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All Pittsburghers can bask in the glow of the PSO

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 09 Oct 2016
I’ve been a Pittsburgher for all of my 68.5 years and I’ve never attended a Steelers or a Penguins game. The number of Pirates games I’ve been to is fewer than a dozen. But I remember vividly the 1960 World Series, the six Super Bowl wins and the Stanley Cup celebrations. I am proud of these teams because I am proud of my city ... ....

Here to entertain

Edit The Hindu 09 Oct 2016
Abhinetri is a film you wouldn’t want to slot as a horror comedy; the tag that fits it right is an entertainer. Director A L Vijay proves that all one requires is a little bit of sophistication and innovative writing to breathe some life into the genre. A rather simplistic plot with no major twists, Abhinetri rides on quality humour ... The director is in terrific control of a product that’s vivid and chirpy throughout ... Cast ... ....

A long journey from Arkansas to a presidential endorsement

Edit Denver Post 09 Oct 2016
Spencer Platt, Getty Images. Former President Bill Clinton puts his arm around Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after her debate against Donald Trump last Monday. Hillary Clinton got me started writing about politics ... An Arkansan by birth, I’d grown up watching the Clintons ... Related Articles. Endorsement ... But there she was in the frozen heartland, in vivid pantsuits, still fighting for every last chance to win ... ....

Review: With an eye on conflict

Edit DNA India 09 Oct 2016
--> Gargi Gupta . Sun, 9 Oct 2016-07.50am , dna. Despair, loss and outrage find expression in an online exhibition showcasing works by Kashmiri artists. Gargi Gupta takes a look at the 'To Art is to Resist' show. The artwork, a digitally altered sketch, shows a young boy in close-up, sleeping against a background of vivid green and dark maroon, the colour of congealed blood ... "Nasir Ahmed Khan/ 5 years old, Blinded, Kashmiri" ... ....

One pujo, many avatars

Edit DNA India 09 Oct 2016
--> Yajnaseni Chakraborty . Sun, 9 Oct 2016-07.55am , dna. Embracing the spectrum from traditional to contemporary, Durga Puja is a reflection of the times with a transgender Durga, for instance, and even a Barbie Durga ... Journalist Sudeshna Banerjee gives a vivid description of that puja in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) in her book, Celebrating the Goddess ... The Devi, flashing fury from her three eyes, had clutched a tuft of auburn hair ... ....

Shirley Jackson in Love & Death

Edit The New York Review of Books 09 Oct 2016
Characterized by the caprice and fatalism of fairy tales, the fiction of Shirley Jackson exerts a mordant, hypnotic spell ... Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr ... Tessie Hutchinson on the morning of the lottery; illustration by Miles Hyman from his book Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery ... Oppenheimer’s portrait of Jackson is vivid and memorable, in the recollections of her children Laurence and Sally. ... ....

REVIEWS: 3 books paint vivid pictures of formidable women

Edit CBC 08 Oct 2016
Joanne Kelly reviews Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt, Boy, Snow, Bird, by Helen Oyeyemi, and The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay ... ....

Matt Ulery celebrates 'Festival' release with signature sound

Edit Orlando Sentinel 08 Oct 2016
Some composers labor for years to find a voice of their own. Matt Ulery's has been unmistakable for a long time, whether he's writing for big band or various incarnations of his quintet Loom or you-name-it. His newest album, "Festival," makes that case vividly, since it features three distinct... ....

Ben Stokes is relishing his new-found responsibility as England vice-captain

Edit The Daily Mail 08 Oct 2016
PAUL NEWMAN IN DHAKA. Trevor Bayliss identified Ben Stokes as the heartbeat of his young England side as soon as he took charge and rarely has he demonstrated it more vividly ... ....

Music review: BBC SSO/Thomas Dausgaard

Edit Scotsman 08 Oct 2016
But the concert burst into vivid life with the arrival of Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, who filled the lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto with energy and wonder, crystalline clarity and brittle brilliance while perched precariously on the ......

No relief for 68-year-old who molested minor

Edit The Hindu 08 Oct 2016
Justice S. P. Garg denied relief to vendor Ram Lal, who was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by a trial court ... The court noted that the girl had turned 12 by the time she reached the examination stage in the court, but was able to recollect the incident vividly ... ....

Dance company sparkles with ‘Asipim’

Edit Graphic 08 Oct 2016
The National Dance Company of Ghana last week presented a stunning rendition of ‘Asipim’, a piece that fuses various traditional Ghanaian dances at the National Theatre in Accra ... Directed by Nii Tete Yartey, the performance choreographed F ... “It is fascinating to see a wide variety of our traditional dance pieces theatrically put together in a manner that vividly showcases unity in diversity,” said Yaw Opoku Addo, a poet in Accra ... ....

From effigy to ash, this Muslim family ensures Ravana gets his due

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Kanpur. Beyond the barrier of religion, a Muslim family in Banda district is a vivid example of preserving communal harmony. Tufail Ahmed Khan, not only makes effigies of Ravana, Kumbhakaran and Meghnad, but also set afire Ravana and his aides on Vijayadashmi day. His family members, who believe that Vijayadashmi is celebrated for victory of good over evil, have been in this work for nearly five decades ... Religion doesn't matter to me....
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