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Reuters
6 hours ago
- Sport
- Reuters
PWHL Seattle names Steve O'Rourke as first coach
June 20 - SEATTLE -- PWHL Seattle named Steve O'Rourke as the expansion franchise's first head coach on Friday. O'Rourke spent the 2024-25 season as the head coach of the OHL's Oshawa Generals after serving as an assistant coach with the team for two seasons. In all, he brings more than 15 years of coaching experience to Seattle. "We're proud to welcome Steve as the first head coach in PWHL Seattle's history," general manager Meghan Turner said. "He brings a great hockey mind, a clear vision for the game, and a strong commitment to developing both our team and our players as individuals. We're confident in his leadership and excited to start this next chapter with him behind the bench." A native of Summerland, B.C., O'Rourke played in the WHL before being selected by the New York Islanders in the 1992 NHL Draft. His coaching career also includes stints with the Prince George Cougars and Red Deer Rebels in the WHL and the AHL's Abbotsford Heat. O'Rourke, 50, also served as an assistant coach for Canada's Team Red at the 2019-20 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, and spent one season as the general manager and head coach of the BCHL's Langley Rivermen. "I'm incredibly excited to be joining the Professional Women's Hockey League," O'Rourke said. "This is something I've thought about since the league was first announced. To now be given the opportunity to work with the best players in the world and be part of a professional league that is thriving both on and off the ice is truly amazing. "Being from the West and having played hockey in Washington State, I've seen first-hand how much the game has grown in this region. The passion and support for hockey here is real, and I'm proud to now be part of it in a new way. To have the opportunity to help shape the Seattle team alongside Meghan Turner and the players is something I don't take for granted. It's an exciting challenge, and I'm looking forward to building something special with this group." --Field Level Media
Eater
3 days ago
- Business
- Eater
Highly Anticipated Restaurant Openings in Atlanta
Here are the most exciting restaurant openings we're waiting on with bated breath. Bacchanalia founder chef Anne Quatrano is opening a new daytime restaurant called Summerland this fall. It is headed to Atlanta's newest indoor farmers market, Upper West Market. Much like Quatrano's Star Provisions, Summerland will feature fresh-baked goods, savory takeaway items, a coffee counter, a light-filled dining room, and an al fresco patio. The menu will also offer about a dozen dishes, including baked cottage cheese with eggs and a fine-herb salad, Carolina Gold rice porridge with roasted leeks, crispy onion, and soft egg, and chicken schnitzel with raw peanuts, pickled coriander, arugula, and lemon. White Oak Pastures, Hop City, and Brash Coffee Roasters are some of the other food vendors joining the upcoming Upper West Market. Popular Midtown Mexican restaurant El Valle will now have a new location in Brookhaven, according to chef Luis Damian, who is also behind Casa Balam in Decatur and Oaxaca in Chamblee. The restaurant is expected to open this August at the mixed-use development, Parkside on Dresden. El Valle is best known for its Baja tacos, ceviche, fine dining mains like pork tenderloin with mango salsa and braised wagyu short rib with black garlic mole, and an extensive Mexican wine list. Chef Brian So and sommelier Daniel Crawford of one-Michelin-starred Spring have been dangling a carrot in front of us for a while on the opening of Spring 2nd Branch. The Korean eatery is now expected to open mid-August in Marietta Square, says So. Unlike Spring, which is a fine dining restaurant, the sister Spring 2nd Branch will be far more casual, where So will work with traditional Korean flavors. Jason Furst and Sam Pinner recently opened Sammy's, a sandwich shop in Adair Park, which quickly became one of the best new restaurants in Atlanta. They are now slated to open Broad Street BBQ in South Downtown on 96 Broad Street. It is expected to open in the spring of next year. The barbecue joint will house a smokehouse, and if Sammy's is any indication of the food, expect meaty sandwiches here, too. See More: Atlanta Restaurant News Atlanta Restaurant Openings
Boston Globe
12-06-2025
- Boston Globe
Veteran Broadway actor Richard Topol on hanging with Larry David — and that time his car was impounded
If you could travel anywhere right now, where would you go? I've been dying to go to Machu Picchu. I'd like to do the few-day hike all the way up — something about the combination of a vigorous climb through forests and highlands to reach the top of a mountain, where you find an unfathomable man-made structure, seems like the magical pairing of natural beauty with human creation. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Do you prefer booking trips through a travel agent or on your own? Depends on where I'll be going, but my sister-in-law is a travel agent and I often like to go through her. Advertisement Thoughts on an 'unplugged' vacation? I'm headed to the High Sierras in California for a week of backpacking in August with three of my college buddies. Can't wait. Unplugged for sure. What has been your worst vacation experience? Can I let you write about this? My girlfriend and I were traveling back from Canada in her old VW bug, and we got stopped at the border because we looked young and scruffy — or at least I did. It was during [the elder] George Bush's 'war on drugs.' I had one joint in my backpack, and they took us out of the car and searched everything. When they found my joint, which my girlfriend begged me to throw out the window before we got to the border, they impounded the car, and we were stuck at this isolated border station in Vermont. Luckily, they said we could buy the car back, and it was an old VW, so its Bluebook value was only $250. The Border folks had to drive us 20 minutes to the nearest town so we could withdraw that cash from a bank and buy the car back. The most expensive joint I never got to smoke. Advertisement What is your favorite childhood travel memory? So many. Maybe my favorite was our road trip from the Adirondacks through Canada to Quebec City, Montreal, and the Thousand Islands to Toronto, or the summer where we swapped houses with a family in Richmond just outside London. Do you vacation to relax, to learn, or for the adventure of it all? Yes, yes, and yes. What book do you plan on bringing with you to read on your next vacation? I've been trying to crack open both Colm Tóibín's 'The Magician' and Michael Chabon's 'Summerland.' The former seems just the right kind of intense and the latter the right kind of magical. If you could travel with one famous person/celebrity, who would it be? Larry David, with whom I worked on Broadway in his show 'Fish in the Dark.' He might complain a lot, but we'd get to play at all the best golf courses, and he'd make me laugh, even if our flights are delayed, our food never comes, or our luggage gets lost. Advertisement What is the best gift to give a traveler? Advice on the best places to eat, where they are going. Seriously, remember not to over-plan so much that you can't be open to the new world right in front of you. I think you are asking for a tangible physical thing, but I think this is more important and useful. What is your go-to snack for a flight or a road trip? I do like a few clementines or some fresh fruit because there's just so many tasty salty snacks out there that are hard to say no to. What is the coolest souvenir you've picked up on a vacation? A beautiful handcrafted wrought iron water basin with a mirror that my now wife and I picked up on the vacation in Italy where we got engaged. What is your favorite app/website for travel? I just Google everything. What has travel taught you? That the world is a big beautiful planet filled with magical places, interesting people, and incredible history. Get off your butt and be inspired; learn and grow from experiencing it. What is your best travel tip? See the previous answer and the answer to the question about the best gift to give a traveler.
CBC
16-05-2025
- General
- CBC
#TheMoment a pig and a chicken formed an unlikely bond
Jane Long-Haggerty, president of New Beginnings Animal Sanctuary Society in Summerland, B.C., recounts the moment a unique friendship formed between a new rescue pig and one of the sanctuary's chickens.
CBC
16-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Emotional support pig gets emotional support chicken at B.C. wildlife sanctuary
Social Sharing A former emotional support pig has been getting his own emotional support from a chicken who is helping him adapt to a new life at a B.C. wildlife rescue. Truffles arrived at the New Beginnings Animal Sanctuary in Summerland, B.C., after being taken in by the B.C. SPCA earlier this year. The 10-year-old pig had previously been an emotional support animal for a family who had to move and could not take him with them, according to New Beginnings' president Jane Long-Haggerty, who says it was "super exciting" to be able to provide him with a permanent home. But when he arrived at the sanctuary, he was fairly shy since he wasn't used to being around a lot of other animals, she said. "He kind of just went to a little corner," she said, adding that he shooed away other animals who tried to approach him. But there was one exception: a recently rescued chicken named Little Red who started sharing a meal with Truffles. "She was the only one that he didn't shoo away, and he really, really, really likes her," Long-Haggerty said. "Now they sleep together, they lie in the sun, they eat, they're together most of the time. It's really cute." Long-Haggerty said while it's not unusual for chickens and pigs to cohabitate and get along, it is unusual for two of them to form such a close bond with each other, with Little Red hopping on Truffles' back to groom him and sometimes get rides. "It's like they knew each other," she said. Truffles on a weight loss journey Truffles' story was already well-known in some quarters after coming into the SPCA in April. According to Long-Haggerty, he had briefly been in the care of another family who didn't know how to properly care for him, and he had ballooned in size to more than 300 pounds — overweight and in need of a diet. "Truffles has a history of not eating his veggies, but is starting to find certain healthy foods that he likes," the SPCA said on his adoption page. They also noted his history as an emotional support animal, saying that he was sure to be a "sweet and loving friend" to whoever took him in. What they likely didn't expect was that friend would be a chicken more than 10 times smaller than him. "When you see him, all the pigs are kind of in one corner and he's in another corner of the barn with his chicken," Long-Haggerty said. "He doesn't mind the goats being around every once in a while, but it's definitely he just wants his chicken friend." She said he is eating a more suitable diet and engaging in regular exercise, and is also extremely friendly with people, so the sanctuary is optimistic he will reach his target weight again. And she hopes the story will offer lessons to people, too, about the importance of understanding how to care for pets before you adopt them and about the power of friendship.
