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Animals: An automated smart toilet for dogs
A product design company in Texas recently claimed to have created the world’s first fully automated dog toilet. Called the Inubox, it’s a self-contained toilet system that “captures, processes and contains” a dog’s waste. Inubox knows when a dog steps onto the platform, and it detects the waste left behind. Once the dog leaves, the station closes the platform and completes the cleaning cycle in less than one minute. All solid and liquid materials are passed through a solidifying process and deposited into a bag. Once the bag is full, the device seals it and hands it over for disposal. Warm on a Cold Night, Good Together and Day One — have won the band a massive global following, and its debut album was a captivating collection that flirted with funk and shone in its quieter moments.
It recently released an irresistibly infectious sophomore album, a blissful, swooning live show perfected over the last half-decade.
Honne consists of singer Andy and multi-instrumentalist James, who first bonded over their shared upbringing in southwestern England and a mutual fascination with Japan.
During a midnight viewing of Lost in Translation, it became apparent that their sense of loose partnership — a sort of wandering through strange environments and struggling to convey what you mean — was just as relevant to their lives off screen.
Kodaline: 2019 Live in Beijing When:
Where:
Feb 18, 8 pm Tango Live, Beijing Platinum-selling Irish band Kodaline brings its show to Beijing on Monday.
The band consists of singer Steve Garrigan, guitarist Mark Prendergast, bassist Jason Boland and drummer Vinny May.
It released its new album, Politics of Living, in September to rave reviews before embarking on a world tour.
Kodaline was formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 2012 and achieved immediate success. All I Want, from its first extended play recording, has logged more than 46 million views on YouTube.
Its 2013 debut album, Perfect World, established it as a highly emotional pop/rock band with perfectly crafted songs in the vein of Coldplay, while 2015’s Coming Up for Air, gave it its second Irish No 1.
The band’s continual tours confirm its status as a growing force in the music world.
When: Where:
The Barber of Seville, Useless Precaution, The
When: Where:
Feb 22-28, 7:15 pm Shanghai Grand Theater
Based on the hit movie School of Rock, this new musical play follows Dewey Finn, a failed wannabe rock star who decides to earn extra cash by posing as a teacher at a prestigious prep school.
There, he turns a class of straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band.
With a new score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, story by Julian Fellowes and an incredible cast of kids shredding guitars, pounding drums and rocking out live, School of Rock is a treat for all
by Jiangsu Phoenix Education Publishing Co, received an honorable mention. Stiftung Buchkunst has run the annual book design competition since 1991. Designers used cheap paper for the book, the kind used by old eateries for wrapping food, with black-andwhite pictures printed on pages with deckled edges. The book highlights a disappearing group of people — craftsmen skilled in old trades.
dismantles the phones and retrieves the screens and keyboards, which he uses in his paintings. “My No 1 goal is to try, in my own small way, to reduce electronic waste that is found in the streets and in trash bins,” he said.
March 18, 8 pm Tango Live, Beijing After a joyous China debut last year, Honne returns to the country with the soundtrack to our digital intimacies and urban love lives in the 21st century.
Its smooth electronic soul is a widescreen take on modern heartbreak and timeless heartache.
Honne’s smash-hit singles —
Feb 20-24, 7:30 pm National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing or is set in Seville, Spain, in the 17th century.
Young Count Almaviva falls in love with Rosina, a rich and beautiful girl, but the greedy Doctor Bartolo, Rosina’s guardian, intends to marry her himself.
Not knowing what to do,
ages.
Feb 27, 7:30 pm National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing
In the more than 40 years he has been performing, Murray Perahia has become one of the most sought-after and cherished pianists of our time, performing in all the world’s major international music centers and with every leading orchestra.
He is principal guest conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, London, with which he has toured as conductor and pianist throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Born in New York, Perahia started playing piano at age 4, and later attended Mannes College, where he majored in conducting and composition.
His summers were spent at the Marlboro Festival, where he collaborated with such musicians as Rudolf Serkin, Pablo Casals and the members of the Budapest String Quartet.
During that time, he also studied with Mieczysław Horszowski.
In subsequent years, he developed a close friendship with Vladimir Horowitz, whose perspective and personality became an enduring inspiration.
Recently, Perahia embarked on an ambitious project to edit the complete Beethoven sonatas.
He also produced and edited hours of recordings of recently discovered master classes by the legendary pianist Alfred Cortot, which resulted in the highly acclaimed Sony CD release Alfred Cortot: The Master Classes.