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• Thu 6 Jun London, Elephant Inn Comedy Night Finchley Mark Thomas, Courtney Cornfield, Andrew Coleman, Joe Haddad, Laura Gomez-Garcia… View tickets
• Fri 7 Jun Guildford, G Live Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes - Warm Up More info
• Sun 9 Jun London, The Village Green Sunday Night Comedy Mark Thomas, Jamie D'Souza, Olivia Lee, Mark Maier View tickets
• Wed 12 Jun Hebden Bridge, Trades Club Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes - Warm Up View tickets
• Thu 13 Jun Otley Courthouse Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes - Warm Up View tickets
• Fri 14 Jun Selby Town Hall Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes: Warm Up View tickets
• Wed 19 Jun London, Four Thieves Pub Laugh Train Home Mark Thomas, Shelf, Tom Price, Alexander Bennett View tickets
• Wed 3 Jul Congleton, The Lion and Swan Comedy @ The Lion & Swan Mark Thomas, Phil Ellis View tickets
• Sat 6 Jul Stowmarket, John Peel Centre for Creative Arts Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes - Warm Up More info
• Sun 7 Jul Manchester, Didsbury Cricket Club Didsbury Comedy Club Mark Thomas, Stephen Bailey More info
• Sun 7 Jul Stockport, The Heatons Sports Club Heatons Comedy Evening Tez Ilyas, Mark Thomas View tickets
• Tue 9 Jul London, Kings Head Crouch End International Comedy Edinburgh Previews 2024 Mark Thomas, Spring Day View tickets
• Sat 13 Jul Caterham, Soper Hall House of Stand Up Presents Mark Thomas Russell Hicks View tickets
• Sun 14 Jul London, Bread & Roses Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes - Warm Up More info
• Sun 14 Jul London, Dublin Castle Attila The Stockbroker Presents Independents Day! Newtown Neurotics, Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 19 Jul Southend-on-Sea, Palace Theatre Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes - Warm Up View tickets
• Sat 20 Jul ➙ Sun 21 Jul Northampton, Charles Bradlaugh The Comedy Crate Weekender Jack Skipper, Maisie Adam, Angela Barnes, Mark Thomas, Darren Harriott… View tickets
• Sun 21 Jul London, Walthamstow Trades Hall Ed Fest Previews - Mark Thomas View tickets
• Tue 23 Jul Leeds, The Old Woollen Comedy Preview: Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 27 Sep Belfast, The Black Box Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sat 28 Sep Southport, Victoria Park Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sun 29 Sep York, The Crescent Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 3 Oct Darwen Library Theatre Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 4 Oct Kendal, Brewery Arts Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sat 5 Oct Lytham St. Annes, Lowther Pavilion Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sun 6 Oct Salford, The Lowry Mark Thomas View tickets
• Wed 9 Oct Aberdeen, Lemon Tree Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 10 Oct St Andrews, Byre Theatre Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sat 12 Oct Edinburgh, The Stand Comedy Club Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sun 13 Oct Glasgow, The Stand Comedy Club Mark Thomas View tickets
• Wed 16 Oct Kettering Arts Centre Mark Thomas View tickets
• Wed 23 Oct Carlisle, The Old Fire Station Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 24 Oct Bury, The Met Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sun 27 Oct Newcastle, The Stand Comedy Club Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 31 Oct Cambridge Junction Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 1 Nov Milton Keynes, The Stables Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 7 Nov The Glee Club Birmingham Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sun 10 Nov Sheffield City Hall and Memorial Hall Mark Thomas View tickets
• Wed 13 Nov Shrewsbury, Theatre Severn Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 14 Nov Bristol, Hen & Chicken Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sat 16 Nov Hull, Social Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 21 Nov Swindon Arts Centre Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 22 Nov Aldershot, West End Centre Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sat 23 Nov Eastleigh, The Point Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sun 24 Nov Bristol, Hen & Chicken Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 29 Nov Bridport Electric Palace Mark Thomas View tickets
• Wed 4 Dec Brighton & Hove, The Old Market Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 6 Dec Plymouth, Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sat 7 Dec Launceston Town Hall Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sun 8 Dec Portsmouth, The Wedgewood Rooms Mark Thomas View tickets
• Wed 11 Dec Bury St Edmunds, The Apex Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 12 Dec Leicester, The Y Theatre Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 13 Dec Cardiff, Sherman Theatre Mark Thomas View tickets

February 2025

• Sat 1 Feb Barnard Castle, The Witham Mark Thomas View tickets
• Wed 5 Feb Leeds, City Varieties Mark Thomas View tickets
• Fri 7 Feb Barton Upon Humber, The Ropewalk Mark Thomas View tickets
• Sat 8 Feb Manchester, Waterside Mark Thomas View tickets
• Thu 13 Feb Stroud, Subscription Rooms Mark Thomas View tickets
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Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes

Jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing song.

If you don’t know what he does ask your parents.

In his time he has won awards (current total is now officially ‘f**kloads’), forced a politician to resign, changed laws on tax and protest, become Guinness Book of Records world record holder for number of protests in 24 hours, taken the police to court 3 times and won, walked the length of the Israeli Wall in the West Bank and generally mucked about trying to have fun and f**k the right people off.

This show is more of the above.

Age Guidance: 16+

“You’ll leave recommitted to the fight against this appalling authoritarian government, to keep that tradition alive”

£20.50 (Concessions £14)

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Mark Thomas in England and Son

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“A nation that devours another will one day devour itself”

Set when The Great Devouring comes home, England & Son is a one-man play written specifically for the award-winning political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack, Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Soho and UK tour).

This is the first play Mark has ever performed in that he has not written himself. With some deep, dark laughs-and some deep, dark love-along the way, England & Son emerges from characters Mark knew in his childhood and Ed’s lived experience in jail.

Prepare for Mark to take you on a kaleidoscopic odyssey where disaster capitalism, empire, stolen youth and stolen wealth merge into the simple tale of a working-class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him.

A play written by Ed Edwards and directed by Cressida Brown

• RUNNING TIME 80 mins (plus 20 min interval)
• AGE RECOMMENDATION 14+
• TICKETS £20 / £17
• VENUE Factory Theatre

Content warning: contains references to violence and drug use

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Members on sale  12:30pm on Tue 18 July General on sale  12:30pm on Thu 20 July

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Mark Thomas in England & Son

★★★★☆      ferocious.

Traverse: Tue 5 – Sat 9 Dec 2023 Review by Hugh Simpson

Mark Thomas’s performance in England & Son , allied to an unflinching piece of writing, has a rare intensity. The Fringe First winner is now on tour to the Traverse until Saturday.

Apart from some odd choices in the way it is presented – of which more later – there is very little that can be criticised in a production with righteous fire and a flinty sincerity.

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Ed Edwards’s uncompromising script was written specifically for the comedian and performer Thomas. This is the first time Thomas has appeared in a play written by someone else, and his fame is such that he gets his name above the title of a play that draws partly on his and Edwards’s experiences.

It tells of a father and son, with the father’s time involved in atrocities in outposts of the collapsing British Empire leaving a legacy of violence that is passed down through the generations.

This pulls no punches in its depiction of a country whose wealth was built on enslaving, killing and stealing from the populations of other countries.

Afterwards, there has been no recognition of what had been done to those populations – or to those whose involvement in the stealing and killing created a mindset that could not be shaken off back home, where theft and murder are no longer state-sanctioned.

The father and son’s surname is England – hence the title. This symbolism could easily come across as clunky (not to mention giving Scottish audiences their usual smug get-out that the Empire somehow had nothing to do with them) but is carried off with aplomb by Edwards.

Mark Thomas in England & Son . Pic: Tin Cat Entertainment.

There is a directness and clarity that is arresting and moving. The piece is tremendously well-structured. After depictions of brutality at home, in the care system and from the ‘short sharp shock’ of the 1980s, there are moments of possible redemption. We know, however, from the opening of the play, that these are illusions – just like the conviction of those in the more comfortable world that their wealth is earned rather than being built on the backs of others.

From that opening, with Thomas curled up on the floor screaming, his performance is utterly remarkable. There is a rawness, a bitter reality and a dark humour to it, allied to years of stagecraft and the knowledge of how to involve an audience. The intimate surroundings of Traverse 2 are filled with an atmosphere that is positively electric.

He is tremendously well served by the direction of Cressida Brown, which makes notably good use of the acting space and avoids any of the longueurs that one-handers are prone to. Credit must also go to the movement direction of Simon Jones.

The lighting of Richard Williamson and MJ McCarthy’s sound design are particularly strong at the most traumatic moments, whether at home or abroad.

peculiar structure

This is a production of enormous impact, so the question must be why this is not an automatic five-star review. The answer lies in the peculiar structure of the evening. The play itself comes after an interval, which is precede by a half-hour segment of Thomas discussing his and Edwards’s work on storytelling, drama and stand-up with addicts.

Because of Thomas’s experience and engaging manner, this is always going to be interesting and well performed. However, it comes across as dispensable, even comparatively lightweight, in comparison to what follows.

It is stated outright that the interval is there for the benefit of theatre bar takings. This may be true, particularly in the current climate, but is a less than satisfactory way to construct a piece. Traverse audiences, moreover, are well used to interval-free productions. It leads to decidedly lopsided feel – in this case, more is quite definitely not more.

The play itself, however, is a compelling piece both personally and politically, that demands to be seen.

Running time: Two hours (including one interval). Traverse , 10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED. Phone booking: 0131 228 1404 Tue 5 – Sat 9 Dec 2023. Evenings: 7.30pm. (Traverse 2). Tickets and details: Book here .

Tags: Cressida Brown , Ed Edwards , England & Son , Hugh Simpson , Mark Thomas , MJ McCarthy , Review , Richard Williamson , Simon Jones , Theatre , Traverse

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Fresh off the back of a sold-out run and the highest of critical acclaim at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the political godfather of UK comedy, Mark Thomas, is back to what he does best; taking down politicians, mucking about, new ideas and finding hope.

This award-winning comedian (is there any other type?) asks how did we get here? What are we going to do about it? Who’s up for a sing-song? After lockdowns and isolation, this show is about the simple act of being in a room together and toppling international capitalism.  

In previous shows Mark has talked about visiting the West Bank and Jenin, lobbying Parliament, walking in the footsteps of the highest NHS officials, playing at The Royal Opera House, making stuff for TV, radio and newspapers and going undercover. This latest outing is more creative fun from one of our oldest surviving alternative comics.

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Mark Thomas in England & Son at the Arcola Theatre | Review

Mark Thomas is a very funny man.

His impressions deft, his timing smart, his audience interaction of the joshing variety – Thomas may have barbs for politicians but doles out nothing more than light ribbing to late-comers or forgot-to-silence-phone-owners. He seems like a kind man and perhaps all the gentler for the tale he is about to tell.

On tour with England and Son , written for him by Ed Edwards, Thomas adds a ‘first act’ of a lights-up introduction spoken directly to the audience. He holds forth, enacting various characters he’s encountered in the drug treatment facilities where Edwards, in recovery himself, works. They all have extreme stories that they need to share, to get to their truth, as part of the process of getting clean and sober. Thomas and Edwards have workshopped with these fellow travellers to create the ‘second act’ England and Son an extant one-act, one-man play that Thomas explains is still evolving.

The warm-up, which is both droll and edgy is also extremely explanatory: the quintessence of telling over showing even if he spins a fine yarn and does great impressions. Perhaps this intro is to offer a lighter touch before the main work but already the tragic potential is everywhere – a point he underscores as he explains the recovery group are learning 5-act structure with guilt, shame and denial indelibly written on the white board they use to plot their stories. The atmosphere is therefore intimate, confessional, raw and profoundly sad.

After the interval, the play runs. Basically, the entire performance is a trigger warning. It’s filled with every trauma and degradation – a relentless tale of a boy who never stood a chance. Thomas’ performance is energetic, compelling and utterly committed. I found the horror and resultant pathos almost emotionally unbearable – like the horrifying scenes in various Dickens novels where things get really grim for kids but without the comfort of knowing the episode would meet some comic relief somewhere.

Edwards’ rage at the sins of Thatcherism, class structure and empire are present but not as relentless as the pure tragedy of the story.

I wonder how I would have received the performance if I’d not been treated to the preamble? If instead there’s been a chat or a Q&A at the end? The sense of the work being a draft came across strongly but for that, I don’t fault it. As a searing tale of desperation and despair, Edwards’ voice – enacted by Thomas – was real and strong. Yet because of this reality, it was painful. As an example of the dramatisation and causes of misery, England and Son succeeds. However, this play offers very little diversion, and despite Edwards’ recovery (a topic the work doesn’t explore) it also offers very little hope. This is a very sad play starring a very funny man.

Review by Mary Beer

With some deep, dark laughs – and some deep, dark love – along the way, England & Son emerges from characters Mark knew in his childhood and Ed’s lived experience in jail. Prepare to be taken on a kaleidoscopic odyssey where disaster capitalism, empire, stolen youth and stolen wealth merge into the simple tale of a working-class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him.

HOME, Manchester and Tin Cat Entertainment present Mark Thomas in England & Son By Ed Edwards 14 November – 25 November 2023 https://www.arcolatheatre.com/

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Mark Thomas

He is best known for his campaigning Channel 4 series, in which he employed, Michael Moore-style, televisual stunts to get his message across. But his work also has a serious side: in one episode he got an Indonesian military chief to admit on camera that their government used torture.

Thomas has said his passion for politics was inherited from his father, a builder and lay preacher at Clapham's Nazarene Church, even if he didn’t inherit his Thatcherite beliefs.

He won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital public school, but he would frequently play truant, often to the theatre, before going on to study at Bretton Hall drama college in Wakefield.

There he began performing his own sketches and shows, doing benefit shows for the miners' strike while still a student. After college he worked for his father by day and did stand-up by night until he could turn pro.

In 1992, his Edinburgh show was nominated for the Perrier award – the same year the fizzy water brand was bought by Nestle, one of the corporations Thomas now campaigns against so vociferously.

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Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes

Date: Fri 7 Jun 2024 Venue: Guildford G Live Price: £16.50 Toru warm-up Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)

Date: Wed 12 Jun 2024 Venue: Hebden Bridge Trades Club Price: £15.00 Warm-up show Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)

Laugh Train Home

Date: Wed 19 Jun 2024 Venue: Four Thieves Price: £8.00 Comics: Mark Thomas , Tom Price , Alexander Bennett Plus: Shelf Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)

Date: Sat 6 Jul 2024 Venue: Stowmarket John Peel Centre for Creative Arts Price: Please contact venue or promoters Warm-up gig Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)

Mark Thomas , Spring Day

Date: Tue 9 Jul 2024 Venue: Downstairs at the King's Head Price: £12 Edinburgh Comedy Previews Show starts: 19:45 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)

Date: Sun 14 Jul 2024 Venue: The Bread and Roses Price: Please contact venue or promoters Warm-up gig Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)

Date: Mon 15 Jul 2024 Venue: The Bedford Price: £16.64 Part of the Balham Comedy Festival Show starts: 21:15 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)

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A play written by Ed Edwards Directed by Cressida Brown

"A nation that devours another will one day devour itself".

Set when The Great Devouring comes home, England and Son is a one-man play written specifically for the award winning political comedian Mark Thomas by award winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack, Paines Plough's Roundabout, Soho and UK tour).

This is the first play Mark has ever performed in that he has not written himself.

With some deep, dark laughs - and some deep, dark love - along the way, England and Son emerges from characters Mark knew in his childhood and Ed's lived experience in jail. Prepare for Mark to take you on a kaleidoscopic odyssey where disaster capitalism, Thatcherite politics and stolen wealth merge into the simple tale of a working class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him.

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Memorial Tournament Score Predictions: How the Top PGA Tour Golfers Will Fare at Muirfield Village

Iain macmillan | jun 4, 2024.

The PGA Tour heads to Muirfield Village for this week's signature event, the Memorial Tournament. All the best golfers on Tour will tee it up at Muirfield as they prepare for next week's U.S. Open.

Attempting to predict the winner is one thing, but how about predicting the exact final score of the winner along with the exact final score of the top 10 golfers in the field? That's what I'm going to attempt to do in this article.

Let's dive in.

All odds listed in this article are via BetMGM Sportsbook

Memorial Tournament Score Predictions

Winning score: -11.

We've seen a wide range of winning scores at Muirfield Village over the years. Even over the past decade, we've had a winning score as high as -7 like Viktor Hovland last year and as low as -19 like Patrick Cantlay in 2019. That makes it difficult to predict the winning score this time around, but I'm going to guess it'll creep into the double-digits at finish at 11 under par.

Scottie Scheffler (+350) Score Prediction: -11

Do you really want to bet against Scottie Scheffler this week? I certainly don't. The fiasco in Louisville is behind him and now he's coming into this event off a week of rest. Not only that, but he has finished third at this event the last two years he's competed in it. It's time for him to reestablish himself in the winner's circle once again.

Rory McIlroy (+900) Score Prediction: -7

Rory McIlroy only has one top 5 finish at the Memorial Tournament. He's had good results, but nothing crazy. Muirfield Village takes come creativity at times and McIlroy doesn't always have that ability. I expect another good but not great result from him this week.

Xander Schauffele (+900) Score Prediction: -9

Schauffele is another golfer, like McIlroy, who hasn't had great results at Muirfield but it's tough not to expect something special from him this week now that he's fresh off his first major victory. There's a chance that big win got the weight off his shoulders and he may just go on a run and rattle off a few more wins. He has statistically been the second-best golfer on the Tour this season.

Collin Morikawa (+1400) Score Prediction: -10

Morikawa has found his game once again. He found his short game in April and has now found his iron play in May. All signs point to him trending in the right direction and now he returns to a course that he's already won at once in his career. This could be his week but I think he may fall just short.

Viktor Hovland (+1800) Score Prediction: -8

The defending Memorial Tournament champion is returning to Muirfield Village in good form after finishing solo third at the PGA Championship a few weeks ago. Did he find his swing again or was that an anomaly performance? We'll find out more about Hovland's 2024 performance this week.

Ludvig Aberg (+2000) Score Prediction: -1

It might be time to sell a bit of stock in Ludvig Aberg. He missed the cut at the PGA Championship, is battling a nagging knee injury, and now goes to a course that doesn't exactly fit his style of play. I don't think he'll be in contention on the weekend.

Justin Thomas (+2500) Score Prediction: -5

Just like Morikawa and Hovland, Thomas is another golfer who had a tough first half of the season but may have found something after finishing T5, T21 and T8 in his last three starts. He finished runner-up at Muirfield Village in 2020.

Patrick Cantlay (+2800) Score Prediction: +1

Cantlay has won this event twice in his year and it's historically been a great course fit for him, but his game is trending in the wrong direction. He has gone T23, T29 and T53 in his last three starts. I think he's going to finish above par this weekend, but if there is a course where he can turn his game around, it's Muirfield Village.

Hideki Matsuyama (+4000) Score Prediction: E

Matsuyama's peak came in February and March and now he seems to be on a downward spiral, finishing T38 and T35 in his last two starts. Much like Cantlay, he's a past winner of this event but his recent metrics make me think this won't be the week for him.

Jordan Spieth (+4000) Score Prediction: +3

Jordan Spieth has been in horrific form. He hasn't finished 28th or better since the Valero Texas Open in early April. His ball striking is bad, his short game is out of sorts, and he can't hit a putt. I'm all out on Spieth this week.

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Thomas Detry betting profile: The Memorial Tournament Presented By Workday

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS - MAY 24: Thomas Detry of Belgium hits a tee shot on the sixth hole during the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club on May 24, 2024 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images)

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Thomas Detry hits the links June 6-9 in the 2024 the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday at Muirfield Village GC following a 56th-place finish in the Charles Schwab Challenge his last time in competition.

The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday tournament and course info

• Date: June 6-9, 2024
• Location: Dublin, OH
• Course: Muirfield Village Golf Club
• Par: 72 / 7,569 yards
• Purse: $20M
• Previous winner: Viktor Hovland

At the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday

• Detry has entered the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday once of late, in 2023. He finished 48th, posting a score of 5-over.
• En route to winning this tournament in 2023, Viktor Hovland posted numbers of 3.322 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (eighth in field), 0.516 in SG: Approach the Green (40th), and 6.068 in SG: Putting (third).
• Hovland averaged 317.1 yards off the tee (16th in field), had a greens in regulation percentage of % (), and attempted 25.25 putts per round (second) in that victory a year ago.

Detry's recent history at the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday

Detry's recent performances.

• Detry has finished in the top five in two of his last five events.
• Out of the last five tournaments he's entered, he made the cut four times.
• Detry has finished with a score lower than the tournament average in three of his last five appearances, including one finish within three strokes of the leader.
• He has an average score relative to par of 8-under in his last five events.
• Thomas Detry has averaged 302.3 yards off the tee in his past five tournaments.
• In his past five starts, Detry is averaging 3.475 Strokes Gained: Putting.
• In his past five starts, Detry is averaging 4.866 Strokes Gained: Total.

Detry's advanced stats and rankings

• Detry has delivered a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.203, which ranks 62nd on TOUR this season. Meanwhile, his average driving distance (301.4 yards) ranks 66th, and his 58.3% driving accuracy average ranks 126th.
• In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, Detry ranks 134th on TOUR with a mark of -0.257.
• On the greens, Detry's 0.585 Strokes Gained: Putting mark places him 14th on TOUR this season, and his 28.07 putts-per-round average ranks 13th. He has broken par 30.08% of the time (second).

Detry's best finishes

• Detry hasn't won any of the 14 tournaments he has participated in this season, though he has earned three top-five finishes and four top-10 finishes.
• In those 14 events, he made the cut 10 times (71.4%).
• With 1015 points, Detry currently ranks 23rd in the FedExCup standings.

Detry's best Strokes Gained performances

• This season, Detry posted his best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee mark at the WM Phoenix Open, ranking eighth in the field at 3.809. In that tournament, he finished 28th.
• Detry's best Strokes Gained: Approach effort this season came at the Valspar Championship in March 2024, as he produced a 2.117 mark, which ranked him 27th in the field. He finished 17th in that event.
• When it comes to Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, Detry's best mark this season was at the Texas Children's Houston Open in March 2024, as he ranked 13th in the field with a mark of 2.702.
• At the RBC Heritage in April 2024, Detry delivered his best Strokes Gained: Putting mark this season -- 5.285, which ranked him third in the field. He finished 28th in that event.
• Detry recorded his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (11.048) in March 2024 at the Texas Children's Houston Open, which ranked second in the field. He finished second in that tournament.

Detry's Strokes Gained rankings

Detry's past results.

All stats in this article are accurate for Detry as of the start of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday.

Note: The PGA TOUR has created this story via a machine-learning model using data from ShotLink , powered by CDW, in addition to player performance data. While we strive for accuracy and quality, please note that the information provided may not be entirely error-free.

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Michigan Central concert live blog: Mother-daughter duo from Iowa first in line for show

Detroit — Hours before thousands converge on Corktown for Michigan Central Station's big concert, a handful of people were lined up outside the gated area of Roosevelt Park where the concert will be held — and they'd traveled all the way from Iowa to be there.

Lori Pierce and Alexa Groth, a mother and daughter from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were the first people in line for the Michigan Central concert Thursday. They arrived near the entrance of the event between 9:30 and 10 a.m., Pierce said.

Attendees are expected to be able to enter the event at 6 p.m. Pierce and Groth are having a “blast” and listening to music as they wait, they said.

“People are saying hi to us, which never happens where we’re from,” said Groth, a 33-year-old resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Only three people were in line for the event as of 12:45 p.m. Pierce, a 57-year-old resident of Mount Vernon, Iowa, said she and her daughter thought the time they were arriving wasn’t early enough, but they ended up being the first ones in line. They often go to concerts together, and they like to get there early so they don’t miss any of the action, Groth said.

She said she has been “obsessed” with Detroit since she was 11 or 12. She learned about the history and became a fan of music by Detroit artists. She and her mom visited Detroit for the first time last September to go to a 50 Cent concert.

“We’re from Portland, Oregon, originally, so we’ve been in big cities and been a part of that before, but this city is so special,” Pierce said. “This city has people like we’ve never met before, who just talk to you on the street, and people are just like so kind and nice here. It truly feels like a magical wonderland to us, you know.”

“It’s my Disneyland,” Groth chipped in.

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Because of the concert, Michigan Avenue is blocked off starting at Rosa Parks Boulevard. There are also road closures on some of the other nearby streets.

There are 20,000 tickets that were reserved in advance of the free event.

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Jennifer lopez cancels tour amid ben affleck separation speculation, jennifer lopez cancels summer tour ... amid ben affleck drama.

Jennifer Lopez will not be hitting the road this summer after all -- as the singer is canceling her planned tour outright, even before it starts ... TMZ has learned.

A rep for Live Nation tells us Jen's "THIS IS ME...LIVE" tour -- which was supposed to get underway in June and hit a bunch of North American venues through August -- is getting completely scrapped.

The reason ... we're told, J Lo is "taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends." Jen herself also addressed the cancelation, hopping on her site OntheJLo to say, ... "I am completely heartsick and devastated about letting you down. Please know that I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that it was absolutely necessary."

She adds, "I promise I will make it up to you and we will all be together again. I love you all so much. Until next time…"

No other official explanation was provided, but we have a bit more insight. While there were rumblings of weak ticket sales earlier this month, sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ this was NOT a factor in the decision ... as the tour was even seeing an uptick in ticket sales in key cities.

We're told this was a very difficult decision for J Lo and, -- and like she expressed in her note, she's bummed. Of course, there's other stuff going on in Jen's life right now that could possibly be pertinent to this ... which seems to be reflected in the official reasoning.

Jennifer and her husband, Ben Affleck , have faced public scrutiny over their marriage. The couple has sent several mixed messages about the state of their relationship ... stepping out a number of times together, despite currently living apart .

LN says fans who purchased tickets through Ticketmaster will be automatically refunded. However, if you bought a ticket through a 3rd party reseller -- SeatGeek, StubHub, VividSeats, etc. -- you're encouraged to reach out to them directly for more details.

Remember, Ben started staying at a Brentwood home earlier this spring ... with Jennifer residing in their Beverly Hills abode -- which they scooped up for $60 million just last year.

Neither Ben nor Jen have addressed the situation publicly ... but this tour nixing is either good news or bad news for them -- hard to interpret it, really. Either way, no Jen on tour for now.

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Mark Bradford got a late start as an artist. A former hairstylist, he didn’t begin to work with serious determination until he was 30, when he enrolled as a painting student at CalArts in Valencia. His first exhibition to gain widespread traction waited until he was 40; “ Freestyle ,” a 2001 group show of American artists proposed the emergence of “post-Black art,” work that inevitably encompassed Black experiences (and, in Bradford’s case, queer experiences as well), but insisted that it not be ghettoized by race or sexuality. Much the same way that Black history is American history, Black art is American art.

Discover the change-makers who are shaping every cultural corner of Los Angeles. This week we bring you The Creators, who are leaving their mark in film, art, music and more. Come back each Sunday for another installment.

Now 62, Bradford ranks among the top artists to have emerged in — and defined — American art in the 21st century. Recently he surprised many with a new sculpture, “Death Drop 2023,” a 10-foot man sprawled on the floor, his pose lodged somewhere between a joyful, gay ballroom-culture dance move and a gruesome murder victim. It plays against Bradford’s achievement of having revived dormant abstract painting in a time dominated by figurative imagery.

His sway stems from far more than multimillion-dollar sales in an overheated art market, although a $12-million auction of his monumental canvas “Helter Skelter,” a 34-foot-wide meditation on the race war Charles Manson envisioned starting, is nothing to sneeze at.

Bradford’s U.S. representation at the 2017 Venice Biennale is more to the point. He opened the five-room exhibition with a bulbous, abstract painted sculpture suspended from the ceiling that nearly filled the space. Evoking a bodily tumor, the ugly mass crowded visitors against the walls.

Bradford titled his show “Tomorrow Is Another Day,” the cringey line spoken by Vivien Leigh’s weepy Scarlett O’Hara at the melodramatic close of “Gone With the Wind.” Her remark minimized a brutal history of white supremacy while auguring its endurance. The Oscar-laden romantic fantasy launched a thousand pop culture satires, while Bradford marshaled the gay dialect of camp in defense of moral seriousness.

Building on the found-object aesthetic of L.A. predecessors such as Noah Purifoy, who made assemblages out of the charred remnants of the 1965 Watts riots, Bradford also constructs paintings from canvases densely layered with street signage scavenged from fences, telephone poles and urban walls in South Los Angeles, where he was born and works today. And the MacArthur Fellowship winner, who also won this year’s $500,000 Getty Prize, helped open Art + Practice, an exhibition space in Leimert Park.

Since the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, museums have focused on contemporary art’s presentation of Black figures, but Bradford’s internationally acclaimed work demonstrates the continuing power of abstraction.

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