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Letters: Sharyn Underwood is deserving of recognition 13 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 3 minutes to read Sharyn Underwood recently put on a showcase at the Royal Wanganui Opera House. Photo / File Whanganui Chronicle Last evening my wife and I spent a wonderful time at the Royal Wanganui Opera House watching about 100 superb dancers from Sharyn Underwood Studios showcase some wonderful dancing. It was an amazing performance of grace, deportment, stamina and talent as over the entire per...

View the comic strip for Phoebe and Her Unicorn by cartoonist Dana Simpson created April 12, 2021 available on GoComics.com

Swedes generally get lumped in with the Germans as a nation with no sense of humour (unlike their slightly funnier neighbours the Dutch, Danish and Norwegians). But it's not true! Or not entirely, anyway. Swedes do have a sense of humour, it's just a bit different. Here's The Local's contributor Richard Orange's guide to help you recognise when a Swede is trying to be funny.

Plus, looking at stumbling blocks for digital transformation

It follows the vocalist 'from choirboy to rock 'n' roll singer.'

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39, and Beethoven’s Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3. Register and view here until April 18. 8 pm ET: Tippet Rise Art Center presents Spring Festival. For the first day of Tippet Rise’s Spring Festival, two films have been captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the Amphion String Quartet—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’s Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippe...

"4D chess comprised of stupidity and dick jokes."

The Conversation: Five words that dont mean what you think they do 10 Apr, 2021 11:18 PM 5 minutes to read You may be surprised to read how the meaning of common words have changed. Photo / 123rf You may be surprised to read how the meaning of common words have changed. Photo / 123rf Other By: Simon Horobin Articles of this kind usually assert that a words correct meaning lies in its earliest uses, while later developments are corruptions. Disinterested doesnt mean "not interested" but "imparti...

100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News On 4/11/21 at 8:00 AM EDT Like most movie genres, science fiction goes back almost as far as the medium itself, all the way to 1902 to be exact. That was when Georges Méliès—an innovative genius of many talents—unleashed his 14-minute masterwork: "Le voyage dans la lune," better known to American audiences as "A Trip to the Moon." Inspired by the written works of Jules Verne, among other things, and laced with satirical j...

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