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Outfest LA will be held August 13-22 with outdoor events, indoor screenings for vaccinated attendees, and streaming for those wishing to experience the festival from their own home. The nearly 200 hand-picked films represent every genre.

(Editor’s note: Longtime columnist Frank Shatz shared this memory of former Lake Placid summer residents Artur and Halina Lilpop Rodzinski. Artur, a famous Po

'Operation Finale' makes Eichmann almost real again

Columnist While watching the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump on Jan 6. 2021, on TV, I had a vivid flashback on the Communist coup d’etat in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In late February 1948, the Communist party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, performed a coup d’etat, taking control of the government of the country. This was the onset of four decades of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia and the start of the Cold War. I was there, witnessed and repor...

Columnist Nanci Bond of Williamsburg, Virginia, is an aficionado of figure skating. She can tell you when an axel jump was perfect, a Waltz jump not adequate, or a toe loop only so-so. Whenever an important international competition is taking place and is broadcast on TV, she brings it to my attention. After all, my wife, and I lived in Lake Placid, known as the winter sports capital of the United States, the site of two Winter Olympics and the training ground of many U.S. figure skaters who b...