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Seasonal Restrictions on Public Access to Federal Lands on the North Spit of Coos Bay and the New River Area of Critical Environmental ConcernJudy E. NelsonCharles S. Markham
Walking that fine line in this newest Spring 2025 issue with the theme “My Favorite Bookmark” are contributors Tytti Heikkinen, Cheryl Matthis, Casey Lawrence, Judy Penz Sheluk, Cezanne Waid, Sunayna Pal, Jill Munro, Elizabeth Raum, Pamela Hobart Clark, Lynda Fox, Tom Schmidt, Linda Berry...
I knew nothing about the album beforehand, nor had I even heard of its creator, although I really should have. Tyranny (real name Robert Nathan Sheff) died in 2021. Four years before he madeOut Of The Bluehe had been part of Iggy & The Stooges’Raw Powertouring band, a vision of fir...
back in the day it served as a residence for actors such as Lillian Gish, Boris Karloff, and Teresa Wright, and in later years such luminaries as Lauren Bacall, Judy Garland, Rudolf Nureyev, and, of course, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. THE STORIES IT COULD TELL…At left, the facade and...
Steve Harley, best known as the vocalist for the British glam rock group Cockney Rebel, died in March at the age of 73. Among the band's hits was "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)," "Judy Teen," "Mr. Soft" and a cover of the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun." Moscow Concert...
Judy Neri, Always the Trains (New Academia Publishing) Mel Nichols, Bicycle Day (chapbook, Slack Buddha Press) Elizabeth Oness, Twelve Rivers of the Body (novel, Gival Press) Eric Pankey, The Pear As One Example: New and Selected Poems (Ausable Press) Stanley Plumly, Posthumous Keats...
Equity Library Theater has been presenting theater (comedy, drama and musicals), in association with the NYPL, since 1943 as a sort of New York City roadshow, with performances rotating among many theaters built during the Depression in branches of the New York Public Library. Equity Library ...
Deising's Bakery, 111 North Front Street in Kingston, has created "Election Cookies". Not only can you purchase a Trump/Vance cookie, you can purchase a Harris/Walz cookie. Deising's will conduct a "fun cookie poll" by tracking sales of each. ...
Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel, out now A celebration of the first African-American ballet company, from its origins in a Harlem basement, to the performances, community engagement, and arts education through which the Company continues to carry forward its message of empowerment through the arts fo...