Sounds
During wreath laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Master Sgt. Matthew Byrne marches out to the Tomb, brings his bugle to his lips and slowly sounds out the 24 notes of the bugle call, “taps.” When finished, he tucks the bugle under his arm, salutes and marches away. As […]
Oakland drummer, songwriter and producer Paul Tillman Smith. Courtesy: Paul Tillman Smith With the California Hotel’s neon-lit marquee illuminating a downtown nightscape, the cover art for the new album “The Sounds of Oakland” could serve as a movie poster for an early ‘70s urban romance or neo-noir thriller. The giveaway, aside from the tagline “music […]
CNN — Sonar picked up banging sounds on Tuesday from underneath the water in the North Atlantic Ocean while searching for a submersible with five people onboard that went missing two days earlier on . . .
The call against police brutality is sadly as relevant today as it was back then. It wasn’t just over the pond that music was rising up against racism. Grassroots group Rock against Racism organised an all-day event in East London’s Victoria Park in 1978, headlined by Tom Robinson and The Clash. Its aim was to […]
WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – Democratic President Joe Biden and a Republican negotiator said on Friday they were working on a deal to raise the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling after the Treasury Department warned that a June 5 default loomed without action. The two sides have been negotiating for weeks on an agreement […]
KYIV, Ukraine — President Biden made a surprise trip to theembattled capital of Ukraine on Monday, traveling under a cloak of secrecy into a war zone to demonstrate what he called America’s “unwavering support” of the effort to beat back Russian forces nearly a year after they invaded the country. Mr. Biden arrived unannounced early […]
In 1950, Alan Turing, the British computer scientist who cracked the Enigma code during World War II, wrote an article in which he posed a seemingly absurd question: “Can machines think?” The debut late last year of the eerily lifelike ChatGPT appeared to move us closer to an answer. Overnight, a fully formed silicon-based chatbot […]
Music has been a part of Daphne Brooks’ life since she can remember. Her childhood home was filled with the sounds of all kinds of records, including Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin. She even played a little bit of piano herself. But she says she never got very good at it. So Brooks turned her […]
TOKYO, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Japan’s government warned on Saturday that new electric vehicle tax credits in the United States could ultimately deter further investment by the Japanese there and hit employment in the world’s biggest economy. In a comment submitted to the U.S. Treasury Department, the government raised a number of concerns about the […]
Lakeesha Adams anticipated an intense volleyball match between her daughter’s junior varsity team, the Paetow High Panthers, and their rivals, the Jordan High Warriors — but she didn’t think it would resort to alleged racist taunts. “It was clearly audible that it was monkey sounds,” Adams told ABC News, also providing videos from the Friday […]