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Syracuse Crawfish Festival, Mother's Day, Cinco de Mayo: 13 events this weekend in CNY

Edit Syracuse 04 May 2016

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It's finally May and there are plenty of reasons to celebrate. Party this Thursday for Cinco de Mayo and feast on crawfish this weekend ... 1 ... Where ... When ... Los Straitjackets. Two excellent live bands, Los Straitjackets and NRBQ, will "face off" in a rock and roll concert this Saturday ... Los Straitjackets bring their high energy, instrumental guitar mastery, all while wearing their trademark Lucha Libre Mexican wrestling masks ... ....

Ben Fogle Claims Lego’s Rigid ‘Box Ticking’ Discipline Has ‘Ruined The World’ And Stunted Kids’ ...

Edit Inquisitr 04 May 2016

Former Lego ambassador Ben Fogle has made the shocking claim that the toy giant is largely responsible for “ruining the world.”. As claims go, it’s a pretty big one ... It’s a toy of aspiration.” ... Such calamities and minor breakdowns in a nation’s young have got less to do with Lego, but more to do with a culture of rigid perfectionism and the ill-fitting straitjacket of bland conformity....

Embattled Desh

Edit Indian Express 04 May 2016

Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina. Bangladesh is in a straitjacket and its government is embattled. With no sign of a let-up in the killings of liberals and secular writers, the feeling grows that the administration led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is not on top of the situation ... The irony is not to be missed. The authorities have failed on all counts to prevent such crimes ... He didn’t explain how. Share This Article. Related Article....

Looking for some ethics in business

Edit Otago Daily Times 02 May 2016

I fear renting from the chariotmongers. It seems that whenever I return a rental car, these sods have conjured up some new billing rort. But this time the Duchess and I were home free. The Wellington rental depot waved us through and charged not a cent extra - not even for picking up the Lindauer empty left rattling round the boot ... But not Hertz ... The nightmare big business fears today is a return to the straitjacket rules of the Left ... ....

Girl Up by Laura Bates; Man Up by Rebecca Asher – review

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2016

Two valuable books positioned on either side of the gender divide have more in common than you might expect. It’s a case of similar titles, different subject matter, with Girl Up by Laura Bates (the Everyday Sexism project), and Man Up, by Rebecca Asher (Shattered. Modern Motherhood And The Illusion of Equality) ... Related ... “Men are still restricted by the straitjacket of the male stereotype,” writes Asher, who has a son and daughter ... ....

Restaurant review: OX in Belfast

Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Apr 2016

OX opened to instant applause a little over three years ago. At the time, its impact was compared in this column to that of the original Roscoff opened by Paul and Jeannie Rankin in 1989. I suggested that OX had the same potential to change Belfast's dining scene as had Roscoff 20 years earlier. No one likes a smart-arse, but... I told you so. Share Go To ... I'm not a fan of tasting menus. it's a straitjacket from which there is no escape ... ....

Opening the Closed Political Culture

Edit CounterPunch 29 Apr 2016

The , from the Los Angeles Times, hit me like a sucker punch. “Voters’ ‘Bernie or Bust’ efforts persist despite Sanders’ vow not to be another Ralph Nader .”. Actually, it was worse than that. When my brain cleared, I realized I was, once again, caught in a media straitjacket ... However. “Some of his supporters remain so steadfast, however, that a #BernieOrBust movement has picked up momentum on Twitter ... This is serious ... Dabashi writes ... ....

Women make a scene on the horror film circuit - and everyone should be afraid

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 29 Apr 2016

Entering the Founders Room on the top floor of Hobart's Salamanca Arts Centre, there's the sense of stepping onto the set of a B-movie where the production design team has  worked resourcefully to create weirdness on a budget ... Evidently recruited for the occasion, a looming androgynous figure totters between the tables in a straitjacket and high heels, eyes hidden behind an oversized ratty wig ... Advertisement ... Others clearly don't ... ....

MasterChef Australia: Out to lunch with George Calombaris, Gary Mehigan and Matt Preston

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Apr 2016

There's a lot of laughter around the table. There's also blokey banter, good-natured ribbing and some cheeky diversions into subjects that cannot be elaborated upon in a family newspaper ... It's a lively gathering ... Preston ... a picnic at the Forum, a visit to a salumeria, dinner at a Michelin three-star, where Gary, forced to borrow a jacket from George in order to comply with the dress code, felt like he was strapped into a straitjacket ... ....

Top things to do this weekend: April 29-May 1

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 28 Apr 2016

ALL WEEKEND. Tunes and tunics. “Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone. a comedy tonight” are Stephen Sondheim lyrics found in the Little Theatre Off Broadway revival of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” the musical comedy based on ancient Roman farces. Details. 614-875-3919, www.ltob.org. Big River. Standing Room Theatre Company, Columbus Performing Arts Center. Contact ... Showtimes ... Los Straitjackets ... ....

Pass the sauce and hold the calls; the MasterChef judges are tucking into dinner

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 27 Apr 2016

There's a lot of laughter around the table. There's also blokey banter, good-natured ribbing and some cheeky diversions into subjects that cannot be elaborated upon in a family newspaper ... It's a lively gathering ... Preston ... a picnic at the Forum, a visit to a salumeria, dinner at a Michelin three-star, where Gary, forced to borrow a jacket from George in order to comply with the dress code, felt like he was strapped into a straitjacket ... ....

Theresa May wriggles in her EU straitjacket

Edit Indonesia News 26 Apr 2016

By insisting 'we need to be smarter' about how we start changing the many aspects of Europe with which we disagree, she gave a welcome indication that she reckons the renegotiation of Britai ... ....

And the Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis – review

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2016

Though heavy with egotistical bluster, the former Greek finance minister has valid points to make in this critique of the EU and global meltdown ... Related ... And to argue that the euro was flawed by failing to unite politics and fiscal policy with monetary strategy, that German intransigence on debt has damaged the wider project and, above all, that Greece is being crushed by its rigid and ever-tightening financial straitjacket ... ....