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Boston Globe
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Post Malone navigated a very damp night for a sold out crowd at Gillette
That might have been necessary to buy in to the scale of the production. With booming, busy drums and lurching guitar squeals, plenty of numbers leaned on sound and fury and signified not much, and the flame bursts and fireworks that punctuated songs like 'Rockstar' simply underlined his band's churning sensory-overload maximalism. With its late-'70s adult-contemporary tinkly-piano sound, 'What Don't Belong To Me' was soft rock, but loud. The rolling cut-time country of 'M-E-X-I-C-O,' meanwhile, was energetic but not particularly convincing. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up But if the singer's recent Nashville pivot may have been mercenary in nature, it also came off as dopily genuine; Malone's great gift as a pop star is his utter inability to radiate anything but sincerity. Leaning into a rasp and a twang, he pulled off the big-spectacle country of 'Wrong Ones' better than a lot of big-spectacle country stars, and the straight-up heartstring-tugger 'Yours' imagined the wedding of his three-year-old daughter, a country theme if ever there was one. Advertisement Even if he didn't slip or fall, Malone's performance didn't always have sure footing. His voice was sometimes more robust than on record, as on a more dynamic 'Better Now,' and sometimes it was even more warbly and thin. He inserted 'Boston' into the lyrics of 'M-E-X-I-C-O' and Morgan Wallen's 'I Ain't Comin' Back,' and it flew by so quickly in both cases that either nobody noticed or nobody cared. Still, Malone's affability was so strong that he could bring a fan in a Dallas Cowboys jersey onstage to perform with him and get the crowd to stop booing long enough for him to sing the almost delicate 'Feeling Whitney' accompanied only by her fingerpicking on acoustic guitar. (The booing recommenced after.) And as he returned from the rigging at the back of the stadium where he sang the encore, he stopped to sign autographs and pose for selfies along the way as his band pounded out the post-rock scope of 'Congratulations.' 'As long as you ain't hurting nobody, keep being yourself,' he concluded, advice that's worked out pretty well for Post Malone. Jelly Roll performs at Gillette Stadium. Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe Malone's steel-guitar player Chandler Walters opened with amiable but personality-light country that could've come from any of the last five decades, complete with a medley of Advertisement POST MALONE With Jelly Roll and Chandler Walters At: Gillette Stadium, Saturday Marc Hirsh can be reached at officialmarc@ or on Bluesky @
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
‘They can't get complacent': Monroe police go undercover dressed as high school students
Monroe Police are disguising themselves as high school students to remind school staff to be on alert. Channel 9's Gina Esposito learned it's part of a Monroe Police operation to ensure school's are keeping up with security. The disguised officers were able to get inside multiple schools, no questions asked, dressed in jeans and a hoodie. Police said they've been doing this since 2018. The idea came from an SRO assigned to Union Academy which then expanded to all schools in Monroe. In every operation undercover officers were able to get into the school, police said. 'One time a student allowed an undercover officer to come in a door and the teacher gave him a late pass even though he didn't belong there,' Lt. Morgan Malone of the Monroe Police Department said. In another operation, an officer walked into a high school, signed under a student's name and sat through a class, Malone said. ALSO READ: Former student arrested for bringing AR-15-style rifle to Union County school campus They've tested two schools this year, including Union Academy Charter. Police say an officer disguised as a student got in and walked around for 20 minutes. Parents said students were then reminded to wear their badges. 'After every operation the school resources officer debrief with the school administration, so whatever the issue was.. I believe one was that they were able to access through a maintenance gate that was unlocked,' Malone said. 'Certainly that was taken care of after the fact.' An officer also visited Rocky River Elementary disguised as a staff member, Malone said. Union County Public Schools said one of its staff members stopped them and sent them to the front office. While the officer was stopped, Malone said officers have always been able to get inside, and the goal is to change that. 'I think as a parent it's definitely frightening,' Malone said. 'It's something we have to think about, but hopefully it will be a tool and the education will help the school and even the students in the school understand that they can't get complacent; they have to keep their guard up.' Channel 9 reached out to Union County Public School about these undercover operations. School leaders said they support this effort, and they conduct their own safety assessments. The district added that they work with other law enforcement agencies and score each school's vulnerabilities. The results are then reported to administration, so they can make the needed changes. The district says it expects staff members to be leaders in identifying people who don't belong in schools. VIDEO: 'So vague': Parents demand change at Union County school after threatening incidents
The Courier
3 days ago
- The Courier
Friday court round-up — Panicking pavement drive pandemonium in Dundee
Pedestrians had to jump out the way after a 'panicked' driver drove over a pavement on Dundee's Hilltown. drove dangerously after becoming involved in an incident at Babu's takeaway at around 10.30pm on March 5. The 32-year-old mounted the pavement and drove the wrong way to get past police, which prompted three pedestrians to take evasive action. Dundee Sheriff Court heard Malone drove his Vauxhall Corsa in an 'aggressive fashion' as he left the scene. Malone was later found at his home on Annan Terrace and refused to provide breath specimens to detect whether alcohol was in his system. Solicitor David Duncan said Malone 'panicked' after police started looking for him in connection with the earlier incident. He was ordered to perform 120 hours of unpaid work and disqualified from driving for 12 months. A vengeful boyfriend made a near-900 mile round trip from Wales to target his ex-partner's Fife home with abusive graffiti, including in a street called Lovers Lane. spray-painted the words 'wee slag' after flying and driving under cover of darkness to Cupar. A prolific shoplifter who stole more than £9,000 of goods – including from stores in Fife – has been ordered to carry out 60 hours of unpaid work. Saban Mili, 23, of Glenrothes, targeted Morrisons or Sainsbury's stores in Leven, Wishaw, Falkirk and Hamilton during a three-month period last year. Previously at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, with the aid of a Romanian translator, he pled guilty to five shoplifting charges. They included, on August 3 at Sainsbury's in Riverside Road, Leven, stealing alcohol and other goods worth £1,779.05. The total value of stolen goods is £9,152.05. Solicitor Martin McGuire said: 'He came to Scotland in 2023. Ultimately he became embroiled in these offences having been introduced to another individual. 'Having found himself in difficulty, he engaged in offending during the course of 2024.' Sheriff Steven Borthwick KC said: 'Because you have no income, you're not in any position to make any financial recompense for the loss.' He said custody was considered due to the high value of the items. A callous conman from Angus avoided a jail sentence for stealing almost £20,000 from his partner because it was his first offence. Stonemason 's partner was being taken into a care home near Arbroath so he ended their 20-year relationship but helped himself to her bank card and stole more than £10,000 in cash and spent thousands more, including 22 payments to escort website Midsummer. A camper who set off on a road trip after smoking a joint has been banned from driving for three years. was pulled over by police in Perthshire after they noticed a strong smell of cannabis coming from his Toyata HiAce. The 34-year-old mechanic was candid with officers and admitted smoking the drug before leaving his home in Dundee about an hour earlier. He appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted motoring along Perth Road, Birnam, while nearly four times the drug limit (7.6 mics/2 mics). It is his second conviction for drug-driving. Prosecutor Elizabeth Hodgson said Carl, of Ballater Place, was stopped just after midnight on September 7 last year. Although there were no issues with his driving, police noticed a strong whiff of cannabis while travelling behind his vehicle. Solicitor Alan Davie, defending, said his client had been heading to the Dunkeld area for camping. 'He accepts he smoked a joint before going on his journey. He made a mistake and he should have known better.' The court heard Carl no longer takes the class B drug and is regularly tested at his workplace. Sheriff Clair McLachlan told Carl: 'You really should have known better. This was a high reading and it is your second conviction in four years.' As well as a three-year ban, Carl was fined £670. Bomb disposal, surviving deadly snake bites and inventing Bag for Life – In the second part in our series on tea-blag conman , we look at some of the wild claims made during his trial for his too-good-to-be-brew Scottish tea firm fraud. A 24-year-old who sent pictures and videos of his penis to someone he thought was a child has been given 40 hours of unpaid work and put on the sex offenders register for a year. appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court for sentencing after earlier pleading guilty to attempting to cause a child to view a sexual image and attempting to communicate indecently with a child. Court papers say the offending took place at an address in Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy, and at an Italian restaurant in the town and elsewhere, between March 6 and 11 last year. Hannah, of West Pilton Brae, Edinburgh, believed he was speaking to a girl between the ages of 13 and 16 but this was in fact an adult pretending to be a child. He sent images and videos of his penis to the decoy and engaged in sexual conversations with them. As well as the unpaid work, Sheriff Steven Borthwick put Hannah on offender supervision for a year and made a strict conduct requirement, which includes a condition he must get supervisor approval before communicating with any child under 16. Defence lawyer Alexandra Philp said Hannah had benefitted from being open with social workers and is keen to do unpaid work, pointing out it might be a stepping stone to future employment. A 23-year-old man has been cleared by a jury of raping a woman at an address in Dundee. was found not proven of the single allegation he faced at the High Court in Dundee. Prosecutors alleged Scarpa committed the offence while the woman was intoxicated at his home in the city in March 2023. Following the jury's verdict, judge Olga Pasportnikov said: 'The charge against you has been found not proven and you are free to go.'
Fox Sports
5 days ago
- Sport
- Fox Sports
New Nuggets coach David Adelman wants his team in tip-top condition and open to ideas
Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray was located in the back of the room and so he heard the message first-hand from new Denver Nuggets coach David Adelman. Same with Julian Strawther, who took a seat in the front row. For the players not in attendance at Adelman's introductory news conference Wednesday, a quick recap: Adelman wants everyone in even better condition and open to new ideas come training camp. Because the Western Conference won't be getting any easier, Adelman insisted. It's up to the Nuggets to adjust behind a roster that revolves around three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic. Adelman wants his players to have a big voice, too, just like they did after he took over following the firing of coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth with three games left in the regular season. "New ideas are good ideas,' Adelman said. 'I have to give them something to come back to that excites them." Adelman earned the promotion from interim to full-time head coach after a postseason run that saw the Nuggets get to a Game 7 against Oklahoma City in the second round before being knocked out of the playoffs. This with a thin bench and an injury-hampered starting five. Now, the work begins to put his own stamp on directing the Nuggets. He's gathered a wealth of knowledge through an array of NBA coaching mentors such as his father Rick Adelman, Sam Mitchell, Frank Vogel, the late Flip Saunders and, of course, Malone. 'Very prepared,' Adelman said of his level of readiness. "When you're around those people and you see how they run their business and their process, it's kind of a cheat code." Fitness, Adelman maintained, will be a key to a fast start — and health come playoff time. 'Teams that get off to great starts usually at the end of the year have the best chance of being healthy in these big games,' explained Adelman, who's working on rounding out his coaching staff. 'But, yeah, that will be the expectation to come back in much better shape." One of the areas the Nuggets aim to address in the offseason is depth. The Nuggets ran out of steam in the Thunder series after beating the Los Angeles Clippers in seven games to advance out of the first round. 'Can they achieve that (championship goal) as currently constructed? I think the answer, as (Jokic) said after the playoffs, and it was obviously no," Kroenke Sports & Entertainment vice chairman Josh Kroenke said. "So we need to take a hard look at how we can raise our ceiling going forward, whether that's internally or externally. 'If you look at the teams still playing ... with a little bit of help, maybe a little bit of luck, maybe it could be us. But it's not. We're very conscious of that and how we need to go about improving.' Kroenke shocked the league last month when he fired Malone, the winningest coach in franchise history, and Booth after they helped bring home the franchise's first NBA title in 2023. It was Kroenke's way to rejuvenate the team's energy heading into the postseason. Next up for Kroenke, hiring a new GM. For now, Ben Tenzer is overseeing the role on an interim basis. The plan, Kroenke said, is to bring bring Adelman into the GM process at some point. 'The input will be relatively minimal," Kroenke said, "because what I'll be looking for is cohesion between those two." Added Adelman of the GM: "This business is about cohesion. It's all about just moving forward and winning. That's it. It's not about finding your best friend.' The Nuggets don't have a pick in the upcoming NBA draft. It may prove challenging to add depth without breaking up the core of Jokic, Murray, Aaron Gordon, Michael Porter Jr. and Christian Braun. That's where Denver's youth factors in and improvement from the likes of Strawther, Peyton Watson, Jalen Pickett and DaRon Holmes II, a first-round selection last year who tore an Achilles tendon in NBA Summer League. 'We're hungry to get better,' Strawther said. 'It's all fuel to the fire." As for the style of play, Adelman will add some wrinkles but defense will always be an important principle. 'We have to get back to being an execution-based team," Adelman said. "If that takes away some of our pace numbers, or whatever the analytics want to say, I think that's OK if it wins you a game in May, as opposed to playing a game in December. 'The majority of the time, if you want to win big, you've got to play slow. You've got to be efficient. You've got to be clean. So that will be things we'll talk about throughout the summer, going to training camp." ___ AP NBA: recommended
Boston Globe
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Michael Felger's family-unfriendly stance on athletes consistent, but as bizarre as ever
I can't believe that Felger's viewpoint — whether it's a concocted take or a genuine belief — resonates with too many listeners beyond the stray Neanderthal. It's not entertaining radio, either. Advertisement Yet there he was on Monday, hammering Red Sox manager Alex Cora for missing that evening's game after his daughter Camila's graduation from Boston College earlier in the day. 'It's just the tone you set and the example you set for the team,' said Felger. 'It's not like they need him there to make the pitching change or lay down the bunt. It's the leadership and optics of the whole thing. It's a very easy chance for him to say, 'Nothing's more important than tonight's game.' He just does it by example. Nothing's more important than this game.' I should've seen this coming, but Felger ripping Alex Cora for missing one game for his daughter's college graduation is crazy. He's acting like one baseball game is more important than a major life milestone for Cora's family — Boston Media Critic (@bostonmedia617) Even with the Red Sox plodding along at a mediocre pace, to suggest one game should take priority over a loved one's major life event is absurd. It also overlooks, perhaps intentionally for the sake of Felger's argument, that Cora's greatest strengths as a manager include building trust with his players by acknowledging the importance of their lives away from the field, something that was made evident on multiple occasions in the Netflix series ' Advertisement Cora has his priorities in order. 'People have their own opinions,' This isn't the first time Felger has fired off a team-over-family take. In 2016, he Ean , in Atlanta. 'I know when you make $30 million a year it ain't much to get a private jet,' he said. ' Wyc [ Grousbeck ] would probably pick it up to fly down at 3 o'clock in Atlanta. It's about a 90-minute flight to Atlanta. Play the game and come right back. 'I would have gone to the game, I would have played in the game. I like my guys to sort of forsake everything for the team.' Felger, to his credit only somewhat, acknowledged some hypocrisy during his Horford rant nine years ago. He admitted then that he missed one day of work — just as Horford did — when his daughter was born. Huh. Why do we suspect he'll take the day off when she graduates from college, too? Advertisement Malone on the ball Former Nuggets coach Michael Malone has been a welcome addition to ESPN's NBA coverage. David Zalubowski/Associated Press Michael Malone , Malone, refreshingly blunt, has been a welcome addition as guest analyst on ESPN/ABC's pre- and postgame playoff coverage, including correctly referring to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as 'a foul artist' for the Thunder star's thespian tendencies while trying to draw a whistle. Malone did cause a stir in Denver during Game 1 of the Western Conference finals when he referred to Gilgeous-Alexander as 'the MVP' before Nikola Jokic . Malone clarified his position during Game 2, saying Jokic was his MVP choice. Not sure why Malone would care what Nuggets fans feel about anything at this point anyway, but here's hoping he keeps saying what he honestly thinks without worrying about public reaction or falling into the habit of deliberately cooking up hot takes. ESPN could use someone like that permanently on its NBA coverage. I'd love to see him give in-game color analysis a shot, given how thin ESPN's depth chart is there. The last word I must admit that 'Around The Horn,' which began its run of more than 4,900 episodes on Nov. 4, 2002, and ended it Friday for reasons ESPN isn't all that interested in explaining, wasn't a show that I ever eagerly anticipated or sought out. I always figured the typical 'ATH' audience was college students burning off a few hours in the afternoon, or late lunch customers at Buffalo Wild Wings watching it on mute above the bar. Advertisement It had legitimate positives. Host Tony Reali , perhaps the most authentically upbeat ESPN personality of this generation, was always good company, and an upgrade on original host Max Kellerman . The show was a TV incubator for promising talent — it was fun to see the likes of Mina Kimes , Bill Barnwell , and Joon Lee get their television bearings on the show. And on a personal/anecdotal note, it was incredibly cool on my first day at the Globe in December 2003 to come into the office and watch Bob Ryan participating in the show in front of the 'ATH' backdrop that was in the sports department in those days. If I remember right, he shared some thoughts on Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker that day. I won't miss the show much, but I'll always miss that. Chad Finn can be reached at
