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Washington Top Club remembered as town reaches 60
BBC News· 6 days agoDenise Graham helped to set up the Usworth Working Men's Club in Washington, affectionately known as The Top Club, as a place for new locals to meet. The...
Young The Giant Expand 'Mind Over Matter' For 10th Anniversary
antiMUSIC· 2 days agoUpon its original release, Mind Over Matter (produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen and mixed by Rich Costey) reached #7 on the Billboard 200 chart and #2 on Top Rock Albums. The album's title track ...
ZeroTier raises $13.5M to help avert CrowdStrike-like network problems
TechCrunch· 3 days agoWith the CrowdStrike update continuing to cause havoc across the planet, a startup has raised $13.5...
Unlikely Heroes and Heroines in These Gems From Mexico Cinema’s Golden Age
New York Times· 3 days agoA Lincoln Center retrospective puts the spotlight on midcentury movies aimed at the masses that...
Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink
The Guardian· 4 days agoHot air wafted through the heavy, gold-lined doors of a Las Vegas casino as they opened, offering a reminder of a disaster quietly unfolding outside. It’s hard to tell from inside the cool, ...
Paris Mayor urges visitors to enjoy lifestyle as much as landmarks
Reuters· 6 days agoWhile every tourist since 1889 has marvelled at the Eiffel Tower, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants...
Inside £350m Olympic security op with missiles, SAS-style unit & war barracks
The Irish Sun· 4 days agoFRANCE has splashed a whopping £350million on their tight-knit security operations ahead of the...
From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office
The Guardian· 5 days agoOn 21 January 1989, the day after George HW Bush’s inauguration, David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a neo-Nazi, and the head of an organisation called the National Association ...
The spectre of the Olympics
The New Statesman· 3 days agoYesterday evening saw the start of the Paris Olympics, with a slightly mad opening ceremony which probably asked more questions than it answered. With...