News of the Week: Heat Waves, Tony Dow, and Something You Don’t Know about Major League Baseball
In the news for the week ending July 29, 2022, are hot animals, cold tacos, sinking ships, chocolate lasagna, and more.
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Review: Mr. Malcolm’s List — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
This late Regency era period piece about plucky young women chafing against the social norms of their day seems to have been fished from a drawer in Jane Austen’s writing desk.
Ruby of Hesperia
A new name and a new life, but the lies may go deeper than he thought … and they’re not all his.
8 Money Saving Tips for Planning Your Next Vacation
You don’t have to spend a fortune to travel well! Here are a few tips to keep your trip from breaking the bank.
A Breath of Fresh Air: How One Man Transformed America’s Public Spaces
Frederick Law Olmsted foresaw the need for the American working class to find respite from the hustle and bustle of what were then gritty, smoke-filled cities. Now, 200 years after his birth, he is celebrated for developing New York’s iconic Central Park and some 500 landscape design projects across the nation.
Creatures of the Deep
Many of the ocean’s inhabitants spend most of their lives in near darkness. To compensate, almost all of them make their own light.
Dreaming of Asheville
Nestled in the French Broad River Valley in the Blue Ridge mountains, the town is by turns artsy, crafty, and a haven for foodies
The Art of the Post: The Artist Who Paints Music
When a creative artist wants to get innovative, they don’t have to use computers or relocate to a trendy artists’ colony. A true artist can find all the creativity they want, right where they are.
The Denunciation
A couple deals with hard choices, guilt, and a frightening glimpse at what may be their own future.
The Art of the Post: The Red Rose Girls Leave the Love Building
In the 1890s, when the art world was dominated by men, three talented young women succeeded on their own terms.
Taking Women’s Health to the Streets
If you’re a woman in South Florida without health insurance and Andrea Ivory knocks on your door, answer it.
15 U.S. Locations to Satisfy Your Wanderlust
Explore these fabulous “foreign” hotspots within our own borders.
Travel Abroad without a Passport: Miami
2021 may not be the best year for touring the world, but there’s no shortage of foreign experiences to be had in our own melting pot of a nation, starting with multicultural Miami, known by many as “The Capital of Latin America.”
Herding Goats at Squashville Farm
Goats live an alternate reality of soil and self-determination.
Taming Luck
You can have all the talent in the world and still be affected by circumstances beyond your control. Luck can’t be ignored, but it can be managed.
“Early Americana” by Joseph Hergesheimer
“A vision of the West, the rippling green, the wide frozen purity of Northern winters possessed him; he breathed in imagination the spacious air, the air so different from this; he was thrilled by the thought of turned virgin soil, the vitality of new towns, towns on limitless plains or by rushing narrow rivers, under the canopy of a primitive forest.”