Musical icon and prominent cultural figure Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman, turned 80 on Monday. As accolades for the Nobel Prize winner and master songwriter poured in from across the globe, the local Lethbridge music scene was also paying its own quiet tribute to an artist who helped redefine American culture and music in the 20th century. “He is definitely an iconic figure when it comes to things like Folk Music and Roots Music,” states Lethbridge Folk Club president Tom Moffatt. “His early career he was very involved with the Folk scene, and did a lot of work with people like Pete Seeger and the Newport Festival. A lot of that music is very relevant to our members. And then, of course, he went through an historic change where he electrified and got more into the Rock N’ Roll side of things.
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Surfing
One early spring day in 1962, Jan and I were driving to the beach in my newly custom-painted, fuel-injected Corvette.
I had spent months hand-sanding the fiberglass. I had taken off all the chrome. The guy from the Japanese body shop I frequented painted the car with twenty coats of Chinese red lacquer.
The indent on the side of the car that was normally painted white at the factory, I had painted jet black. I removed the fake knock-off hubcaps, painted the rims jet black, and put on small, button Chevy hubcaps.
For Christmas, my now girlfriend Judy had bought me a beautiful handcrafted wooden Nardi steering wheel made in Italy, and she had my name engraved on one of the polished aluminum spokes.
By Letter to the Editor on January 27, 2021.
“You’ve got me singing, even though the news is bad.” This line from a Leonard Cohen song is how I feel about Alberta right now. While it’s true the province just spent $1.5 billion dollars on nothing, and an undisclosed piece of $6 billion more, the spectacular failures of fossil fools like Jason Kenney are required to highlight for the rest of us the direction the 21st century economy is going.
Investments around the world in electric cars, batteries, gigafactories for making them and components and resources for building them have reached astonishing heights while Alberta was distracted by trying to resurrect the bitumen industry. Tesla has suddenly become the fifth largest company in the world, after Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet. Ontario has jumped on this trend, investing $295 million in a $1.8 billion electric vehicle production plant by Ford, triggering an equal investment from available federal programs.
There are calls for a bigger, better future tours program for female cricketers
Globally, international female cricketers are experiencing bullying and intimidation, given fewer opportunities to forge a career in the sport, play on sub-par facilities, and feel their voices aren’t being heard. But despite all of that, a global survey has found players want to play more cricket, a report released today from Federation of International Cricketers Associations says. The
Women s Professional Cricket Global Employment
Report found under-representation of women on and off the park. Only 20 per cent of governance boards members within the sport were women, and more than half the players said they feel they do not have a say on issues related to them.
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