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The Hendrix flat has most recently been used as an office for the Handel House Trust, who own both homes.
Now though, it's time to move over Rover and let Jimi take over.
The flat has recently undergone a £2.4 million ($3.67 million) restoration using funds from the Heritage Lottery Fund and private donors, the BBC reports.
Visitors will be able to explore a re-created version of the late '60s living room, put together following extensive research into the building and Hendrix's circle of friends, and see new photos of the guitarist at the flat and in the local area.
There will also be a brand new studio to be used as a concert venue and for teaching. The exhibition opens Feb. 10.
A view of a blue plaque outside 23 Brook Street where musician Jimi Hendrix briefly lived in the attic of the Georgian townhouse in London.
Hendrix lived at the flat for around a year with his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham and referred to it as his first real home. He spent countless hours jamming with other musicians there.
Chairman of the Handel House Trust Alistair Stranack said: "It is hard to think of another home in the world with such a concentration of musical genius.
"We hope that the opening of Jimi Hendrix's flat will give people an added insight into the life and work of a figure whose actions have been examined to no end since his death in 1970.
Tickets for the Handel & Hendrix exhibition will go on sale Nov. 2.
Actress and opera singer Joan August Kucinski died of natural causes on Jan. 7. She was 83.
Kucinski was an original Broadway cast member of “Camelot” (1961), starring Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet, and also appeared on the original Broadway cast recording. She also appeared in the Broadway musical “Destry Rides Again” (1959) and was Kate Pinkerton in a 1965 production of “Madame Butterfly” ...
During this period she met and married her husband Arthur Kucinski, also a member of the New York City Opera. After they left the NYC Opera, the couple opened Glorianna Prods., where they performed Gilbert and Sullivan throughout the U.S.
Joan August was born in Chicago, graduated from Northwestern U. School of Music and studied music four years in Italy.
Her husband died in 1999. Kucinski is survived by her brother-in-law, Fritz Kucinski, and several nieces and nephews.
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette, "Open Source"
Somewhere between running the forward-looking local jazz label Cryptogramophone and co-organizing the Angel City Jazz Festival, violinist Jeff Gauthier finds time for his own ensemble. Now on the cusp of its 20th year, the Goatette again features Gauthier with longtime collaborators Nels and Alex Cline, twin brothers w...
Though Nels has since relocated to New York City, his name draws the most notice these days since joining the celebrated rock band Wilco. And while fans of Nels' unmistakable brand of galaxy-shifting guitar craft will love heavier tracks such as "Prelude to a Bite" and the menacing opener "40 Lashes (With Mascara)," it...
Add in a 14-minute title track that closes things out with a journey from ambient improvisation to an electrical storm of melodic drive and there's much to be said for Gauthier still making time for old friends.
In Rotation: Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, "MTO Plays Sly"
One Long Island, N.Y., Democrat is battling calls for her resignation over alleged racially charged comments about a black community, WCBS 880 reports.
Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum, who represents Great Neck, N.Y., was stripped of her committee assignments by her Democratic Party leaders as a result of the allegation, the news station reports.
Nassau County Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs told WCBS-880 that Birnbaum is alleged to have said, "This is a bad neighborhood, and it’s a ghetto—and for good measures, it’s full of those black people," referring to the area around a community center in New Cassel, N.Y. Jacobs says he wants Birnbaum to resign, New...
Birnbaum has apologized for the remarks, CBS New York reported. Actually resigning, however, is not an option to her.
"I will work every day to regain the confidence and trust in those who I’ve lost," she told WCBS 880, before adding adamantly, "I will not," when questioned as to whether she would step down.
"I believe my constituents have elected me to a two-year term, and I plan on staying," she told the news radio station.
Read more at CBS New York and at Newsday.
Korea's top economic and monetary policymakers are scheduled to meet early this week to discuss an array of economic issues such as the growing trade tussle between the United States and China and sluggish job creation, government officials said Sunday.
Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon and Bank of Korea Gov. Lee Ju-yeol will meet Monday for their seventh round of policy talks since Kim took office in June of last year.
Other senior officials from the finance ministry and the central bank will also attend the meeting, they said.
For 2019, the BOK also cut its growth estimate by 0.1 percentage point to 2.8 percent from its previous forecast.
Asia's fourth-largest economy is facing a series of headwinds such as a slowdown in facility investment and private spending, with exports, a major growth engine, feared to experience fallout from the escalating trade war between the world's top two economies.
Ever since Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, they’ve focused much of their investigative firepower on President Trump. Half a dozen committees have begun probes into everything from his tax returns to whether he obstructed the investigation into his campaign and what he told the Russian president ...
But not all investigations are created equal. Here are the most potentially damaging ones to the president, ranked in order from least to most.
6. Did Trump obstruct justice?
At least two House committees are looking into whether Trump obstructed justice, unconvinced by Attorney General William P. Barr’s conclusion that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III did not find sufficient evidence. The House Judiciary Committee will try to force Barr to hand over the unredacted report. And House In...
Likelihood of getting the documents: Barr said he’ll release much of the Mueller report within a week. But getting the unredacted report will be a fight, because Barr has said Congress would have to make their case before a judge to be able to see it.
What this could mean for Trump: Some on Mueller’s team say there’s more obstruction-related news in their report than the attorney general shared. But if an independent investigator ostensibly couldn’t find enough evidence to clearly implicate the president in a crime, it’s doubtful a deeply divided Congress will. And ...
5. Did Trump make foreign policy decisions to enrich himself?
Schiff, the lawmaker at the center of many Russia-related investigations, said his Intelligence Committee will prioritize counterintelligence concerns, such as whether Trump could be financially compromised when he makes foreign policy decisions. Schiff specifically cited Trump’s attempts to build a tower in Moscow and...
Chance of getting the documents: Fairly low, because it’s not totally clear what exists. Trump went to great lengths to keep secret details from a two-hour conversation he had with Putin in July.
What this could mean for Trump: It’s hard to say, because it depends on what Schiff’s committee uncovers — or doesn’t. Corruption can be difficult to prove in a legal setting, since the quid pro quo (you do this for me, I’ll do that for you) is rarely a straight line. But of all allegations against Trump, his curious f...
4. Did Trump inflate his net worth?
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is asking one of Trump’s accounting firms for 10 years of the president’s financial documents.
They want to know if Trump fudged how much money he really had to get loans or to dodge real estate taxes. Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, testified to Congress earlier this year that Trump bumped up his net worth to try to buy the Buffalo Bills football team, for example. The committee also wants to kn...
Taken together, it’s possible these alleged actions could constitute fraud and be illegal.
Likelihood of getting the documents: Pretty high. The accounting firm, Mazars USA, is asking Congress for a “friendly subpoena” to hand over the information, House Oversight Chairman Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) said.
What this could mean for Trump: Congress can’t charge Trump with a crime, and it’s likely that the Justice Department wouldn’t indict the president as long as he’s in office. But evidence that Trump repeatedly resorted to unsavory or even illegal business practices is, well, not the best way to start a presidential ree...
3. Did Trump lie about getting Jared Kushner a security clearance?
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform plans to subpoena the White House’s former security director as part of its investigation into how people like Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner got security clearances over national security officials’ objections. Those objections, as detailed by a whistleblower working with ...
Likelihood of getting the documents: It’s unclear whether they’ll get the full list of people granted clearances over experts’ objections. But Newbold’s boss at the White House, Carl Kline, has indicated he’s willing to talk to Congress.
What this could mean for Trump: This investigation has the potential to catch Trump in a lie. He told the New York Times in January he had no role in getting Kushner top-secret clearance after experts denied Trump’s son-in-law. But the New York Times reported the existence of memos by his former chief of staff and othe...
2. Is there something damaging in the president’s tax returns?
Likelihood of getting the documents: If the Treasury Department refuses to hand them over, it’s looking like the battle for Trump’s taxes will play out in court. If Congress wins, a Democratic aide said it’s possible the public could see his tax returns, too. But that’s if Congress wins. The question here is not whethe...
1. Did Trump play a role in illegal hush-money payments?
In February, the House Oversight Committee had Cohen testify about 2016 hush-money payments to quiet women alleging Trump had affairs with them. Now, the committee is investigating whether Trump disclosed these payments as campaign contributions (all indications are he didn’t, which would be illegal). A Democratic aide...
Likelihood of getting the information: We’ll see if Trump’s lawyers talk.
What this means for Trump: Of all the investigations, this is the clearest line connecting Trump to potential illegal activity. Cohen will go to jail for three years for crimes tied to this investigation, and Cohen testified that Trump directed him to make these payments. He even provided the committee with two checks ...
Lindsay Lohan is just like Marilyn Monroe, or so claims The Canyons director Paul Schrader.
The director worked with the 27-year-old actress before she headed off to a summer stint in court-ordered rehab. Schrader claims that Lohan shares some “remarkable” similarities to the blonde bombshell.
So what type of similarities do Lindsay Lohan and Marilyn Monroe share? Shrader points to their fights with depression, an unhappy love life, addiction to drugs and alcohol, and the constant need for the public spotlight.
Schrader warns that just like Marilyn Monroe the still young Lindsay Lohan is incapable of acting in her roles without experiencing them first. It is that need to “feel” her roles that has at least in part fueled Lohan’s self destructive behavior.
Do you think Lindsay Lohan is just like Marilyn Monroe?
Israel has expressed scepticism about a Syrian offer to renew peace negotiations, transmitted by US Congressman Tom Lantos who visited the Jewish state after talks in Damascus with President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr Lantos, a Democrat from California, said Mr Assad had sent a message to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he was ready for discussions with Israel.
"Any declaration by an Arab leader that he is ready for talks is positive, but we must remain cautious," said a senior Israeli official, who asked not to be named.
"There is every reason to believe that the Syrian President wants to find a way to reduce US pressure on him because of his support for the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. This kind of duplicity would not surprise us," the official said.
"For our part, the position of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has not changed, and Israel is ready to open talks without any preconditions."
The official added the hawkish Mr Sharon would make no promises of any withdrawal from the strategic Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, even though Syria insists it received such a pledge in previous peace talks in 1994-96 and 1999-2000.
"There is no question of giving Syria access to the Sea of Galilee, Israel's main water source, or diverting the River Jordan to deny Israel of water," said the official in reference to the pre-1967 boundary which followed its shore.
He said the best way for Mr Assad to "prove the the sincerity of his intentions was to dismantle the Palestinian terrorist organisations that have a high profile in Damascus and stop its support for Hizbollah [the Shiite Muslim militia which spearheaded resistance to the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon up to 2000]"...
But the official Damascus press yesterday maintained Syria's longstanding demand that Israel evacuate the Golan Heights in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions in exchange for peace.
"Syria deems it necessary to return to the international legitimacy represented by UN Security Council resolutions to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict in a just and comprehensive manner which guarantees security to all countries in the region," government daily Tishrin said.
The daily expressed its own scepticism about Israeli intentions, saying "Ariel Sharon claims his government is ready to launch peace talks with Arab countries without precondition, but in reality he imposes hundreds of conditions".
Mr Lantos, who visited Damascus on Saturday, conveyed Mr Assad's message to Mr Sharon.
"He asked me to convey to the Israeli Prime Minister his desire to talk to Israel about various outstanding issues," Mr Lantos said.
"I discussed it with Ariel Sharon. Our role can only be to facilitate Syrian and Israeli conversations when they come about. I hope they will."
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, Syria has come under threat from the United States, which has accused Damascus of hosting members of the deposed regime and pursuing chemical weapons.
Syria has rejected the charges.
Washington has also backed Israeli charges that Damascus is sheltering the leadership of groups listed by the US State Department as terrorist, such as the Palestinian Islamist organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
US congressmen have recently submitted a bill slapping political and economic sanctions on Syria to force it to pull its troops out of Lebanon, to stop backing "terrorism" and to scrap prohibited weapons.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell is expected in Syria in the coming days as part of a Middle East tour.
The Bears take turnovers as a sign the demise of their No. 16-ranked defense has been greatly exaggerated. And they hope to provide more signs Sunday against winless Detroit at Soldier Field.
The Bears gave up 41 points and 439 yards to the Vikings, but they also created five turnovers.
Tampa Bay threw for 407 yards against the Bears, but the Bucs also threw three interceptions and lost a fumble.
Chicago’s defense, supposedly such a disappointment, is tied with unbeaten Tennessee for the NFL lead with 16 turnovers.
The Bears (4-3) take turnovers as a sign the demise of their No. 16-ranked defense has been greatly exaggerated. And they hope to provide more signs Sunday against winless Detroit (0-7) at Soldier Field.
For the offense, tied for second in the NFL in scoring at 28.0 points a game, it’s mostly a matter of keeping Kyle Orton on a roll.
But the running game isn’t; the Bears have been held to fewer than 100 yards rushing four games in a row.
“When we start seeing looks that are favorable to the run, we’ll start running the football,” Orton said.
If they don’t, the Bears won’t be happy. Points and passing yards are great, but the Bears don’t feel like the Bears unless they run well.
“No, it’s not fine,” offensive coordinator Ron Turner said of the Bears’ pass-heavy results. “We’re doing some good things, but we can do a lot of things better.
The defense, except for producing turnovers, has seemed to lack that edge. Critics have let them know it, giving them little credit for those 16 turnovers. But the Bears say they are ready to get their edge back.
“We don’t need credit for anything. We’ve got to play better. We know we’re a better defense than that,” Dvoracek said of giving up 41 points to Minnesota in Chicago’s last game.
Bury the Lions early. The last time, Chicago wasted a bunch of early chances and clung to a 3-0 lead midway through the second quarter before pouring it on in a 34-7 win. The Lions aren’t the same dismal team that opened the season by trailing by 21 points in the first half of their first three games; they’ve lost thei...
Tighten up the pass defense. If the Lions want to run, let them run. The Bears rank No. 6 in the NFL in rushing defense and No. 29 in pass defense, in part because they like to stack the line against the run. Don’t do it this week, except on short-yardage situations. The temptation will be to let young QB Dan Orlovsky ...
Take Detroit seriously. “Everybody is good in the NFL,” defensive tackle Dusty Dvoracek said. “They might not have any wins, but they are still a good, capable football team.” If the Bears mean that, they should win. But teams that come out flat lose to inferior teams every week in the NFL.
A cloud of volcanic ash has closed Indonesia’s main tourist airport in Bali, canceling hundreds of flights and stranding passengers including India’s vice president on the island.
Authorities have shut Ngurah Rai airport in Bali until Thursday due to the eruption of Mount Rinjani on neighboring Lombok island, the country’s weather agency said Wednesday. The closure caused 692 domestic and international flights to be canceled, website Kompas reported, citing the head of the local airport authorit...
Indonesian flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia declared force majeure, halting all flights to and from Bali, Lombok and Banyuwangi in eastern Java, while Jetstar Asia and Virgin Australia also stopped routes from Australia. The closure, which follows flight cancellations to Bali in July and August during an eruption by Mo...