CJ Perry Provides Another Health Update, Says She’s Finally Taking Antibiotics That Work For MRSA Infection
CJ Perry provides a health update. The star pro-wrestling manager, who is currently working for AEW, was rushed back to the hospital after more complications arose from the MRSA infection in her finger. Perry took to social media (X & TikTok) and revealed that she needs to get her finger re-dressed everyday after the…
Ukrainian police, TV broadcasts return to long-occupied city
Ukrainian police officers returned Saturday, along with TV and radio services, to the southern city of Kherson following the withdrawal of Russian troops, part of fast but cautious efforts to make the only regional capital captured by Russia livable after months of occupation. Yet one official still described the city as “a humanitarian catastrophe.” People…
Re-Tales #38: Supply Chains—Keeping It Local
McIntosh CEO Charlie Randall, pictured outside the company’s Binghamton factory in 2006. (Photo: John Atkinson) To remain profitable, many hi-fi companies have outsourced production to faraway countries with lower labor costs. That, certainly, is a legitimate way of doing business. Yet many other hi-fi makers have chosen to work with suppliers that are local, regional,…
Aural Robert: Nanci Griffith
A vital member of the second wave of Texas singer-songwriters that emerged in the 1970s and included Lucinda Williams, Butch Hancock, and Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith was a product of a time when, to paraphrase a once-ubiquitous bumper sticker, Austin was still weird. Gifted with a delicate, sweet voice and fierce determination, she started playing…
Now Listen Here
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Falls Church, Virginia, dealer Now Listen Here enjoys an unusual pedigree. By day, part-owner Shayne Tenace (who also runs Tenacious Sound) builds nuclear power plants; a Canadian project currently occupies his time. But by night—watch out—Shayne spins vinyl on the brand new Rega NAIA turntable and Vandersteen Quatro speakers. (Despite his nocturnal…
“Il a ses têtes”, départs en cascade chez BFMTV : Marc-Olivier Fogiel en cause ?
Bruce Toussaint, Pascale de La Tour Du Pin, Aurélie Casse… Et si cette vague de départs des présentateurs sur BFMTV s’expliquait par le comportement de Marc-Olivier Fogiel, patron de la chaîne d’information en continue ? Dans le magazine Télé 2 Semaines en kiosque lundi 30 octobre, le magazine a mené l’enquête. Un journaliste assure à…
Des nanars avant Marvel ? Samuel L. Jackson et James Gunn ont commencé dans des séries Z !
Temple du cinéma bis, voire carrément Z, mais toujours sympathiques, les productions de l'écurie Troma ont vu passer de nombreuses stars qui firent parfois leurs débuts chez elle, avant de devenir célèbres. Voici 10 exemples. Fondé par le toujours facétieux Lloyd Kaufman épaulé par son ami Michael Herz, Troma Entertainment est à ce jour l’une…
Justin Webber’s Ampsandsound
Ampsandsound is perhaps best known for his amplifiers made to drive either headphones or loudspeakers. (See for example Herb Reichert’s Gramophone Dreams #47.) At this show, however, Ampsandsound manufacturer/designer Justin Weber was showing his Arches monoblocks ($50,000/pair), which put out up to 65W each with KT-88 tubes or 85W each with KT-150 tubes. The other…
Re-Tales #36: Two Dealerships Expanding
Often it seems we’re living at a time of hi-fi–industry contraction—that expansion in retail, if it exists at all, is online, and the number of real-world dealerships is shrinking. But at least two California dealerships, San Diego’s Alma Audio (top photo) and Pasadena’s Audio Element (bottom photo), are expanding in the actual, offline world. Why…
(Re)imagining a Brahms piano quintet—without piano
Brahms first scored what was to become his Quintet in F minor, Op.34, for piano, two violins, viola, and cello for two violins, one viola, and two cellos—no piano. The scoring and perhaps the music was inspired by Schubert’s similarly piano-less, two-cello Quintet in C major. The original Brahms score has been lost. Cellist Terry…