The Milwaukee Bucks are on everyone's lips after their monumental failure to fall in the first round of the playoffs despite finishing the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference (58-24).
With Giannis Antetokounmpo third in the MVP race, the team was loaded with talented stars and playoff contenders.
But they were eliminated by the eighth-ranked Miami Heat.
The Bucks reacted immediately by firing their coach, Mike Budenholzer, who led the team to a ring in the 2020-21 season, and that move by the franchise generated anger from some players, as the coach was dealing with some terrible personal situations off the court. Read More...
In 1993, producer, composer, and songwriter Paul O’Neill formed the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO), bringing together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both former members of Savatage), as well as pianist and co-producer Robert Kinkel, to form the foundation of the band’s creative team. In 1999, after finishing their third rock opera, “Beethoven’s Last Night,” the band started touring, which helped to increase their fame even more. Their music has been compared to “Pink Floyd meets Yes and The Which at Radio City Music Hall,” according to the Washington Post, who characterised them as “an arena-rock behemoth” back in 2007. Read More...
Even on a weekday, Copenhagen seems to start the day in fairly leisurely style and things slow down even more on a Sunday. Get up and out early and it will be just you and the odd jogger or lone cyclist sharing the sleepy city-centre streets, allowing you to appreciate the architectural details you would normally miss and wander along Nyhavn without having to navigate the usual crowds.
When the weather is cold, Sunday morning is a time for Copenhageners to meet friends and hunker down over brunch in cosy, candlelit cafés that are the very definition of hygge, or pile on the layers for a bracing stroll around the lakes that hug the western side of the city. Read More...