A pair of Brandon University (BU) School of Music faculty members are collaborating with visiting musicians Tommy Crane and Thom Gill for an evening of genre-bending electronic folk this week.
The Brandon Chamber Players present Dance Music For All Occasions, by Tommy Crane on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m., in BU’s Kinsmen Rehearsal Hall. The performance will feature Crane (drums, percussion, synthesizer, electronics) and Gill (guitar synthesizer, vocals) along with School of Music faculty members Leanne Zacharias (cello) and Marika Galea (bass), as well as BU music student Anil Ramgotra ( percussion).
“It’s a pleasure to present my dear…
The disruption of the Library’s access to publications normally available via UK Electronic Legal Deposit is ongoing, following the cyberattack on the British Library at the end of last October. As a UK Legal Deposit Library, the Library of Trinity College Dublin along with the other legal deposit libraries, the British Library the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford and Cambridge University Library, share the infrastructure for UK electronic legal deposit publications.
This incident has since received wide press coverage, eg in the Financial Times and the New Yorker. For up-to-date…
CPS Revising Asset Management Policy After 77,000 Electronic Devices Reported Missing | Chicago News
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Chicago Public Schools is set to take additional steps to revamp its inventory management system, after a district watchdog found that more than 77,000 CPS-owned devices were marked as lost or stolen in recent years.
The Chicago Board of Education this month will approve a month-long public comment period on proposed changes to the district’s existing asset and inventory management policy. That move came weeks after CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher published investigative results showing that $23 million worth of electronic devices were unaccounted for.
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced CPS to switch to remote learning in early…
A British host has been left speechless on live TV while watching the promo for Meghan and Harry’s Netflix documentary, as he pointed out the brutal “dig” at Prince William and Kate Middleton.
GB News presenter Patrick Christys appeared to convulse after watching the one-minute trailer, which closes out with the Duchess of Sussex saying, “When the stakes are this high, doesn’t it make more sense to hear the story from us?”
A visibly floored Christys reacted in sheer disgust after seeing the sneak preview, saying, “Oh my days. I tell you what, I didn’t think it was possible to…
Velda Tan is one of those people who makes you feel like you’re speaking too quickly. We’re in a cafe chatting about her twenty decades in the Singapore fashion scene, and while my questions are coming fast and furious, the 36-year-old’s answers are measured, and her tone is gentle and thoughtful.
When she says that after eight years of running a fast fashion business, she felt like she was burned out and needed a break, you believe her. Not because you think she couldn’t keep up with fast fashion’s frenetic pace, but because you get an impression that someone like…
Calls have been made for a tax to be placed on fast fashion products entering Ireland which has been described as “cheap rubbish that falls apart”.
It would follow a bill approved by the lower house of French parliament this week that will see cheap and discardable clothing hit with a €10 levy per garment by 2030.
The French Government is also considering other measures such as an advertising ban on low-cost fast fashion productswhich are often mass-produced in China.
On Lunchtime Live today, sustainability teacher Barbara Connolly said the proposed measures were “fantastic” and should be considered in Ireland.…
The official YouTube channel for Kunihiko Ikuhara‘s original television anime project Sarazanmai began streaming the anime’s fourth “linked promotional video” on Friday. The anime begins with the same clips as last week’s video, but adds more footage and a different character at the end. The fourth character is Reo, who has previously been announced.
The YouTube channel will stream five weekly “linked promotional videos.”
The studios MAPPA (Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World, Rage of Bahamut Genesis) and Lapin Track (Yuri Kuma Arashi) are producing the series. “Ikunirappa” is credited with the original story; the original story…
STAR STUDDED: An eclectic mix of celebrities caused a commotion outside of the Dior show Friday, with crowds lining the streets for Tomorrow X Together (TXT) and NewJeans’ member Haerin.
K-pop royalty TXT and Haerin arrived just as British Princess Eugenie was trying to find her seat. Kate Moss sat next to TXT’s Yeonjun, but the two didn’t interact, instead both turning their cameras on the runway show.
Kim Jones created a magical, mirrored world inside Paris École Militaire for Dior’s Paris Fashion Week show with a spinning stage and a starry sky that dazzled guests.
It was a way…
