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Kelley Deal and Josephine Wiggs in 2009

The September 2014 tour by the alternative rock band the Breeders included thirteen concerts in the central and western United States. The tour featured the lineup from their 1993 album Last Splash, with Josephine Wiggs, Jim Macpherson, Kim Deal, and Kelley Deal (pictured with Wiggs in 2009). Invited to open for Neutral Milk Hotel's September 18 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, they planned a tour to lead up to this show, using the opportunity to practice some recent compositions. They performed in eleven cities, including St. Louis, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. The group then played at the Hollywood Bowl concert, and finished the tour on September 20 at the Goose Island 312 Urban Block Party event in Chicago. As well as their new songs, they performed numerous selections from Last Splash and Pod (1990). Music critics commented that the performances were rousing, and that the band was as good as—or better than—in its heyday. (Full article...)

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Figurines of Jewish men in Kraków

... that in some Polish homes, an image of a Jew holding a coin (example pictured) hangs to the left of the doorway, and is customarily turned upside down on the Sabbath so that good fortune may fall upon the household?
... that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in Colette's story Gigi?
... that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Fujiwara's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi, who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939?
... that Clarence Ervin became the first African-American brigadier general in the history of the North Carolina Air National Guard in 2015?
... that in his opera Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens, Rolf Riehm included instruments such as archaic wood planks, a musical saw, an accordion, and a piano?
... that UCLA football player Joshua Kelley's career-high 289 rushing yards against USC last season were the most by any player on either team in the history of the schools' crosstown rivalry?
... that an endemic species of trout in Lake Aguelmame Sidi Ali became extinct after the common carp was introduced in 1934?
... that Meghan Trainor's 2019 EP The Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?

In the news

Hurricane Dorian over the Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian (satellite image shown) makes landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least five people.
Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announces that it has detected more than 80,000 wildfires in the country since January, at least 40,000 of which have occurred in the Amazon rainforest.
At least 80 people are killed and 160 others injured in a bombing at a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan.
All 233 people on board Ural Airlines Flight 178 survive a crash following bird strikes in both engines of an Airbus A321.

On this day

September 3

The impending collision of Princess Alice

1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.
1878 – The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding (pictured) with a collier, killing more than 600 people.
1914 – World War I: The German army began an assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
1967 – Dagen H: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in Sweden while drivers switched from the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side.
2001 – The Troubles: On the first day of the school year, Protestant loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Umar al-Aqta (d. 863) · Macfarlane Burnet (b. 1899) · Scott Carson (b. 1985)

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The Entombment is a 1559 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Titian, commissioned by Philip II of Spain. It depicts the burial of Jesus in a stone sarcophagus, which is decorated with depictions of Cain and Abel and the binding of Isaac. The figure holding Christ's body is Nicodemus, the Jewish elder that secretly visited Jesus at night to learn about his teachings; the figure of Nicodemus bears the traits of the artist himself. This could have been inspired by Michelangelo's idea in his unfinished Deposition from 1550, depicting himself as Nicodemus, supporting the body of Christ, displayed in the cathedral in Florence. The painting exhibits a style under development by Titian at the time, characterized by the use of broad brushwork and brilliant colours. It is now in the permanent collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Painting credit: Titian

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