Month: October 2020

Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner — A young boy and a father figure in the woods are collecting botanical specimens, a bucolic scene a few pages in from the opening to this beguiling historical crime novel. The man is Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, who was the real-life leader of a Lutheran revival in the Arctic north of Sweden. The young
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“If we need them to save us from Donald Trump, can they and will they?” Bill Maher bluntly asked John O. Brennan — referring to the U.S. intelligence services — after the ex-CIA chief confessed that Trump is “without question” what that worries him most. No, Brennan said. Members of the intelligence community are non-partisan.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Hawai‘i International Film Festival (HIFF) has unveiled its lineup for its 40th anniversary of the festival which will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual screenings. This marks the fiest time that HIFF will be accessible to audiences across the nation. The fest will focus on Hawai‘i-made films and Kanaka Maoli filmmakers and
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Adrian Halen 10/09/2020 News PEACOCK ANNOUNCES NEW EXCLUSIVE SERIES ‘MR. MERCEDES,’ BASED ON STEPHEN KING’S BEST-SELLING BILL HODGES TRILOGY, PREMIERING OCTOBER 15   From Acclaimed Executive Producer David E. Kelley and Director Jack Bender, Seasons One and Two of the Crime-Thriller Drama Series will Drop Exclusively on Peacock Based on the New York Times Best-Selling Bill Hodges
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Kenobi, the highly-anticipated Obi-Wan standalone series for Disney+ centered on actor Ewan McGregor’s return to the Star Wars universe, is set to start shooting in March, according to its star. The confirmation comes about a month after McGregor revealed a slightly less specific timeline, letting slip that Kenobi would shoot sometime in spring. Currently planned as a one-season-only event series, Kenobi will
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Edward BerthelotGetty Images AirPods with Wireless Charging Case Apple amazon.com $199.00 $159.99 (20% off) Love them or hate them, AirPods are the hottest tech accessory around. (Seriously, have you seen Henry Goulding or Jake Gyllenhaal wear the covetable pair? It’s about to get steamy.) While you’d have to be living under a rock to have
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Ashley Cain said his daughter Azaylia’s diagnosis has been the ‘single most upsetting, terrifying and heartbreaking’ experience in his emotional post. Our prayers go out to Ashley Cain, 30, and his girlfriend Safiyya Vorajee. The Challenge star revealed that his 2-month-old daughter Azaylia Diamond Cain has been diagnosed with “rare and aggressive” form of cancer. “Yesterday I
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“I’m sorry to tell you his spinal cord is compressed by 80%. It’s very likely that your puppy will be paralysed in his hind legs by the time he’s six months old.” This was not what we expected to hear just seven weeks after picking up our adorable Pug/Shih Tzu cross puppy, Bagheera, from a
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When the FBI announced in October 2016 that it was reviewing new emails related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server as secretary of state, it gave Donald Trump a priceless gift. Not because, as it turned out, Clinton had deliberately mishandled classified information or was about to be charged with
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