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Fairway Market, the grocery chain known for offering exotic foods to affluent shoppers, is struggling and paring back its expansion plans, as food lovers have more choices, both in stores and online.
Destiny never releases its grim stranglehold on the characters in this play, based on Émile Zola’s novel, which represents Ms. Knightley’s Broadway debut.
A writer ponders his family’s move from Brooklyn to a leafy Westchester County village.
Table for one? A shrine all to yourself? Not a problem in this approachable city, despite what you may have heard.
The label, which began in 1999, has expanded into an online boutique offering items like watches, eyeglasses and art to taste-conscious cultural consumers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 2015, covering October 30, 2015.
Selena Gomez
The Game
The Weeknd
Fetty Wap
Drake & Future
2015Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach (born 1944)[†]
Melvin Joe Daniels was an American professional basketball player. He played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) for the Minnesota Muskies, Indiana Pacers, and Memphis Sounds, and in the National Basketball Association for the New York Nets. One of the greatest players in ABA history, Daniels was a two-time ABA Most Valuable Player, three-time ABA Champion and a seven-time ABA All-Star. Daniels was the All-time ABA rebounding leader, and in 1997, he was named a unanimous selection to the ABA All-Time Team. Daniels was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012.
2015Al Molinaro, American actor (born 1919)[†]
Albert Francis Molinaro was an American actor. He played Al Delvecchio on Happy Days and Officer Murray Greshler on The Odd Couple. He also appeared in many television commercials, including On-Cor frozen dinners.
2015Sinan Şamil Sam, Turkish boxer (born 1974)[†]
Sinan Şamil Sam was a Turkish heavyweight professional boxer As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU, WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. According to his former managers, Sam died after battling liver and kidney failure.
2015Norm Siebern, American baseball player and scout (born 1933)[†]
Norman Leroy Siebern was an American professional baseball player and scout. He appeared in 1,406 games over a 12-year career in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and left fielder for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, San Francisco Giants and Boston Red Sox between 1956 and 1968. A two-time World Series champion and four-time American League All-Star, his best season came in 1962 with the Athletics when he hit 25 home runs, with 117 runs batted in and a .308 batting average. He might be most remembered, however, as being one of the players the Yankees traded for Roger Maris on December 11, 1959.
2015A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured.[†]
A nightclub fire which occurred in Bucharest, Romania, on 30 October 2015 killed 64 people and injured 146. The fire was caused by a fireworks accident and is the deadliest such incident in Romanian history. It occurred during a free concert performed by the metalcore band Goodbye to Gravity to celebrate the release of their new album, Mantras of War. The band's pyrotechnics, consisting of sparkler firework candles, ignited the club's flammable polyurethane acoustic foam, and the fire spread rapidly. Most of the victims were poisoned by toxins released from the burning foam. Overwhelmed by the high number of victims, Romanian authorities transferred some of the seriously injured to hospitals in Israel, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany and France. Mass protests over the corruption linked to the fire led to the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]