TV-14 | 1h 30m | Documentary, Biography, Music | December 26, 2019 I recently reviewed documentaries on Shania Twain, and Sheryl Crow, two of America’s premiere country/pop/rock superstars. I decided to follow it up with “Dolly Parton: Here I Am.” I had a curiously strong sense of Déjà vu, watching “Dolly.” I thought: Where else have I seen…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Dolly Parton: Here I Am’: Portrait of a Very Small Angel
Mom Gives Birth to 1-in-200-Million Identical Triplets: ‘The Best Day of My Life’
A first-time mom has given birth to 1-in-200-million spontaneous identical triplets. Parents Zahra Amirabadi, 28, and Ashraf Reid, 29, welcomed their baby daughters, Roya, Adina, and Sefia, into the world in December 2021. The couple, from Nottingham, East Midlands, discovered the triplets at Zahra’s 12-week scan. Both of them have twins in their family, but never expected…
The Perils of Pride: ‘The Death of Milo of Croton’
August 14, 2022
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Have you ever watched someone try to show off and then suffer instant repercussions for their actions? In ancient Greece, pride was sometimes considered dangerous. Myths such as Icarus flying too high to the sun and Narcissus looking at his own reflection served as cautionary tales that revealed the dangers of pride, hubris, and vanity. …
Cheeky Wagtail Caught on Camera Teasing Osprey Who Was ‘Quietly Enjoying His Dinner’
The funny moment a willy wagtail bird began teasing an osprey, who simply wanted to eat his dinner, has been immortalized on film by a passing wildlife photographer. Michelle Diggins, 58, was on an afternoon walk with her husband in Lancelin, Western Australia, when the pair noticed an osprey on the hill above them, munching on a…
VIDEO: Mom Takes Birthday Photos of Daughter From Age 1 to 18 in Grandma’s Wedding Dress
Samantha Schwind was watching The Oprah Winfrey Show back in the 2000s when she saw the story of someone’s daughter being photographed every year in her grandmother’s dress. She liked that story so much that when she had her own baby girl, she decided to do the same: from age 1, all the way to…
2023 BMW iX M60
The exterior of my loaner iX M60 was coated in Storm Bay Metallic color. Under that wrapper is a body constructed from Aluminum Spaceframe with Carbon Core technology including Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic side frame and rear. The iX M60 Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) comes standard with 21-inch Aero Bi-Color Wheels wearing all-season tires. The software…
The Force of a Thought: Rodin Brings the Poet Dante to Life in ‘The Thinker’
Few works of art are as known today as “The Thinker” by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The monumental nature of this single monolithic figure seems to be all self-sufficient, capable of symbolizing the most sophisticated of human activity—thinking. It’s no wonder that this image, ever since its rise to popularity in 1903, has been most…
Local Scoops
Tiny but mighty: New Mexico piñon nuts are intensely packed with flavor. My sister, Kristin, and I grin with appreciation as we sample the piñon ice cream at Katrina’s, a bright, compact little sweets bistro in downtown Albuquerque. The confection not only genuinely tastes like the pine nuts—a subtly sweet butteriness—but it also carries hints…
Local Scoops: Ice Cream With a Sense of Place
Tiny but mighty: New Mexico piñon nuts are intensely packed with flavor. My sister, Kristin, and I grin with appreciation as we sample the piñon ice cream at Katrina’s, a bright, compact little sweets bistro in downtown Albuquerque. The confection not only genuinely tastes like the pine nuts—a subtly sweet butteriness—but it also carries hints…
Before Movies, People Went to See Moving Paintings
Six rolls of vibrant, exotic-style wallpaper totaling 190 feet, 3 1/2 inches once wowed 19th-century Europeans, but not as wallpaper. When the Rijks Museum’s curators began searching their collections of large works on paper for the museum’s “XXL Paper—Big, Bigger, Biggest!” exhibition, they discovered that those six rolls were part of one work of moving images, titled the…
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