All posts tagged: City

Assessing the Role of Hope for Music Therapy in Kansas City

Assessing the Role of Hope for Music Therapy in Kansas City

Published by Jenni Sidey

Kansas City holds a special place in my heart. Four summers ago, my wife and I embarked on a road trip from New England to travel scenic byways and, ultimately, to explore the national parks of Montana and Wyoming. On our return journey, Kansas City served as the sole urban destination of our itinerary. Among its many attributes, the city boasts a lively jazz scene—a legacy local lore attributes to Kansas City’s reputedly lax enforcement of Prohibition-era liquor laws. About a year later, we met our future daughter-in-law and learned that her mother grew up in Kansas City. As a result, when my wife and I planned another road trip last autumn—this time through the Midwest—we eagerly included the City of Fountains1 on our route once again. It was during the second visit to KC that I met Rebecca Lepping, Ph.D., whose work I featured in a prior post.2 When we met, Dr. Lepping introduced me to her friend and colleague, Amy Wilson, a board-certified music therapist who has since earned her Ph.D. Wilson’s doctoral …

Paris City Hall unveils banner honoring Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Paris City Hall unveils banner honoring Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Published by Sam Flores

Editor’s note: this story was translated from the original VOA Persian article. Paris City Hall unveiled a banner expressing solidarity with human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi. The unveiling ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 14, in front of Paris City Hall, attended by officials, parliamentarians, human rights activists, and Mohammadi’s family and former colleagues. Narges Mohammadi’s Instagram page posted a video showing Mona Armand — a lawyer and human rights activist — reading a message sent by Mohammadi from Tehran. The message stated: “Today, I want to ask something very simple of the journalists, political leaders, civil society activists, and women of France: do not forget the people of Iran. We are going through an incredibly difficult time. I am deeply concerned about the future of the children.” Ali Rahmani, head of the Narges Foundation and Narges Mohammadi’s son, said at the ceremony: “At this very moment as I speak to you, countless numbers of my compatriots — most of whom are very young — are on death row. …

The Politics Of Manchester City

The Politics Of Manchester City

Published by Sam Flores

3 min read23 min After Manchester City was found guilty of major breaches of Premier League financial rules, The Rundown podcast examines the political ramifications of a saga that has unleashed a crisis in the country’s biggest sport. The panel also discusses the challenges facing the future of football, with a new report published this week warning that most clubs are “living on the edge of financial disaster”. Joining host Alain Tolhurst are the shadow sports minister, Conservative MP Louie French, as well as Kieran Maguire, associate professor in football finance at the University of Liverpool, and Josh Bland, director of research at the football think tank, Fair Game. English football was rocked late last month when an independent commission concluded that City was guilty of 115 charges relating to financial fair play rules. The game is waiting to see how the Manchester club will be punished, with a points deduction, transfer ban and expulsion from the country’s most elite league reportedly on the table. Some figures in the game have called for Man City to be stripped of …

A City All His Own | Joel Smith

A City All His Own | Joel Smith

Published by Jenni Sidey

New York City, as photographed by Baldwin Lee in the latter half of the 1970s, looks as immemorially still as cities do in photographs made over a century earlier, when slow emulsions and long exposure times erased anything that moved while the shutter was open. Lee was raised in Chinatown. In 1975 he was seeing his hometown anew after seven years away at college and graduate school. He photographed mainly within a quarter-mile of the Brutalist complex on Worth Street that was his home base on return visits. From there he visited downtown locales he had known all his life, some changed or lost to change. A customary haunt, Radio Row, had been razed to make way for the towers of the World Trade Center, which dominated the skyline from every angle. Amid vistas he felt compelled to depict, he was put off by the sight of latter-day New Yorkers garbed in the styles of a new era. He hit on a simple way of unpeopling scenes: setting out before sunrise, he would carry his …

City University ends Newspaper MA after 50 years

City University ends Newspaper MA after 50 years

Published by Sam Flores

City St George’s University has ended its Newspaper Journalism MA after 50 years, replacing it with a Journalism MA Course. City City George’s, which is part of the University of London, was previously just called City University and continues to also run specialist MA courses in Investigative Journalism, International Journalism, Magazine Journalism, Global Financial Journalism and Broadcast Journalism. Famous alumni of the City Newspaper Journalism MA include: former Times editor James Harding, former Spectator editor Fraser Nelson, BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, current Times editor Tony Gallagher, journalist and broadcaster Helen Lewis, Sunday Times journalist Decca Aitkenhead and former Telegraph editor Will Lewis. City said that the new Journalism MA has had triple the number of applications and has 56 students enrolled (compared to 30 on last year’s Newspaper Journalism MA). Paul Solman, who has run the Newspaper Journalism MA since 2024, told Press Gazette: “The decision reflects the trend in the industry. For many, the word newspaper still has connotations of a paper product. And we know that newspapers are online things these days… …

City walls conquered the ancient world and then disappeared. Why?

City walls conquered the ancient world and then disappeared. Why?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Ancient cities — the kind we know of more through archaeology than written history — tend to have a bunch of features that set them apart from smaller, less ambitious settlements. Most of these are still familiar, in some form, and not just in your friendly local metropolis. Look around any small town today, and you’ll spot the contemporary equivalents of monumental public buildings (town halls and civic centers), granaries (supermarkets), and temples (churches, mosques, and, well, temples). There is, however, one feature common to most ancient cities that you’ll find surprisingly hard to locate now: For huge swathes of human history, almost any city worth its salt would be at least partially surrounded by walls. Nor were the aforementioned swathes restricted purely to ancient history. Paris built its last defensive wall, the 21-mile (33km) Thiers Wall, as late as the 1840s, and if you’ve ever taken the city’s trams 3a or 3b, you’ve traced its former path around the Boulevards des Maréchaux. Copenhagen built its last fortifications, the 19-mile (14km) Vestvolden — western rampart …

Cardiff City v Watford Championship TV channel, live stream, kick-off time

Cardiff City v Watford Championship TV channel, live stream, kick-off time

Published by Daniella Wilson

Championship strugglers Cardiff City and Watford face off in the Welsh capital on Tuesday evening. The Bluebirds have had a tough start to life back in the second tier and are only above the relegation zone on goal difference. Watford are one point and one place above their hosts in the table but make the trip to Cardiff on the back of a dismal 4-0 defeat to Burnley, which was the Clarets’ first win of the season. Pressure is building on Hornets boss Alessio Dionisi, who may not get many more chances to save his job given the club’s trigger-happy reputation. Radio Times has rounded up everything you need to know about how to watch Cardiff City v Watford on TV and online. Read more football features: Best players in the world | Best players of all time | Live football on TV today When is Cardiff City v Watford? Cardiff City v Watford will take place on Tuesday 13 October 2026 at Cardiff City Stadium. Cardiff City v Watford kick-off time Kick-off is scheduled …

Nearly 15,000 ICE Detainers Not Honored In New York City, DHS Says

Nearly 15,000 ICE Detainers Not Honored In New York City, DHS Says

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A total of 14,916 immigration detainers issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were not honored by New York City due to its sanctuary policies, according to the Department of Homeland Security. There were 47,750 criminal charges and convictions linked to these detainers that New York City ignored between Jan. 20, 2025, and Sept. 14, 2026, Homeland Security said in an Oct. 9 statement. An immigration detainer is a request from ICE asking local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies to notify the agency before releasing a removable immigrant or to hold the individual for up to 48 hours beyond the scheduled release time so that the Homeland Security can take custody of the person. “Sanctuary politicians create an environment for criminal activity to thrive, not for American citizens to be safe,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the statement. “When you have sanctuary cities and politicians, you endanger the safety of the public.” The Homeland Security statement was issued in the context of a recent …

Pink’s husband admits to being ‘sad’ as daughter’s ‘independence’ grows since New York City move

Pink’s husband admits to being ‘sad’ as daughter’s ‘independence’ grows since New York City move

Published by Daniella Wilson

Pink‘s eldest daughter Willow is growing up fast — and it is bittersweet for her dad Carey Hart. Over the weekend, the Broadway-loving teen and her dad had their annual “papa/daughter trip” to Universal Orlando, which left the latter reflecting on how fast his first-born is growing up. In addition to Willow, 15, the “Raise Your Glass” singer and the former motorcycle racer, who tied the knot in 2006, are also parents to son Jameson “Jamo” Moon, who is nine years old. Over the weekend, Carey took to Instagram and shared a slew of photos from his trip with Willow, starting with a pic of the two posing in front of a Sinners attraction. He next shared several photos of the theme park transformed for its annual Halloween Horror Nights event, for which Willow wore a v-neck striped t-shirt paired with denim shorts and fishnet tights. “What an epic time w/ my daughter, Willow. This is our 4th year doing our papa/daughter trip to @universalorlando for #HalloweenHorrorNights, and it definitely didn’t disappoint!” Carey wrote. © …

The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

Published by skeptic

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 An Anthropic AI model submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murderThe tip was in a new group of rogue actions Anthropic disclosed. (NYT $)+ Police criticised the company for waiting nine days to report it after finding it. (WSJ $)+ Another model submitted real government forms. (Quartz)+ The White House has made AI incident reporting mandatory. (Axios)+ But who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? (MIT Technology Review) 2 Ukraine’s drone strikes have dealt a major blow to Russian AISunday’s attack shut down the third Yandex data centre hit in days. (Reuters $)+ The strikes have disrupted Russia’s AI, cloud services, and apps. (Gizmodo)+ They followed Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. (Ars Technica)+ Russian military satellites could disrupt Starlink. (Reuters $)+ Ukraine’s drone data is fueling a wild market. (MIT Technology Review) 3 Iranian ChatGPT users have planted AI-generated articles in news outletsAbout a dozen outlets ran roughly 100 articles by fake journalists. (CNN)+ The articles criticised …