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Dec 9, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Michelle Koubek |Corey Farrenkopf |Nnadi Samuel |Catherine Baker
The universe is dying. I can tell by how the stars are flicking off like lightbulbs. But that’s why I’m here, electrician to the sky,R5-70, a nanobot with 3,000 siblings. We crawl through the dim space like cave explorers,poking, twisting and tightening the stars that have turned off. And as they blink back on memories scorch uslike solar flares from the Sun,burning, because the past is angry for being forgotten. Here is one, I see my daughter,chicken wing arms and jalapeno eyes.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
shethepeople.tv | Catherine Baker
If you’re planning to tune in to the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you’ll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too. These flashy events, which kick off each games, aim to tell fresh stories about the host city and country, and set new creative standards for live mega-events.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
rte.ie | Catherine Baker
Analysis: These elaborate, expensive and flashy set-pieces aim to tell stories about the host city and country By Catherine Baker, University of Hull If you're planning to tune in to the Paris Olympics, you probably aren't just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you'll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
azdailysun.com | Catherine Baker
If you’re planning to watch the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you’ll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too. These flashy events, which kick off each games, aim to tell fresh stories about the host city and country, and set new creative standards for live mega-events. However, it took decades for Olympic opening ceremonies to reach this scale.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
greekreporter.com | Tasos Kokkinidis |Catherine Baker
The Olympic Opening Ceremony is a flashy event, that kicks off each game, aiming to tell fresh stories about the host city and country, and sets new creative standards for live mega-events. By Catherine BakerIf you’re planning to tune in to the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you’ll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
azdailysun.com | Catherine Baker
If you’re planning to watch the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t looking forward only to the feats of sporting excellence, you’ll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too. These flashy events, which kick off each games, aim to tell fresh stories about the host city and country, and set new creative standards for live mega-events. kA 4=2DDlQA`QmkDA2? 4=2DDlQD`Qm%96 46C6>@?:6D 4@>3:?6 C:EF2= 6=6>6?ED 7C@> E96 k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^@=J>A:4D]4@>^:@4^@=J>A:4\492CE6CQmkDA2?
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Catherine Baker
By Catherine Baker, Reader in 20th Century History, University of Hull
At the first modern Olympics in 1896, in Athens, each country’s athletes simply entered the stadium to hear speeches and a specially composed hymn – though more than 50,000 spectators still attended. Read complete article© The Conversation
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Catherine Baker
If you’re planning to tune in to the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you’ll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too. These flashy events, which kick off each games, aim to tell fresh stories about the host city and country, and set new creative standards for live mega-events.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
wrmea.org | Election Year--All Senators |Catherine Baker
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2024, pp. xx-xx
Special Report
MANY MAINSTREAM news organizations and individual reporters have obvious biases in how they cover the events that occurred on Gaza’s border Oct. 7. So how can we learn what really happened that day and is happening now with Israel’s war on Palestine? This question was explored by panelists at a May 19 Voices From the Holy Land online film salon.
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May 24, 2024 | 
wrmea.org | Election Year--All Senators |Catherine Baker
… More people are reading the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Our independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.
Unlike many news organizations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want our journalism to remain free and open to everyone.
