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Acadiana residents Rummage for a Reason, to raise money for local non-profits and last updated 2021-04-17 20:43:25-04 More than a dozen local non-profits are benefiting from the generosity of those in Acadiana. Rummage for a Reason, held Saturday in Lafayette, gave people a chance to shop for interesting items while helping organizations raise a few extra dollars. Some of the participating non-profits included Big Brother Big Sister of Acadiana, Foster the Love, Maddies Footprints, Healing Ho...

Movies by Andrew Potts Premium Content Subscriber only MAYOR Tom Tate says the city needs to build a second giant sound stage or risk losing silver-screen blockbusters such as Thor, Elvis and Pirates of the Caribbean. The film studio built at Village Roadshow ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games is full with a laundry list of high-profile movies spanning well into the future. Seven major productions have either filmed on the Coast since mid-2020 or are in p...

Movies by Andrew Potts Premium Content Subscriber only MAYOR Tom Tate says the city needs to build a second giant sound stage or risk losing silver-screen blockbusters such as Thor, Elvis and Pirates of the Caribbean. The film studio built at Village Roadshow ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games is full with a laundry list of high-profile movies spanning well into the future. Seven major productions have either filmed on the Coast since mid-2020 or are in p...

The movie industry has injected a quarter of a billion dollars in the Gold Coast’s economy with a proposal to build the southern hemisphere’s biggest studio.

Inside the Thrilling, Slightly Terrifying World of Austrian Hut-to-Hut Hiking AFAR 1 hr ago © Photo by Daniel Müller Inside the Thrilling, Slightly Terrifying World of Austrian Hut-to-Hut Hiking Photo by Daniel Müller I’m told there was nothing to see at first, just a staccato rumble thundering up from the valley below. It had been a quiet afternoon in Tyrol, the next blast of summer rain still just a threat to the east. Over at the mountain hut Bettelwurfhütte, the day’s arrivals m...

3 shares Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” Left: Chaim Herszman in Germany in 1946, Right: John Carr, author of Escape From the Ghetto, the story of his fathers audacious escape from the Nazis. (Courtesy John Carr) LONDON — It was the moment that undoubtedly saved Chaim Herszman’s life. In February 1940, the 13-year-old stabbed and fatally wounded a Nazi guard in the Lodz Ghe...

46 shares Uri Shulevitz, author of Chance: Escape From the Holocaust, and cover art. (Photo of Shulevitz courtesy of Paula Brown/ book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Serendipity played no small part in helping Uri Shulevitz survive the Holocaust as a child. Nearly 76 years later, Shulevitz — now an acclaimed author and illustrator of children’s books — is contemplating the role that fate played in preserving his life in his new memoir for kids, “Chance: Escape From the ...

Susan Faust April 7, 2021 The annual Holocaust Remembrance Day takes on added importance this year when Thursday, April 8, is set aside to recall and renounce genocide. Some folks at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol did not get the “Never Again” memo. One guy sported a “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt inside the building (he was arrested a week later in Virginia), while a woman gave a “Sieg Heil” salute outside. These scenes are shocking. They place anti-Semitism and Arya...

Was Pestily being banned a mistake? YouTuber asks for help on Twitter!   YouTuber Pestily has had his channel banned by the platform, leaving both him and fans just as confused as each other. With over 400,000 subscribers, along with almost one million Twitch followers, Pestily creates content largely focused on Escape From Tarkov. So, it came as a surprise to fans when they were met with a ‘404 Error’ trying to access his YouTube channel. Seemingly though, Pestily was just as shocked as t...

News by JUSTIN LEES Premium Content   Kylie Moore-Gilbert has revealed the "psychological torture" she endured as a prisoner of the Iranians turned her "completely crazy" - but accessing her intense inner anger became her secret survival weapon. The Australian academic, who was held for 804 days on trumped-up spying charges, has given candid details of the harrowing ordeal in her first interview since being freed late last year. The torment began immedi...