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Starring Julie Atlas Muz and Joey Arias, this spooky production blends surreal projections, hoisting harnesses and puppets to depict the 1915 founders of the Abrons Arts Center’s playhouse.
Driving these global worries is the fear that the dollar-based debt in large emerging market economies has risen to unsustainable levels.
Hallberg’s first novel is a Dickens-size descent into New York City circa 1976-77.
Western military officials said they were deploying some logistics personnel in Central and Eastern Europe, raising tensions with Moscow.
The movie burnishes the image of Apple’s co-founder even as it tries to peek behind the curtain at the gimcrack machinery of omnipotence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 7, 2015, covering October 8, 2015.
Drake & Future
Lana Del Rey
The Weeknd
Mac Miller
David Gilmour
2015Richard Davies, Welsh-English actor (born 1926)[†]
Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies, was a Welsh actor. He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir!. He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes.
2015Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1951)[†]
James Aaron Diamond was a Scottish singer-songwriter, best known for his three top 5 hits: "I Won't Let You Down" (1982), as the lead singer of PhD; and his solo performances "I Should Have Known Better", a United Kingdom No. 1 in 1984, and "Hi Ho Silver", the theme song from Boon, which reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart in 1986.
2015Dennis Eichhorn, American author and illustrator (born 1945)[†]
Dennis P. Eichhorn was an American writer, best known for his adult-oriented autobiographical comic book series Real Stuff. His stories, often involving sex, drugs, and alcohol, have been compared to those of Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and Charles Bukowski.
2015Lindy Infante, American football player and coach (born 1940)[†]
Gelindo "Lindy" Infante was an American football player and coach, who became an offensive coordinator and head coach in both the National Football League (NFL) and the United States Football League (USFL). Infante played college football for the University of Florida, and later served as the head coach of the Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL, and the Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts of the NFL.
2015Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (born 1940)[†]
Paul Prudhomme, also known as Gene Autry Prudhomme, was an American celebrity chef whose specialties were Creole and Cajun cuisines, which he was also credited with popularizing. He was the chef proprietor of K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans, and had formerly owned and run several other restaurants. He developed several culinary products, including hot sauce and seasoning mixes, and wrote 11 cookbooks.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]