In one sense, all memorable stories are coming-of-age stories, if what we mean by the term is a story about someone who moves from one stage of development to a more advanced one. […]Films explicitly labelled a“coming-of-age story,” however, are often about nothing more than someone...
We’ll be meeting in the children’s area of the library from 6-8 pm. This month’s activity is helping prepare materials for the seed library. This group is open to teens in grades 7-12 and meets on the second Tuesday of the month. No registration, application, or training required....
Torn Hearts is the story of two young singers who are trying to get their big break in country music, spurred on by their love of their tragic musical heroes The Duchess Sisters. When one of them manages to find out the address of the surviving sister. They convince the reclusive icon to...
The second section of this post, “Unapologetic TDS,” is venting, pure and simple. If you’re tired of hearing what’s wrong with Trump, I sort of understand. Trump Derangement Syndrome is that first case of presidential derangement I’ve ever had. And though I’m not ashamed to complet...
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done...
An aspiring teen chef breaks from stereotype to create her unique version of the American dream. Jackie, a sophomore at competitive Bronx Science in New York City, would rather cook than study, much to the chagrin of her Korean American parents, for whom success is defined by entrance into...
is now urgent that he be replaced on the Dem party ticket this year, as well as how they managed to escape noticing the freaking obvious for the past two or three years … well, all sorts of fun for those of us with a freakish sense of humor. It’s like watching a hapless stage ...
either a birth certificate, or Gender Recognition Certificate (both of which would stick rigidly to the traditional gender binary – so much for us poor enbies), and that allowing to do otherwise would “approve unlawful conduct”, more or less saying that being transgender is effectively a ...
This is the recipe: present only one guest that represents your narrative; allow the moderator to frame the discourse to fit that bias and never question the narrative; go so off theme of the actual topic that the talk is supposed to cover (in this case “On Western Media and Syria”);...
More than Taliban takeover of Afg, the US handover of Afg to Taliban is more shocking in it’s abjectness and needlessness. Calls into question latter’s reliability, credibility and intelligence 0 Saurav 3 years ago Wouldn;t Turkey or Saudi Arabia/Iran be a more worthy cand...