pyrotechnics

Reform conferences have become slick, big-budget affairs so few seemed surprised when pyrotechnics marked the leader's arrival on stage.

After pop star Anne-Marie, surrounded by pyrotechnics and whirling dancers' limbs, had completed the pre-match show, it took only three minutes for the first chorus of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot to ring around the stands.

Blackpink's London show opened in a blaze of laser light and pyrotechnics, with three muscle-flexing pop anthems in a row: Kill This Love, How You Like That and Pink Venom.

The tribute will re-create the moment through the use of projection mapping and custom pyrotechnics at the end of the sixth inning.

Television news coverage showed several explosions at the pyrotechnics facility, which is in the rural Yolo County community of Esparto, about 30 miles northwest of Sacramento.