“Who wouldn’t decide to be their most expansive and radiant self?” Ah, but would you pursue that self through a sheet of tempered glass? In this literal tour de force, Katherine Cusumano shadows wrestlers navigating the independent promoters of the Pacific Northwest, granting sensational access to the lives and ambitions behind elaborate personas you’ve never heard of and will almost certainly search YouTube for. Cusumano is note-perfect on the details, taking obvious delight in the gimmicks of each wrestler’s beloved character and relishing the complexity of the choreography, rehearsed in elaborate code. (“Clothesline, crossbody in the corner, clothesline, Superman, Superman, I’m fired up, whoop, sliced bread, Ricky catches, oh shit, real fast.”) Spectacle abounds, but Cusumano rises above it, way up on the turnbuckle, with a heartening consideration of how we understand our own stories, and what we devote to realizing them.
I found myself drawn to this world, to its freakish feats of acrobatics, to its relentless and obsessive blurring of the boundary between reality and story, and, more than anything, to the supreme, sometimes monastic devotion of its competitors. I had been trying for ages to understand competition, ambition, the scaffolding that holds up good-bad, win-lose, and wrestling confounded these binaries. I started talking to Drexl, an old-timer with one foot out the door of his career, who eventually referred me to Amira, an emerging wrestler with an already impressive résumé, and I thought that was so like wrestling, to proffer such perfect narrative symmetry. They agreed—more readily than I’d expected, given how fiercely professional wrestlers have historically protected the secrets of their work—to let me follow them around. Which is how I ended up behind the curtain.
A heavy rainstorm has been sweeping across the island of Crete on Thursday with tons of water flooding homes, businesses and agricultural land, damaging roads and bridges, causing the life of one person and putting at risk the lives of thousands. Most affected are the regions of Heraklion, Lasithi and Rethymnon. Thye bad weather is […]
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O quarto episódio de “Vidas no Turismo”, a rubrica do TNews desenvolvida em parceria com a Nova Turismo e Hospitalidade, já está disponível. Nesta edição, o destaque vai para Vera Silvestre, tour leader, que partilha o seu percurso, os desafios de acompanhar grupos e aquilo que continua a surpreendê-la em cada viagem."Mother and father" is unacceptable language, the Green Party has said, with members threatened with sanction under the party's code of conduct if they fail to use gender-neutral terminology and 'inclusive language'.
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O El Corte Inglés chegou a acordo com a Tool Factory para adquirir os 25% que ainda não detinha da Viajes El Corte Inglés, passando assim a controlar 100% do grupo de viagens.A 12.ª edição da Expo Abreu realiza-se nos dias 10 e 11 de outubro, no Pavilhão Carlos Lopes, em Lisboa, com descontos até 60% numa seleção de viagens para os próximos meses.As licenças de assistência em escala (handling) nos aeroportos de Lisboa, Porto e Faro vão poder ser prorrogadas por até dois anos.In this tense, riveting first-person excerpt from his new book This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian Story, Evan Gershkovich recounts the harrowing months he spent as a prisoner in Russia, leading up to his eventual release in a complex, multi-country prisoner exchange. Even in the darkness, Gershkovich offers rays of light: care packages from friends, letters by the hundred, and a cautiously blossoming love with a friend in Berlin. We may know the ending, but the details of these days reveal what it takes to get there.
A few hours after my arrival, I heard a cart rolling down the hallway. A guard opened a kormushka — a feeder window in the door about the size of a human head. A man in a chef’s uniform filled my bowl with porridge, placed a piece of rancid-smelling boiled fish on my plate and gave me some weak tea. The reality of my new surroundings slammed into me.
Thoughts ricocheted inside my head. Earlier in the day I’d had a comforting one: they’ve taken me for a swap, I told myself. That’s all this is.
Now, curled up on the bed in my 12ft by 8ft cell, knees pulled to my chest, I thought, what if the FSB really does think I’m a spy and wants to make an example out of me? Maybe they don’t want to swap me at all. Maybe I really will spend 20 years here.
A companhia confirmou que ocorreu uma “altercação” no cockpit, mas não avançou detalhes sobre as causas ou motivações, que permanecem sob investigação.As vendas da MSC Cruzeiros em Portugal para 2027 estão atualmente mais de 12% acima do registado no mesmo período do ano passado, num contexto em que a companhia observa uma maior antecipação das reservas por parte dos portugueses.A Azul apresentou esta quarta-feira, 30 de setembro, durante a ABAV Expo 2026, o Hub Azul, uma nova plataforma digital dirigida aos agentes de viagens e restantes parceiros da sua rede comercial.A Costa Cruzeiros apresentou a programação de inverno 2026/27 na América do Sul e nas grandes travessias oceânicas, com propostas que permitem trocar os meses mais frios na Europa pelo verão austral.A TUI Portugal anunciou o reforço da aposta estratégica no produto Fly & Drive, com mais de 150 opções de itinerário e novas tipologias de viagem. A proposta tem como objetivo reforçar o posicionamento do operador como especialista em turismo emissor e corresponder às novas motivações de viajantes com um perfil "muito definido", como "famílias, casais, incluindo lua de mel e grupos de amigos que procuram uma experiência mais autónoma", segundo divulgou a TUI Portugal em comunicado.A Emirates reforçou a oferta de entretenimento a bordo com a atualização do seu sistema ice, que passa a incluir o Dubai+, um canal dedicado a produções dos Emirados Árabes Unidos, além de novos filmes, séries completas e coleções temáticas.A Lusanova realizou esta quarta-feira, 30 de setembro, uma ação de formação em parceria com a Ethiopian Airlines, que reuniu 16 agentes de viagens na sede do operador turístico, em Lisboa.
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