In March of this year, the beloved singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious on the floor in her Bel Air home. Subsequently, long-time friend Leslie Morris filed a petition to become Mitchell’s legal guardian, stating that the singer “remains unconscious and unable to make any responses, and is therefore unable to provide for any of her personal needs.” Statements issued on Mitchell’s official website deny that Mitchell is in a coma, claiming instead that “she comprehends, she’s alert, and she has her full senses. Read More...
EPAThe find may "be the oldest high-production brewery in the world"Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed what could be the world's oldest known beer factory, dating back about 5,000 years.
A joint Egyptian-American team discovered the brewery in Abydos, an ancient burial ground in the desert. They found a number of units containing about 40 pots used to heat a mixture of grain and water to make beer. The brewery is likely to date back to the era of King Narmer, according to the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Read More...
“The Hanging Tree” (1959) recently became the last of Gary Cooper’s major films to arrive on DVD via the Warner Archive Collection manufacture-on-demand program. In one of his best roles, Cooper plays a doctor with a very dark past who arrives at a mining settlement where he becomes involved with a widowed Norwegian immigrant (Maria Schell) he nurses back from near death. This distinctive western, filmed on location in Yakima, Washington, also stars Karl Malden as a gold prospector as well as George C. Read More...