 15 percent, I had finally had enough: $22.99 a month just felt like too much for the ability to see Jaws in 4K video resolution. A couple of weeks later, I heard that Max was pushing up the fee of its own 4K streaming by 25 percent. Now I wasn’t just annoyed, but confused. Super-high-res televisions are firmly ensconced as the next standard for home viewing of TV and movies. And yet, super-high-res content seems to be receding ever further into a specialty consumer niche. What…
Jess Impiazzi took a savage swipe at her cheating ex-boyfriend Jermaine Pennant after their shocking split.Speaking out for the first time since the split, the actress said she ‘wouldn’t tolerate that again’, according to The Sun.The Ex On The Beach star, 34, admitted she ‘gave everything’ to their relationship and was trying to fall pregnant through IVF, but what happened between then was not acceptable.Jess was forced to dump Jermaine, 41, after reports he had spent the night with a dominatrix, leaving her heartbroken in 2023.In an upcoming episode of TV psychic Sally Morgan’s That’s Afterlife! podcast, Jess said that…
Four years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating in the U.S. But a glance at the United States’ most prominent COVID policies can give the impression that the disease is just another seasonal flu. COVID vaccines are now reformulated annually, and recommended in the autumn for everyone over the age of six months, just like flu shots; tests and treatments for the disease are steadily being commercialized, like our armamentarium against flu. And the CDC is reportedly considering more flu-esque isolation guidance for COVID: Stay…
Euthanasia, or medically assisted death, is currently illegal in both the UK and the wider British Isles. Though that may soon change. Currently any medic or person who performs euthanasia can face prosecution for manslaughter or murder.Even helping a terminally ill person take their own life, called assisted suicide, is an offence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and punishable by up to 14 years in prison.While no specific law on assisted suicide exists in Scotland, helping someone end their own life could lead to a prosecution for culpable homicide in circumstances where a court determines a person’s death was not entirely voluntary. Your browser…