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Former Mayor Jane Byrne made a rare public appearance Friday as Chicago’s main confluence of major highways was renamed in her honor, a nod to her status as the only female ever elected to the city’s top political post. |
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In an unusual gesture for a member high in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy in Cuba, the apostolic nuncio Bruno Musaro spoke openly about Cuba’s “extreme poverty and human and civil degradation.” |
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The nuncio spoke at a service in Italy and Vatican Radio later posted his remarks on its Polish website. |
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Paul McDonagh-Forde is a past pupil of Sligo Grammar School and is studying Law at Trinity. He is the son of Pat Forde and Pauline McDonagh of Woodtown Lodge. Paul served as organist and director of music at Calry Parish Church in Sligo from 2011 to 2013. |
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It wasn’t always like that – back when the Great Western Railroad came through town. Those were Churchville’s glory days. There was a stockyard and a grocery store. They even had a hotel. But that was a long time ago and the trains don’t rumble down the tracks anymore. The stockyard is empty. The grocery store boarded up. |
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A native of Miami, where he still lives, McCraney was in town for the start of rehearsals of "Choir Boy," which opens Sept. 26 at the Geffen Playhouse. A few days before we met he participated in a talk-back after a performance of his play "The Brothers Size" at the Fountain Theatre, which had previously produced the L. |
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Two years ago she delivered her standup routine to 10 people in a strip club. Now shes a star of the Edinburgh Fringe and touring the country. She talks biros, big families and why the new pope is bloody marvellous The day after returning from playing 23 sold-out gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe and.... |
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Japan's former wrestling champ Antonio Inoki is leading a delegation to North Korea to see a pro wrestling match, while North Korea's famed cheerleading squad won't be going to a competition in South Korea |
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The Algiers pastor arrested in a shooting outside his church struck a fleeing copper thief twice in the back of the head, an arrest warrant obtained Friday says. At first, the truck carrying two men drove toward the Rev. W.L.T. Littleton, so Littleton opened fire, the warrant says. |
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It was Community Services Day at the Mount Fortune Seventh-day Adventist Church on August 23 under the theme Go Light Your World. As part of that occasion, the |