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Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tina Knowles' ‘Matriarch' is more than a memoir; it's a gift to her descendants
Tina Knowles is a renowned businesswoman, designer and now a best-selling author. Her memoir 'Matriarch' is number one on the New York Times' bestsellers list, a feat she never expected when she released it last month. Knowles talked to the KTLA 5 Morning News just hours after she joined her daughter Beyoncé, and her granddaughters Blue Ivy and Rumi on the stage of the Cowboy Carter Tour show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Thursday night. 'From that perspective, I'm always either behind stage or out there in the audience, so it was really fun. And being with my daughter and my granddaughters, it was the best!' she gushed. While her eldest is constantly changing the game in music, she still asks Mama T for advice. 'She's a grown woman, so she has her own opinions about things, but she does ask my advice on a lot of things, and she values it,' she explained. 'I'm always in awe of her, not only her talent, but just the amount of, you know, she's a boss, and she is involved in every detail of her career, every detail of the show, it's mind boggling to watch her work. But, as she does all of this and still manages to be a great mom and great daughter and do really great things as a human, you know, that's (what I'm) proud of.' Family is Knowles' foundation and something the family has always centered, even when she was a child growing up in Galveston, Texas. She makes it known in her book by paying homage to her ancestors. She even includes her family tree, starting with her great-great-grandparents and leading up to her grandchildren. Knowles also has two grandsons, Daniel Julez J. Smith, 20, from her youngest daughter, Solange, and Sir Carter,7, from Beyoncé. For the project, she partnered with to take a deep look into her roots. She was already knowledgeable of her family's history as her mother had taught her early on about her bloodline. However, she found the family tree important because the 'book reads like a novel' and there are so many 'characters.' It was also something Oprah Winfrey had advised as well. 'She said, 'Girl, but it's too many characters you need to do a tree,'' she laughed. 'I was just going to do the outline of it, because I think that is so important. And what I'm hoping from this book, people get the idea to write their own story, not for publication, but just for your great-grandchildren. I might (not) meet them, because my children didn't meet my mother and I didn't meet my grandmother. So I was already recording into a phone so that I could leave that for my, you know, for my descendants, so that hear it from my words.' Knowles is also going on tour herself, her book tour 'An Evening with Tina Knowles, Family & Friends.' 'It's my own little tour,' she said of the nine-city tour. 'I'm really excited to see people come out and hear the story, and also to just get inspired by many of the things that I've learned, I've tried to pass on, and information that can help people and share.' Keke Palmer is moderating the show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 2. 'It's going to be a good time with Keke Palmer, who is so hilarious. Oh, we love her. Jennifer Hudson is going to honor us with a song,' she continued. 'So I'm very excited about tonight. All people will come out and join us!' Tickets are available here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Beyonce honors mother onstage of Cowboy Carter Tour
It was a family affair at SoFi Stadium on Thursday night for Night 2 of Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour. While performing her song 'Protector,' she brought our her daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi. Then the crowd roared when Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, also joined them. The three generations of Knowles women stood proudly in a heartwarming and emotional moment to celebrate the success of Ms. Tina's memoir 'Matriarch.' 'Today is a big day because my mother, who worked so hard on her book, she has the No. 1 book on the New York Times bestsellers,' Beyoncé said. 'Congratulations, Mama T.' The author gushed about the moment in a post on Instagram right after. 'Y'all… I just lived out a bucket list item of mine joining my baby and grandbabies on stage during 'Protector.' This was a moment I will never ever forget,' she wrote in the caption. Earlier that day, Knowles's ex-husband, Mathew Knowles, took to social media to congratulate her accomplishment. 'Tina, congratulations on your New York Times #1 bestseller 'Matriarch.' Mathew,' he wrote on X The former salon owner has been on a book tour called 'An Evening with Tina Knowles, Family & Friends.' On April 30, former First Lady Michelle Obama moderated the event in Washington, D.C. Keke Palmer will moderate the event at The Wiltern in L.A. on May 2. 'Matriarch: A Memoir By Tina Knowles' was released on April 22. SoFi Stadium will host Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour for three more dates: May 4, 7 and 9. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Independent
30-04-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Why the way I booked a May Day train works for me – but not the rail industry
On 1 May, I will board a morning train from London King's Cross to County Durham. I bought the ticket from LNER, the state-run train operator on the East Coast Main Line. The train, though, is actually Grand Central – the 'open access' division of Arriva, ultimately owned by German Railways. However complex the hierarchy, the traveller is the winner. Open access operators are blossoming across Europe. They are commercial enterprises that run long-distance services, often alongside state railways, and get no taxpayer support. Intercity competition always benefits passengers, as on the Madrid-Barcelona link where fares have fallen while quality rises (except when power cuts bring all the high-speed trains to a halt). Here in the UK, open access firms also run trains to destinations that state-run train operators choose not to serve direct – such as Hartlepool, just three hours from London by Grand Central. The main achievement of open access firms, though, is to lure new customers to the railways. The best example is Lumo, which runs from London via Newcastle and Morpeth to Edinburgh. The First Group-owned company is in competition not just with LNER but also British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair – as well as people who might drive, or just stay at home. Yet the fact that I could book that May Day trip through a rival train operator, and use my railcard, is baffling. It takes me back to the 1980s – before proper competition began on the airlines. In 2025, I can search in a trice on a flight-comparison website such as Skyscanner and find the best flights from Manchester to Malaga. Then I book direct with whichever of easyJet, Jet2 and Ryanair offers the best deal. Such is the madness of Britain's open access regulations that state-run operators like LNER must sell tickets on rival firms such as Grand Central – and vice versa. Because I bought while LNER was offering a five per cent cashback deal on any train purchases, I saved a few pounds. Handy for me, unhelpful for Grand Central. Open access operators' quest to use shrewd pricing to attract new passengers would be more successful were they not required to make their inventory available through other operators, to whom they must pay a few per cent in commission. Then there's the railcard requirement. Can you imagine easyJet or Ryanair putting up with a rule that says: 'If somebody comes along who's under 31 or over 59, or happens to be travelling with their partner, or has a child with them, you must give them one-third off the price of a ticket.' This arrangement makes a mockery of the fine art of yield management: extracting the most from every traveller while filling every seat. Grand Central, Lumo and Hull Trains might set a price of £60 for a ticket, only to find that those of us lucky enough to qualify for a railcard can buy it for just £40. Even worse, two adults and two children with a Family & Friends railcard will be able to occupy four seats for barely half the regular fare. So rigorous are the rules that open access operators cannot do the obvious and sensible thing and say: everyone must book online and use an e-ticket. Someone who insists on buying a paper ticket at a booking office, with all the extra cost that entails, gets the same deal. Suggesting that passengers should pay more at the ticket office than online is deeply controversial – as is my belief that open access companies should be able to eliminate the half-price for children practice if they so wish. Yet the principle that all passengers occupying a seat – whether aged two, 22 or 102 – should pay the same fare was set by easyJet when the low-cost revolution began three decades ago. All of this is relevant because Grand Central has revealed a cunning plan to launch trains from Newcastle to Brighton in December 2026. These will typically not be used by people wishing to travel from Newcastle to Brighton because it is much faster to take Lumo or LNER to London King's Cross, walk across the road to St Pancras and hop on a frequent Thameslink train to Brighton – just over four hours all in. Grand Central's proposed train will follow a long and winding route via York, Sheffield, Derby, Birmingham New Street, Oxford, Reading and Gatwick airport. Clever pricing will make all the difference between profit and loss: you really don't want to sell someone a ticket from Durham to Darlington if it takes up space that would otherwise be filled by a passenger travelling from Tyneside to Birmingham. Only by freeing companies from needless constraints will open access operators flourish as they should. That includes enticing people who might drive between York and Reading, and offering them a decent deal to take the train. Given the glacial-to-zero progress that successive governments have made in rationalising fares, I have no expectation that this will happen in the next 19 months. But as with so many railway conventions: only when ministers have the courage to make decisions that may prove temporarily unpopular will travel by train flourish.
Yahoo
20-04-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
After the storm: Abilene's weekly stormwater service projects
The city of Abilene's Stormwater Services Division regularly works to maintain compliance with state and federal regulations for stormwater management and water quality protection. Due to these regulations, city employees must make efforts to clean up creeks, streets and drainage systems to prevent pollution to the city's water supply. Abilene residents pay a monthly stormwater utility fee which pays for maintenance and improvement to the stormwater drainage system and other stormwater activities. There are numerous scheduled projects for the week of April 19-25, including street sweeping, mowing, tree trimming and drainage maintenance. Here is an overview of the projects for the upcoming week. Creek channel maintenance of Buttonwillow Creek from Chimney Rock Road to Robertson Drive. Drainage easement maintenance of: Vaughn Camp Park Colony Hill Road Thompson Parkway Meadow Drive Beck Avenue 3009 Heritage Twin Oaks Drive Antilley Road Craig Drive Mowing and tree trimming near roadways on Old Anson Road, Stamford Street and E.N. 10th Street. Mowing and tree trimming maintenance near drains along Vogel Street, South 23rd Street, Hickory Street, Ambler Avenue, Cedar Crest Drive, Pine Street, Northshore Drive and Aspen Drive. Mowing and tree trimming along Cat Claw Creek, Little Elm Creek and Big Elm Creek. Mowing and tree trimming around detention ponds near Northway Drive and Cimarron Meadow. Regular street sweeping is scheduled for several streets throughout the city including: In the central business district from South Second Street to South Seventh Street, Willow Street, Cherry Street, Locust Street, Pecan Street and Oak Street. Primrose Drive, Annette Lane, Rebecca Lane, North First Street, South Seventh Street, North Third Street, North Tenth Street and Pioneer Drive. Fannin Street and North 11th, North 14th, North 18th, North 19th and North 20th streets. Holbron Street, Merchant Street, Clinton Street, Victoria Street, North Seventh Street, Parramore Street, Park Avenue, North Second Street, Graham Street, Reading Avenue and Lillius Street. Laguna Drive, Steffens Street, Main Street, Holiday Street, Santa Rosa Street, South Third Street, Cromwell Street, Paddington Street, Chapel Hill Road, Wilton Street, Western Hills Drive, Eaton Street, Bond Street and Hackney Street. The city posts a list of scheduled and completed stormwater service projects weekly. The full list can be viewed online at the city's website at Aaron Watson returns home with lively "Family & Friends" show at Lime Rock Amphitheater A vape, dead insects and a broken toilet: Abilene's weekly restaurant inspections This article originally appeared on Abilene Reporter-News: Abilene's weekly stormwater service projects
