Elsewhere

Eagles’ Duce Staley could reportedly be coaching elsewhere next season

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

Eagles assistant head coach and running backs coach Duce Staley may not be on the Eagles sideline for the first time since 2012.

According to The Athletic’s Adam Jahns, Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy has some interest in adding Staley to the Bears’ coaching staff. The role Staley would serve in is unknown.

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Staley had reportedly been a target of the Bears this past offseason, but he remained with the Eagles and received a raise.

Staley was one of the

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Bushwick’s Elsewhere to resume live performances via Twitch

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

Elsewhere is bringing back live performances via Twitch so everyone can tune into its new monthly series, “Elsewhere Sound Space.” Hosted by trans comedian and actor Peter Smith, the episodic series will feature new musical guests and live performances from New York City’s underground music and arts scene each month, starting with Princess Nokia on January 28, Starchild & The New Romantic on February 23, Paperboy Prince on March 23, and others on April 27, May 25 and June 24.

The premise of the whole series is out of this world—it’s a continuing story that follows the sci-fi misadventures of

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Richard Flanagan: ‘Art was something that happened elsewhere’

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

By the time I sit down with Richard Flanagan, he is armed with a glass of champagne. 

Technically speaking, it is a sparkling white wine from a vineyard in Tasmania, the remote Australian island state that the Booker Prize-winning novelist has lived in for all but three and a bit years of his life. Everyone calls it champagne in Australia but either way, Flanagan is not just drinking it but knocking back hefty swigs of the stuff.

“I’ve also got an Armagnac, just to help me along,” he says.

I laugh uncertainly. Each to his own and all that, but

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Thomas H. Francis, whose political skills aided candidates in Chesterfield and elsewhere, dies at 77 | Richmond Free Press

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

For decades, Thomas Henry Francis pushed to make inroads for Democrats in Republican-controlled Chesterfield County where he lived most of his life.

Mr. Francis registered voters, recruited candidates, mentored their campaigns and raised money for them as a member and past chairman of the Chesterfield County Democratic Committee.

The Air Force veteran also represented the county in the Virginia Democratic Black Caucus and most recently was serving as a campaign adviser to his daughter-in-law, Quanda S. Francis, who is running for mayor of New York City, where he was born.

“He once told me he was inspired to get involved

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Washington was peaceful on inauguration day, anarchists riot elsewhere

Jessica Wong 1 month ago

By Arul Louis
New York, Jan 21 : The expected right extremist attacks on the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris did not materialise in the nation’s capital Washington, but leftist groups rioted in Washington state on the west coast and elsewhere turning their ire now on the Democrats.

The protests happened after Biden said in his inaugural address, “We must end this uncivil war.”

Speaking at the Capitol, where a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump’s supporters had stormed the building two weeks earlier, he said: “Politics doesn’t have to be a raging

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