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Heat index again at dangerous levels, stormwater and the Flagler County Commission, a celebration of the American language.

In the book The Intimate City: Walking New York by architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, Kimmelman walks the streets with architects.

The sixth Xposure International Photography Festival has expanded the learning and broadened the horizons of hundreds of school pupils in Sharjah on a broad spectrum of conservation and humanitarian issues through the compelling and vivid imagery showcased at the week-long event that concludes tomorrow (15 February) at Expo Centre Sharjah.

I’ve reported on Covid-19, and even I’m starting to check out. But it’s an understandable, even natural response to what we’ve endured.

From the blog of Dov Linzer at The Times of Israel

WFUV launched our local music spotlight "NY Slice" in the spring (on weekdays at noon), and since its start we have recieved tons of music submissions

Where Are the Iconic COVID-19 Images? Helen Lewis © Photograph by Sasha Arutyunova A tennis ball covered in spikes. That’s all we’ve got. More than a year has passed since the first reports of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus, and its most memorable visual signifier is a stylized illustration of the virus itself. That spiky ball floats in the background of explanatory graphics and charts, or looms eerily behind the heads of television anchors delivering...

Brightest star makes its way into our evening sky this week Pam Eastlick Greetings everyone and Happy New Year! You can still see four of the five visible planets this week. Venus is in your early morning sky although it’s getting closer and closer to the eastern horizon. Mars is almost straight overhead in the evening sky and Jupiter is beginning its long slow pull away from Saturn in the southwestern horizon. We will circle to the other side of the sun from both planets next month so have ...