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Kaija Saariaho, the poetic and powerful composer who died on Friday at 70, was also subtle and suggestive with words.Dazzling, different surfaces, tissues, textures, she wrote of an early work, in language that could describe her style over 40 years.Weights, gravity.To be blinded.Interpolations.Reflections.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs a law to include the rights of LGBTQ people in Michigan's Civil Rights law on Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Lansing, Mich.Rick Pluta/Michigan Public Radio Network LANSING, Mich.In her State of the State address this year, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had something no other Democratic governor has had since the early 1980s a legislature willing to pass her agenda, even if with only a two-seat majority in both chambers.

On a recent morning in a Turkish cafe in north London, Deborah Levy unknotted the silk scarf around her neck in preparation.The sharing breakfast has arrived, the writer announced as plates of fruit, cheese and fried eggs were placed in front of her.In Levy's new novel August Blue, a blue-haired piano virtuoso named Elsa M. Anderson repeatedly encounters a woman who she is convinced is her double.

Friday, March 17, 2023 by Ava Garderet
The Animal Advisory Commission has approved a recommendation that the city hire a bat biologist to manage and provide expertise on the various bat populations in Austin, including the popular colony under the Congress Avenue Bridge."Bats are an extraordinarily important part of our ecosystem," Commissioner Paige Nilson said during a meeting Monday.

MELBOURNE, Australia Call it a tale of two Wendy's.One is an American fast-food chain, known for the pigtailed girl on its logo and its square hamburger patties on circular buns.The other, Wendy's Milk Bar, slings soft-serve ice cream, hot dogs and supashakes in suburban Australian shopping malls.For decades, the companies' near-identical names have caused few problems.

A famously fecund ensemble that's shaped major composers and improvisers for decades, Pascoal's group has been anchored since 1977 by bassist Itiberê Zwarg (a formidable bandleader and composer himself).As much a family as a band, the sextet includes Hermeto's son, the percussionist, soprano saxophonist and producer Fabio Pascoal, who came on board in 1987, and drummer Ajurinã Zwarg, the son of bassist Itiberê.

Female Trouble: Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
In 1969, Cookie Mueller suffered a fallopian tube infection she mistook to be her period.When she woke up in an unknown hospital bed, she felt disoriented but otherwise "great, clean, and very neat."A nurse had done her hair up in tight braided pigtails, each one ending in a white surgical rubber band to prevent her hair from snapping off amid fever-induced agitation.

Jonathan Raban, who has died this week at the age of 80, was one of a generation of writers who helped to drag travel writing away from its hotel-reviewing, holiday-brochure corridor and into the halls of literature.Colin Thubron, Paul Theroux, Redmond O'Hanlon and Bruce Chatwin were among those (almost all men) who in the late 1970s and early 1980s resurrected the journey as one of the great narrative structures.

With year-end "best of" lists coming out fast and furious over the final weeks of 2022, there are more notable LGBTQ writers to choose from than ever before.The year provided a remarkably broad and diverse slate of authors conjuring novels, writing about history, making poetry, and sharing points of view neglected in the past by publishing's traditional gatekeepers.

KRAKOW, Poland One year ago this Tuesday, Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the Russian-backed separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk effectively the starting pistol for Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began three days later.For us Ukrainians, the world would never be the same.

The joint resolution by deputies from Germany's centre-left-led coalition and the opposition conservatives is also intended as a warning to Russia as Ukraine faces a potential hunger crisis this winter due to Moscow's invasion.Lawmakers plan to vote on the resolution next Wednesday following Ukraine's memorial day for the Holodomor, as the famine is known, which falls on the last Saturday in November each year.

Bobby Caldwell, a singer-songwriter whose sultry R&B hit What You Won't Do for Love propelled his debut album to double-platinum status in 1978 and was later covered by chart-toppers like Boyz II Men and Michael Bolton, died on Tuesday at his home in Great Meadows, N.J.He was 71.The cause was long-term complications of a toxic reaction to the antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, his wife, Mary Caldwell, wrote on Twitter.

The first time Silvano D'Auria watched the film La Mano Lunga del Padrino (The Long Arm of the Godfather) was at the Teatro dei Filarmonici in his hometown of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, in 1972, the year of its release.The multi-instrumentalist had composed all the music for the low-budget crime flick, its title an obvious attempt to forge artificial links to Hollywood hit The Godfather, and the theatre was packed with an audience there to support a son of the city.

It's not easy to write about Michael Jackson these days.On the one hand, there's this incredibly talented singer and dancer who transported pop music to a completely new dimension.On the other hand, there's a man accused of sexually abusing children.I don't need to reflect on Jackson's career here  enough has been written about that.

The first rays of morning light that illuminate a bakery are the most gratifying, shining off of the bread and pastry cases.Those rays are a simple pleasure for Copenhagen Pastry owner Karen Hansen, who opened her portal to the sweet aromas and golden loaves of Danish pastry in Culver City almost 11 years ago.

The British public has more confidence in the EU than the UK parliament, a new survey has found in a remarkable turnaround of a trend lasting decades.Confidence in the Westminster parliament has plummeted 10 points to just 22 per cent since the Brexit referendum.Although the popularity of the EU has lagged behind parliament among Britons since the early 1980s, confidence in Brussels has shot up seven points to 39 per cent since Brexit.

I am Goldie, a druid with long white hair and the half-human, half-horse body of a centaur.I walk into a lush, green forest with my constant companion, a goat named Penny.As we tread down a winding pathway, we start to smell the rotting stench of decay.Then we see it: the corpses of other animals, decayed beyond belief, spores poking from their bodies.

In 1971, 19-year-old musician Paul Southwell left Accrington and headed for the bright lights.At that time London's gay scene consisted of a selection of seedy pubs, after-hours basement drinking dens and regular discos organised by the Gay Liberation Front, which had formed the previous October.But none of the acts playing GLF events were out: most of the entertainment was supplied by decidedly straight bands.

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Chet Lemon, who would become the best defensive center fielder in White Sox history, is born in Jackson, Miss.Moving to Los Angeles at a young age, Lemon played youth baseball with Hall-of-Famers Eddie Murray and Ozzie Smith, and was drafted in the first round out of high school at age 17 by Oakland.

Kuwait- and Bahrain-based Civil Architecture has created a sundial at the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that aims to question our relationship with time.Civil Architecture founders Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Karimi installed the fragmented sundial within the "desert landscape" created as the backdrop for the biennale by architecture studio OMA.

Colombian pianist Teresita Gomez is a legendary figure in that country's classical music scene.Akiro Palacio /The Cartagena Music Festival When the most renowned pianist in Colombia, Teresita Gomez, came out for an unexpected solo encore at the Cartagena Music Festival at the Getsemani Auditorium, she completely stole the show with a piece by her favorite European composer, Frederic Chopin.

Some years, my best books list falls into a pattern: like a year that's dominated by dystopian fiction or stand-out memoirs.But, as perhaps befits this hectic year, the best books I read in 2022 sprawl all over the place in subject and form.Here are 10 superb titles from 2022: Also a Poet is a moving account of Ada Calhoun's attempt to connect with her elusive father, art critic Peter Schjeldahl, by trying to complete his abandoned biography of the beloved New York poet, Frank O'Hara.

Artist George Lois poses next to his artwork at the New York Museum of Modern Art in New York on April 22, 2008.Bebeto Matthews/AP File NEW YORK  George Lois, the hard-selling, charismatic advertising man and designer who fashioned some of the most daring magazine images of the 1960s and popularized such catchphrases and brand names as "I Want My MTV" and "Lean Cuisine," has died.

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter.Not a subscriber?You can sign up right here.Warren Buffett is arguably the most legendary investor of all time.But the Oracle of Omaha has missed out on this year's stock market rally.So far, at least.Shares of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) conglomerate, a company that owns businesses ranging from Geico and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to consumer brands like Dairy Queen, Duracell and Fruit of the Loom, are down slightly this year lagging the market, as the S&P 500 is up 6%.

jayk7/Getty Images After an unprecedented streak of interest rate hikes last year, the Federal Reserve might finally be curtailing its efforts to rein in inflation.The nation's central bank is expected to announce another rate increase at its February 1 meeting - but experts predict that, for the second time in a row, it will be a smaller one.

There is hope for households across Britain that inflation, finally, has peaked.After hitting a 41-year high of more than 11% in October as energy bills soared, the fall in the annual inflation rate in December for a second consecutive month will come as a relief.However, prices remain high and are still rising fast.

Terry Hall, the lead singer of The Specials, has died aged 63, his bandmates have confirmed this evening.Hall, who was also a former member of Fun Boy Three and the Colourfield, died folllowing a brief illness.The band tweeted: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced.

BUENOS AIRES  Argentina had just punched its ticket to the World Cup final with a 3-0 victory over Croatia on Tuesday, but most Argentines at the party simply wanted to poke around this stranger's house.There was a retiree taking selfies in a mirrored corner bar.A house cleaner hung out the window of a bare bedroom.

Early years education, colleges, sixth forms and universities will all face a difficult few years ahead, experts have warned, after being left out of the funding increases announced by the Chancellor last month.In a stark new report, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned that rising costs as a result of surging inflation over the last year has left colleges and sixth forms in particular in a difficult position in the wake of Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement.

Yesterday, we saw some quotes from Friedman on a radio segment he did, talking about what he thought (or heard?) that the Toronto Maple Leafs would do as far as making a big trade ahead of the deadline.He opened by opining Toronto would focus on getting a defenseman, which makes sense to me even though I've wanted better scoring depth since forever ago.

A century ago, chiffon cake did not exist.It did not grace the plates of our forebears, surreal in its fluffiness, with its thousand tiny holes, more air than sugar.It was born of American ingenuity, and perhaps a peculiarly American despair.In 1927 in Los Angeles, a former insurance agent named, by kismet, Harry Baker, having abandoned a wife and children in Ohio to make a new life in Hollywood, fiddled obsessively with ingredients and measurements in his home kitchen until he came up with the recipe for a cake that was escape incarnate.

Crime The results of autopsies on the infants are pending.Boston police revealed Monday that they found the remains of four different infants at a South Boston home earlier this month.Police said in a news release Monday evening that autopsies have been performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on two infant males and two infant females found at 838 East Broadway.