GUILFORD-Joel Veena Eisenkramer, known professionally as Joel Veena, has recently released a new album, Cardinal,
DUMMERSTON-What could be more fun than going out at night to hear live music, or...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents indie rock band Betty, plus DJ ezGirl on Friday, April 25,
-Next Stage Arts presents Stephane Wrembel, the "living face of Gypsy jazz," on Saturday, April...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 70 percent of people say they would prefer to die at home. However, the CDC says 70 percent of people die either in a hospital or a nursing home. Why is there such a gap between those two numbers? To Joanna Rueter, it is mainly because people shy away from talking about death. Rueter is an advanced-care planning coach, a trained hospice volunteer, and the owner of Sustainable Aging, a...
The Main Street Arts children's theater camp presents “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” on Saturday, Aug. 8 and Sunday, Aug. 9, at 2 p.m., at the community arts center. The play is an adaptation of the classic German folk tale by the Brothers Grimm and a 19th-century poem by Browning and relates how the rat-infested German town of Hamelin hires a strange figure who claims to be able to lead all of the vermin out of town by playing his...
Everyone now recognizes Cecil, the majestic lion who roamed the Zimbabwean savannah until he was lured into danger by an American hunter who paid megabucks to kill him. Cecil's death set the Internet on fire and garnered huge amounts of mainstream media attention. The Doris Day Animal League demanded “Justice for Cecil,” and the Empire State Building put his regal face on its urban façade as if he were part of a guerilla marketing campaign. A bill introduced in Congress...
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