"Astral Weeks isn't a song you perform; it's a trance you have to surrender to." — Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard & Band — "Astral Weeks"
Stepping into Van Morrison’s sacred stream-of-consciousness: the deep pulse of the double bass, frayed acoustic strumming, and a voice chasing the ghost of 1968.
"There’s a blaze of light in every word / It doesn’t matter which you heard / The holy or the broken Hallelujah."
Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová strip Leonard Cohen’s hymn back to its bare, unpolished origin.
It is the funeral of #GlenHansard today
Dublin will no doubt provide a fitting farewell 💚
He led a rousing version of ‘Fairytale of New York’ at the funeral of another great Irish singer-songwriter, Shane MacGowan, in 2023
When Dr. Tom first arrived in the Nuba Mountains, MMRTH had 80 beds and a staff of 15 local healthcare workers.
Today, it has grown into a 485-bed national referral hospital with more than 250 local staff, including physicians, nurses, midwives and specialists.
Pete Hegseth refuses to answer @SenOssoff (D-GA), on whether his past statement that Iran's military had been "destroyed and made combat ineffective" was true or false.
The UN reports that over 3.5 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, as international aid has sharply declined since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, with rural areas facing even more severe conditions.
Al Jazeera’s Malik Traina reports.
ISRAEL killed Theodosia James Karam from the Christian town of Qlayaa in South Lebanon.
She was returning home from university after taking her exams when an Israeli drone targeted her family’s car on Nabatieh–Khardali road.
The strike killed Theodosia, her father Dr. James Karam, a dentist, and her brother Tony.
Another entire Lebanese family ERASED
Israel dropped bombs on a school run by nuns today in Nabatieh, South Lebanon.
They obliterated it.
Not a military site.
A school run by religious sisters.
Nobelprijswinnaar J.M. Coetzee weigert literair festival in Israël te bezoeken vanwege de ‘genocidale’ campagne in Gaza | de Volkskrant https://t.co/Bln4jjsMZt