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Long before the pandemic made indoor theater a relic of the time before social distancing, Solas Nua became Washington’s finest purveyor of site-specific theater, hosting shows in bars, shows on piers, and shows in private homes. The small company dedicated to contemporary Irish theater (the name means “new light” in Gaelic) is remarkably adept at finding the right space for the right p
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In the middle of the back-and-forth lawsuits between the NRA and its former piggy bank (and public relations consulting partner) Ackerman McQueen, the pro-Second Amendment organization was hit with another lawsuit from the producers of a show claiming they were left in the lurch after the NRA closed down its NRATV channel in 2019.
Producers on a long-running program called
Under Wild Skies alleged the NRA had not fully paid them for all of the shows that were produced for the gun group. This would not be the the most unique example of a ripoff in the entertainment business. However, the NRA s lawyers argued that the show s producers were asking for payment on two episodes that were not completed. Under Wild Skies LLC s attorneys said that their clients had indeed completed those shows but that they were not released at the sole direction of Wayne LaPierre. It took about eight years but
Days after the
New Yorker and The Trace jointly released footage of his botched elephant hunt in Botswana, National Rifle Association chief
Wayne LaPierre faced questions about the embarrassing video during the group’s federal bankruptcy trial on Thursday.
A lawyer for the NRA’s former publicity firm Ackerman McQueen cited the footage, widely viewed as a public relations disaster for the gun group, to undermine the CEO’s testimony that he aimed to appeal to “mainstream America.”
“Not to ignore the elephant in the room, but let’s talk about elephants,” attorney
Mike Gruber said.
An outtake of the 2013 Botswana hunting trip for the once-NRA sponsored TV show “Under Wild Skies,” the previously unseen footage shows LaPierre shooting at the elephant once, wounding the creature, and then again three times from point-blank range in the wrong spot. The show’s host delivered the kill shot in LaPierre’s place.