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“Disability drives innovation” – The New York Times
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.Do you like audiobooks? "You have blind people to thank for this," said Catherine kudlick, director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at…
Best-selling author, St. Charles West alumnus, first African-American to receive key to the city
ST. CHARLES, Mo. - Monday night was a loop time for Joseph Luckett. The St. Charles native is a 2003 St. Charles West High School alumnus. Dozens of people came to the high school Monday to honor Luckett in recognition of his…
The Nobel Prize for Dark Literature
Another year in which the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to a writer whom I have never read - and I am beginning to despair. Does the Swedish Nobel Committee want to present me as a Philistine? I ask myself this question even…
On my radar: Edmund de Waal’s cultural highlights | Edmond de Waal
Bborn in Nottingham in 1964, Edmund de Waal is an artist, master potter and author of The hare with the amber eyes, who won the Costa Biography Prize in 2010. He took an early interest in ceramics and his second book, The white road,…
Bjorn Lomborg: Danish “skeptical environmentalist” beloved by American conservatives
Throughout September, as the United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow approaches, The Wall Street Journal ran a opinion piece series by Bjorn Lomborg, a notorious climate “skeptic” from Denmark who downplayed the threat of global warming.…
‘American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally’ reveals a lot about Portland native traitor
Al Pacino in a scene from "American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally" 2021. IMDb photo
Finally, we know what happened to Al Pacino.
He didn't die in Sicily with that puppy sniffing around his hat.
Beside his run as a Nazi hunter in…
Columbia Falls All-American leads Providence volleyball in high goal setting
GREAT FALLS - When the history of the University of Providence volleyball program is written, there will be no chapter from the 1970s - when the Frontier Conference began to crown the champions.
There won't be any…
La Morenita’s matriarch tells her story in a self-written book
It has been 50 years since Guadalupe Cordoba, a resident of Turlock, came from Mexico to the Central Valley and changed the region's cuisine for the better - a journey she recalls in her book "La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba ”, which…
Finalists announced for this year’s National Book Awards
A dietary brief that examines a mother's schizophrenia. A novel about an author's book tour and growing up as a black boy in the rural south. Poetry honoring migrants who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande.These are some of the…
SNL premiere parodies Cuomo’s resignation and controversial book deal
NEW YORK (WETM) - Saturday Night Live returned for its 47th season on October 1, and the writers haven't let former Gov. Andrew Cuomo get away with it.
In the cold start of the first season, SNL rookie James Austin Johnson took on…