On this day in movie history - Barbie (2023)

Barbie

directed by Greta Gerwig,

written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach,

was released in the United States on July 9, 2023.

Music by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.

Narrated by Helen Mirren.

 

Cast:

Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Sharon Rooney, Ana Cruz Kayne, Ritu Arya, Dua Lipa, Nicola Coughlan, Emerald Fennell, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, John Cena, Michael Cera, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Rhea Perlman, Helen Mirren, Will Ferrell, Connor Swindells, Jamie Demetriou, Andrew Leung, Will Merrick, Zheng Xi Yong, Asim Chaudhry, Ray Fearon, Erica Ford, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Mette Narrative, Marisa Abela, Lucy Boynton, Rob Brydon, Tom Stourton, Chris Taylor, David Mumeni, Olivia Brody, Isla Ashworth, Eire Farrell, Daisy Duczmal, Genvieve Toussaint, Isabella Nightingale Mercado, Millie-Rose Crossley, Anvita Nehru, Kayla-Mai Alvares, Luke Mullen, Patrick Luwis, Mac Brandt, Paul Jurewicz, Oraldo Austin, Benjamin Arthur, Carlos Jacott, Adam Ray, George Basil, Ptolemy Slocum, Deb Hiett, James Leon, Oliver Vaquer, Tony Noto, Christopher T. Wood, Ann Roth, Annie Mumolo, Elise Gallup, McKenna Roberts, Brylee Hsu, Sasha Milstein, Lauren Holt, Sterling Jones, Ryan Piers Williams, Jamaal Lewis, Kathryn Akin, Grace Jabbari, Ira Mandela Siobhan, Lisa Spencer, Naomi Weijand, Tom Clark, Ireanne Abenoja, Davide Albonetti, Charlotte Anderson, Michael Anderson, Rico Bakker, James Bamford, William John Banks, Callum Bell, Adam Blaug, Mason Boyce, Taylor Bradshaw, Alex Brown, Miekaile Browne, Lewis Calcutt, Nikkita Chadha, Oliver Chapman, Megan Charles, Callum Clack, Danny Coburn, Kat Collings, Adam Crossley, Sia Dauda, Gustave Die, Grace Durkin, Joelle Dyson, Lewis Easter, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Cameron Everitt, Luke Field-Wright, Sasha Flesch, Adam Fogarty, Michael John French, Anna-Kay Gayle, Charlie Goddard, Marlie Goddard, Ellis Harman, Yasmin Harrison, Josh Hawkins, James Healy, Tim Hodges, Mira Jebari, Beccy Jones, Thomas Kalek, Lily Laight, Maiya Leeke, Cristian Liberti, Prodromos Marneros, Nahum McLean, Jordan Melchor, Ramzan Miah, Andy Monaghan, Florivaldo Mossi, Hannah Nazareth, Grant Neal, Freja Nicole, Shaun Niles, Ella Nonini, Jack William Parry, Josie Pocock, Barnaby Quarendon, Redmand Rance, Zara Richards, Liam Riddick, Alana Rixon, Adam Paul Robertson, Kingdom Sibanda, Sebastian Skov Andersen, Aaron J. Smith, Joshua Smith, Lucia-Rose Sokolowski, Janine Somcio, Callum Sterling, Alex Sturman, Todd Talbot, Charles Tatman, Grant Thresh, Connor Tidman, Wahchi Vong, Jerry Wan, Sasha Wareham, Stan West, Oliver Wheeler, Josh Wild, Joe Wolstenholme, Richard Womersley, Ashley Young, Rocky Brower, Sergi Cervera, Jennifer Chan, Jasmine Clark, Nicholas de Graffenreid, Mike Dickman, Tanner Kerrins, Geoff Kinns, Noor Labelle, Kim Manning, Manuela Mora, Cadence Murray, Jordan Saria Oram, Tracy Pacana, Kourosh Parsapour, Justin Price, Richard Price, Kelly Rian Sanson, Evan Shafran, Chanel Stewart, Kelsey Toussant, Molly Peyton White, Brian Whitehill, Caroline Wilde.

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On this day in music history - The album Walk in the Sun, by Sue Foley (1996)

Walk in the Sun

by Sue Foley

was released on July 9, 1996.

Track list:

Try to Understand; Give It to Me; Walk in the Sun; The Snake; Wayward Girl; The Wind; Lover’s Call; Better; Train to Memphis; Love Sick Child; Long Distance Lover.

On this day in music history - Sacred Alliance, by Anima (2015)

Sacred Alliance

by Anima

was released on July 9, 2015.

Track list:

Great Mother’s Dominion; Surrender; Sewa; Sacred Lands; Offering; Camino De Pedro; Gonawindua; Kogi Transmission; Ancestral Fathers of the Stars.

Madeleine L'Engle, on writing:

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

- Madeleine L'Engle. 

Recommended reading - The Backyard Beekeeper (2024)

 

The Backyard Beekeeper
An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden.

by Kim Flottum.

 
Revised and Updated.
5th Edition.
 
ISBN-10: 0760385823
ISBN-13: 978-0760385821
 
Description:

Enjoy the time-honored tradition of beekeeping in your own backyard or urban rooftop with this accessible resource for beekeepers of all skill levels, now in its 5th edition.

More than a guide to beekeeping, The Backyard Beekeeper features expert advice for:

• Setting up and caring for your own colonies
• Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours
• The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees 
• Swarm control
• Using top bar hives
• Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey
• Bee problems and treatments

New in this edition:

• Natural beekeeping techniques like insulating hives for the winter to mimic the advantages of bee homes in the wild
• Important new treatments for and updated info on the battle with Varroa mites
• How to deal with the new antibiotic recommendations for American foulbrood
• Introduction to new recordkeeping technology to consider

In addition to content updates to reflect the most recent research and technology in beekeeping, the book features a new design with larger, easier-to-read text, many new photos, and a more easily navigable structure.

With this complete reference and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor emeritus Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.

Born on this day – Eileen Bennett:

 

Eileen Bennett

Actress

July 8, 1919 – March 9, 2025

Credits:

Adventure in Blackmail (1942); Back-Room Boy (1942); Cæsar's Friend (1939); Clouds Over Europe (1939); Design for Murder (1939); He Found a Star (1941); Much Too Shy (1942); The Amazing Mr. Forrest (1939); The Outsider (1939); Thursday's Child (1943).

Born on this day – Faye Emerson:

 

Faye Emerson

Actress

Talk show host

July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983

Credits:

20 Questions (1950); A Face in the Crowd (1957); Affectionately Yours (1941); Air Force (1943); Arthur Godfrey Time (1958); At the Stroke of Twelve (1941); Author Meets the Critics (1952); Bad Men of Missouri (1941); Between Two Worlds (1944); Blues in the Night (1941); Cavalcade of Bands (1951); Chesterfield Presents (1952); Colgate Theatre (1950); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Crime by Night (1944); Damon Runyan Cancer Fund Telethon (1950); Danger Signal (1945); Destination Tokyo (1943); Faye and Skitch (1953); Fifteen with Faye (1950); Find the Blackmailer (1943); Food and Magic (1943); Girl Talk (1963); Goodyear Playhouse (1953); Guilty Bystander (1950); Her Kind of Man (1946); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hotel Berlin (1945); In Our Time (1944); It's News to Me (1952); I've Got a Secret (1952–1963); Juke Girl (1942); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1953–1961); Lady Gangster (1942); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Manpower (1941); Masquerade Party (1957–1960); Matinee in New York (1952); Murder in the Big House (1942); Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941); Nobody Lives Forever (1946); Of All Things (1956); Paris Cavalcade of Fashions (1948–1949); Person to Person (1953); Premiere (1951); Project Twenty (1960); Quick as a Flash (1953–1954); Secret Enemies (1942); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Star of the Family (1952); Studio One (1954); Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television (1975); The 11th Annual Tony Awards (1957); The 13th Annual Tony Awards (1959); The 27th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1953); The Arthur Murray Party (1957); The Billy Rose Show (1950); The Bob Hope Show (1952); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The David Susskind Show (1961); The Desert Song (1943); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949); The Eloise McElhone Show (1953); The Eyes Have It (1950); The Faye Emerson Show (1949–1951); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The George Gobel Show (1954); The Great Lie (1941); The Hard Way (1943); The Jack Benny Program (1951); The Joyce Mathews Show (1951); The Mask of Dimitrios (1944); The Match Game (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1963); The Milton Berle Show (1952–1955); The Nurse's Secret (1941); The Sam Levenson Show (1951); The Silver Theatre (1949); The Stork Club (1952); The Story of Late Night (2021); The Swift Show Wagon with Horace Heidt and the American Way (1955); The Tonight Show (1954); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959–1960); The Very Thought of You (1944); This Is Show Business (1949–1953); To Tell the Truth (1960–1963); Today (1955); Uncertain Glory (1944); What's in a Word (1954); What's My Line? (1950–1962); Who Said That? (1948–1951); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Women at War (1943); Women Want to Know (1956–1957); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951–1952); Your Show of Shows (1951–1954).