Mint Theater Company will continue its Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, directed by Jonathan Bank, beginning FEBRUARY 1st and continuing through MARCH 28th The price of admission is FREE. To receive a password, visit MintTheater.org.
Days To Come by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Toys in the Attic, The Children s Hour), directed by J.R. Sullivan, continues through FEBRUARY 21st. Days To Come turns out to be a gripping piece of storytelling, one whose failure and subsequent obscurity make no sense at all. This is the 14th Mint Theater revival that I ve reviewed since 2005, and the 14th time I ve raved about the results. Such unfailing excellence merits much wider recognition. If you ve yet to see what the Mint can do, start here! said Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal.
Readers expressed their hopes for the next administration and wrote of their personal sorrows in letters to president-elect Biden ahead of his swearing in.
Look, you have to hand it to conspiracy theorists they come up with some truly incredible stuff.
When last we checked in on 5G truthers, they were buying fake Faraday cages because they believed the fifth generation of broadband cell networks spreads COVID-19, and if they put their WiFi routers in the metallic boxes, they’d be protected from the harmful radiation. (Just go with it.) In a fun twist, those who bought the router guards disguised as the real thing were mad when they
did, in fact, block their WiFi signals … just not the 5G radiation.
Now, 5G conspiracy theorists are at it again, and this time they’ve upped the ante by spreading a hoax that will appeal to metalheads.
A guitar pedalboard in use (Picture: Getty)
An alleged “5G chip” that a number of conspiracy theorists have claimed is being planted in coronavirus vaccinations has been emphatically debunked, with the widely shared image of the “chip” in question turning out to be a diagram from a popular guitar pedal.
This vaccine conspiracy theory appears to have originated in Italy, with the heavily detailed diagram of the alleged “chip” – which contains the words “bass”, “treble” and “footswitch” – being shared on social media.
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MusicTech reports, Redhat senior software engineer Mario Fusco moved to debunk the conspiracy theory on December 28, writing: “Here in Italy, people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the COVID vaccine.
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James Brien Comey Jr. (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer who served as the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 4, 2013 until his dismissal on May 9, 2017. Comey was a registered Republican for most of his life, but has recently described himself as unaffiliated.
Comey was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 t James Brien Comey Jr. (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer who served as the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 4, 2013 until his dismissal on May 9, 2017. Comey was a registered Republican for most of his life, but has recently described himself as unaffiliated.