“ Titled Ringo & Friends at the Ryman , the two-hour special will find Starr performing songs from his new country album, Look Up , which arrived Jan. 10. He’ll be joined by a star-studded list of friends on stage, including Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle — both of whom collaborated on the drummer’s new LP — as well as Sheryl Crow, Rodney Crowell, Mickey Guyton, Emmylou Harris, Sarah Jarosz, Jamey Johnson, Brenda Lee, Larkin Poe, The War and Treaty, and Jack White.”
Good man, that Ringo.
Cool
In Seoul, the restored waterway has been a triumph. It doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution and managing increasingly intense monsoon floods.
“It feels really nice here, it’s one of the main tourist attractions to visit in Seoul,” said Kareem, a tourist from Malaysia. And in fact, the stream’s history mirrors Seoul’s own transformations. For more than 600 years, it served as the city’s vital waterway, managing floods and supporting daily life since the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). But by the Japanese colonial period in the 1930s, it had become known as “the city’s cancer”, an open sewer that threatened public health.
After the Korean war, desperate refugees built shantytowns along its banks. In the 1960s, Seoul covered it and built an elevated highway, seen then as a symbol of progress and modernisation that could hide urban poverty.
“Initially, everyone thought it would cause gridlock,” said Park Byung-chul, a local resident. “But people adapted. Now we can’t imagine the highway ever being here.”
According to studies by the Seoul Institute, the area around the stream is now 3.6C cooler than nearby streets, creating a cool corridor through Seoul’s dense centre. The removal of the elevated highway created new wind paths through the city, improving air circulation. Air pollution dropped significantly, with nitrogen dioxide levels falling by 35%.
Wildlife has returned, too: a 2022 survey by the Seoul Institute showed the area now hosted 666 species, including 174 animal species and 492 plant species.
Wonderful!
Maybe this belongs in the Goddamn Trump Administration thread, but I had been wondering about the impact of this; Mike Johnson removed a House Member from the Intelligence Committee, and he is now pissed;
Go go go Mike Turner, tank tank tank!
Finally, a tank(ie|er) we can get behind…
We also have a thread on congress, so I linked to it there as well!
Let’s hope Turner does gum up the works!
Whoa, someone who is in the Taliban and knows it’s not the 8th century AD?
How long will he live?
Man’s dramatic rescue of dog from freezing river in Vermont caught on video
Yep, I’ve seen several solar farms in Australia with sheep. They love it: quiet, shady in the summer, lovely.
Having spent the first half of my career working on power generation from industrial wastes, I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see a paddock of calm happy sheep wandering peacefully around a thing that’s quietly pumping megawatts of power.
Fucking FINALLY!!!
Liberty City Democrats will be calling upon the Philadelphia City Council to pass Sanctuary City legislation for LGBTQ people and Migrants today in Council Hearings.
Oh, good luck! Let us know how it goes!