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Video of Stargate Atlantis Cast Reunion | Comic-Con@Home 2021 The cast members had a friendly catch-up and shared what they’ve been up to for the last decade or so and also during the pandemic times. (Higginson, for example, made her garage into a guest house while Picardo made a YouTube channel where he posted videos of himself as different characters). The cast also talked about how being part of a show with such a large fandom was initially intimidating, specifically their first time at ...

The Melbourne Cabaret Festival proudly returns to Chapel Off Chapel from 16 to 27 June 2021. The festival features two weeks of atmospheric, seductive and soul-stirring entertainment. You can experience an entertaining night out and be enticed by the launch of brand new and exciting cabaret shows. Many feature original music and other shows feature […]

A letter writer says Zillie Bhuju, who is up for re-election to the Masconomet School Committee, had significant achievements during her first term.

Suzanne Simard Changed How the World Sees Trees The pathbreaking ecologist on interspecies collaboration, tree sentience, and nature’s resilience. Photo: Diana Markosian Suzanne Simard has given her life to the study of trees. She sweated for them. Bled for them. Damn near died for them — once at the claws of a grizzly, and once from the invisible clutch of cancer. (Working with toxic herbicides and radioactive isotopes in the course of her research likely contributed to he...

The Radcliffe Arms in Oxford wasn’t only famous for its music – it also had a reputation as a poets’ corner. Those keen on verse as well as a pint made their way to the Jericho pub to engage in an evening of lyrics, odes and rhyme. David Read, whose hobby was writing poetry, decided to start a poetry club in the pub in the early 1980s, “to take poetry out of the classroom and put it where it belongs – with people, where it came from in the first place”. He certainly succeede...

Doug Smiley, New York Music Marketing Exec, Dies at 42 Doug Smiley, New York Music Marketing Exec, Dies at 42 "Doug stands out as a pillar of the authenticity that I strove toward," said Santigold, one of the artists Smiley worked with. Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Doug Smiley, the marketing director for Verve Music Group, died Saturday, February 27. He had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer less than a month before dying at home in Maplewood, NJ, surrounded by fa...

Below are a few letters sent to our inbox this week which we would like to share: "We wish to record our thanks to the doctors, nurses and volunteers, and to the Cathedral staff, for the impressive vaccine roll-out on Saturday. "We thought the organisation was excellent, in a serene and beautiful place, with the added pleasure of delightful organ playing!" J.A & J.E Baker (both 91) "Last week I had my appointment for my Covid vaccination at the Michael Herbert Hall in Wilton and I would...

We hope you find this calendar of local events helpful. You can help by notifying us of any events that should be listed for the general public. Email us at ADnewsroom@appealdemocrat.com. Please make sure to provide contact information. Thanks! Are you in a club or organization that meets regularly? We can include that as well… let us know. Ongoing Gridley – The Gray Lodge, located at 3207 Rutherford Road, Gridley, is open from sunrise to sunset. Gray Lodge is located along the Pacific F...

Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture is collaborating with the Marysville Japanese American Citizens League to create an Arboga Assembly Center Memorial Site and Interpretive Center. The Arboga Assembly Center was a temporary detention center in 1942 – many Japanese Americans were forcibly sent to such centers during the spring and summer of 1942 while more permanent concentration camps were being prepared, according to the Densho Encyclopedia. The center was located about eight miles south of Marys...

good evening, everyone. "outfront" tonight, questions and sorrow over the death of whitney houston. this is what we know right now, family and close friends will say farewell to the poplar pop star saturday in newark, new jersey. governor chris christie has ordered the flags to half-staff in honor of whitney houston. sources tell us that her body was found by her assistant mary jones who she often called aunt mary. her ex-husband bobby brown released a statement about bobbi kristina sa...