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Hey Noties, ready to frock it out and show lots of tux love to some of the best benefits and fundraisers this city has ever scene (wordplay intentional)? Good, because this crammed calendar is going to keep you partying well into the new year. The countdown is also on for next week’s supersized, high-voltage season-opener column. |
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BEWDLEY Festival begins its 31st consecutive year today (Friday, October 12) and the Festival Theatre at the Mercure Bewdley Heath Hotel will resound to a performance from Roland Gift and his six piece band. A spokesman said: “Roland Gift rose to fame as the charismatic frontman for The Fine Young.... |
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“I implore you , I beg you, I order you, in the name of God: stop the repression!” When the archbishop denounced the military government for its campaign of violence against its opponents—and called on soldiers carrying out the violence to disobey orders—some men in the military decided that it was time to kill him. |
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An essential date for blues fans – blues diva Dana Gillespie headlines the Fine City Blues Festival this year. The series of gigs and nights in October and November always attracts plenty of new fans too who discover a rich mixture of well known artists and exciting up and coming new bands. |
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VU Ramakrishna Pillai. Almost everyone in Kerala besieged by the floods this year have had the same narrative to tell—how they had never ever seen rains or floods of this scale before. In their living memory, they don’t have a benchmark to compare it to. |
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As archbishop of San Salvador, Romero emerged as a "voice of the voiceless" during intense social and political conflict in El Salvador. He was an outspoken advocate for the poor and victims of government repression, denouncing scores of killings by right wing death squads in a Central American country roiled by protests over electoral fraud. |
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To put out the growing fire sparked by the WhatsApp message, Garlick joined Costa’s radio show from the U.S. He said the WhatsApp message was “full of total lies, and frankly libelous statements.” He called its distribution “disgusting,” a “campaign against our girls.” He and board chair Skip Borghese had issued a statement a few days earlier. |
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New project gives vocational training, education and small business support to 4,400 youth. "The youth of South Sudan are a huge untapped potential. They must be supported to access job training, employment and businesses opportunities. The EMPOWER project will bring new opportunities to thousands.... |
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Twenty-seven years ago, a small group of middle-class Christians sat around a kitchen table in the west end of Toronto. They had talked for hours in search of a name for their new project of welcoming refugees as good neighbours. Finally, in desperation, someone said, “Let’s name it after a person.” Several names were mentioned to no avail. |
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Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good, and pastor at Solomon's Porch, a holistic missional Christian community in Minneapolis, formerly a church and now a registered nonprofit, speaks at a rally at Veterans Park in Richfield, Minn. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. |
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Having occasionally prayed for release from Winston Churchill (two movies last year alone; ten-plus door-slamming episodes of The Crown ; news that Boris Johnson’s biography just topped 250,000 UK sales) I dragged my heels to Churchill’s Passions (8 October, 9:45am). |
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