Phaenelagh “Nel” Lenard Burnett is an outlier in a most basic sense: She’s a woman who works in hi-fi. For the past several decades—essentially all her adult life—she has immersed herself in running her father’s audio business. Her father is John Lenard Burnett of Lenard Audio, a veteran designer, researcher, and educator whose work has … Continue reading "Re-Tales #35: Hi-Fi by the Book"

In 1984, Metal Blade Records of Van Nuys, California, released the fifth edition of its Metal Massacre series, which had already unleashed such bands as RATT, Metallica, Slayer, and Lizzy Borden onto an unwitting music-buying public. On the second track, among future stalwarts Overkill, Fates Warning, and Metal Church as well as no-hit wonders Lethyl … Continue reading "Rabbit Holes #7: Quebec’s Voïvod remakes its own best songs"

Kherson, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit to a key city in southern Ukraine on Monday, just days after it was liberated from Russian occupation. Zelenskyy arrived in Kherson Monday morning and told soldiers and civilians that the liberation of the only regional Ukrainian capital that Russia had managed to wrest control of … Continue reading "Zelenskyy visits Kherson just days after Russia’s retreat, calls it “beginning of the end of the war”"

Helsinki — Investigators found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two natural gas pipelines were damaged in an act of “gross sabotage,” the prosecutor leading Sweden’s preliminary investigation said Friday.   Mats Ljungqvist of the Swedish Prosecution Authority said the investigators carefully documented the area where the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines … Continue reading "“Traces of explosives” found near undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines hit by “gross sabotage”"

Click:china cnc plate cutting machineConsidéré par les spectateurs d'AlloCiné comme l'un des meilleurs westerns jamais réalisés et comme le meilleur disponible sur Netflix, (re)découvrez "Django Unchained", signé par Quentin Tarantino en 2012. Nous sommes au Texas, deux ans avant le début de la Guerre de Sécession. Le Dr King Schultz, un dentiste itinérant qui dissimule … Continue reading "Ce soir sur Netflix : le meilleur film de Tarantino que vous trouverez sur la plateforme, c’est lui !"