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The Advertiser
4 days ago
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Latest road closures: More than 40 roads closed across Maitland
More than 40 roads remain closed on Monday afternoon, including the New England Highway from the Cessnock Road roundabout to High Street roundabout. The New England Highway is closed in both directions from the roundabout and diversions are in place. Cessnock Road is closed at Maitland roundabout. Testers Hollow is now open to Gillieston Heights residents, carers and essential workers only under traffic control guidance. Maitland City Council encourages the community to keep monitoring updates regularly, as ongoing road closures and changed traffic conditions continue around Maitland. Check Live Traffic for the most up to date information. Roads currently closed as at 3.10pm Monday, May 26, according to Maitland City Council: On public transport: For the latest public transport information, visit or download a transport app. For the latest traffic information, visit or download the Live Traffic NSW app. For the latest information about local council roads, make sure the "Council Supplied Information" filter on or the app is selected, or check with local councils. More than 40 roads remain closed on Monday afternoon, including the New England Highway from the Cessnock Road roundabout to High Street roundabout. The New England Highway is closed in both directions from the roundabout and diversions are in place. Cessnock Road is closed at Maitland roundabout. Testers Hollow is now open to Gillieston Heights residents, carers and essential workers only under traffic control guidance. Maitland City Council encourages the community to keep monitoring updates regularly, as ongoing road closures and changed traffic conditions continue around Maitland. Check Live Traffic for the most up to date information. Roads currently closed as at 3.10pm Monday, May 26, according to Maitland City Council: On public transport: For the latest public transport information, visit or download a transport app. For the latest traffic information, visit or download the Live Traffic NSW app. For the latest information about local council roads, make sure the "Council Supplied Information" filter on or the app is selected, or check with local councils. More than 40 roads remain closed on Monday afternoon, including the New England Highway from the Cessnock Road roundabout to High Street roundabout. The New England Highway is closed in both directions from the roundabout and diversions are in place. Cessnock Road is closed at Maitland roundabout. Testers Hollow is now open to Gillieston Heights residents, carers and essential workers only under traffic control guidance. Maitland City Council encourages the community to keep monitoring updates regularly, as ongoing road closures and changed traffic conditions continue around Maitland. Check Live Traffic for the most up to date information. Roads currently closed as at 3.10pm Monday, May 26, according to Maitland City Council: On public transport: For the latest public transport information, visit or download a transport app. For the latest traffic information, visit or download the Live Traffic NSW app. For the latest information about local council roads, make sure the "Council Supplied Information" filter on or the app is selected, or check with local councils. More than 40 roads remain closed on Monday afternoon, including the New England Highway from the Cessnock Road roundabout to High Street roundabout. The New England Highway is closed in both directions from the roundabout and diversions are in place. Cessnock Road is closed at Maitland roundabout. Testers Hollow is now open to Gillieston Heights residents, carers and essential workers only under traffic control guidance. Maitland City Council encourages the community to keep monitoring updates regularly, as ongoing road closures and changed traffic conditions continue around Maitland. Check Live Traffic for the most up to date information. Roads currently closed as at 3.10pm Monday, May 26, according to Maitland City Council: On public transport: For the latest public transport information, visit or download a transport app. For the latest traffic information, visit or download the Live Traffic NSW app. For the latest information about local council roads, make sure the "Council Supplied Information" filter on or the app is selected, or check with local councils.
Global News
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Global News
When Pop Meets Country: Marie Mai and Tebey Find Harmony in Collaboration
Back in 2019, when French Canadian pop singer Marie Mai heard country artist and producer Tebey's song The Good Ones, she immediately knew she had to be on it. Her response to him didn't come as quickly, though. 'I was sitting on pins and needles for a week and a half for her to respond!' Tebey jokes. Once they made the connection, he jet-set off to the north of Montreal to record together. They quickly became friends and, in turn, built a partnership of sorts. Singing together opened up opportunities for each of them to be heard by a new fanbase and to be heard differently by their own. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Mai says, 'My goal in life was to always travel with my music. To me, music is not a language. It is not a French thing or an English thing, it's about sharing your emotion, and that in itself is a language.' Story continues below advertisement Through the process, Mai felt challenged by the genre and by singing in English. She says, 'Country music is so precise…every single artist on a country song sounds immaculate.' She focused on her accent, her intention, and putting herself into the piece wherever she could. Regardless, the two loved working together, felt they sounded fantastic together, and Mai calls Tebey a 'great coach!' 'We've been really lucky,' Tebey gushed. 'Obviously our relationship has been developing as friends over the last year or so, but it really was effortless… you never know what you're going to get collaborating with someone because we didn't really know each other, but it worked out for us.'
Sunday World
18-05-2025
- Business
- Sunday World
Enter atmospheric pub that once counted a legend of Old IRA among its regulars
Le Chateau | Le Chateau first welcomed customers when the French Revolution was raging and St Patrick's Street was still a river Michael (left), son Mick (centre), and brother Dan (right) behind the counter of Le Chateau on St Patrick's Street Boats sailed up and docked, enjoying fine wines and spirits, before carrying on along one of the city's many canals. Over 230 years later, the pub – now known as Le Chateau - has seen the great and good of the city, including sports stars, politicians, and an IRA general, among their regulars. 'We're only the fourth family to own the pub in all that time,' Michael Reidy tells me. 'We took it over in the early 30s, my dad is originally from County Limerick, and he came to Cork for work. My dad died in 1959, so my late mother Mai took over the pub with her sister Maura.' Pulling pints, in a time when you weren't allowed to drink them, as well as raising a young family without husband Dan, made 'Mai' one of the very many exceptionally strong women who defied societal norms - and antiquated laws - to create a life for themselves. 'At that time, it was a tied house to Murphy's Brewery,' the younger Dan, Michael's brother, tells me. 'In '74 then we purchased Keely's Bar in Faulkner's Lane and knocked the two bars into each other.' A sign of the old Faulkner's Lane, which became no more following the construction of Opera Lane It meant the pub – now the last remaining on St Patrick's Street – had three entrances, causing Mai a headache on more than one occasion. 'These lads were on the lash, and they came in the front door, so my mother told them 'No lads, go away home',' explains Michael. 'They went away, but came back about an hour later through the Academy Street entrance and she told them, 'Lads, seriously now, go home, I'm not serving ye.' 'Don't they come back in again through Faulkner's Lane, thinking it was another pub. Once they saw her again behind the bar, one of the group piped up 'how many more bars in Cork do you f**king own?'' Mind you, the bar was a tight ship under Mai's command, but she wasn't the only general standing by the counter. 'My big memory when I was older was when General Tom Barry used come in here, and we used to be afraid of him,' said Michael. 'He was very stern and austere, and we used to say he'd have a gun! He'd stand at the bar, and he'd have a trilby hat. 'We didn't know everything, but we knew what he had done! History dots the walls of the bars, including these caricatures of old Cork 'celebrities' 'We used to have Jack Lynch (former Taoiseach & All-Ireland winner) come in, and they'd all come out of the woodwork when Jack Doyle (former boxer and showbiz star) would come in because he'd always pick up the tab! 'Roy Keane tells a story of how he signed two professional contracts in the pub on the same day. In the morning, he came in and signed for Cork City upstairs and then came along later that afternoon and signed for Cobh Ramblers downstairs!' Keane would later recount the same story at University College Cork years later. 'Gay Byrne came in with Mike Murphy one day to meet a prominent Cork businessman at the time. They were in during the holy hour, so Gay asked my mother 'are ye closed,' so which she replied, 'we are, but if you sit over there you can have a drink while you're waiting.'" The pub has been in the hands of the Reidy family for over 90 years The city has changed since Mai and Maura's time. Local communities have moved out, but a whole new group of young professionals have moved in. The pub has naturally had to change over the years as well, while their extensive wine list stays ever present, hand-selected by Michael himself. 'My mother used always say, 'if you stand still, you don't stand a chance'' said Michael. ''You must serve your drink in perfect condition; you must serve quality drink, and you have to constantly reinvest in your business. Last June we got new pipes, beer lines, refrigeration, glass washers, we upgraded everything.' 'There's nothing expected from you, apart from total change!' jokes Dan. 'There are 64 big apartments over us in Opera Lane,' says Michael. 'You have the people who are in the shops who are regulars, you have people specifically coming into town. What's been very good for our business is all the different bus services. 'We find that people, instead of having three small nights, they'll have one big night,' adds Dan, 'they'll go to a meal and a show, and they'll use the bus services to come in and out and have a drink here.' A view over St Patrick's Street from Le Chateau And over two centuries on, the French connection remains. 'We've loads of French customers, and we have French staff as well,' Michael explains. 'They understand (the history), when people come to Cork now, they like to find out about the history.' 'Days of just coming into a city (are over),' adds brother Dan, 'they have it well researched now. Even before you go away on your holidays, you know what you're going to eat.' The bar was looking resplendent in the afternoon sun, with the outdoor seating full of life, with white wine, Aperol Spritz, and cocktails replacing the winter fare of hot whiskeys, mulled wine, and pints of stout. 'There's a big emphasis on seating outside, that's one of the major changes in the last 25 years,' says Michael, who revealed the pub take out public liability insurance covering up to €13 million. Le Chateau is the last bar on the street 'Young people are drinking less, but they're trading up when they're drinking,' said Michael, 'we'd be one of the few bars that would carry an extensive range of Champagne. People mightn't go in for it every day, but for occasions they come in because they know we'll have it.' We've had big offers over the years, but we'd be very reluctant sellers Michael's son Mick has taken over the running of the bar now, with his dad and uncle keeping a close eye. They say working in the pub business has kept them youthful. 'We'd have more young friends than older friends now,' explains Michael. 'We've had big offers over the years, but we'd be very reluctant sellers. 'I went up to a reunion for my old commerce class a few years ago. They were all talking about their health and pension plans, I was so bored I did a Houdini and came back down here, I met three prominent young Republicans. 'I had more fun with them in the hour and a half than I did with people my own age group!'
Web Release
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Web Release
Mai Omar Graces the Red Carpet at the 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival in Messika
Mai Omar Graces the Red Carpet at the 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival in Messika Egyptian actress Mai Omar brought glamour to the red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, dazzling in a full High Jewelry set from Messika. Mai wore the exquisite Love Knot set, featuring a statement necklace, coordinating earrings, a matching bracelet, and the iconic Love Knot ring – a perfect mix of elegance and sophistication.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Making Waves In Her-Mosa Beach
There's something intoxicating about the smell of smoky kabobs cooked over oak, being carried by a sea breeze. For sure, it can turn a hungry person into a positively starving one. That's what happened walking up to AttaGirl — a California-Mediterranean fusion spot that opened near the Hermosa Beach Pier on March 6 and is already drawing well-heeled throngs who don't mind a wait for a table in the White Lotus-vibed establishment to savor mezze, kabobs and a smattering of other dishes inspired by Italy and Africa. The instant success of the restaurant helmed by chef Alice Mai is no surprise. Its quippy name came courtesy of her longtime mentor and now business partner, legendary chef David LeFevre, whose Manhattan Beach hot spots RYLA, the Arthur J., Manhattan Beach Post and Fishing With Dynamite (where Mai was his longtime chef de cuisine) are still buzzing years after becoming the 'it places' for the glitterati in seaside South Bay is quickly becoming a standout in her own kitchen now — with a menu that's inspired, she says, by 'what I like to eat.' We started with a chef's plate, which was a mix of mezze served with house-made focaccia drizzled with olive oil, a delightfully fluffy fresh-baked pita, hummus, cucumber tzatziki, spicy whipped feta and a savory roasted spiced eggplant. But the standout in this mix was Mai's pickled vegetables, which we can certainly imagine buying by the jarful. The appetizer list reads like a spinning globe, with crispy cauliflower falafel, fried whole prawns, salmon crudo, lamb meatballs and an octopus la opted for the soft-shell prawns and were not disappointed by the delicate crunch that came with each savory bite. The house-made pastas certainly invited memories of eating beachside in Positano — especially watching fellow diners dig into the vongole — but the spectacular spiced lamb Bolognese radiatore hints at the long years Mai has spent perfecting her craft after leaving the corporate course, the skewers — cooked in the open air of the eatery's parking lot that welcomed us into the beachy scene — are not to be missed. As our server Christine pointed out proudly, with Mai running her own kitchen and the long line acting as a visual 'attagirl!,' the neighborhood, as she pronounced it, is a fitting choice: 'Her-mosa Beach.1238 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach,
