Huntington Bay Man Elected President Of LI Cares Board Of Directors
By HAUPPAUGE, NY — David Herold was elected as president of the Long Island Cares Board of Directors in December, the Hauppauge-based food bank announced. He replaces Dave Cassaro, who was elected in 2019 and served a four-year term. Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store Herold began his relationship with Long Island Cares in 2006, after reading […]
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Among the Musical #4: Seven Sonic Scenes of David Lindley
Photo by Harald Krichel Before offering a few modest observations about the music, life, and times of David Lindley, a man who never met a stringed instrument he couldn’t master and who died on March 3, I’ll make two points, both somewhat contrarian. In the flood of obituaries and tributes that have appeared since his […]
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Gramophone Dreams #72: Abyss Diana & Focal Utopia headphones; Eleven Audio Broadway & Naim Uniti Atom HE amplifiers
Since the 1980s, I’ve been asking every speaker designer I meet, “What amplifier do you recommend using with your speakers?” Annoyingly, they always say, “My speakers are easy to drive. Any amp will do.” Whereupon I’d whine, “Aww, come on man, don’t feed me that. What amp did you use when you were designing the […]
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Teen suspect in Brazil school shootings which killed 4 wore swastika, police say
A former student armed with a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver who killed four people and wounded 12 in two schools in Brazil had a swastika pinned to his vest and had been planning the attacks for two years, police said. The shootings took place Friday at a public school with elementary and middle school […]
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Qatar acknowledges “between 400 and 500” workers died preparing for World Cup
A top Qatari official involved in the country’s World Cup organization has put the number of worker deaths for the tournament “between 400 and 500” for the first time, a drastically higher number than any other previously offered by Doha. The comment by Hassan al-Thawadi, the secretary-general of Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, […]
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1 dead, several missing after fire, explosion on Jersey
An explosion and fire in an apartment building on the Channel Island of Jersey killed one person and left several missing Saturday, police said. Robin Smith, the chief officer of the States of Jersey Police, said during a news conference that “around a dozen” residents were missing following the blast in the town of St […]
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Après Killers of the Flower Moon, quel est le prochain film de Scorsese avec DiCaprio ?
Leonardo DiCaprio et Martin Scorsese ne se quittent plus ! Après Killers of the Flower Moon, ils vont s'associer à nouveau pour un projet qui s'annonce passionnant et ambitieux. Killers of the Flower Moon, en salles depuis le 18 octobre, marque la 6ème collaboration entre Martin Scorsese et Leonardo DiCaprio. Les deux artistes ont traversé […]
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Devialet launches the Mania Bluetooth Speaker
Picture this: the Devialet Phantom, reviewed by Jim Austin here, is suddenly sphere-shaped rather than pill-shaped. Now imagine shrinking it down to the girth of a fat grapefruit (or the size of a Cabasse iO3 speaker)—so, a little under 7″ in diameter. The Phantom’s push-push configuration remains the same, so you’ll see the opposing drivers […]
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Activist Malala Yousafzai: Women are being “erased from public life” as Taliban issues education ban
Nobel Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai told “CBS Mornings” that she is not shocked that the Taliban banned women and girls from attending universities and from getting higher education in Afghanistan. She said that ever since the Taliban captured power over 15 months ago, conditions for women are getting worse and years of […]
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Focal’s Dolby Atmos Demo
Some believe that Dolby Atmos, Apple’s spatial audio variant, and other immersive technologies are the wave of the future. While the best way to determine what the future will bring is to live long enough to render the future the present, Jim Austin and I independently dipped into Focal Naim’s impressive self-contained 7.2.4. Dolby Atmos […]
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