Hughes

The phrase “seven wonders of the ancient world” is enough to make your heart sink. There is something so fly-blown about the notion of an archaeological greatest hits – all tourist buses, bossy tour guides and dodgy air conditioning. Bettany Hughes, however, is on a mission to re-enchant us with what she calls seven “test cases of the human imagination”, from the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Colossus of Rhodes by way of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. “I have travelled as the ancients did by land and sea to explore…

If you somehow haven’t seen National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation yet, you're missing out on one of the best Christmas movies of all time. Please, for the love of holiday cheer, do yourself a favor and use your Hulu subscription to stream it now. The movie is a holiday classic that millions adore, hilariously depicting the chaotic pursuit of the perfect family Christmas, with Chevy Chase giving an incomparable performance as the family patriarch, Clark W. Griswold. What's surprising is that the zany holiday flick was…

My earliest reading memoryArnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad Together, in the back of my parents’ car at the age of four or five. We had just come from a bookstore and were setting off on a long drive, possibly down to the Florida Keys from Miami.My favourite book growing upIt might have been Goblins in the Castle by Bruce Coville because I loved the idea of heading off toward adventure through hidden passageways. Retrospectively, I like that it provides witty criticism of xenophobia and our prison systems. I also loved There’s…

The top-seeded team of Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes won the AVP Huntington Beach Open Pro Series beach volleyball women’s competition in two sets Sunday, winning 21-18 in each.Trailing in the second match of the finals series 12-4, Cheng and Hughes fought back to take the lead and ultimately the winner’s trophy, defeating the fourth-seeded team of Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles.Coming into the tour, fan favorites Hughes and Cheng were also heavily favored to take the top prize. They’ve been on a run since reuniting last…

The National Library of Ukraine for Children in Kyiv, a city at war for more than a year, is defiantly open, busy and creative. Director Alla Gordiienko describes it as “a place for emotional shelter” where “everything we do starts with a book”. “A book is the best doctor for the soul,” says the librarian’s child psychologist Lada Tsybulska, one of the many roles that make this place special, especially during a war that traumatises Ukraine’s children.My late mother – Shirley Hughes, beloved author and illustrator of…

“Weave a circle round him thrice,And close your eyes with holy dread,For he on honey-dew hath fed,And drunk the milk of Paradise.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan With a career that spans six decades, there are pieces of Grant Morrison’s work that sadly falls through the cracks. Some of it is earlier material that has become more difficult to obtain due to time and relative obscurity. Others due to licensing. And a few fall within both categories. Like your Doctor Who, Spider-Man and Zoids, The Avengers, and more.…

QVC has ended its partnership with longtime program hosts Dan Hughes and Carolyn Gracie.Hughes and Gracie hosted a handful of segments, including “The Great Outdoors With Dan” and “Sundays With Carolyn & Dan.”“After a tenure of 33 years it has come time for me and QVC to part ways,” Hughes said in a Facebook post shared Wednesday. “I say so with nothing less than gratitude to those who have supported me and worked with me over the years.”“After 19 years, I am no longer working at QVC. I have loved every minute of my…

Adam Hughes, Jae Lee & Craig Cermak create new Rocketeer stories from IDW Publishing in May. | IDW Publishing is to publish a new Rocketeer anthology, based on the character created by Dave Stevens, with three stories from three creative teams. The development of this new Rocketeer comic project began during the making of the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, when filmmaker Kelvin Mao discovered that Danny Bilson and the late Paul De Meo, the original screenwriters of the 1991 The Rocketeer film, had…

Everything you need to know to use YOLOv7 in custom training scriptsThis article was co-authored by Chris Hughes & Bernat Puig CampsShortly after its publication, YOLOv7 is the fastest and most accurate real-time object detection model for computer vision tasks. The official paper demonstrates how this improved architecture surpasses all previous YOLO versions — as well as all other object detection models — in terms of both speed and accuracy on the MS COCO dataset; achieving this performance without utilizing any…

It was clear just how important music was to John Hughes’s cinematic vision of teenage life when The Breakfast Club, his high-school detention drama, was released in 1985. As the film ended with its five principals – “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal” – having reached mutual understanding, the voice of Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr crooned: “Won’t you come see about me?”The writers of Don’t You (Forget About Me), Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff, were trying to emulate the rhythm of Our Lips Are Sealed,…