Taiwanese professional volleyball team Steel Eagle officially announced today (21) that they will employ senior Dutch coach Henk Gootjes as the team head coach to lead the team to welcome the first season of Taiwan Professional Volleyball League (TPVL) to come. Hank coach has more than ten years of professional volleyball training experience and has … [Read more…]
šalḫanti-/šalḫiyanti- lexical filing card, with this paragraph from Disappearance of Telipinu in the Chicago Hittite Dictionary. By permission of the author. For our Poetry Making series, we ask poets and translators to dissect the poems they publish in our pages. Naomi Harris’s translation of three Hittite poems appears in our new Fall issue, no. 253. … [Read more…]
Women’s Volleyball World Championship 2025 FIVB is ready to rewrite the guidebook. For the first time, Thailand hosted a dispute, where 32 best teams in the world will fight from August 22 to September 7. The expanded format increases the intensity, the promising stadium and the general meeting of your edges. Global interest has jumped, … [Read more…]
If you are a golfer from the Tri-State area, you must have heard stories from friends, family, and casual acquisitions about when they play bethpage. Did they camp in the parking lot last night to take a place on the Tee sheet, did they appear to play black but eventually played red, or did they … [Read more…]
MORE MOSES: Artist, designer and self-proclaimed bohemian Rebecca Moses unveiled her latest collection of paintings, “Elegance in Suspension,” at Ralph Pucci gallery in Los Angeles on April 7. “This series features a collection of paintings depicting women occupying and moving through space with certainty, even though the environment remains unresolved,” Moses said. The figures in … [Read more…]
Lily Allen. Photo courtesy of Jean Garnett. “Who is Madeline?” my daughter asked. We had been singing Lily Allen’s new song all morning—“Da da da da da da da da who is Madeline?”; we can’t forget it. How should I answer it? Madeline seems to be the woman who cheated on the singer’s husband? Then … [Read more…]
Charlotte was the second most competitive rental market in the Southeast in 2023, surpassing metro areas like Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; or Charleston. It ranked 40th among the hottest markets of the year with a Rental Competitivity Index (RCI) of 54. However, finding an apartment in Charlotte was a bit easier this year than it was … [Read more…]
Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Louis XVIII Receiving the Duc d’Angoulême on His Return from the Spanish Campaign, December 2, 1823, 1823, oil on canvas, 30.1 x 42.7″. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) was born in Saint-Malo, on the northern coast of Brittany, the youngest son of an aristocratic family. After an isolated adolescence … [Read more…]
2025 feels like a big year. Two volleyball world championships will be revealed in sequence in Southeast Asia. That means double the action and new chapters in the history of sports. First, women are the center of attention in Thailand. Then, the people will illuminate the Philippines. This tournament is not only about who won … [Read more…]
The “god of four” bounced back from his Olympic nightmare with a third straight world figure skating title. PRAGUE 1, Czechia — Ilia Malinin returned to the top podium. Six weeks after a skating disaster knocked the Olympic gold medal favorite off the podium, the “quad god” performed big jump after big jump, and a … [Read more…]