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How a ‘raucous predeath farewell birthday party’ inspired Luis Alberto Urrea’s bestseller ‘The House of Broken Angels’


Moira’s Seattle Times Book Club will meet online on May 13 to discuss “The House of Broken Angels.” Author Luis Alberto Urrea will speak online in a Seattle Arts & Lectures presentation on May 20.




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‘Crawled through broken glass’: What it’s like to face down the coronavirus — when you’re 96


James Thompson was considered "a goner" when he got COVID-19 last month. But he's here to tell that if he can face down the virus at age 96, and come out the other side, then we can too.




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In one month, the meat industry’s supply chain broke. Here’s what you need to know.


With closures in meat processing plants across the country because of the spread of the coronavirus among workers, food analysts are forecasting shortages of beef, pork and poultry on store shelves. Here's a Q&A on what is happening to the food supply chain.




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Senior spotlight: Archbishop Murphy’s Brooke Jordan left her name in record book


The lefty slugger broke the Wildcats' home-run record, but she was hoping for more.




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Italian Soccer Club Juventus' Fan Token Begins Trading On CHILZ.NET

Italian soccer club Juventus' Fan Token ($JUV) has begun trading on Wednesday on Chiliz Exchange (Chiliz.net), the world's first exchange platform for sports & entertainment launched in January 2020. This is the first among a new tradeable class of digital asset linked to a professional sporting club, making Juventus the first tokenized sports team.




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Wind Concertos - BOTTI, S. / TURNER, J.L. / GRYC, S.M. (Heavy Weather) (Koffman, Mendoker, M. Goldberg, Hartt Wind Ensemble, Adsit) (8.574087)

The Hartt School Wind Ensemble presents recent concertante works by three contemporary American composers—demonstrating once more the versatility of the ensemble, heard here in conjunction with soloists. Susan Botti’s sull’ala is inspired by flight, expressed in rhythm, harmony and texture, while Jess Langston Turner describes powerful meteorological phenomena in Heavy Weather. In Guignol, Stephen Michael Gryc conjures witty banter and frenetic action from his puppet hero.




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Joy Crookes

The lovely Joy Crookes interviewed at MTV after being nominated for the MTV PUSH: Ones to Watch Shortlist for 2020 on November 21st 2019.




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‘I get choked up’: Jess Mauboy’s emotional letter to her mum

Jessica Mauboy needs connection with her family likes she needs oxygen. She usually travels from Sydney to Darwin every couple of weeks to spend time with her parents Therese and Ferdi, sisters Sandra, Jenny, Catherine and Sophia and her nieces and nephews.




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March 14, 2020: Spoken Word & Run a Marathon

Shane Koyczan and Charlie Demers deliver some poetic justice when they discuss spoken word. Then, Rebecca Kohler and Jacob Samuel run a few things by their audience regarding marathons.



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Detecting COVID-19 in sewage, a failed plot in Venezuela, Animal Crossing, zookeepers, Fraggle Rock and more

Wastewater as an early warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks, how a statistician conquered Roll Up The Rim, the Canadian-born former Green Beret behind a failed plot in Venezuela, Nintendo's Animal Crossing brings calm to self-isolation, how zookeepers are coping with the pandemic, the return of Fraggle Rock and more.



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Friday, April 3, 2020: Rufus Wainwright, Brooke Lynn Hytes and more

Today on q: singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, visual artist Liza Lou, drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes, singer-songwriter Basia Bulat, visual artist John Hartman.




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How this brand has outsold Coke in Scotland for over a century

Sometimes, small brands manage to outsmart their giant counterparts. And this tiny soda brand has done it for over a century. Goliath, meet David.



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Nirvana's Nevermind cover almost looked completely different

Before coming up with the dangling dollar bill, the grunge band had a few other ideas.



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Bernardine Evaristo on black British identity and her Booker-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other 

The award-winning British author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about amplifying the voices of marginalized people through literature.



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The Strokes - Comedown Machine

Brilliant pop songs – and sometimes that’s all that really matters.




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Aged Care Commission threatens to revoke license for aged care facility at the centre of deadly COVID-19 outbreak

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is threatening to revoke the license of the facility at the centre of a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at Penrith in Sydney's west.



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Faustus - Broken Down Gentlemen

Traditional folk arrangements redrawn in a refreshingly sophisticated style.




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Marianne Faithfull - Broken English – Deluxe Edition

An absolute tour de force of an album from an artist with nothing left to lose.






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WA town of Cookernup wins fight to reinstate its postcode

To many, a postcode is just four numbers that direct your mail. To the small community of Cookernup it's the town's identity.




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Heavy smokers 'will spend $10,000 a year', with addicts saying tax hike won't stop them

Alice says the tobacco tax increase won't act as an incentive to break the addiction because smoking already has a "hold" on her life.




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St Kilda CEO says the club is left "heartbroken" by Danny Frawley death

St Kilda chief executive Matt Finnis says the club has been left heartbroken by the death of former captain Danny Frawley.




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If the Landgate sale is not a broken promise from Labor, it is certainly a big about-turn

The Landgate deal represents a sizeable change in position by WA Labor, a party that spent years fighting tooth and nail against privatisations but just locked in one of the state's biggest-ever deals with the private sector, writes Jacob Kagi.



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AFL player 'heartbroken and devastated' over missing big brother

Demons footballer Michael Hibberd makes an emotional tribute to his older brother, who went missing while fishing earlier this week.




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Smoke detector hides tiny camera




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Stradbroke Island bushfire rages ahead of school holiday population boom

A large bushfire is continuing to burn through swamp and bushland on North Stradbroke Island, off Brisbane, ahead of an expected influx of 8,000 school holiday visitors.




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Drought-stricken Broken Hill's water supply switched to Murray River as $500m pipeline turned on

As water supplies run low for towns reliant on the Darling River in western NSW, the Government says it has drought-proofed Broken Hill with a 270-kilometre pipeline from the Murray River.




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Broken Hill no longer 'Labor citadel,' as party outgunned by Shooters in NSW election

The Labor Party's hold on the city that helped give birth to the modern union movement and the eight-hour working day loosens.



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Broken Hill teachers cultural walk



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Broken Hill solar farm



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Digging up Broken Hill's mining and union history which tells of life and death underground

The headstones at Broken Hill's cemetery tell the story not only of the city's colourful history, but the progression of workers' rights.



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Bill Nighy falls in love with Australian outback, filming Buckley's Chance in Broken Hill

Bill Nighy says he's fallen in love with Australian outback skies and small-town charm while filming his new movie, Buckley's Chance, in Broken Hill.




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Drought-struck grazier at Gum Park Station, near Broken Hill, NSW, sells up to save himself

Wes Herring's family has farmed north-west of Broken Hill for 106 years. Deciding to sell after so long was a heartbreaking decision, but Mr Herring says he otherwise risked paying the ultimate price.




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Broken Hill Prison dancers close



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Broken Hill prison NAIDOC signs



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Broken Hill prison Johnny Cakes



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Murray Cooke and Inmate perform



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Broken Hill prison dancers



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Broken Heel Aurora Arsenic



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Broken Heel 2019 town square



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Broken Heel night crowd



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Broken Heel Festival celebrates diversity and inclusion in outback and regional Australia

Twenty-five years since The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert shone a light on homophobia in the outback, the landscape has changed in regional Australia.



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There's a chilling reason for your smoke alarm going off in the middle of the night

Falling temperatures on the Sunshine Coast may be leading to an increase in false fire alarms, experts say.




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Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust

This jaunty look at the Cosmic Psychos's 30-year history has unexpected depths