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Tate Modern Makes Time For A 24-Hour Movie

LONDON (AP) — Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” is both the ultimate feature film and an artwork you can set your watch by. The Swiss-American artist has edited together thousands of movie clips containing clocks, watches or references to the time — one or more for every minute of the day — into a 24-hour video. The result is a mesmerizing patchwork that moves forward in time as it dances back and forth across film history. Marclay compares the three-year process of creating “The Clock” to slotting together the multicolored facets of a Rubik’s Cube. London’s Tate ...

On Maneuvers

By Ellen Cross editorial@post-journal.com EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is first in a series by members of the Jamestown High School Red Raider Marching Band. So much work is done behind the scenes — planning, preparing, and practicing — that most people only see the finished project — ...

Drums Have Always Caught My Attention

Everyone who knows me, knows that I am passionate about music. I like most genres of music, but my favorite would have to be rock. I like it because of how it sounds. Ironically, I grew up listening to country and western music before the “and western” was shortened to just country music. But I developed a keen interest in music at around age 6. I had heard songs on the radio, but “Joy to The World,” performed by Three Dog Night, really caught my ear. Actually it was the way the drums sounded. And from then I loved the drums and wanted to be a drummer. So, around 1975, I ...

Florence Shows How Storm Coverage Is Politicized

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump Jr.’s attack tweet this week showing CNN’s Anderson Cooper waist-deep in flood waters has driven home the point that politics — not just weather — was an important subtext of the media’s coverage of Hurricane Florence. “Stop lying to make @realDonaldTrump look bad,” the president’s son admonished Cooper, triggering a harsh response from the CNN journalist, who was part of his network’s team covering Florence’s landfall in North Carolina. “I didn’t see him down in North Carolina in the last few days helping out, lending a hand, ...

Judge Nixes Cosby Request To Step Down

Days before sentencing, Bill Cosby’s trial judge denied a defense motion to step down from the sex assault case because of what Cosby’s team called a long-ago grudge with a pretrial witness. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill has seen the case through two trials, hard-fought pretrial hearings and 15 defense lawyers since Cosby’s arrest on Dec. 30, 2015. Cosby’s two-day sentencing hearing is set to start Monday. A jury this spring convicted him of drugging and molesting a woman friend at his home in 2004. The actor, now 81 and legally blind, faces a guideline sentence ...

DeVos’ Hearing Inspires Play

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears? Betsy DeVos endured yet another rocky Senate confirmation hearing to become education secretary — this time on a theater stage. During the performance at Arena Stage, about a dozen student actors from local high schools played frustrated Democrats and friendly Republicans grilling DeVos about the public education, the role of the federal government in civil rights, and her family wealth. “We are living in a time when people think they are looking for truth, but are being told there are alternative facts ...