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February 27, 2021 218 Today is Sunday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2021. There are 306 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 28, 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in 600 years to resign, ending an eight-year pontificate. (Benedict was succeeded the following month by Pope Francis.) On this date: In 1784, John Wesley, the co-founder of Methodism, chartered the first Methodist Church in the United States in Leesburg, Virginia. In 1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Pri...

Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.

Daily horoscope and birthdays for Feb. 28, 2021

IVORY SHOALS Preorder This is a preorder. Ivory Shoals will be released Summer 2021. Books will ship prior to release. In the tradition of Mark Twain and Cormac McCarthy comes this distinctly American, pulse-quickening epic from the acclaimed author of Citrus County and Arkansas. Twelve-year-old Gussie Dwyer—audacious, resilient, determined to adhere to the morals his mother instilled in him—undertakes to trek across the sumptuous yet perilous peninsula of post-Civil War Flor...

Sarah Meister Named Next Executive Director of Aperture Ms. Meister will serve as the primary creative force and public representative of Aperture, a nonprofit arts organization and preeminent publisher of photography. Sarah Meister. Photograph by Naima Green Aperture Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Sarah Meister has been selected as its next Executive Director. She will begin her new role in May 2021. As Executive Director, Ms. Meister will serve as the primary cre...

Jane Lindholm (left) and "But Why?" producer Melody Bodette Asked how she would describe her colleague, Ashworth said Lindholm is just as she appears on the air. "You know, shes really smart. Shes really curious. Shes really sharp. And, like, on it. She sees things clearly from the start." On the day of our interview for this story, Ashworth canceled at the last minute. Shed just found out her dad was en route to the emergency...

Real, imagined Berkeley celebrated in Berkeley Rep audio series ‘Place/Settings’ The East Bay companys audio series is grounded in specific sites in Berkeley, penned by writers with strong ties to the city Lily Janiak January 8, 2021Updated: January 12, 2021, 5:47 pm Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda is seen at Jewel Lake in Berkeley. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle When playwright Philip Kan Gotanda set out to write an audio short story about Jewel Lake for Berkeley Rep’s “Pla...

If youre liking The Watch, you may want to take a gander at these other fantasy stories brought from the page to the TV screen: 1. Speaking of Pratchett, lets kick off this list with a collaboration between Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Their story of angels and demons was made into a TV series in 2019, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. We see Tennant as the demon Crowley and Sheen as the angel Aziraphale. Typically, the two are at odds, but with the world at risk, they join forces to...

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Welcome to c.d.r. To. A season of Top Santa on stage conversations recorded to a foreign audience at the Norse theater and San Franciscos Performing Arts Center Im Linda Hunt Joining me now in hearing some of the most celebrated writers artists and thinkers. In his new novel all the dirty parts author Daniel Handler sets out to tackle the subject of adolescent desire in a culture that is simultaneously explicit and on coming university of when it comes to sex. Now rated by a teenage boy named C...