Two massive fires broke out this weekend in Iran, causing major property damage and leaving two injured.
The first fire was reported on Friday near the Bushehr Port in Bushehr Province, not far from the country s sole functioning nuclear plant.
Fars News Agency reported that emergency crews got the fire under control within several hours and no casualties were reported.
#Breaking : Massive fire breaks out near Iran s Bushehr nuclear power plant last night with the cause of the fire unknown. pic.twitter.com/8gpxYOEm7O
Cork Midsummer Festival: The show must go on, but how?
9 min read A DYNAMIC BLEND OF OUTDOOR AND ONLINE EVENTS RUNS FROM BREAKDANCING TO DOORSTEP PERFORMANCES AS THE CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL WILL MARRY INGENUITY AND FLEXIBILITY, NO MATTER WHAT THE RULES HAPPEN TO BE
Imagine this. You’re standing in Cork city’s Elizabeth Fort, one of 15 socially distanced people, right in the midst of Alex Petcu’s percussion sextet Bangers & Crash, buried by the raw power and immediacy of live percussion, that “immersive, visceral feeling of the music up at the fort”.
Or this: “You’re standing underneath the Port of Cork sign, facing out to the water, the quay, the city, headphones on”, listening to sounds, spoken word, electronic beats, opera, teasing out the life of Kate “Birdie” Conway. “You’ll be encouraged to dance, if you want to… or it’s perfectly acceptable to stand there. It’ll be very interactive.”
Olympia Dukakis poses for portraits during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 11, 2006.
The veteran stage actress also appeared in Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland s Opus and as a transgender landlady four times on Tales of the City.
Olympia Dukakis, the dignified actress who received a supporting Oscar for her performance as Cher s nitpicking Brooklyn mother in
Moonstruck, died Saturday. She was 89.
Dukakis died in New York, her brother Apollo wrote on Facebook. After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis.
The late-blooming star also was known for her turn as Clairee Belcher, a woman of fiber and the elegant widowed friend of Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine), in Herbert Ross
Olympia Dukakis
The veteran stage actress also appeared in Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland s Opus and as a transgender landlady four times on Tales of the City.
Olympia Dukakis, the dignified actress who received a supporting Oscar for her performance as Cher s nitpicking Brooklyn mother in
Moonstruck, died Saturday. She was 89.
Dukakis died in New York, her brother Apollo wrote on Facebook. After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis.
The late-blooming star also was known for her turn as Clairee Belcher, a woman of fiber and the elegant widowed friend of Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine), in Herbert Ross