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Camila Valle is an editor, translator, and writer. She is assistant editor of Monthly Review. Five Days, Five Nights (New York: International Publishers, 2020), $15.99, 70 pages, paperback. June 15, 2005, was declared a national day of mourning in Portugal. Álvaro Cunhal, leader of Portugal’s Communist Party for half a century and central figure of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, was gone. As the government stated in its decree: Álvaro Cunhal was one of the great Portuguese political figure...

Cowboys director Anna Kerrigan on classic Westerns, Montana, shooting in the rapids By Doug Laman Special to the Herald Democrat You’ve seen lots of Westerns. But you’ve never seen one quite like Cowboys, a new film from writer/director Anna Kerrigan. The film is a story about a father, Troy (Steve Zahn), and Joe (Sasha Knight), who go on the run together to Canada. The two are outsiders in their Montana town, Troy due to his struggles with his bipolar disorder while Joe is a trans boy stru...

Featured in What Makes Artist-Run Spaces Flourish Brian Butler, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Diana Theater discuss why LA has been home to so many experimental venues over the last 40 years  Diana Thater The bedrock of the LA arts scene has always been its schools: CalArts, UCLA, ArtCenter College of Design. When my generation was starting to show work in the early 1990s, we were very ambitious because we had teachers like John Baldessari, Mike Kelley, Patti Podesta, Charles Ray...

BANGKOK, Feb 9 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Pro-active testing among factory workers in six Bangkok districts has revealed no positive cases for the past five days, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) said on Tuesday. The BMA has since January 28 tested 13,590 people from 127 factories in the districts of Phasi Charoen, Bang Khae, Nong Khaem, Bang Bon, Chom Thong and Bang Khuntien. So far, only 54 patients have been found, which sets the infection rate for the six districts at just 0.4 ...

February 6 - 6:45 p.m. State health officials say nine more people have died of COVID-19 in Idaho, but the number of new cases continues its recent decline. Saturday, the state confirmed just 178 new cases by lab tests. An additional 62 cases were added as probable for a single-day total of 240 new cases. The Treasure Valley (Ada and Canyon counties) combined for 99 of the days new total cases, 41%, and five of the days nine fatalities. Still, capita, the most significant outbreaks are in Blain...

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 6 (ANI): Five Days after Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to establish 100 Sainik Schools in the country, the Uttar Pradesh government has sent a proposal to the Centre for opening Sainik Schools in all the 18 divisional headquarters of the state, an official spokesperson said on Saturday.

Out of nearly 1,800 submissions, 87 films from 26 different countries were chosen. Festival officials said they were expecting submissions to decline this year, but instead, they had close to the usual amount of submissions, with a wider variety of countries then usual. They said this could be because artists wrapped up films that they werent able to focus on prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festivals Executive Director, Rachel Gregg, said a lot of the films capture the struggles of 2020. "W...

AP Images February 1 - 5:16 p.m.   After no reporting of data Sunday, Idaho health officials added 380 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 Monday, with an additional 102 cases listed as probable. The statewide total of confirmed cases is now 132,858 since March.   Ten COVID-19 deaths were also reported Monday: four in Ada County, two in Canyon County, and one each in Bannock, Benewah, Bingham and Power counties.   At the same time Idaho’s percent positivity rates have declined to 8.3%, t...

AP Images Jan. 26 - 5:18 p.m. Another seven people have died from COVID-19 as the state adds another 389 confirmed cases to its total. Since March 13, Idaho has seen 130,908 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with another 29,684 cases classified as probable. Altogether, 1,688 people have died from the disease. Six of Tuesday’s death occurred in Ada County, while Bonneville County reported one death. Daily case numbers and hospitalizations continue to decline. As of Jan. 23, the latest data availab...

Singapore Air Sets Sights on Fully-Vaccinated Workforce The carrier’s goal is to be the world’s first airline to see all its employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine 2021-01-22T07:40:32-05:00 by Dan Booth Singapore Airlines is urging all its employees to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. The carrier’s goal is to become the first fully-vaccinated airline in the world. In addition to the airline’s cabin crews, the vaccination effort extends to gate agents, baggage handlers and clea...