The year's most original and inventive new musical, the Tony-winning 'ONCE,' tells the sweetly stinging story of a love affair that almost was in delicate folk-rock song and dance at the Jacobs Theater.
It is an indication of Silver's considerable gifts that rather than being melodramatic or numbing, this onslaught of misery retains its sting in story after story.
The chief executive of the Sunday Mirror's publisher has defended the paper's Brooks Newmark sex sting story, saying it was in the public interest.
As a stinging tailpiece to the stories about failing celebrity shows, this paper carried a story last week under the headline, How Britain managed to dumb down American TV.
The innate tragic grandeur and gritty, stinging humor of this story of racial exploitation and musicians at loggerheads can be discerned only in fitful flashes.
It is critical for combating the story all over the headlines right now: Mr Obama's stinging victory in the House yesterday.
We delight in telling stories of being stung, harrowing near-misses, or even our fear of stinging insects.
His slim short‑story collection Young Skins, published by Stinging Fly in 2013 and Jonathan Cape a year later, won two prizes.
The story takes place in the Yacoubian Building, an apartment building in downtown Cairo, where in interweaving vignettes, characters offer stinging critiques of Egyptian society.
