Harry Styles led a moment of reflection at Madison Square Garden on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, asking concertgoers to put their phones away and honor New York City's resilience, days after catching flak over controversial ticket artwork. The 32-year-old British pop star stopped his eighth show of a 30-night MSG residency […] The post Harry Styles pauses MSG residency to mark 25th anniversary of September 11 appeared first on American Almanac .
Harry Styles led a moment of reflection at Madison Square Garden on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, asking concertgoers to put their phones away and honor New York City's resilience, days after catching flak over controversial ticket artwork. The 32-year-old British pop star stopped his eighth show of a 30-night MSG residency on Friday night to address the weight of the date. Styles told the crowd he wanted them to think about "the events that not only shaped this city but shaped the century that we live in." He then invited his bandmate Yaffra to perform a piano rendition of Bill Evans' "Peace Piece" while the audience sat in silence with their eyes closed. The tribute came two days after Styles drew criticism over a…Open
On Friday's "The Daily Take": NewsNation's Connell McShane speaks with Geraldo Rivera about the Sept. 11 attacks. The event led Rivera to make the decision to leave the primetime studio to become a war correspondent. "It was a gut-wrenching day," Rivera says. "I went to my bosses at NBC and I said, 'You have to let me be a war correspondent.' I can't go back to life as it was because life was never going to be the same again after what happened." Rivera says the memory of that day each year gnaws at him, and has affected him in a way that is impossible to put into words. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Connell McShane. Weekdays starting at 3p/2C. NewsNation is…
As the credits roll, the ticket-buyers reenter the world. The post The Little Joys of Leaving a Movie Theater appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Little Joys of Leaving a Movie Theater As the credits roll, the ticket-buyers reenter the world. Photo by Stéphane Ouzounoff / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images Last weekend, while I was watching the 1961 version of West Side Story on the big screen at an old theater in my hometown of Columbus, it started to rain outside. The storm caused weird sounds to echo inside the cavernous, ornate building, which was constructed in 1928. The emphatic rumble of rain hitting the rooftop competed, at moments, with the equally forceful music by Leonard Bernstein and words by Stephen Sondheim. But I did not mind. To…Open
Looking for my key amid the shrubbery, I found a fossil instead. The post On the Death and Consolations of Reading appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag On the Death and Consolations of Reading Looking for my key amid the shrubbery, I found a fossil instead. TakiMag Slight setbacks may have disproportionate effects upon one’s mood, and despair may be induced by trivia. For example, the other day I lost the key to my post-box somewhere between the latter and the house, 500 yards away. The track is somewhat overgrown, and despite several prolonged searches, I could not find the key. Even on the very small scale of my own life, this was no tragedy, but the inconvenience of it—having to buy and install a new post-box—nevertheless made me wonder whether it (that is to…Open
Photo Credit:Public domain Public Domain By Lars Møller Some of us are fortunate enough to recognize the garden as a heavenly refuge in the midst of a chaotic world.
Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? The post The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? “I said I think that a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them,” said the novelist Henry Miller in a talking-head segment from Warren Beatty’s much-honored 1981 biopic of the Communist journalist John Reed, Reds. Although the film itself worked overtime to aggrandize its protagonist—he was, after all, played by Beatty, then in full command of his charm and screen presence—Miller did the opposite: The sly, devilish author of Tropic of…Open
In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. The post The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. As an inhabitant of one of the cities caught up in the nationwide heatwave earlier this month—Columbus, Ohio—I can confirm that the weather was stifling. The heatwave has dropped out of the news—that will happen when a Democratic Senate candidate has ended his cataclysmically ill-advised candidacy and the Iran War peace deal has evidently failed to hold—but the temperatures remain persistently unpleasant. But, having learned from my upbringing in the reliably hot and humid suburbs of New…Open
Their sentiments struck a common theme: the U.S. has prospered since its founding in 1776 because generations of Americans have worked to fight for democracy.
By Greg Maresca The mood is unmistakably different from the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976; can we rekindle a shared sense of patriotism and purpose?
