- Yahoo News Canada
'Survivor 46': Canadian Venus Vafa on the 'cruel' isolation she felt on the island, being proud for speaking her mind
Venus Vafa got voted off the island in Survivor 46, with an idol in her pocket, but left with the words "women, life, freedom."
- Associated Press
Zurich presents counterrevolutionary staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle under Noseda and Homoki
In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that sparked 13 minutes of applause at the Zurich Opera House. Noseda, conducting Wagner’s epic for the first time just after his 60th birthday, was drenched in sweat as if emerging from a swimming pool when he invited the entire Philharmonic Zurich on stage to join the cast for curtain calls on Thursday night. “For me this Ring here is one of the most intelligent Rings because we tell the story, and the story is really not that stupid like the modern directors think,” said bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who has sung Wotan in 20 different productions.
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Authorities make arrest in 2001 killing of Georgia law student who was found dead in a burning home
More than two decades after a University of Georgia law student was found dead in her burning home, authorities have arrested a man and charged him with murder in her slaying. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Athens-Clarke County police on Thursday announced the arrest of Edrick Lamont Faust, 48, in the January 2001 killing of Tara Louise Baker. Firefighters responding to a blaze at Baker's apartment in Athens found the 23-year-old first-year law student's body.
