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WORST SONGS

Aug 24, 2024 | cs.umd.edu | Dave Barry |Judi Smith |Richard Harris |Donna Summer

DAVE BARRY I hope you haven't had anything to eat recently, because, as promisedlast week, today I am presenting the winners of the Bad Song Survey. In analyzing these results, I had to make a few adjustments.
When my CIA father worked at Expo 58

Jun 26, 2024 | brusselstimes.com | Richard Harris

The fair was the perfect environment for espionage. It offered many believable covers for visiting foreigners and was a Cold War free-for-all with the highest concentration of spies ever assembled. The Atomium during Expo 58“Come see what I found in Dad’s dressing room!” said my sister as she pulled me into the dressing room. “Look at this!”What she had found was a mannequin head, a grey-haired wig and a case containing an elaborate make-up kit. Suddenly it all made sense in my boyish mind.
Biblical Fidelity & Confessional Integrity

May 16, 2024 | gospelreformation.net | Richard Harris

The Gospel Reformation Network (GRN) frames its mission through seven principial couplets:Biblical Fidelity & Confessional IntegrityGospel-Driven & Christ-Exalting MinistryEarnest Prayer & Expository PreachingIntentional Evangelism & Personal DiscipleshipGodly Leadership & Presbyterian PolityReformed Worship & Vibrant CommunityMissional Clarity & Church MultiplicationThis article delves ever so briefly into the first of those couplets, Biblical Fidelity & Confessional Integrity.
The unlikely Brussels resistance hero who lost her head

May 14, 2024 | brusselstimes.com | Richard Harris

Brussels resistance hero Marina Chafroff was beheaded by the Nazis, but she is almost forgotten today. War heroes come in all shapes and sizes. If, as it is sometimes said, true heroism is the urge to serve others at whatever cost, then it fits Marina Chafroff, a Russian émigré living in Brussels during the Second World War.
How Bastogne changed the Second World War

Apr 21, 2024 | brusselstimes.com | Richard Harris

It was an especially brutal fortnight in an already savage conflict. In the village of Bourcy, near the Ardennes town of Bastogne, the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, began searching homes. It was at the end of 1944, in the Battle of the Bulge, the counter-offensive by the German army against the advancing Allies. In the cellar of the Roland family, the Gestapo uncovered an American flag, stitched together from pieces of dyed cloth to welcome the liberators in September.
How New York art and music pioneer Charlemagne Palestine found his way to Brussels

Apr 3, 2024 | brusselstimes.com | Richard Harris

American artist Charlemagne Palestine was part of the Beat Generation in the 1950s and the counterculture in the 1960s. A synthesiser pioneer, an accomplished bell ringer and a teddy bear collector, he has made Brussels his home for almost three decades. The enormous hangar in Evere is stacked with thousands of stuffed animals and plushies, some piled so high that they disappear into the gloom of the ceiling.
Celebrating the surrealist century

Feb 22, 2024 | brusselstimes.com | Richard Harris

One hundred years ago, French poet and author André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in Paris. In it, he defined surrealism as “Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express – verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner – the actual functioning of thought.
The Prins legacy and influence on Belgian jazz

Oct 28, 2023 | brusselstimes.com | Richard Harris

GAM Records, run by the Prins family for three generations, has helped shape the vibrant Brussels jazz scene. Jeanfrançois Prins with Toots ThielemansThis Prins family’s ties to jazz are a quintessentially Brussels story: their intergenerational involvement in the music both mirrors and nurtures the genre’s links to the city.
The stitches in time that still weave spells

Aug 17, 2023 | brusselstimes.com | Richard Harris

The stitches in time that still weave spellsThe history of tapestries is as rich and as dazzling as the works of art themselves, layered with artistic, political and economic significance. Tristan and Morgana, anonymous, made between 1620 and 1630
On grief, loss and the power of words to heal

Aug 10, 2023 | men.com.au | Richard Harris

When John Lennon wrote Imagine in 1971 it was just after an era of great social change and hope. People were moved by the flower power hippie movement, the civil rights movement and music that was all about love and peace. Since then, there sadly have been hundreds of wars, multiple genocides, ongoing slavery and episodes of famine and terrible poverty. Plenty of material for a dystopian novelist. Or was it time to go against the trend and write a novel based again on the radical notion of love?