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LEADING OFF: Burnes returns, Mariners bring up big prospects
By The Associated PressMay 13, 2021 GMT
BURNES RETURNS
Brewers ace Corbin Burnes is set to face St. Louis in his first start since testing positive for the coronavirus last month. The right-hander is 2-2 with a 1.53 ERA, 49 strikeouts and no walks in 29 1/3 innings, but he hasn’t pitched since April 26.
Burnes confirmed Wednesday that he had COVID-19 but said he was asymptomatic. Milwaukee has achieved the 85% vaccination rate required by MLB to ease certain safety protocols, but Burnes said he opted against inoculation for personal reasons. He added he had “no clue” how he might have gotten the virus.
May 13, 2021
When FOX 9 meteorologist Jennifer McDermed had a graphics glitch on Tuesday night, she could have just let it roll and wait for it to fix itself. Instead she decided to have a little fun with it. Once she realized what was going on, she did a little dance and then she walked with a whole bunch of herself across the screen.
The segment was so fun that it ended up on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
It s a great example of taking lemons and making lemonade. Now the whole country knows who she is and how much fun she has during newscasts!
May 12, 2021
I fool around with the guitar every now and then. I have a basic understanding of chords and can play a few things that I ve learned over the years. Mostly song intros and things of that nature. So when I see someone able to do this with a musical instrument, it s absolutely fascinating to me.
But when you watch and listen to this, it sounds like there are at least 3 instruments playing, especially when he uses the bow on the strings like it was a violin. It s super impressive and not the typical material you associate with an instrument such as a banjo!
Like a Rowdy Raccoon: Bianca Fields @ Dragon, Crab and Turtle, St Louis
May 05, 2021 | in Installation
When you put on a show entitled
Like a Rowdy Raccoon, comprising images and plush sculptures featuring Count von Count and Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street, Tom of Tom and Jerry, and a wide range of characters from the primates family, and hang it at Katherine Bernhardt s newly launched Dragon, Crab, and Turtle Gallery, you got our 100% attention! And this is precisely the case with Bianca Fields major solo exhibition which is on view at Saint Louis newest art venue.
The choice of protagonists in Fields work contributes to the tension that holds the highly expressive imagery together. On one hand, evoking nostalgia and connection through frequent tributes to familiar cartoon characters, she quickly turns the tables with the introduction of wildlife archetypes, namely enraged mandrills. With somebody to lean on in a questionable face-off with an instinctively terri