"For other places it might not matter as much, but for us, a week and a half before our festival, it leaves us with a dark date," said Bob Babisch, the entertainment director for Summerfest in Milwaukee, where Ms. Spears was to play on July 1 as one of the biggest attractions of the 11-day festival and was expected to fill the 23,000 seats of the Marcus Amphitheater.
The shades of red are like splattered timestamps, the darkest dating back to midnight.
And then there's the unofficial catalogue of political observances that recognizes darker dates in Lebanon's history, like Feb. 14, 2005, which many Lebanese recall with the same vividness that Americans of a certain generation remember the Kennedy assassination.
Although the property is on a serene, 99-acre nature preserve with a five-acre lake, the building was dark and dated.
After dark, as date-night murmurs crescendo to a candlelit roar, records are replaced by playlists featuring of-the-moment acts like Sky Ferreira and Japandroids.
And LUX is the most sensitive dark-matter detector yet built.The history of dark matter dates back to 1933, when Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astrophysicist working at the California Institute of Technology, noticed something odd.
But continuity did not exist between this education and that which was to develop after a period of obscurity known as the Greek Dark Age, dating approximately from the 11th to the 8th century bce.
And in Cambridgeshire, Anglesey Abbey will be lighting up its beautiful gardens, creating a wonderland of lights and live jazz music after dark (various dates, 29 Nov-15 Dec; £10.50 adults, £7.50 children; nationaltrust.org.uk).uk
But Daredevil is the darkest to date, an intentionally Wire-esque survey of gang operations interfacing with corrupt civic institutions, shot in a benighted noir style that feels a million miles away from the Jolly Rancher colour scheme of Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD.
However real these divisive issues are, might they have been deliberately triggered by a sinister German agent, persuasively played by Daniel Brühl, who sets out to exploit the dangerous, destructive potential within Winter Soldier – a dark secret dating back to a 1991 Russian military experiment revealed in flashback?
At its base, there is a thin layer of dark claystones dated to the late Eocene.
