Bringing a New Dawn to Nightlife with His Discotheques, Régine dies at the age of 92

[ad_1] Rachelle Zylberberg was born in Belgium at the outbreak of the Great Depression: a Jewish 12-year-old child who was abandoned by her single mother in infancy and left alone at age 12 when her father, a drunken Polish refugee, was arrested in France by the Nazis. She hid in a convent where she was …

An Urgent Mission for Literary Translators: Bringing Ukrainian Voices

[ad_1] Last week, PEN America, a literary and free expression organization, held a conference. online forum with many Ukrainian writers, including Andrey Kurkov, head of PEN Ukraine. Kurkov’s novel “Gray BeesRecently translated and published into English,” is set against the backdrop of a long-running conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region …

Bringing Diversity to Children’s Books, Ashley Bryan dies at 98

[ad_1] Ashley Bryan, an eclectic artist and children’s book illustrator who introduced young readers to black characters and African folktales, bringing diversity to an often white-dominated genre, died February 4 at her niece Vanessa Robinson’s home in Sugar Land. , Texas, near Houston. She was 98 years old. Another niece, Bari Jackson, also confirmed the …

Lisa Goddard, 55, Died; Bringing Climate Data to Those Who Need It

[ad_1] Goddard became director of the institute soon after the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration withdrew funding—a major blow to a center that relied heavily on government support. Faced with low morale and an uncertain future, the institute gathered its staff and raised new and diversified funding. It then redoubled its outreach efforts, developing long-term …

How ‘No More’ Translates to Bringing What You Want to Hell

[ad_1] as two years ago HBO’s “Succession” has finished its second season, We saw Logan Roy, the head of a right-wing media empire, searching for someone from his inner circle to serve as a scapegoat for a corporate scandal. One of the candidates was his hapless son-in-law, Tom Wambsgans. But Logan’s daughter, Shiv, asked him …

Conviction of Carlos Arthur Nuzman for Bringing the Olympics to Brazil

[ad_1] The man who brought the Olympics to South America for the first time has been jailed for more than 30 years after a judge in Brazil ruled that Rio de Janeiro’s success in securing the 2016 Summer Games was based on a bribery scheme. The verdict against Carlos Arthur Nuzman, a longtime former chairman …

Bringing Attention to the Maori Language, One Song at a Time

[ad_1] In August, Lorde released her third album. “Solar energy.” Three weeks later, he released an EP called. “Te Ao Marama” Five songs from the recording were translated into New Zealand’s Indigenous language, Maori. The second version wasn’t just an afterthought – it was part of long-standing conversations in his home country about developing a …

Artists Bringing Activism to Gallery Spaces and Beyond

[ad_1] One of the more iconic ancestors of today’s data-driven activist art collectives, guerilla girlsEmerging in 1985 amid a disillusionment with the commercialization of art . Guerrilla Girls, who wore gorilla masks and used the names of deceased female artists as pseudonyms, targeted the public with posters and slogans that challenged the status quo, using …