Upstart ‘Toni Erdmann’ defies convention every step of the way

But upstart German filmmaker Maren Ade employed an especially unconventional technique in greeting the stars of her new picture “Toni Erdmann” for the Romanian portion of production. Ade showed up at the down-on-its-heels Bucharest airport as an over-the-top character – tricked out as a goofball mogul wearing bathroom slippers and pouring Champagne in the back of a white stretch limo.

The long, strange odyssey of bringing Oscar fave ‘Toni Erdmann’ to the screen

But the upstart German filmmaker Maren Ade employed an especially unconventional technique in greeting the stars of her new picture “Toni Erdmann” for the Romanian portion of production. Ade showed up at the down-on-its-heels Bucharest airport as an over-the-top character – tricked out as a goofball mogul, pouring Champagne wearing bathroom slippers in the back of a white stretch limo.

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The collision of two black holes — a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO — is shown in this still image from a computer simulation. After reading last week’s story about the supervolcano below Italy that might be close to waking up, a co-worker joked that Speaking of Science should start a spin-off blog titled, “Whoa, science is scary.”

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The collision of two black holes — a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO — is shown in this still image from a computer simulation. After reading last week’s story about the supervolcano below Italy that might be close to waking up, a co-worker joked that Speaking of Science should start a spin-off blog titled, “Whoa, science is scary.”

Izzy Does It

Since July, Izzy Cox has battled pancreatic cancer. A staple in Austin clubs since migrating from Montreal this decade, the anarchist songbird’s presence has been sorely missed as she undergoes a wrath of surgeries and chemotherapy.

Husband’s ex-wife hovering around family

… 11th. This program is offered in partnership by the Alzheimer’s Association, UK Sanders Brown Center on Aging, and UK Health Care. The Season of Honor: Caring for the Caregiver Support Group will meet on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at First …