A long walk across europe, extreme risks to find new lives fire and fury on the streets of beirut as thousands protest about the governments inability to provide the most basic services. After hurricanec katrinis a, new orleans pause to see remember the devastation. Back in doha, i will have your sport including yet more blues for chelsea. The champions crash to another defeat in the English Premier League. There has been worldwide condemnation in the jailing of egypt of three al jazeera journalists. A court in cairo found them guilty of aiding a terrorist organization and broadcasting false news, claims which they have strenuously denies. The retrial as they had been found guilty in june of 2014. The egyptian Bahar Mohammed where he got a 3 and a half year sentence, the producer in the cairo office and six months more than his colleagues because he was found with a spent cartridge which he maintains he picked up at a protest. Al jazeeras cairo bureau chief, the canadian mohammed fahmy
At The Edge Theater, north of Chicago, AstonRep Theatre Company opened their 15th and final season with a searing and beautiful production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. Written in 1978, the play depicts the disillusionment that accompanies 22-year-old Vince’s return to his family’s Midwestern home. There, he finds his petulant grandfather, Dodge; nostalgic.