1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. After a five-week break, “SNL” is finally back with a new episode, its first in 2020. Adam Driver hosts and Halsey is the music guest. Driver has done this twice before; shown here is a previous sketch with Kate McKinnons. A hear ago, Halsey doubled as host and music guest, doing two spectacular music numbers. Read more…
PASADENA, Cal. – Growing up in Syria, Amani Ballour(shown here) knew a world of rules and limits.
“There are too many differences between boys and girls …. I couldn’t play with boys. I couldn’t climb the tree, I couldn’t ride the bike,” she recalled. “This (was) prevented for girls in my community.”
There were professions open to her – but, again, with limits. A woman could “be a doctor, but a doctor for children or for women in your clinic, but not a manager.”
Then war changed everything. As the Oscar-nominated “The Cave” shows, Dr. Ballour administered an underground hospital in the bomb-battered city of Ghouta, near Damascus. Read more…
