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Singer-songwriter Tom Russell, along with Thad Beckman, performs in concert at McDavid Studio. $33. 817-212-4280, www.basshall.com. |
UNT’s One O’Clock Lab Band stops by McDavid Studio for a 7:30 p.m. performance. $33. 817-212-4280, www.basshall.com. |
Joined by pianist Barry Douglas, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninoff’s beloved Piano Concerto No 2. $20-$85. 817-665-6000, www.fwsymphony.org. |
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents The Probably Untrue Story of Mary (who) Had a Little Lamb at 6:30 p.m. at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, with an instrument “petting zoo” beginning at 5:30 p.m. Repeats May 24 at Arborlawn United Methodist Church, Fort Worth. $5-$20. 817-665-6000, www.fws... |
Grammy Award-winner Sylvia McNair joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for “On Broadway!” $19-$133. 214-849-4376, www.mydso.com. |
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is joined by Project Trio for a performance of Peter and the Wolf. $19-$89. 214-849-4376, www.mydso.com. |
The 2015 Fort Worth Opera Festival closes with Hamlet. $17-$175. 877-396-7372, www.fwopera.org. |
Amphibian Stage Productions presents the play Mercy Killers. $18-$33. 817-923-3012, www.amphibianproductions.org. |
Artisan Center Theater presents The Three Little Wolves & The Big Bad Pig. $5-$10. 817-284-1200, http://artisanct.com. |
Tarrant Actors Regional Theatre presents The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild at Sanders Theatre. $8-$15. 800-838-3006, www.thetart.org. |
Ballet Frontier of Texas performs A Midsummer’s Night Dream at the W.E. Scott Theatre in Fort Worth. $35. 817-852-6887, www.balletfrontier.org. |
Dallas Black Dance Theatre presents Spring Celebration. Wyly Theatre, Dallas. $25-$55. 214-871-2390; www.dbdt.com. |
Artes de la Rosa presents the musical Man of La Mancha. $10-$20. 817-624-8333, www.artesdelarosa.org. |
Onstage in Bedford presents Tom Griffin’s The Boys Next Door. $15-$20. 817-354-6444, www.onstageinbedford.com. |
Meredith Willson’s The Music Man runs at Artisan Center Theater through July 3. $9-$22. 817-284-1200, http://artisanct.com. |
Paul Mejia Ballet International presents Spring Repertoire, featuring works by Paul Mejia. University of Texas at Arlington’s Texas Hall. $15-$70. www.mejiaballet.com. |
Robert Dubac’s “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?” comes to McDavid Studio. $30-$40. 817-212-4280, www.basshall.com. |
Part of the Off Broadway on Flora Series, Stop Hitting Yourself opens at the Wyly Theatre. $39-$49. 214-880-0202, www.attpac.org. |
Jubilee Theatre’s production of Sunset Baby runs through June 28. $18-$26. 817-338-4411, www.jubileetheatre.org. |
Casa Mañana presents Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story through June 7. $41-$76. 817-332-2272, www.casamanana.org. |
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth screens Clouds of Sils Maria as part of its Magnolia at the Modern film series. $6-$9 (Sunday noon show is half-price). 817-738-9215, http://themodern.org. |
Part of the QCinema Double Take film series, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth screens BFFs at 2 p.m. in the museum’s auditorium. $6-$8. http://qcinema.org. |
In conjunction with “The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass exhibition,” Alexander Calder screens at 2 p.m. at the Kimbell Art Museum. Free. 817-332-8451, www.kimbellart.org. |
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth continues its Magnolia at the Modern film series with a screening of the Hungarian film White God. $6-$9 (Sunday noon show is half-price). 817-738-9215, http://themodern.org. |
The Kimbell Art Museum, in conjunction with “The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass” exhibition, screens Rothko’s Rooms at 2 p.m. in the Kahn Auditorium. Free. 817-332-8451, www.kimbellart.org. |
Amphibian Stage Productions and National Theatre Live present two broadcasts of Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Screenings are 2 and 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. $12-$20. 817-923-3012, www.amphibianproductions.org. |
Part of the Magnolia at the Modern film series, Lambert & Stamp screens in the auditorium of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. $6-$9 (Sunday noon show is half-price). 817-738-9215, http://themodern.org. |
The Friday on the Green concert series continues at Magnolia Green Park with music by The Quaker City Night Hawks, Kevin Aldridge & The Appraisers and Vincent Neil Emerson. Free. 817-923-1343, www.fortworthsouth.org. |
Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend at the Fairmount Historic District’s 33rd annual Tour of Homes. Advance tickets: $15; regular tickets: $20. http://historicfairmount.com. |
Historic Fort Worth Inc. presents the 2015 Hidden Gardens of Fort Worth tour from noon to 6 p.m. in Fort Worth’s Ridglea North neighborhood. Advance tickets: $20; regular tickets: $25. 817-336-2344, www.historicfortworth.org. |
The PGA Tour stops by Colonial Country Club for the 69th Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. Daily tickets: $50. Multiple badges and packages available. 817-927-4280, www.crowneplazainvitational.com. |
Stephen Mark Opliger, 55, of Kihei, Maui, owner of Art Craft All Natural Stone &Tile on Maui, died in Maui Memorial Medical Center. He was born in San Bernardino, Calif. He is survived by mother Rose Martinez; and brothers Robert, Rocky and Albert. Services in San Bernardino. Online condolences: ballardfamilymortuaries... |
Washington, DC - Secretary Michael R. Pompeo spoke on the phone with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko today to discuss a range of bilateral issues. Secretary Pompeo reiterated strong U.S. support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. |
He emphasized that the United States does not and will never recognize Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea, as he made clear when he released the “Crimea Declaration” on July 25. The Secretary welcomed Ukraine’s recent passage of anticorruption court legislation and the Law on National Security and urged Ukraine to... |
What lessons can be learned from Britain’s smartest city? |
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General Election 2017: Who gets the tech vote? |
LionsXII coach V. Sundramoorthy (centre) will be looking to try and break down Kedah's defence. |
SINGAPORE - The players are unchanged, the coach remains the same - for now at least - and their will to win is as strong as ever. |
But as they kick off their Malaysia Cup journey against Kedah at Jalan Besar Stadium on Tuesday, do not expect to see the same Lions- XII from a month ago. |
Those who recently spent time under new national coach Bernd Stange have returned fitter, faster and feistier. |
"Not only has our stamina improved, we also keep the ball better and pass faster," said right-back Faritz Hameed. |
He is among nine LionsXII players who featured in the 0-2 Asian Cup qualifying loss to Oman last week. |
The German had put his troops through a gruelling training camp in the lead-up to the clash as he establishes a new, high-tempo, quick-passing style. |
Utility player Hafiz Sujad, for instance, has seen his body fat dip from 12 per cent in June to as low as 5 per cent a fortnight ago. |
It must be a scary thought for their rivals who were powerless to stop the LionsXII's charge to the Malaysian Super League title. |
The local team won 10 of 11 games at home and conceded only 15 goals in 22 matches - a league-best. |
Still, there is the fear of tinkering with a winning formula as the LionsXII played a mix of attacking football at home and a counter-attacking style dependent on set-pieces away. |
"Individually, the national players have returned leaner and stronger - but as a team, we must not forget the way we played that won us the league, which was by attacking and defending as a unit," said full-back Irwan Shah, who was not called up for international duty. |
The floor lamp from Jumbo Studio’s debut collection looks like it might crawl away, like a slug, while you’re not looking. |
It’s not so often that the furniture design world becomes entangled in some good, juicy drama, but it happened this past May during New York x Design, the city’s big design week. A Japanese furniture company called Kamarq had a brand-new idea: cheap Ikea-like furniture that you would rent by the month, and if you wante... |
But the day Kamarq launched, the design world immediately noticed how similar the collection looked to the work of furniture designer Ana Kras, specifically a show she put on in 2015 called Slon, which means elephant in Czech. The receipts poured in on Instagram. Mattan, it turned out, was actually at that Slon show th... |
That instance was glaring, but the truth is that this type of elephantine, chubby, zoomorphic design has been around for a while, and is just now on the up-and-up. Kras’s table actually looks a lot like Mario Bellini’s Il Colonnato tables from the ’70s. It goes as far back as Finn Juhl’s pudgy, weirdly proportioned Pel... |
By 2008 the ideas had caught on, and in 2014 Faye Toogood released the Roly Poly chair that shook up the design world. “I was pregnant at the time when I designed this and it was about bringing that softness and roundness that I was experiencing physically into my design work,” she had explained. Another word for this ... |
And now it’s everywhere. It has a little bit of a Jeff Koons vibe, a Murakami vibe, a Kaws vibe. Last May, Leah Ring launched Another Human with a chunky magazine rack. This May, at the influential design show Sight Unseen Offsite, three new studios debuted — Jumbo, Müsing-Sellés, and Ood — all working and experimentin... |
Chen and Kai’s popular planter has literal rolls. If you squint, it kind of looks like a baby’s belly, or chubby thigh. |
The double layer on this mesh bowl gives it a fatter feel. |
Marisa Müsing of Müsing-Sellés turned us on to the Pom Wonderful bottles, which have a great, affordable chubby design. |
She also thinks Vitra’s cork stools could fit the bill. |
A salt or pepper grinder that has some pudge. |
Of course, this weirdly proportioned ceramic mug. |
And planters, from the same designer, that kind of have fat elephant legs. |
A big, round belly in which to store your whiskey. |
Toad, possibly the millennial’s first interaction with neoteny. |
Somewhere between Memphis and chubby. |
Rachel Griffin of Earnest Studio designed the Kink vase this year and describes it on her website as having a “humanoid form.” It was actually a result of her playing around in a design software called Rhino and landing on the forms. “You wouldn’t be able to create this if you bent a steel tube, but it looked like bend... |
Jumbo’s debut collection included a chair, a floor lamp, a table lamp, and a wall sconce that all look like they might crawl away when you’re not watching. The chair’s seat is dyed cowhide to give it an even more animal-like feel. |
This Müsing-Sellés table is actually made of wood that’s covered in a metallic lacquer. It’s an incredibly tricky process to have it stand on rounded legs, which is another reason designers like experimenting with chub. |
Leah Ring launched Another Human in May 2017 with a tubular magazine rack and followed up with some even more colorful and tubular bookshelves this year. |
At Sight Unseen Offsite this May, Objects of Common Interest partnered with Falke Svatun to design this Tube chair. |
The Julep sofa system, designed by Jonas Wagell for Tacchini, looks like what it might feel like to collapse in the lap of a massive, friendly gorilla. |
A cousin of Faye Toogood’s Roly Poly. |
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) -- Sears, Roebuck & Co. will attempt to win back customers with a radical makeover of its retailing business, which will include slashing prices, creating new advertising and intensifying its Internet presence. |
In what Chairman and Chief Executive Arthur Martinez called its ``second revolution'' of the 1990s, Sears hopes to revitalize sluggish sales with new lines of clothing and in-store displays aimed at younger audiences. |
Sears also promised price cuts of up to 15 percent on certain clothes, the introduction of dinnerware, flatware, gardening and other housewares and new credit-card promotions. |
The nation's largest department store chain also revealed Wednesday that it is considering dumping or sharply scaling back its long-running ``Softer Side of Sears'' advertising campaign as it struggles to win back customers lost to such discount chains as Target and Wal-Mart and specialty stores including the Gap and A... |
Sears executives acknowledged they became too complacent following the retailer's phoenixlike rise from the brink of bankruptcy earlier this decade. They promised more aggressive measures against the increasingly tough competition. |
Department stores last year generally lagged in sales to specialty chains and discounters as shoppers sought bargains and wide selections. But Sears performed worse than most. |
Sears in 1998 saw sales at stores open at least a year tumble 4 percent in the men's wear category, 1 percent in women's wear and 2 percent in children's wear. During the crucial holiday shopping period, the retailer saw overall same-store sales fall 1.6 percent, well below the average increase of other retailers. |
Sears (S) S, -0.18% stock fell 1 5/8 to 39 5/8 on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. Its shares are down nearly 40 percent since hitting $65 in June. |
Sears executives said some of the chain's clothing has gone stale for shoppers, with Martinez noting its mall-based stores continued to heavily stock Levi's jeans last year, while competitors were turning to the more popular cargo and painter's pants favored by younger shoppers. |
Robert Mettler, Sears' president for merchandising, said the company consistently beats mall-based stores on price but last year failed to get that message across in promotions. The company is working with its advertising agencies to develop new print, television and radio campaigns that focus more intently on price an... |
The company this fall will launch new lines of casual clothes called Crossroads and Fieldmaster, as well as clothes made by Bennetton. |
The ray of light in Sears' operations last year was its strong credit operations, which came as customers continued to flock to big-ticket items such as refrigerators and washing machines and as delinquencies improved. |
But Alan Lacy, the company's chief financial officer, said improvements can be made by targeting existing customers with special sales and rewards programs for using their Sears card. The company also is offering lower percentage rates for more credit-worthy customers, he said. |
Sears also announced it plans in coming months to increase its presence on the Internet with the launch of Appliance.com, a site that will sell major appliance brands and models online. Sears now sells tools on the Craftsman.com site. |
The retailer hopes to dominate the category by promising delivery in most areas within 48 hours and by leveraging the Sears name, said Jane Thompson, president of Sears' direct division. |
A COVENTRY manufacturing company has been fined after it was found to be using illegal software on its office computers. |
J Tools Limited based at the Abbey Industrial Estate in Bodmin Road, Walsgrave was caught using unlicensed Autodesk and Microsoft software on 20 computers. |
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) took legal action against the firm as part of its ongoing crackdown on the use of unlicensed software in businesses. |
J Tools Limited was ordered to pay £7,000 in settlement fees to the BSA on account of using the illegal software and was required to fork out a further £10,000 to buy licensed software following the investigation. |
Julian Swan, director of BSA said: “In an industry were competition is fierce and reputation is paramount, businesses should not risk jeopardising their future by trying to cut corners – perceived cost savings from using unlicensed software is just an illusion. |
“Mistakes tend to happen when the management consider software compliance as just an IT problem. |
J Tools was fined along with two other manufacturing firms in the UK. |
The BSA stated that bosses at J Tools were cooperative throughout the investigation. |
Prosecutors said yesterday that investigations into several former ministers' use of their discretionary fund were nearing completion and several former officials may be indicted for corruption. |
Prosecutors from the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office yesterday said that they had interviewed some 10 former ministers from the former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government on Friday. |
These include former minister of justice Morley Shih (施茂林), former minister of economic affairs Steve Chen (陳瑞隆), former minister of the interior Lee Yi-yang (李逸洋) and former minister of transportation and communications Tsai Duei (蔡堆). |
Prosecutors said that some of these former officials were suspected of using fraudulent receipts to claim reimbursements from their special allowance fund in violation of the Criminal Law. |
Prosecutors said they also planned to interview Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials who served before 2000 on their use of discretionary funds. |
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