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My Old Ass (2024) • View trailerFour stars (out of five). Rated R, for drug use, sexual candor and frequent profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.22.24Canadian writer/director Megan Park’s new film is one of the summer’s sweetest surprises: a deeply moving, intimately emotional, and tartly humorous coming-of-age saga ... but not in the way you’d expect. Although Elliott (Maisy Stella, left) doesn't initially …

WowHaus 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge A remarkable listed building as well as a renovation project, this 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge, is up for sale. 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge (image credit: The Modern House) It is remarkable both in terms of design and untouched condition. Designed around half a century ago by Cambridge University academic …

world-building diaries the mermaid castle is the name of a website-world I’m creating for my inner child. it’ll serve as a digital memory palace to hold the blurry fragments of my childhood — and to evoke the spirit of my inner child, in real time. (actually, since time works differently on the internet, the mermaid castle will be a collision of past, present, and future). it’s an artistic web project, …

In the 1800s, before serfdom was abolished in the Russian empire, landowners paid taxes based on how many serfs they had. A census was conducted every few years by government employees traveling across the empire and doing counts; a manual map-reduce of epic proportions. If a person was dead, it would often be years before the government cleared the cache, so to speak, and landowners continued to pay taxes on …

Dear Darling Ones, This is a letter to tell you I’m a mermaid now. It’s not the best timing. Last week, a young woman who loved Stevie Nicks and boygenius lopped off six inches of my hair. I meant to write about taking my walker and stroke-addled body out into a public space that wasn’t a medical facility for the first time in 563 days, but I was very busy …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: with additional input from Tania Tirraoro In the recent parliamentary SEND debate, a number of MPs spoke passionately on behalf of vulnerable children and their families being failed by their … The post Children with SEND deserve better than being made pawns in the VAT wars appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Rachel Filmer ⓒ Special Needs Jungle 2008-2023 All Rights reserved

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A website for family, friends, and anyone who lands there to enjoy my photos. For a long time after quitting Instagram in 2021, my photos were nowhere to be seen. Sometimes I would post a few pictures on my blog but it never felt quite right. I thought there had to be a reason to publish one or more pictures, or a similarity between them to build a story. With …

After 7 long years, Linkin Park is back with their new lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, new song "Emptiness Machine", new album "From Zero" (out on November 15), and a new tour.

For the past few years, I’ve been drawn to creating a dish using chicken and yellow squash. In several of my South Texas community cookbooks, this dish appears in several... Source

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)Further fitting of the interior insulation has been undertaken, ready for areas to be panelled off.Meanwhile, components have been progressing on the bench, including a correct pattern LNER letter rack for the guards compartment and several steam heater covers intended to go down the side of the vehicle.London North Eastern Railway 1938 Brake Third Open E16631E (GOLD)No progress to report.London North …

Tourists and surfers strolling down the Santa Monica pier in 1979 would have passed a mysterious awning advertising “The Natural Museum of Modern Art”. A nearby explanatory panel did little to clarify: “The Natural Museum of Modern Art project is part of an ongoing interest by the John Doe Co in natural objects and phenomena.” […]

Bain News Service, Library of Congress The Library of Congress has a large collection of high quality prints from the Bain News Service, the first news photography service in the US. The collection focuses primarily on people and events from 1900 into the 1920. George Grantham Bain not only made his own images, but collected important photos from local American and foreign newspapers. The most frequent images are of people …

Although a few fires continue to burn in the state, smoke levels remain low, and the forecasted weather is not conducive to wildfire growth. Let's take a look at how this wildfire season's air quality compares to previous years.In terms of the number of smoke-impacted days, this summer looked more like the relatively smoke-free summers of 2016 and 2019 rather than more recent years. The summer wasn't smoke-free, but we …