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"A great ambitious novel about love and loss. Joseph O'Connor has the magic touch, and I can't imagine many better—or braver—novels coming out this year." —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
"A brilliant novel." —Joseph O'Neil, author of Netherland
"When I think of Ghost Light, the words climb over each other to be first in the queue: brilliant, beautiful, exhilarating, heartbreaking, masterly. It's that good." —Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
"It has an astonishing command of voice and period detail, and offers an intimacy with the lives of others that is rare in fiction." —Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn
"A spellbinding read." —Aisling Foster, The Times (London)
"Ghost Light is a tender and compassionate love story, and a fine stepping stone to the majesty of Synge." —Times Literary Supplement
"Remarkable, radiant and captivating . . . On top of the biographical information concerning these two, Synge and his Molly, Joseph O'Connor has imposed a fictional overlay, and makes a vivid performance of it . . . Deeply and resolutely imagined, Ghost Light casts its heroine as a charming and robust, playful and wayward young girl, committed to the well-being of the rather difficult and gloomy JM Synge. Molly Allgood, in this version, has a good deal of Molly Bloom in her make-up, and a lively intelligence to boot . . . In this incarnation, [she] is a figure of great gaiety and aplomb; and O'Connor's novel carries all the pungency and resonance of a particular era of the past." —Patricoa Craig, The Independent
"A moving tale." —The Sunday Telegraph
"An entertaining read that carries a touching tale." —The Economist
"Masterful . . . With his previous novels, Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls, O'Connor carved out a unique way of playing his storyteller's hand over a wide landscape, with the use of invented documentation and textual adventure. Ghost Light brings that achievement to a new dimension, more specifically located and yet all the more masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit . . . The writing is lyrical and moving.' —Hugo Hamilton, The Financial Times
"With his usual deftness and intelligence, O'Connor brings to life the intense love affair between young actress Molly Allgood and the great Irish playwright JM Synge . . . Brilliant." —The Daily Mirror
"Joseph O'Connor's seventh novel, Ghost Light, will give days of pleasure to tens and tens of thousands of readers. It is a great love story, with extras: a virtuoso display of literary talent, a tribute to the Hiberno-English heritage of lore and lyricism and an interpretation of the Irish literary revival as the fruit of settler and native, Protestant and Catholic . . . One of the novel's great achievements is not just to display imaginative power but also to show how the imagination works . . . A stroke of genius." —Adrian Frazier, Irish Times
"Engrossing stuff . . . Beautifully written and charming." —The Independent on Sunday
"What shines in the end is O'Connor's precise style bolstered by quick flashes of his wicked humour. Ghost Light is a careful, thoughtful story, the worlds of which are impeccably rendered." —Irish Examiner
"Ghost Light is a sad and stirring story of love and loss, and O'Connor skillfully brings to life a brief affair that burned brightly and for Molly, was never extinguished." —Claire O'Mahony, Irish Sunday Tribune
"A tender, haunting tale . . . An original and moving love story." —Marie Claire
"O'Connor has fashioned a deeply moving, beautifully written story . . . Admirers of his writing will take pleasure not only in the ambitious range of Ghost Light and its depth of feeling but also in the nods in the direction of the author's immediately preceding novels, Redemption Falls, and, before that, Star of the Sea . . . Ghost Light stands up to scrutiny on its own terms. It is a profoundly sad story, but triumphant." —Scotland Herald
"The author displays typical imaginative virtuosity and emotional depth . . . As well as being impressively well crafted, the novel is wreathed in language of Joycean richness. [O'Connor's] prose is tuned to a singular lyrical frequency." —The Sunday Times
"Superbly written, magically evocative novel." —The Scotsman
"Ghost Light is a spirited novel . . . Like her namesake Molly Bloom, Allgood is an earthy, wily and sexually magnetic creation but O'Connor's real feat is in his careful deployment of Hiberno-English by which he not only doffs his cap to Synge but gives flesh and blood to Molly's neglected life story." —The Metro
"Ghost Light will give days of pleasure to tens and tens of thousands of readers. It is a great love story, with extras: a virtuoso display of literary talent, a tribute to the Hiberno-English heritage of lore and lyricism and an interpretation of the Irish literary revival as the fruit of settler and native, Protestant and Catholic . . . Brimming with sympathy and skill." —Irish Times
"Joe O'Connor occupies a special place in Irish life. The novel is artfully constructed . . . O'Connor's evocation of such a difficult, morbid and yet morally beautiful man through the memory of an earthy and vivacious woman is remarkably ambitious and imaginative. Ghost Light is full of . . . sly pleasures and there is a great deal of broad comedy." —The Irish Independent
"Lyrical and moving." —The Sunday Tribune
About the Author
Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include six previous novels:Cowboys and Indians(short-listed for the Whitbread Prize),Desperadoes,The Salesman,Inishowen,Star of the Sea, andRedemptionFalls.Star of the Seabecame an international bestseller, winning the Irish Post Award for Literature, and France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. His work has been published in thirty-five languages. http://josephoconnorauthor.com/
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Joseph O'Connor with a virtuosic, literary master stroke has melded fact with fiction in this captivating tribute to love ~ the story of Irish playwright J M Synge and his lover Molly Allgood, the Irish actress with the stage name of Maire O'Neill. This beautiful novel of Irish lore and lyricism has given me hours and hours of pure reading pleasure. Ghost Light: A Novel is so stunning that I found myself rereading paragraphs or entire pages over and over again just to revel in literary excellence.
When I come across a book like this in which I am particularly captivated, I mark certain pages that I want to reread again later with little slips of paper. When I finished this book, I had to laugh at myself because practically all of its pages have little slips of paper sticking out between them! This is one of those rare books where one can open up to any page and find the most extraordinary language, imagery, metaphor, or a passage or phrase that will transport one to another time, another place. For many of these remarkable qualities I am reminded of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and I know that this book is of those great traditions and deserves to be read again and again.
Yet it is not a book for everybody. Many will not appreciate the stream of consciousness narrative. Some will feel bogged down by the meanderings or recursions back and forth among the 50 years of time or setting which skips from Dublin to London to America. But if one approaches Ghost Light: A Novel with a willingness to surrender to the magic of its fractured narrative, a richly rewarding experience can be had.
The novel opens in a dodgy London boarding house in a seedy neighborhood of 1952, not long after dawn when the elderly, hung-over Molly is reviewing her past and facing yet another lonely day in her old age. In Molly's stream of consciousness voice: "You are sixty-five now," is said in the second person narrative which O'Connor brilliantly uses throughout the novel to bring the reader closer to Molly ~ you are her, she is you, or "you" can be Molly speaking to herself, or "you" is Synge being addressed to by Molly. Other times Molly's stream of thoughts shifts into a more usual third person narrative to evoke raptures of the past or to the first person to represent the drifting of Molly's consciousness, all bringing her entire life into the capsule of one day near the end of her life. It's O'Connor's genius to use this technique of flexible narrative voice ~ the effect produces both intimacy and distancing at the same time.
Living alone except for the ghostly presence of her lover Synge, the man with "martyr-sad eyes" who died so long ago, Molly tells a story with a mind that is rich in literary allusion. In fact, Molly has so much literature in her ~ Irish songs, poems, plays ~ that Synge's imagination was fed by Molly. Young Molly, as O'Connor envisions her, is a charming and playful heroine, a pretty, robust and intelligent fledgling actress who fell in love with the much older playwright whom she first met at the Abby Theatre in Dublin. Molly was totally committed to the well being of her gloomy, difficult and chronically ill lover, although in truth everything was against their relationship: the age gap, differences in class and religion, family hostilities, professional disapproval from the theatre, Synge's ill health. Yet they were drawn to each other and Molly loved him fiercely. She loved him for what he was, a man who would lose himself in himself, but whom she could draw out and inspire. She was his lover and his muse and theirs was a great love story.
Now, Molly ~ elderly, drunken, poverty stricken, alone and in the last days of her life, remembers Synge... not her two husbands, but her first love, her "Tramp", her Johnny Synge. Her mind drifts in and out of reverie, back to a now vanished Dublin and Wicklow where Molly and Synge carried out their affectionate but quarrelsome relationship. Back in the now as she shambles alone through the streets of bombed-scarred London, making her way to the BBC for what will be her final performance, she proceeds with the same trained deportment, the same courage and dignity that she has always gathered in the face of her trials and challenges. After all, the show must go on.
O'Connor closes the book with a beautiful heartfelt letter that Molly wrote to Synge but never sent. It was found among her papers after her death. The letter is an expression of Molly's heart, a sentiment which is charming and soulful and a most fitting way to end a story about a great love between a playwright and his muse.
I love this book dearly and rank it high among my favorite works of Irish literature.
The novel is about a grand love affair between Molly Allgood, an actress (stage name Maire O'Neill) and the playwright John Synge, most well-known for his play, Playboy of the Western World. The book starts out in 1952 on the streets of post-war London. Molly, 67 years old, is walking the cold blustery city and freezing. She lives in a hovel and drinks too much. She is hungry and cold, going from one sheltered spot to another and hallucinating from the the alcohol, her hunger and her freezing. She is on her way to a BBC radio reading and on her way she remembers, in broken dream sequences, her relationship with John Synge.
Molly and John Synge had an affair and at the time of their affair she was eighteen years old and he was thirty-six. John was very ill, most likely with lymphoma but perhaps tuberculosis or some other lung disease. He had one neck surgery after another. He lived only two years after they met. They came from opposite sides of the tracks. Molly was an actress who was from a mixed marriage - protestant and catholic - and she worked with her mother in a drapery shop. John came from old money and was of protestant background. He had a symbiotic relationship with his mother which made his relationship with Molly doomed from the start as his mother would not permit him to bring Molly home and threatened to cut off his trust fund should he marry her.
The book goes back and forth in time from 1952 London to 1905 Dublin where Molly and John were involved in a theater group. John was the resident playwright for William Yeats and the Grand Dame of the theater was Lady Augusta Gregory. Molly was an actress in the theater troupe. In those days it was very risqué for women to act.
Molly and John had to keep their affair a secret because John was terribly afraid of anyone finding out. He and Molly met on trains and traveled to Wicklow together for a vacation but acted like they did not know one another in Dublin. The affair was tender and poignant. John was very ill and the marriage was doomed from the start, never to be realized. They remained engaged until John's death. John called Molly his Pegeen, his Changeling girl.
We travel with Molly to the United States where she acted after John's death. She recollects the plays she was in and the popularity she had. She ended up marrying a philandering husband and had two children, a son who died during World War II and a daughter from whom she is semi-estranged because she can not get along with her son-in-law.
The novel contains imagined letters and real letters between the two lovers and hallucinatory memories from Molly's desperate mind as she tries to stay alive despite the difficult circumstances she finds herself in. My favorite parts of the novel are when it travels to 1905 and the reader gets to participate in the acting troupe with the great Synge and Yeats.
Parts of this novel are true and other parts are fictional according to Mr. O'Connor. Mr. O'Connor grew up in Dublin near the Synge house and was fascinated by the playwright's life. This novel is the outcome of his fascination. In some ways it reminded me of the poetic beauty of Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin. Sense of place is very important. This is a novel with grand scope and great beauty, one that will not be forgotten by any lover of literature.
"Certain biographers will want to beat me with a turf shovel," O'Connor states in his aftermath. Indeed, in reading that aftermath, this is not the book for those who are seeking a historically-correct look into these principals. It is definitely fiction.
But what fiction it is! It sings, glows, and at times, reads like sheer poetry. There are hints of James Joyce in the stream-of-consciousness. It all flows from the title Ghost Light, which O'Connor defines later in the book, "An ancient superstition among people of the stage. One lamp must always be left burning when the theatre is dark, so the ghosts can perform their own play."
And within the confines of this novel, these "ghosts" definitely do. The "play" begins in 1952; Molly, now quite old and penurious, is in London where is to record a radio play for the BBC studios. There, in an alcoholic haze, she muses upon the highlights of her life: as an actress at Abbey Theatre of Dublin, her acquaintance with Yeats, and most of all, her love affair with the much-older John M. Synge.
She remembers that Synge was "a man who could see into things - very ordinary things...His imagination, or soul, or whatever province of his mind was hungry for the sustaining rain of the world, would soak in the storms of his own haunted strangeness, and the berries would bloom, and they were what they were, and if the tendrils were peculiar, and some of them wild, the fruits were so shockingly luscious and potent that the thirsty were willing to savour the bitter for the sake of the concomitant sweet."
Ah, poetry! By using the documented framework of Synge - his ascension to the top of his craft, his complicated relationship with his widowed mother (who strongly disapproved of his "liaison"), his engagement to Molly, his early death at age 37 - Mr. O'Connor expands his story, weaving fiction in with the fact. His portrayal of Molly - playful, wayward, with a spirited independence - is sublime. And then, Mr. O'Connor goes further, also weaving some highlights of the Abbey Theatre and the cruelty of class-consciousness into his tapestry. A most amazing book - and very recommended by this reader.
The book jacket shines with praise for O'Connor's writing. Much of it is indeed excellent, but a little self-conscious; its quality seems to lie outside the story rather than being truly integral. Here, for example, is Molly anticipating that broadcast: "And perhaps there is an otherworld only radio waves can attain, where the dead are listening quietly together. Her son, her two husbands, the man in the photograph on the mantelshelf, her brothers, her mother, Yeats, her sister. The brave, broken boys who died in the war. The murdered of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Memory is their oxygen, megahertz their rain. Their country has no currency or flag. The aurora borealis is their national anthem, for they are able to hear colours, touch sounds. Their flicker-lit eyes see no blitzes, no firestorms. Their language needs no words for torture." Sonorous and evocative prose, for sure, but it segues from the real thoughts in Molly's mind to ideas that belong solely to the author, taking us away from the central character rather than deeper into her life. This is not an isolated case; O'Connor's writing is often pitched in a higher register than would be appropriate, even in an Irish context. Synge's censorious mother speaks like a character out of melodrama; when Molly overhears a conversation between him and Lady Gregory, she at first thinks it is a scene from a new play -- as well it might be, but not one by Synge, whose own ear for speech was impeccable.
After about 100 pages, nonetheless, the book picks up. Paradoxically, O'Connor does more to convince me by showing the characters' reversals than their sweet-talk. The chapter leading to the premiere of Synge's masterpiece, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, begins with a furious quarrel at the Abbey Theatre, saved only by the intervention of Yeats. An escape to a cottage in Wicklow reveals stresses between the couple that somehow authenticate their idyll. There are two grotesque set-pieces when they introduce each other to their respective mothers, and a chilling one as Molly is fobbed off by Synge's family after the funeral to which she was not even invited. And my first prediction turns out to be wrong: Molly's radio broadcast is indeed a climax, but not at all of the nature I might have imagined. Yes, Joseph O'Connor has the skill to pull some light out of the darkness -- there are some beautiful moments in these last pages -- but if I had not undertaken to review the book for Vine, I would never have stayed around long enough for the illumination.


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In the winter after 2012, the Red Sox rolled seven after seven in the construction of their team. Of the seven free agents signed -- David Ross, Jonny Gomes, Shane Victorino, Ryan Dempster, Stephen Drew, Koji Uehara, Mike Napoli -- virtually every one of them at least lived up to their career track records. Each player represented a perfect fit, contributing to a strikingly balanced Red Sox team that had no real deficiencies.
This past offseason? Not so much. At least not yet.
To date, the Sox' moves and non-moves related to their four primary free agents following the championship run have yielded a roster that has yet to coalesce into a winner. The Sox are 20-23 and in fourth place, fortunate that the shared mediocrity of their division has them just three games back of the division-leading Yankees.
Given what has transpired through slightly more than a quarter of the season, it's worth looking back and wondering what kind of alternatives the Sox had in reconfiguring their roster after the championship. Based on recent conversations with industry sources, here is a position-by-position look at what transpired and the alternate paths that the team had.
The Sox ended up re-signing Mike Napoli to a two-year, $32 million deal -- an eminently reasonable contract from the team perspective given his combination of offensive production, defense and clubhouse leadership. That said, the team did pursue Jose Abreu when he was a free agent last September, and given what he's done to date -- hitting .260/.312/.595 with a major league-leading 15 homers prior to landing on the DL -- it's natural to wonder what kind of dominoes the Sox might have set in motion had they signed Abreu.
Still, given all that Napoli does well -- the grinding approach at the place, the extra-base power, strong defense at first, baserunning that has made him something of a role model in the organization -- the idea of not re-signing him wasn't really an option, particularly given his willingness to work with the Sox' preferred model of shorter-term contracts.
"Mike Napoli was always someone we were going to try to retain no matter what happened with the rest of our offseason," Sox general manager Ben Cherington said in an email.
The departure of Jacoby Ellsbury, of course, represented the most profound sea change in the Red Sox universe given how dramatically he impacted the game in the batter's box, on the bases and in the field. To replace Ellsbury, the Sox planned to make the transition to Jackie Bradley Jr. in center, but they provided themselves with a measure of insurance at the position with the signing of Grady Sizemore.
In retrospect, was re-signing Ellsbury a realistic option? Probably not. The Yankees' interpretation of a reasonable contract for the center fielder and the Red Sox' view of the same diverged pretty drastically.
But the fashion in which the Sox replaced Ellsbury did expose them to unpredictable performance at the position. In Bradley and Sizemore, the team turned to a pair of players who represented uncertainties, who didn't have recent major league track records. The team believed -- and still believes -- in Bradley's amateur and minor league track record, but his transition to the big leagues has been something other than seamless in the batter's box.
The Sox understood that there was a chance the 24-year-old could struggle, which is why they needed a veteran complement, ideally one who could challenge Bradley for a starting job while also providing protection in case he struggled. That led the Sox to Sizemore.
But while Sizemore represented -- and still represents -- a player of considerable intrigue and upside, and dazzled while outplaying Bradley to win the everyday job in center field out of spring training, he also offered no performance certainty after two-plus seasons in which he hadn't played.
As such, with the benefit of hindsight, it's fair to wonder whether the Sox should have pursued a player who would have offered a more natural complement to Bradley -- ideally, a right-handed veteran outfielder capable of protecting the team from injuries, struggle or even just drastic platoon splits.
However, the Sox weren't in position to add such a player (Rajai Davis of the Tigers comes to mind) given that the roster already featured a platoon in left field (Jonny Gomes, Daniel Nava) that was backed up by a valued player -- albeit one whose skill set was redundant with other players on the roster -- in Mike Carp. At the time, the Sox thought that they needed to sign a player who either could take the starting job from Bradley or open the year in the minors. Sizemore represented just that.
Should the Sox more actively have explored trading an asset like Carp and pursuing a more versatile alternative? Perhaps. Alternately, should the Sox have considered a more drastic maneuver like committing to Bradley in center, trading Carp and signing a power bat like Nelson Cruz (even at the cost of a first-round pick) for the outfield? That's a harder sell, and would have required more foresight about the struggles of Nava than would have been reasonable to assume.
The Sox extended the qualifying offer to Stephen Drew, and their interest in re-signing the shortstop was legitimate even after he declined the qualifying offer. However, the team also felt comfortable moving on from him and exploring the potential upside of an infield featuring Xander Bogaerts at short and Will Middlebrooks at third. The team believed that it would enjoy a considerable boost in its production at third base from its standard set in 2013 (.242 average, .288 OBP, .395 slugging) regardless of whether Middlebrooks or Bogaerts manned the position.
In light of the struggles of Middlebrooks and of the Sox against right-handed pitching, it's again fair to wonder whether the Sox did enough to insulate themselves from performance uncertainties of players (Bogaerts, Middlebrooks) without proven track records. The team's pursuit of depth on the left side of the infield netted Jonathan Herrera rather than someone whom the team would be comfortable using as an everyday player (Brock Holt has been the Sox' preferred third base starting option during Middlebrooks' time on the DL).
But the reality is that the available depth options for the left side of the infield verged on non-existent this past offseason. The Sox weren't going to compete with the Cardinals, who blew away the field while signing Jhonny Peralta to a four-year, $52 million deal.
The one alternate path was to sign Drew -- though doing so would have meant giving up the possibility of a draft pick had he signed elsewhere. It's also unclear what kind of market demands Drew was making after turning down the qualifying offer.
Meanwhile, Bogaerts has done nothing to dissuade the Sox from the idea that he has a chance to deliver elite production as a shortstop. The Sox have the best OBP of any AL team from the shortstop position (.358), even as Bogaerts has yet to start hitting for power this year.
Nonetheless, Middlebrooks' struggles have created an environment in which the Sox are clearly intrigued anew by the idea of bringing back Drew to shore up their infield defense and to give themselves more balance against right-handed pitching.
With Jarrod Saltalamacchia a free agent, the Sox made a run at Brian McCann, but again, the Yankees weren't going to be outbid for the preeminent catcher on the market. The Sox made a hard run at Carlos Ruiz on a potential two-year deal, but he returned to Philadelphia for three years. But even after those two came off the market early, the Sox' interest in re-upping Saltalamacchia was no better than tepid.
The Sox never made as much as a formal two-year offer to Saltalamacchia. The best that the team could do was a one-year deal that included a team option that would vest and become guaranteed for a second year if Saltalamacchia wasn't sidelined by a lower back injury. (The Sox had concerns in negotiations about the lower back issues that required Saltalamacchia to receive an epidural in September and again required treatment in the postseason.) Had the second year vested and had Saltalamacchia hit all of the incentives in the deal, he could have earned as much as $18 million, but the guarantee wasn't sufficiently compelling to motivate him to abandon his preferred pursuit of a three-year deal.
Should the Sox have extended a qualifying offer to Saltalamacchia? In retrospect, had he accepted that would have been a considerable overpay -- though it's worth noting that, at the time that qualifying offer decisions were being made, it wasn't clear that Saltalamacchia would have accepted it, given his expectation at that point in the winter that a three- or even four-year deal for an average salary of $10 million could be within reach.
Should the Sox have made a guaranteed two-year deal to the catcher rather than presenting it as a vest? Perhaps, though clearly, a) the team did have some medical concerns about the 29-year-old and b) the Sox clearly like the idea of having a clear lane for Christian Vazquez by the start of 2015. Moreover, it's unclear if a two-year guarantee would have motivated Saltalamacchia to sign.
Saltalamacchia did approach the Sox to see if there was any scenario where they'd be open to a three-year deal, even if the third year would have to be structured as a reachable vesting option. The team declined.
Instead, the Sox opted for the ultimate bridge signing, adding A.J. Pierzynski on a one-year, $8.25 million deal. Initial returns have been poor, as Pierzynski is posting career lows in average (.244), OBP (.281) and slugging (.353). His fellow 37-year-old colleague, David Ross, has likewise struggled (.182/.250/.364).
Meanwhile, Saltalamacchia -- even with a recent seven-game, 0-for-23 run -- is hitting .268/.358/.465 with six homers as the everyday catcher for the Marlins, making a similar impact against right-handers (.264/.378/.505) that he did for the Sox a year ago. Neither he nor the Marlins have any regrets about the three-year, $21 million deal (a deal, of course that would have fit within the Sox' payroll given that the average salary to which he agreed.
If the struggles of Pierzynski and Ross continue, then perhaps Vazquez will find his way up to the big leagues in the middle of the season. Of course, that would merely add to the Sox' reliance on young players without established big league track records, replacing one form of vulnerability with another.
It's impossible to know how different the Sox might look right now had they followed a different offseason course. After all, there are plenty of holdovers at different positions who are underperforming -- it's not just the free agent decisions that have yielded poor results to date.
Moreover, there's a chance that the Sox' strategy this past winter may yet be borne out as having been a successful one -- if Bradley or Sizemore or Pierzynski or Middlebrooks starts hitting, among other possibilities.
But whereas the strength of the Sox in 2013 was the ability to have trustworthy depth at virtually every roster spot, the 2014 club right now features the dangerous combination at some positions of both starters and backups without reliable track records or performance certainty.
While Bradley and Sizemore have considerable upside, their floors are ill-defined -- leading to the possibility of poor performance from the position. Ditto Middlebrooks and third base. The ages of Pierzynski and Ross have raised the possibility that catcher, too, could prove an area of weakness, particularly given Pierzynski's free-swinging approach.
How the Sox' approach to their free agents ultimately plays out remains to be seen. But for now, the virtually unqualified free agent successes that helped lay the foundation for a championship team haven't proven repeatable -- at least not without a period of transition. And so, with just over a quarter of the season now complete, the Sox are struggling to find their stride as a result, last year's quick start yielding to this year's stumble.
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A red and white to pay tribute to the 50 years of the Calderón
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Our team will play against Tottenham Hotspur in the International Cup and close its participation in Australia with the second match against Melbourne Victory.
The striker analyses the two matches that we will play in Melbourne and Geelong.
On the 29th and 30th of July, we propose a very special plan for the Atléticos: 'Red&White nights.' Exceptionally, the Vicente Calderón will open its doors from 21:30 and until midnight so the fans that wish to can visit the stadium at night. The prices of the tickets is of 16€ for adults and 8€ for children under 12, with a 50% discount for club members.
If you can't make it to all the matches, become a Non-Season Pass Member. You can enjoy many advantages and a free ticket for only 50€.
Our Museum is the best plan for this summer. We have extended the visiting hours from Monday to Sunday. Come and have fun with us, recalling the history of the club in the Vicente Calderón.
We start the 2016/2017 pre-season winning the IV Jesús Gil y Gil Memorial after beating Numancia 2-0 in Burgo de Osma thanks to the goal from Torres and Regalón's own goal.
Many players from the Academy also took the field, commanded by an Amath who played 72 minutes of the match.
The match has left several interesting pictures, among which is the photo of the brothers Theo and Lucas Hernández on the playing field, for the first time, with the shirt of the first team.
Gabi, Godín and Koke were in charge of answering the media before the first friendly game against Numancia.
Atlético de Madrid and the official dealers Ibericar Cuzco, Movilnorte, BMWAutoPremier and Vehinter officialised a collaboration agreement between the two entities.
The UEFA Technical Observers also recognize the beauty of his goal against Astana.
The French international, Best Player and Golden Boot of the Euro 2016, has made the list of the 10 most voted players to win UEFA's Best Player in Europe award of 2015/2016.
The draw for the 2016/17 League has provided that we open the Championship at the Vicente Calderón against Alavés on 21st August at 22:15 and we will close it, also at home, against Athletic on the weekend of 20/21 May.
We will play against Linköpings Fotboll Club and Eskilstuna United DFF, two matches in LaLiga Women's event that will serve to prepare for the 2016-17 season.
This Thursday, the raising of the compression ring of the roofing has begun. Don't miss the last images from the works of the new stadium.
We continue the 'You ask' section in which we answer the questions asked by our fans via the club's website. In this instalment, we cover the roofing of the new stadium.
Today we return to our section of 'You ask' to answer one of the questions that matters the most to our fans. We will focus on the seats of our new stadium. Although the color has not been decided yet, we can already share a lot of details with you.
Neptuno - Atlético de Madrid Premium is the name that encompasses all the VIP offer of our new stadium. A new experiential concept that is the result of the joint work of the club with the company CenterplateISG, a joint venture between Centerplate and International Stadia Group (ISG), two global references in the management and operation of sports venues.
We present the architects of our new stadium. Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, responsible of a prestigious study based in Seville, Amsterdam and Madrid, tell us how the new home of all the Atléticos will be.


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Microsoft has somehow managed to create huge demand for a game system with no desirable software. There is only one more game being released between now and Xmas (DOA4), yet everyone wants the system right now. I worked the midnight launch and I asked the customers what games they were excited about. Some said Perfect Dark, which looks passable at best, but most of them said things like, "Call of Duty 2 looks pretty good, right?" Idiots. This is just like when everyone wanted a PSP, and now we have a shitload of traded-in PSPs for sale. People used to buy new systems because there was a game they just HAD to play coming out (Super Mario 64, anyone?). Now they just want the hot new shit just to have it. I say fuck you Xbox 360. Don't talk to me until Gears of War comes out. Or at least Splinter Cell 4. Then maybe we can be friends.
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Big Bear Lake, CA, June 11th, 2016 - Big Bear Cycling Association (BBCA) announced that Freddie Rodriguez and Tinker Juarez will be Grand Marshalls for the 3 rd annual Big Bear Cycling Festival which will be held in Big Bear Lake, California July 30 – August 7. The festival celebrates all disciplines of cycling, including road, mountain and … [Read more...]
Big Bear Cycling hosts Amgen Tour of California Jens Voigt Community Ride April 21
Big Bear, CA, April 17th, 2016 - Big Bear Cycling and the Amgen Tour of California are kicking off the local road cycling season with a very special community event. The Amgen Tour of California has a long and close relationship with Big Bear Lake, hosting the 2010, 2012 and weather relocated 2015 events and now, a special local Community Ride with … [Read more...]
Big Bear Fire Department is the Most Fit Fire Department Again
Big Bear Lake, CA, February 2, 2016 - Big Bear Fire Department continues its reign as the Most Fit Fire Department for four years running. Once a year, firefighters are put through an intensive physical fitness screening process. An Exercise Physiologist from Fitness Appraisal, Inc., tests firefighters with an array of physical fitness testing … [Read more...]
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Big Bear, CA, April 8, 2015 - Big Bear Cycling is proud to host, for the third straight year, the Big Bear Time Trial of the 31st Annual Redlands Bicycle Classic. The Classic has the distinction of being the first race on the 2015 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar. Craig Smith of Big Bear Cycling said, "The North Shore of Big Bear Lake to the … [Read more...]
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Big Bear Lake, CA, June 18, 2014 - The Big Bear Cycling Association (BBCA) has announced the inaugural Big Bear Cycling Festival, running July 26 through August 3, 2014. The festival will celebrate all riding levels and disciplines--whether road, mountain or recreational. BBCA President Craig Smith points out the uniqueness of this kind of event … [Read more...]


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I booked a 3 day golf school with Southern California Golf Schools at the San Vicente Golf resort. What a nice adventure. The rooms weve very nice and kinda of big. The golf course was awesome with great greens. The food and beverage was affordable with a staff great. I would highly recommend both the golf school and the resort.
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Mobility for the visually impaired is always difficult. From simple tasks as heading to Starbucks for a coffee, to jumping on a bus or grabbing a taxi. Lets take the first example, heading to Starbucks is certainly challenging when you are unable to see, but what about when you enter the store? Without sighted assistance locating the counter or indeed finding somewhere to sit is challenging.
Therefore, any technology that aims to improve any of these mobility issues is always a step in the right direction. With the fear that this blog is turning into IBM fandom, it is yet another project IBM are working on.
Along with Carnegie Mellon University, IBM have developed and open sourced a smartphone application that can help you move from point A to point B.
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Many people find ordering wine in a restaurant even more intimidating than buying in a retail shop. But it can also be a satisfying adventure leading to new discoveries.
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