Denton is a midsize Texas city north of Dallas. This week, it became a microcosm of the cascading crises that has beset the state: electricity blackouts, natural-gas shortages and water problems. Denton and other parts of Texas are experiencing their third straight day of blackouts as a deep freeze created […]
Month: February 2021
“Nomadland” is a song for the open road. Its protagonist, a pragmatic widow named Fern (Frances McDormand), has lost her husband and her ZIP code. She’s living out of a rusty cargo van, finding short-term jobs throughout the American West. Even with a movie star at the center, the film […]
Sarah Hirschorn, a first-year student from Boston, studies at Brooks Dining Hall on the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus on Feb. 8. USM started allowing students to sit at tables and in booths this month, with one person at a table or booth. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer Buy this Photo […]
Despite the ice-cold chill of the season, there remains an abundance of activities for outdoors enthusiasts to beat the winter doldrums. Inside or outdoors, there’s something to perk up every nature lover during this dreary time of year. Sausage/Jerky Making For those with some prime venison stockpiled from a successful […]
Photo credit: Elaine Chung From Esquire In “Beers and Weirs,” the second episode of the short-lived cult classic TV show Freaks and Geeks, the protagonist Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini) is pressured into hosting a keg party for her new slacker-stoner friends. She spends all afternoon preparing for it: pouring bowls […]
Pendleton Riordan WATERTOWN – Pendleton “Penny” Riordan, of Watertown, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 8, 2021. She was 60 years old. She was born in Bitberg, Germany, on June 2, 1960, to Warren Sams Jr. and Elizabeth Sams. The daughter of an Air Force man, Penny spent much of her […]
It’s just not the same. Photographer: Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Photographer: Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images We’ve been arguing for almost a year about whether to physically close or reopen schools. Now we need a second debate: Should we reduce school vacations to have more teaching days […]
Feb. 20—ATLANTA — GPB Education and the Georgia Forestry Foundation (GFF) are partnering again for the launch of Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journey II, an interactive experience for high school students. Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journey II is the third resource in GPB’s Georgia Forests collection, which also includes Georgia […]
When: Mount Joy Township supervisors meeting, Feb. 15. What happened: Users of the Conewago Recreation Trail — typically walkers, joggers and bicyclists — will see new warning signs as they approach state Route 743/Hershey Road in Mount Joy Township. Supervisors approved the installation of the new signage during the meeting […]
The White House announced Saturday that President BidenJoe BidenREAD: House Democrats’ mammoth COVID-19 relief bill House panel unveils .9T relief package Nunes lawsuit against CNN thrown out MORE approved a major disaster declaration for Texas as the state grapples with severe winter weather. The move paves the way for more […]
Both locations, run by the Rhode Island Department of Health, open Thursday. The first group of residents who can make appointments are those 75 and older. Starting Monday, scheduling will be open to any Rhode Islander who is 65 and older. The Dunkin’ Donuts Center will start out administering 500 […]
As millions of Texans were huddling in their homes enduring days without heat or water, their junior senator, Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzOn The Money: What’s next for Neera Tanden’s nomination GOP signals Biden AG pick will come under pressure over Cuomo Manchin to oppose Biden’s pick of Neera Tanden […]
(Image: Blizzard) Classic PC dungeon-crawler RPG Diablo II is getting a new lease on life. Blizzard announced Diablo II Resurrected during BlizzCon 2021’s online event, Polygon reports. The remastered edition features both the base game and the Lord of Destruction expansion. It’s been 21 years since the PC original debuted, […]
Zombie Land Saga “Throughout the ages, a group of legendary girls have become zombie idols to save Saga Prefecture. It’s the return of the cutting-edge zombie idol anime! One day, Minamoto Sakura lost her life in an unfortunate accident. Then, ten years later… After Sakura wakes up in a strange […]
Three weeks before Sen. Ted Cruz embarked on his ill-fated Cancun trip to escape the aftermath of Texas’s devastating winter storm, the elite K-12 Houston private school attended by his two daughters emailed a Covid warning to parents about international travel. The bottom line: St. John’s School students who travel […]
When Francis Davidson was wrapping up his first year of college at McGill University in 2012, the then 19-year-old philosophy and economics major wanted to make some extra cash, so he rented out his apartment for the summer. By subletting his and his roommates’ three-bedroom downtown Montreal apartment to vacationers […]
Amid a global pandemic, the minds behind elite vacation developments and seven-figure buy-in communities were forced to embrace a course of nimble business planning to protect their income streams. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, domestic properties across the U.S. have had to predict shifting consumer preferences. Would buyers […]
Feb. 20—Bottle Works and Penguin Court, a Preserve of Brandywine Conservancy, will present NatureWorks Environmental Expo virtually from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 6. Presentations will be live-streamed on the Bottle Work’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/bottleworksethnicartscenter. For each presentation, attendees will be able to ask questions through the Facebook […]
Cheyenne and Laramie County Free! 2021 Glass Art Show – Now through March 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (weekly Tuesday-Saturday). Take a journey through the Orangerie and enjoy the collection of original glass art pieces in this years’ show. The gardens have modified the space of the show this year for […]
This is a story about the nadir, the end of days. Monday, March 24, 2008, marked five years to the month after the British army arrived in Iraq, preaching to the Americans their apparent expertise in counterinsurgency operations and understanding of the manifold ways of, in the historical British upper-class […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California expects to reopen campuses this fall, joining the state’s major public universities in planning to resume on-campus life that was curtailed by the coronavirus outbreak. “With conditions improving and vaccine distribution now being ramped up, many of us are feeling a […]
Many parents have taken on the role of teacher during the pandemic. Jeremy Bodenhamer, 42, is working out more than ever since he’s been acting as P.E. educator for his three sons. When youth sports were put on hiatus last year and parks and playgrounds closed, the CEO of packing- […]