Bret Hart reportedly signs lucrative contract with WWE
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Bret Hart and WWE are reportedly back in business together. The Wrestling Observer is reporting that folks in AEW believe Hart has quietly signed a lucrative deal with WWE that prevents him from working with AEW, but allows him to take various independent bookings. Hart…
Raw Women’s Championship match set for Money in the Bank
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… The WWE Raw Women’s Championship match for Money in the Bank is set. Bianca Belair will defend her title against Rhea Ripley after Ripley won a fatal four-way match to become number one contender on this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw. Alexa Bliss, Doudrop,…
Dirac Live 3 room-correction software
Adoption of DSP-based speaker-and-room correction in home theater—a parallel universe to audiophilia—is almost universal. It’s easy to understand why. Home theater matured in the digital age. Its fans were expected to install several loudspeakers in a full-range setup that included at least one speaker—the subwoofer(s)—that functioned exclusively in the problematic bass region. Setup issues were…
The Graham Audio LS8/1 Loudspeakers Debut in the US
Jake Snider of Gig Harbor Audio and band Minus the Bear stands between Philip O’Hanlon of On A Higher Note (left) and Gig Harbor co-owner Erik Owen (right). After two years of COVID-enforced isolation, the ever-dapper Philip O’Hanlon, founder and president of On A Higher Note distribution, flew to the PNW (footnote 1) to present,…
Off the Well-Trod Path
(Prices are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated.) Olga Oreshyna is an artist who makes, as she calls it, “non-traditional art.” She begins by collecting old wood, “with scratches, cracks, knots, and other imperfections that are similar to real life.” She carves it into pieces, dries it, colors it with acrylic paint or stain, and…
Vince McMahon Reportedly Back In Charge at RAW, Morale Down, Backstage News on Changes
WWE Chairman Vince McMahon was “personally and heavily involved” with last night’s post-WrestleMania 39 edition of RAW in Los Angeles. A new report from PWInsider notes that McMahon had his own office space at Monday’s RAW, as he did at WrestleMania 39 and as he did before his “retirement” in the summer of 2022.…
Semrad Audio
To quote his bio created for CAF, “Master furniture maker John Semrad hand-builds each horn loudspeaker with a solid basswood core, poplar cross-ply, and American walnut face veneer. The process takes more 240 hours, and each completed horn weighs 240 pounds. With a Jean Michel Le Cleac’h profile for the horn flare and [full-range] resolution…
Robbery, Theft, Assault, Resisting Arrest Charges At A Concord Subway
CONCORD, NH — A man from Canaan is facing robbery, theft, assault, and other charges after an incident at the Downtown Concord Subway restaurant last month. Around 7:30 p.m. on March 7, officers were sent to the North Main Street eatery for a report of an attempted robbery at the store and a suspect who…
Moyen-Orient : limiter le réchauffement climatique sous +2°C permettrait d'éviter 80% des morts liés aux fortes températures
Limiter le réchauffement climatique à +2°C, l’objectif de l’accord de Paris, permettrait d’éviter des centaines de milliers de décès liés à la chaleur au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord, selon une étude publiée mardi 4 avril. La modélisation, publiée dans la revue scientifique The Lancet Planetary Health (étude en anglais), calcule que la réduction…
Spider-Man : la nouvelle bande-annonce de Spider-Verse va vous coller au plafond
Le 31 mai, Miles Morales sera de retour pour explorer le multivers dans "Across the Spider-Verse". Et la nouvelle bande-annonce promet un voyage dément, avec une multitude de versions de Spider-Man. Sorti en 2018, New Generation nous offrait six versions de Spider-Man pour le prix d’une place de cinéma (ou d’un DVD/Blu-Ray). Cinq ans et…