Don Winslow’s terrific new novel, “City on Fire,” does for Rhode Island what David Chase’s “The Sopranos” did for New Jersey. The Ocean State’s Chambers of Commerce won’t necessarily see it as a favor. Danny Ryan, the novel’s intermittently decent-hearted, otherwise amoral protagonist, says things like the state motto of Rhode Island is “I know a guy.” Or maybe it’s: “If you were supposed to know, you’d know.” And there’s this: “Another first, Danny thought — someone using ‘opportunities’ and ‘Rhode Island’ in the same sentence.

Duffy's Irish Pub, a neighborhood hangout beloved by Nationals fans, closed in November, swamped by debt. Over the weekend, former owner and namesake Andy Duffy announced that the bar is coming back to its building on Vermont Avenue NW, with a new owner and a target date of mid-September for a grand reopening. At the same time, Duffy's launched an Indiegogo campaign that allows customers to pre-purchase beers and Duffy's award-winning wings, with a fundraising goal of $150,000.

By Jenny HillBBC News, Lützerath Bernd Lauter/Getty ImagesAuthorities have given the protesters until Tuesday to leave the villageFrom her tiny wooden treehouse, which sways precariously in the winter wind, a young woman watches an enormous mechanical digger tear into the earth below, its jaws edging ever closer to the village which she's determined to save. Lützerath, in western Germany, is on the verge - literally - of being swallowed up by the massive coal mine on its doorstep.

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Kingsley Okonkwo, a Nigerian artist better known by his stage name as KCee, has defended his senior colleague Eedris Abdulkareem. Recall that while appearing on the Honest Bunch Podcast, Eedris narrated the infamous airplane incident with American rapper 50 Cent, who was headlining the Nigerian Breweries music tour. Eedris claimed to have seated in the business class section of the airplane, which 50 Cent’s crew had stated was reserved for the American rapper.