Not too long ago, 41-year-old Garrett Fisher flew in a small airplane close to the surface of Europe’s largest glacier, which is in Norway. A glacier is a huge area of snow and ice that moves slowly down a mountain side. In that environment, the plane carrying a man who chases glaciers seemed almost like […]
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Kalutara girls impress at tennis
Under-7 tennis players from Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya pose with their medals after ending runners-up at the all-island inter school Kids Play Day at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association in Colombo last month. They are Shanudi Subasinghe, Sanudi Karunaratne, Thanudi Damunage, JKD Aadya Himandee, Sethumsa Perera, HM Sayuni Nulathma,Omashi Silva and Jayali Wickremasinghe. They were coached […]
Arab Actors Shine in Fifth Season of Netflix’s ‘The Crown’: Review The first four seasons of ‘The Crown’ were polished and regal, but when I first heard Ya Ebn El Lazeena (Son of Gun) – a phrase commonly said in the Arabic casual language – in its fifth season, I knew it [season] was going […]
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Curry receives genealogy book award
Special to The T&D Dr. Walter B. Curry Jr., a founder of Renaissance Publications LLC and graduate of South Carolina State University, received the 2022 International African American Historical and Genealogy Society Book Award in the Regional Genealogy category for his publication titled “The Awakening: The Seawright-Ellison Family Saga, Vol.1, A Narrative History.” The award […]
There’s a sense of urgency and last chances in any discussion of the environment today. So with only a few weeks left to see “The Shape of the Environment,” a multi-artist exhibition at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, seize an opportunity. Curated by Madison-based artist Lelia Byron and open Tuesdays through Saturdays through Nov. 4, […]
The number one celebrity in Western New York right now is Josh Allen. Allen has been the quarterback the City of Buffalo and the fanbase has been waiting for since Jim Kelly retired at the end of the 1996 season. Allen leads the NFL this season with 1,980 passing yards and is the frontrunner for […]
The South Carolina State Library African American Genealogy Webinar Series will host local author Dr. Walter Curry Jr., who will present on “Writing Family History: The Narrative History Approach” on Wednesday, Oct. 12. The webinar will focus on how to employ the Narrative History Approach in writing biographies about relatives or family-related specific events in […]
Everyone knows who “The Beatles” are. Soon, one of their former members is bringing a statue here to encourage “Peace & Love.” It doesn’t matter which genre of music you normally have on in your car or your office. If you’ve lived in the last 60 years, you know who “The Beatles” are. You know what they’ve […]
Katherine Simdon, owner and artist at Overt Space Gallery in Stoughton, hangs artwork included in the gallery’s upcoming show, “We Stand With Ukraine.” JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL An international friendship between three former students at Cambridge High School has turned into an art exhibition with a unique goal: To raise money to send to Ukraine […]