Camille O’Sullivan’s Jacques Brel is sexy, wild and dangerous

Before his concerts, the legendary Belgian singer-songwriter Jaques Brel would be physically sick with stage fright.

Camille O’Sullivan’s renditions of his music capture that sense of knife-edge tension. One of Britain’s leading chanteuses, O’Sullivan made an abrupt career change from architect to torch singer in 1999, after a near-fatal car crash inspired her to start anew.
Her cabaret shows have since become an institution at the Edinburgh Fringe, re-imagining songs by David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave. Those songwriters have a shared ancestor in Brel: in the Fifties, his lyrical chansons inspired a new generation of Anglophone singer-poets […]

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The irresistible rise of Tim Dup

Many predict him a great career. At 21 Tim Dup is the new darling of French song. An artist in singular style and already affirmed that doing now learning of the stage, waiting for a first album in 2017

He was spotted on the internet thanks to its title “TER Centre”. A song about the daily grind of a trip TER between the campaign as he says and Panama. A journey that makes itself between Rambouillet where he lives and the capital where he studied. […]

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In Belgian lab, scientists search for ‘perfect’ beer yeast

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LEUVEN, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgium famously produces hundreds of different beers, but that is nothing compared to the varieties of yeast used to make it – around 30,000 are kept on ice at just one laboratory by scientists seeking the perfect ingredient for the perfect brew.A team from the University of Leuven and life sciences research institute VIB are examining and cross-breeding yeast strains, adding modern genetics to a search for brewing perfection that dates back centuries.“We’re … using robots to cross different yeast like farmers have been doing with cattle and livestock for centuries,” genetics professor Kevin Verstrepen told Reuters.“We’re now doing the same with yeast on a massive scale, making millions of new strains or variants of yeast and testing which are the better ones.” […]

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The Cheese Nun

Mother Noella, of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, practices the sacred art of cheesemaking

“I didn’t even know cows before I came here,” she continued. “When you join an abbey, you get to try many things you never would have done. And I happened to fall in love with a cow named Sheba, and then learned to make cheese.” […]

Source: The Cheese Nun – CBS News