| Fall of Gibson: Where have all the guitar heroes gone? Posted: 07 May 2018 01:45 PM PDT ![Fall of Gibson: Where have all the guitar heroes gone?]( "Fall of Gibson: Where have all the guitar heroes gone?") Growing up off-the-grid in the rural West, Tim Montana still remembers that moment, at 6, when he received a nylon-string guitar as a gift. It led to the moment when ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons handed him a Gibson Les Paul guitar right off the Nashville, Tenn., factory line in 2013. Mr. Montana, whose anthem "This Beard Came Here to Party" was adopted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2013 pennant run, was rocked like much of the music world last week when global luthier Gibson Brands, maker of the iconic Les Paul ax, filed for bankruptcy.
|
| In West Virginia, GOP tries to tame forces of 'Trumpism' Posted: 07 May 2018 01:25 PM PDT ![In West Virginia, GOP tries to tame forces of 'Trumpism']( "In West Virginia, GOP tries to tame forces of 'Trumpism'") In more conventional times, Don Blankenship would be nobody's poster boy for a successful US Senate candidate. Blankenship is surging in polls ahead of Tuesday's vote, GOP strategists say, and in a crowded field, he could capture the nomination with a plurality.
|
| In Baghdad, Iraqis embrace return to normalcy, with eye on its fragility Posted: 07 May 2018 01:18 PM PDT ![In Baghdad, Iraqis embrace return to normalcy, with eye on its fragility]( "In Baghdad, Iraqis embrace return to normalcy, with eye on its fragility") The ceremony opening a small road along the Tigris River in Baghdad could hardly have been more modest – or more symbolic of how normalcy has begun to unfurl across the Iraqi capital for the first time in decades. Blocking the road were two battered concrete barriers. A crane was readied, and the chief of the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), Lt. Gen. Jalil al-Rubaie, arrived with a security escort bristling with firepower, also symbolic.
|
| Months after Maria, Puerto Ricans take recovery into their own hands Posted: 07 May 2018 12:37 PM PDT ![Months after Maria, Puerto Ricans take recovery into their own hands]( "Months after Maria, Puerto Ricans take recovery into their own hands") "You can only eat so much sausage and canned tuna," says Ms. Cotto, teetering on top of a plastic milk crate, her hairnet sliding back around her graying topknot. Cotto and a core group of volunteers have been filling this former public-school cafeteria with donated food and home-cooked meals three days a week since Nov. 6, joining hundreds of volunteers across the island who are heroically helping communities survive after an unprecedented natural disaster and epic power outage. Recommended: How well do you know Puerto Rico?
|
