Because no King’s Day can fall on a Sunday, it means this year’s event will be a day early on Saturday 26th. King’s Day is one of the world’s greatest open-air parties –an event everyone should try and experience at least once in their life! Amsterdam goes completely orange ...
Another way of committing this sin is to not have any performance run-throughs before the big day. If you are used to stopping and fixing, and taking long breaks between pieces, then during a performance you are ‘altering the conditions’ by making it the first time you don’t stop and...
An academy is an institution specialized in particular fields or advanced training, often private or charter. A school is a broader term for any educational institution where learning is facilitated, from elementary to high school.
Politics is a dirty business in which compromise is inescapable and ideals are hard to translate into meaningful change. Running a country is probably really fucking difficult. Pleasing a bunch of people who all disagree with each other is impossible, and crazy shit outside of your control like ...
Kodokan judo, which breaks down into ko (lecture, study, method), do (way or path), and kan (hall or place), meaning "a place to study the way." Judo means "the gentle way". The foundation of judo rests on the aims of physical education, competition proficiency and mental training...
We had a lot of unused lockers with so few kids (this is important). It started with a phone call to my house made by the high school secretary supposedly to inform me that I had been suspended. I was asleep when she called, early in the school day. Like many angsty teens, by my...
Now, as Irving wanders through a blur of faces in a maze of unfamiliar hallways, a boy in high-tops and jeans struts toward him. "Who are you?" the boy asks. "I don't know who you are." Irving doesn't respond. He knows exactly who this freshman is -- it'...
- Notable works: "Leaving Las Vegas," "Adventures in Babysitting," "The Saint," "The Karate Kid" Elisabeth Shue made her on-screen debut with the highly popular film, "The Karate Kid." She had been working as a commercial actor before that. From there her career took off, bringing her...
It is very rare that anyone has any overnight success, and you need to chip away at it for your shot to make it big. People move their when they are kids with only a dream, a guitar and barley any money. But, when they do make it, they come into our lives, bring us the music...
After years of unabated global warming, the greenhouse effect is wreaking havoc all over the globe in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and, most ominously, the beginning of the next Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall tries to save the world while also sheph...