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Next month, the Criterion Channel celebrates Pride Month with a host of extraordinary queer-themed films, including a new installment of our Queersighted series focusing on taboo-breaking artists, a trio of outré underground classics from John Waters, and a restrospective dedicated to the nonfiction trailblazers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, whose films have helped bring LGBTQ stories out of the closet and into the mainstream. There’s also a spotlight on screwball great Carole Lombard, ...

Photo courtesy of Ryan Browne A handful of local breweries are selling pints for a couple good causes. Working Draft Brewing Co., Young Blood Beer Co., Vintage Brewing Co., Karben4 Brewing and Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co. have all partnered with initiatives dedicated to autism awareness, brain cancer research, suicide prevention and mental health education. A portion of the proceeds from each brewery’s beer will be donated to nonprofits. Things We Don’t Say: Craft Beer for Mental Health Pho...

Products and Hazelnut spreads developed with the Incredo Sugar developed by DouxMatok (Courtesy) DouxMatok, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based food-tech company that says it is able to cut sugar levels in foods without affecting their taste, on Tuesday started sales of a hazelnut cocoa spread and a dark-cocoa salted caramel spread in what marks a first offering of its low-sugar brand directly to US consumers. The Israeli startup, founded by now-102-year-old Prof. Avraham Baniel and his son Eran, devel...

Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 14, 2021 -- Common Threads, a national nonprofit organization that provides cooking and nutrition education to children in

Already have an account? Photo: Courtesy of Patagonia Over the past few decades, Patagonia’s fleece has become as common on Wall Street as on the trail, with logo-embossed vests given away at conferences and to employees. But that’s about to come to an end. This week, Patagonia announced it would no longer add corporate logos to its products going forward. In a post on its site, the company cited waste and environmental reasons for its decision. According to Patagonia, using one of its gar...

The Globe and Mail Ten years after the start of Syria’s civil war, refugees deserve a place to call home Kim Samuel Published March 6, 2021 . She is currently working on a book called The Right to Belong. Ten years ago, on Mar. 6, 15 students were arrested and tortured in the Syrian city of Daraa for writing anti-government graffiti on public walls. The events sparked pro-democracy protests in the city; within days, those protests spread to the capital of Damascus and scores of other citie...

Florida International University Search Poor nutrition can have dire consequences After her own experience with stunted growth, this graduate student is on a mission to educate others about the importance of healthy food choices   When Clara Rivera was 13 years old, she was diagnosed as severely lactose intolerant. It may seem like a rather common dietary restriction, but for Rivera, it would go on to impact her health in unforeseen ways. With little guidance from medical experts about how to ...

New COVID-19 Heroes category singles out Hy-Vee and The Giant Company Grocery retailers Coborn’s, SpartanNash and Wakefern Food Corp. on Tuesday were honored with Gold Plate awards from the FMI Foundation for their programs that help families stay strong with family meals. Awards were also presented to Campbell Soup Co., the National Pork Board and U.S. Dry Pea & Lentil Council and “Rising Star” The Grocery Gal. This year, the FMI Foundation also created a new category, “Covid-1...

ST. PETERSBURG — Bold diamond shapes, dominant stripes, and eye-dazzling zigzags in brilliant colors are just some of the design elements seen in the stunning artistry of Navajo textile art from the 19th century. In “Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles,” a new special exhibition, individualism and a flair for experimentation of Navajo weavers are vividly expressed in textiles starting from the last decades of the 19th century. During this time, weavers acquired new mate...

Una Mullally: Out of the darkness and into the light Solstice gives us turning point from which to look forward to better, brighter days in 2021 Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 01:00 Listen now 3:28 Francis Danby’s The Opening of the Sixth Seal: illustrates a section from the Book of Revelations which foretold cosmic calamity and a multitude of disasters all at once. Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   While watc...