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This isn’t purely a matter of acting, either. At the Lyttelton, Tim Hatley’s set design was a stroke of genius. Filling the enormous stage with crates of various sizes, surrounding them with gray windows and walls that rose to the sky in a cruel hybrid of prison and cathedral aesthetics and topping it all with a series of candle chandeliers which could retreat to the heights of the theater or lower to ground level singly or in battalions, Hatley effectively literalized the boxed-in nature of Hamlet’s privileged world...
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane...
What you want is Altan’s Another Sky, the seventh studio album by the most successful Irish traditional band to emerge in the last decade. With a powerful combination of talented performers and soothing music, Altan weaves a Celtic tapestry that embraces the listener with sublime serenity. This isn’t to say that Another Sky is soporific, far from it. Like musical Ritalin, its tranquil melodies and otherworldly arrangements have the power to calm and soothe the most troubled heart...
...Sky watchers as far south as Mexico saw the best aurora in years owing...
...hint came a couple of years ago, when two independent teams of astronomers tried to calibrate the cosmic expansion using Type Ia supernovas, a kind of exploding star whose intrinsic brightness is highly consistent. Comparing the known brightness of such a supernova with how bright it appears in the sky gives a good measure of how far away it is--and thus how long ago in cosmic history its light was emitted. Then, by measuring how fast each supernova is moving away from Earth in the overall ballooning of the universe, it can be determined what the expansion rate...