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Boston Globe
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
What to know about the Battle of Bunker Hill reenactment in Gloucester this weekend
Below is the full schedule and transportation information. Saturday, June 21 The Preparation 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. — The Redoubt, Stage Fort Park Reenactors will construct fortifications resembling the redoubt on Breed's Hill using period tools. The scene will capture the urgency as troops brace for British bombardment. The redoubt will stand atop the park's main hill. The Navy approaches 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. — Half Moon Beach, Stage Fort Park Advertisement Royal Navy vessels will fill the waters of Charlestown Neck to re-create the 1775 bombardment and landings. Tall ships including the Story, Ardelle, Isabelle, and Lynx, coordinated by Maritime Gloucester, will provide a backdrop while one ship stages a simulated bombardment with powder blasts. The Landing 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. — Half Moon Beach, Stage Fort Park British soldiers land under fire from Colonial sharpshooters. They attempt a feint charge toward the redoubt to distract from an impending flank. A lunch break follows with chances to interact with reenactors. Civilians Under Siege & The Military on the Move 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. — The Marketplace, Stage Fort Park Interpreters portraying 1770s civilians and soldiers will reenact the chaos of British-occupied Boston, including trade demos, domestic life, and civilian evacuations. Characters will represent a range of genders, races, classes, and political views. Advertisement 9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. — Meet General Henry Clinton 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. — Asa Pollard Funeral, Frye's Regiment Arrives 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. — Meet Abigail Adams 11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. — Meet Martha Washington 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. — Meet Dr. Joseph Warren 12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m. — Meet General William Howe 12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. — Meet Elizabeth Murray 3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. — Meet historian Don Hagist The Flanking Attack 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. — Cressy Beach, Stage Fort Park British Grenadiers and Light Infantry attempt a shoreline flanking maneuver but are repelled by New Hampshire troops under John Stark. The Main Assault 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. — Stage Fort Park British forces launch a final assault on the redoubt and rail fence. With ammo depleted, Colonists retreat — some throwing rocks. The dramatic finale ends with General Joseph Warren's death and the British capture of the hill. Sunday, June 22 The events on Sunday will be a condensed version of the Saturday schedule, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., at the same locations. The abbreviated schedule for Sunday can be found on the Transportation Parking at Stage Fort Park is available for $35 cash per day, with additional satellite lots around Gloucester and free shuttle service from most, but not all locations. If you're arriving by public transit, take the Rockport-bound Newburyport/Rockport commuter rail line to West Gloucester station, where shuttles will run starting at 7:45 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. For full parking details, shuttle times, and directions, visit the Nathan Metcalf can be reached at
RTÉ News
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Leaving Cert Diary: German and Construction cap off another week
What's another week of tough exams between friends?! The class of 2025 have another weekend to relax and unwind - we have some tips to help here! For many, the Leaving Cert is over, but our Leaving Cert Diary entries continue with thanks to members of the Irish Second-Level Students' Union (ISSU). Today, we lead off with Isabelle on German, and keep reading as Ryan tells us about his long day with Construction studies... Isabelle - Freitag, den 13. Juni 2025. The day has come. We walked into our exam halls/special centres with our heads bursting with Deutsch at 9.30 this morning. Higher level students were met with Leservrständnis 1, about a professional gamer called Till, and we were asked questions regarding his journey as a professional gamer. This was followed by a grammar section with challenging adjective endings. The second Leserverständnis followed an interview with a Munich student working in Antarctica. The questions related to the harsh winters there. I chose to do the Äußerung zum Thema about the diary writing. The questions were simple and nice, relating to how relevant it is to write diaries in our modern world. The pen pal letter had plenty of nice broad topics, including the Olympics, how we meet new people, and our morning routine. The 10 minute break between the written and aural allowed me to have a much needed stretch and movement break (fellow neurodivergent students will understand!) The Hörverständnis was the part I was very anxious about, but was extremely happy with how smooth it was. The questions were straightforward and the 40 minutes went by in a blissful breeze. I personally was highly expecting topics of AI on the paper, and so was surprised to see that it made no such appearance on neither the written or aural paper. While challenging in many ways, I found the paper relatively straightforward and there was nothing on it that my teacher hadn't prepared me for (shout-out to my wunderbar Lehrerin Frau Prior!) It was all building up to this for Ryan... The Construction Studies exam is over, after months of research and manufacturing of an artefact, a grim 4 hour day practical and a 3 hour long exam it's all finished. Construction Studies was my break from the written subjects over the past two years, I'd look forward to going downstairs to get into some practical work, but then there was the Monday classes where we would do theory, it's not a surprise that the class attendance was always better for the practical classes then the Monday theory class! Today's exam was theory based, the subject is 50% assessment before the exam and 50% for the written paper. I think the exam was fair, but definitely had a few challenges that will have surprised students because they definitely surprised me. The first question was the window detail which is one of the harder detailed drawings, there was a few tricky details thrown into it to catch people. I was happy to see a Safety question come up in Q2 however I was hoping a site safety question would come up somewhere on the paper, which it didn't! Question 3 again was a very predictable question which I was very happy with, although Q4 was definitely not expected and threw me from having options in the exam to having no options of questions. The U Values question this year again had two tricky elements thrown into it which I have to believe will have tricked some people. For the last number of years the two details stayed the same but this year they changed it so I think people will have been caught. Q6 again was a highly anticipated question on Enviormental impact which was very manageable. I personally did not study Q7,8,9 as I opted to go for the chapters that suited me better as there is a lot of choice on this paper, we have 10 options and have to answer 5 questions. Again, Q10 was a bit difficult and required critical thinking but I think most people will have got the majority of the marks here. Overall it was quite a challenging paper compared to previous years but I think students will be happy with it. I'm certainly happy to have it all over but unfortunately I still have one more exam to go, I just have to wait 10 days to do it! Founded in 2008, the ISSU is the national representative body for school students in the Republic of Ireland. The ISSU is led by students, for students.
GMA Network
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Isabelle Daza's son Baltie recreates grandma Gloria Diaz's iconic Miss Universe prelims answer
Isabelle Daza's son, Baltie, recreated his grandma Gloria Diaz's iconic Miss Universe preliminaries answer. On Instagram, Isabelle uploaded a clip of Baltie eating rice and barbecue using his hands. Isabelle asked him, 'Baltie, is it true that Filipinos eat with their hands?' 'Why? Do you eat with your feet?' the little boy answered, referencing his grandma's iconic answer in the Miss Universe 1969 preliminary round. 'Baltie is so proud to be Pinoy,' Isabelle wrote in the caption. 'When your grandmother has iconic comebacks.' Isabelle and her husband, Adrien Semblat, welcomed Baltie in 2018. He was followed by Valentin in 2021 and Esmeralda in 2023. Meanwhile, Gloria Diaz is set to star in the upcoming GMA Network, Viu Philippines, and CreaZion Studios series "Beauty Empire" alongside Barbie Forteza, Kyline Alcantara, Ruffa Gutierrez, and more. —Carby Rose Basina/CDC, GMA Integrated News
USA Today
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'Call Me Izzy' review: Jean Smart transcends a middling Broadway play
'Call Me Izzy' review: Jean Smart transcends a middling Broadway play Show Caption Hide Caption Hack's co-stars talk off camera relationship 'Hacks' co-stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder reveal to USA TODAY what their relationship is like in real life. NEW YORK — It's impossible to ever truly upstage Jean Smart, the incomparable 'Hacks' star and six-time Emmy winner. But boy, does a toilet try. For 85 fitfully moving minutes, a porcelain throne is the shag-covered centerpiece of 'Call Me Izzy,' an uneven new Broadway play that opened June 12 at Studio 54. Dramaturgically, it makes a wee bit of sense: Our heroine, Isabelle Scutley (Smart), is trapped in a low-income Louisiana trailer park with her abusive husband, Ferd. Their teensy bathroom is her only refuge where she can safely scrawl her poetry, which she does – surreptitiously and often – on rolls of bath tissue. But aesthetically, surely there must've been better ways to convey Isabelle's dire straits than plopping a potty centerstage. It's one of the myriad jarring choices that distract from Smart's otherwise beautiful leading turn, telling a conventional but necessary story of a woman's late-in-life liberation. Written by Louisiana native Jamie Wax, the one-person show begins with what could be a spoof of an awards-bait prestige drama. Smart, donning an unkempt wig and terrycloth robe, stands alone in Isabelle's bathroom as she wistfully names the shades of her toilet bowl cleaner: 'Blue … azure … sapphire … swirlin' cerulean … lapis lazuli.' The intent well may be to give us a peek into Isabelle's creative mind, and the heartening ways that she finds poetry in the mundane. But the entire exercise is so perplexingly self-serious, and only becomes sillier when Isabelle squats in her latrine to recount her life story. Much of the play's first half unfolds in similarly obvious fashion, as Isabelle secretly enrolls in a creative writing class and wins a fellowship that could be her bus ticket to a new life. It's hardly a surprise when Isabelle tells the audience conspiratorially that she's started an affair with her professor. But Smart, with her mischievous glint and bone-dry delivery, manages to wring laughs from even the most groan-worthy one-liners. ('He is surprisingly passionate and so polite. I keep expecting him to say, 'Please pass the vagina?'') Wax's writing is riddled with clichés, although he occasionally hits on something uniquely powerful or harrowing. In one crushing scene, Isabelle recalls the first time that Ferd hit her and how he wept in her arms afterward. But rather than abhorrence, she was shocked by the 'closeness' she felt to him in that moment: 'That power, that healin' after a bad episode. It's a dangerous drug.' Sarna Lapine's production never quite coalesces, from Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams' scattershot scenic design – a grab bag of lawn chairs, baskets and forest silhouettes – to the folksy underscore music that pervades nearly every dramatic revelation, courtesy of T. Bone Burnett and David Mansfield. As for Smart, she elevates the show in every sense imaginable. Returning to Broadway for the first time in 25 years, the soft-spoken actress delivers a richly textured performance that brings Isabelle to vivid life, in all her strength, humor and resourcefulness. No matter how often Ferd strikes and belittles her, Isabelle always manages to brush herself off and turn her pain into art. But eventually, his decades of mistreatment come spilling out of her, and Smart's palpable grief for a life and family lost is devastating to witness. After a mawkish beginning, the play somewhat redeems itself through earned emotions and an ambiguous ending that begs discussion. It's never wise to bet against Smart, who ultimately deserves a far better vehicle for her Main Stem comeback. But even if these powder-room reveries aren't a royal flush, 'Call Me Izzy' still has a lot in its tank. 'Call Me Izzy' is now playing at Studio 54 (254 W. 54th Street) through Aug. 17.
Metro
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Hollyoaks confirms powerful real-life follow-up to exploitation story
Hollyoaks has released a short documentary that sees stars Isabelle Smith, Tamara Wall and Anya Lawrence meet with real-life survivors of child exploitation. The actors, as viewers know, featured in a storyline on the Channel 4 soap centred on criminal and sexual exploitation, with Frankie Osborne (Isabelle) and Vicky Grant (Anya) groomed by Grace Black (Tamara). The story came to a head last month when the teens were rescued by Darren Osborne (Ashley Taylor Dawson) from Fernmere Hill, where they had been held captive. The new documentary – titled Groomed Then Exploited – sees Isabelle, Tamara and Anya visit a group of 16 to 18-year-olds at Liverpool-based college LIPA to discuss the importance of knowing how to spot the signs of exploitation. Filmed on the legendary Hollyoaks set, the video will see Melanie, who has lived experience with sexual exploitation, talk to Isabelle about how her difficult upbringing contributed to her being vulnerable to being exploited. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Melanie's story is intertwined with clips of Hollyoaks' narrative and the parallels with Frankie's experience are clear. Melanie wants to share her story in the hopes of breaking the silence and stigma around exploitation, telling other survivors that 'their past doesn't define their future and healing is possible'. Tamara, meanwhile, speaks to Sabrina, who reflects on her years after escaping her abusers. 'I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment etc, and then I realised it's not my shame to hold, it's not my embarrassment,' said Sabrina. Causeway representatives Iona and Chad discuss their aims to educate people on the signs of child exploitation. 'The more people who are able to spot the signs, who are able to raise concerns, the more people we prevent from being exploited in the future,' added Chad. View More » Hollyoaks: Groomed and Exploited can be viewed on Hollyoaks' Official YouTube channel. If you've got a soap or TV story, video or pictures get in touch by emailing us soaps@ – we'd love to hear from you. Join the community by leaving a comment below and stay updated on all things soaps on our homepage. MORE: All Hollyoaks spoilers for next week as a major death is 'sealed' MORE: Hollyoaks confirms who really killed Dennis Savage – and it wasn't Clare or Banks MORE: Hollyoaks confirms dark Clare Devine twist as teens are chilled to the bone
