October 5, 2020 by Naomi Coquillon For Hispanic Heritage Month, we are highlighting a few activities and interactive presentations that kids and families can do to honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx Americans: Cartonera made by a visitor to the Young Readers Center in 2019. Photo by Monica Valentine. Make a Cartonera: Cartoneras are hand-painted books…
Read More Celebrating Hispanic Heritage MonthEthan Hawke plays the wild-eyed abolitionist in Showtime’s adaptation of the award-winning novel by James McBride. “The Good Lord Bird” is based on the James McBride novel about John Brown. Ethan Hawke stars as the messianic abolitionist and Joshua Caleb Johnson as the former slave he adopts. Credit…William Gray/Showtime Read the review HERE
Read More The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John BrownBy Shelly Tan Sept. 30, 2020 It’s been 12 years since Barack Obama was elected as the nation’s first Black president and four years since Hillary Clinton became the first major party female candidate, but movie depictions of fictional commanders in chief are still overwhelmingly White men. Go HERE for interesting animation.
Read More Who can be president? According to the movies, it’s still White menBy Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli Oct. 4, 2020 at 12:58 p.m. EDT ROME — Humankind, Pope Francis says, is in the midst of a worrying regression. People are intensely polarized. Their debates, absent real listening, seem to have devolved into a “permanent state of disagreement and confrontation.” In some countries, leaders are using a “strategy of ridicule” and…
Read More Pope Francis’s new encyclical is a papal warning about a world going backwardWith fears of a “twindemic” in the United States this fall, here’s a guide to understanding what’s making you feel terrible. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Oct. 3, 2020 As influenza season approaches, some Americans, and especially parents, are worried that, if they or their children should become ill, it may not be easy to know which…
Read More Identify the Different Symptoms of the Flu and Covid-19Federal assistance to states has come into the spotlight recently during the coronavirus pandemic, where some states have received far more money per case than others. For example, in the initial $150 billion given to states from the stimulus package, which was allocated by population, New York got less than $24,000 per positive case while Alaska received…
Read More Most & Least Federally Dependent StatesThis was one of the first recipes I learned to make. The original popover recipe came from Seventeen Magazine when I was in high school. It has evolved over the years into this. Take one ripe apple and one ripe pear, peel, core, and slice thinly. I have Pink Lady apples and Bartlett pears, but…
Read More Today’s Brunch: Apple Pear Oven Pancake for 2 (or really just me)By Kyle Buchanan Sept. 30, 2020 Updated 6:19 p.m. ET In the new Netflix adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s a sweat-slicked summer day in Chicago 1927 and everybody wants something. White music-industry bigwigs want a new recording from the indomitable Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), a Southern singer dubbed the “Mother of the Blues,” and they want…
Read More First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Just a question – when was the last time you cleaned your washing machine and dishwasher? I mean, thoroughly – cleaning gaskets and filters – not just a cycle run with vinegar? If you can’t remember, it’s time to go online, get instructions for your machine, and get cleaning.
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