China’s most renowned explorer sets sail again! Saria, Oliver Inay Dalisay’s World Famous Lechon (Bindlestuff Studio, 2022) Set in the Labis family’s extravagant backyard kitchen (a.k.a. “dirty kitchen”) over a series of get-togethers, the characters hilariously navigate their complica...
Critics Consensus: Colman Domingo is sensational in Rustin, a stirring biopic that shines an overdue light on a remarkable legacy of public service. Synopsis: The architect of 1963's momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world... [...
Until Alice Gozlan and Zacharie Lorent’s theater performance Chroniques d’une exploratrice (“An Explorer’s Chronicle”), I’d never seen Web experience on stage, theatricalized. I don’t mean I hadn't read depictions of a fantasy “cyber-world” such as William Gibson’s Neuromancer ...
The Maine Woods and Cape Cod have their moments as well, but ultimately I think it’s fair to say that Thoreau was less compelling as a traveler of New England than as an explorer of himself. I love both of Bob Pepperman Taylor’s books, and I think that Walden Warming offers an ...
Dr. William Federer, Thanks again for another wonderful article dedicated to Columbus. This masterful explorer was worthy of respect despite his lack of administrative skills. A man of God who was sadly backstabbed by ruthless opportunists and the cha...
‘Handover’ of 1997, three quarters of a million people emigrated from Hong Kong (some unofficial reports suggested even higher numbers), out of a population of six million. These people’s fears tell us something about colonialism’s paradoxical legacy in Hong Kong. Would the ‘One Country,...
DeSoto was created by Walter Chrysler as a part of Chrysler Corporation. The new company’s logo was a stylized image of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Chrysler was testing the ideal aerodynamic car which would not use gasoline as much and ride much more quicker. Later De Soto company st...
Noted commissions include two ornate English altar wine flagons and an ornate processional cross for an Episcopal cathedral--and the historic gilded silver chalice of noted American missionary explorer Father Jacques Marquette, S.J., used by Pope John Paul II at the 1999 Papal Mass. Noted ...
Padre Felipe followed in the footsteps of fellow Jesuit missionary Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino, the great pioneer-evangelizer (as well as geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer) who served in Sonora and Arizona for 24 years until his death in 1711. Both priests were from wealthy ...
$950 From Everard Home, brother-in-law (and plagiarist) of John Hunter and first curator of the Hunterian Museum, to Arctic explorer and naturalist William Scoresby (whose name Home spelled "Scoursby" on the address leaf). Home's 40 published in the Philosophical Transactions. Later in his ...