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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 NEW YORK - Call it the Music of the Knight. Andrew Lloyd Webber, a.k.a. Lord Lloyd-Webber Kt (as in Knight-Bachelor), was pressed into service by his king, HRH Charles III. The kind of service the composer of "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Evita" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" knows best. His Majesty wanted a song. Or not so much a song as a composition - of a sort fit for, well, a king. For the day of his coronation, in Westminster Abbey, on May 6 in the year of our Lord 2023. So it came to pass that Lloyd Webber set down a melody to Psalm 98, the one that goes, aptly enough, "O sing to the Lord a new song." Then he gathered together his flock - "half the kids in my office," he said - and with them the Lord he madeth a demo; the Lord in this case being Lloyd Webber. To a Yank's way of thinking, it is quite the thing for a Broadway composer to turn court … [Read more...] about King Charles needed a coronation song. He summoned Andrew Lloyd Webber.

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 17 BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriff’s department being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries, an Associated Press investigation found. Two of the men allege that Rankin County sheriff's deputies shoved guns into their mouths during separate encounters. In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together. In one of the two fatal confrontations, the man's mother said a deputy kneeled on her son's neck while he told them he couldn't breathe. Police and court records obtained by the AP show that several deputies who were … [Read more...] about Deputies accused of shoving guns in mouths of 2 Black men

Ferrari stormed to a surprise pole position for the opening round of the World Endurance Championship in Sebring on their return to top level sports car racing. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free The new 499P Hypercar secured pole ahead of the two Toyotas courtesy of the number 50 car driven by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen. The second Ferrari, number 51, will line up fourth on the grid, ahead of the number two Cadillac and two Porsches. The sun was already setting over the Florida horizon as the 15 minute session began to decide Hypercar and overall pole position for tomorrow’s 100 Miles of Sebring. As many of the cars took to the track, there were early concerns for the number 93 Peugeot which stopped briefly on track, and appeared to go through a power cycle before carrying on its way. The first team to set a lap time was the number five Porsche driven by Michael Christensen, with the number 708 Glickenhaus jumping into second place … [Read more...] about Ferrari seize Sebring pole from Toyota on WEC return · RaceFans

The waning days of a film festival can be bittersweet, even lonely. The crowds die down, energy levels dip, friends start disappearing like the expendable cast members of a ruthless slasher. But South By Southwest is a little different on this front. Its hybrid format assures that as one festival winds down, another winds up—the flocks of filmgoers suddenly replaced by music lovers arriving to catch a show or 10. You can literally hear that shift in the air: Suddenly, the parking lots next to heinously overpriced hotels have a mid-tempo soundtrack, and even the barbecue spot down the street from the big venues starts doubling as a concert hall. Which is not to say the cinephile crowds have completely thinned. Not with SXSW programming a couple more prominent premieres in the back half. Only those still here Saturday will get an early look at Ben Affleck's Air , announced as the closing-night selection a couple days ago. But if you stayed until last night, you could close your … [Read more...] about ‘Evil Dead Rise’ dumps buckets of blood on a grateful SXSW

Listen to this article GTP Electrical issues delayed the WTR-Andretti car from strutting its stuff on track, so that Albuquerque had just 14 laps to get the job done, but his eighth lap was a 1min48.303sec around the legendary 3.74-mile track. That was enough for him to shade Renger van der Zande’s top time in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R by 0.133sec, and the Action Express Racing Caddy of Jack Aitken by a further tenth. Connor De Phillippi was just 0.432sec away from top time in the #25 BMW M Hybrid, but his co-driver Sheldon van der Linde shunted the car in the closing minutes, bringing the session to a halt under a red flag. Augusto Farfus in the sister BMW was fifth, but 0.6sec behind. The #6 Porsche 963 of Porsche Penske Motorsport ran 29 laps, but was 1.1sec down on Albuquerque’s benchmark. Having been delayed in hitting the track by an electronics problem, the Meyer Shank Racing Acura then ground to a halt with less than 20mins of the session … [Read more...] about Sebring 12H: Albuquerque tops first practice in WTR-Andretti Acura

Listen to this article Kamui Kobayashi set a blistering time of 1m45.783s in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID to lead a one-two finish for the Japanese marque ahead of Thursday’s afternoon qualifying for the Sebring 1000 Miles. The 36-year-old set his fastest lap just 20 minutes into the 60-minute session, dethroning the #50 Ferrari that had sat atop the timesheets with Antonio Fuoco at the wheel. His time was a full 1.2s quicker than Wednesday’s benchmark time set by Brendon Hartley in the sister #8 car and cemented Toyota’s status as the favourite for pole position in the expanded 11-car Hypercar class. However, it wasn’t a clean session for Toyota with Kobayashi’s team-mate Lopez hitting the barriers at Turn 13 rear-first in the final 10 minutes of practice, a year on from his double incident that allowed rival Alpine to win the race. The impact led to some visible damage to the #7 GR010 Hybrid and, with Nicklas Nielsen also crashing his #50 Ferrari at almost the same … [Read more...] about WEC Sebring: Toyota fastest but suffers crash in truncated final practice

Listen to this article Amid a flurry of new-tired times at the end of the session, Blomqvist’s 1m47.049s was just 0.026s faster than Sebastien Bourdais in Chip Ganassi Racing ’s Cadillac. GTP Filipe Albuquerque ’s fastest time of 1m48.303s from FP1 in the Wayne Taylor Racing-Andretti Acura ARX-06 was immediately eclipsed by Alexander Sims in the Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R, who turned 1m47.732s and then 1m47.659s straight out of the box. Matt Campbell was three tenths off that in the #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963, lapping in 1m47.974s, ahead of the Acuras of Ricky Taylor (WTR) and Colin Braun ( MSR Acura ) that remained in the 1m48s bracket to begin with. AXR’s day went from good to bad, as Jack Aitken locked up and nosed the #31 into the tires at Turn 3, causing a red flag. After the resumption, Taylor unleashed 1m47.378s to wrest P1 away. The times came thick and fast at the end of the session, as Blomqvist took the top spot with 1m47.049s. … [Read more...] about Sebring 12H: Blomqvist Acura beats Bourdais Cadillac by 0.026s in FP2

Listen to this article Antonio Fuoco set what turned out to be the benchmark time of 1m45.067s at the wheel of the quicker of the two brand-new Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars, which are making their race debut this weekend. Fuoco's lap in the #50 car, which he shares with Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen, knocked the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Brendon Hartley off provisional pole to the tune of almost three tenths of a second. Hartley was able to shave almost a tenth off his best time to get down to a 1m45.281s, but Toyota had to admit defeat as the tyres went past their peak in the closing stages of the 15-minute Hypercar session. Kamui Kobayashi was third-fastest in the #7 Toyota, 0.481s away from pole, ahead of the #51 Ferrari in which Alessandro Pier Guidi was eight tenths off the pace with a minor off at Turn 7. Cadillac secured fifth on the grid with its solo Chip Ganassi Racing-run V.Series.R, Alex Lynn beating the two Porsche 963s to the honour of top LMDh … [Read more...] about WEC Sebring: Ferrari beats Toyota to first pole of 2023

Listen to this article GTP Alexander Sims was the first driver to duck under the 1m50s barrier with a 1:49.256 on his seventh lap in the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R and worked down to a 1:48.820. By then his nearest competitor was Nick Tandy in the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsports 963, 0.152s behind, with Louis Deletraz third for Wayne Taylor Racing Andretti another 0.06s down. Then the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 expired on its 10th lap, bringing out the red, and with half hour to go, the WTR Acura also stopped on course with Filipe Albuquerque at the wheel. Philipp Eng’s best lap in the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 was, encouragingly, within half a second of the top spot. By the time of the final red flag, all eight GTP cars were lined up ready to roll, but the tire wall repairs necessary at Turn 17 for a shunt from a GTD Porsche left no time to get more laps in. LMP2 Josh Pierson and Scott Huffaker put their two TDS Racing Orecas top ahead of … [Read more...] about Sebring 12H: AXR Cadillac leads Porsche in disrupted night session