As a musician and music lover, I’m always on the lookout for new bands. Over the years I’ve found music in a lot of interesting places, but I’ll always remember the way I discovered Color of Clouds. We’d all like to be famous. A few months ago, I plugged my name, , into...
along the way to get what they want smacks around our sympathies. But there are too damn many things in the culture that pander to simplistic good/evil dualities. Ava’s moments of insight and compassion may not always arrive in a timely manner, but when they do, you wish you could hire...
Another way to engage more than one child is to read stories in turn and have each of them listen politely.【4】Praise your children.【5】When your children read anything-be it the label off a cereal packet or a book, be sure to praise their reading at every chance you get. Thus, ...
as they’ve used a succession of former five-star recruits to skyrocket from “barely making regionals” to “Big Ten title threat.” The team narrowly missed qualifying for the championships last year, and — thanks to minimal roster turnover plus the fifth-ranked ...
When you want to find the best Royal Caribbean cruise ship for you, the key is to understand what the ship offers and what it does not offer, and then weigh that against how much it will cost you. Some important considerations you should look at in any ship is what it offers in: ...
I can’t make my way through this little maze of forgotten ephemera to find a beginning, or, rather, an end to this story. It’s the songs, not the experiences which I remember, and there is not – or is no longer – a first time for me. There always were albums, arguments, mix...
these weather-related events extend far past California. Several large-scale fires broke out in the summer, and the largest of these spread smoke across the southern quarter of the state. Fire eats everything in its path, and we are thankful for the first responders who were able to...
so here was his chance to triumphantly make up for that, albeit 47 years later. In my case, my first live gig was in the Summer of 1980, aged 12, at a village hall in deepest rural Surrey. I already knew my way around the new wave jungle at that point, thanks to an older ...
But it has a sharper incline and has to be tackled in the full glare of the mid-morning sun, save for the occasional patch of tree-shaded respite. All the way up we are strafed by a swarm of black-clad motor cyclists screaming past us up and down the hill. I’m not normally ...
With directors (Joss Whedon on “The Avengers“), unknown leads (Taylor Kitsch, Jeremy Renner, Benjamin Walker, even the cast of “Prometheus,” for the most part) and potentially risky reboots (‘Spider-Man‘). And as ever, some paid off, some didn’t. Next summer should be about ...