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The Redbud City: It happened in Shawnee in late 1943 Clyde Wooldridge CRAIG NOMINATED FOR POSTMASTERSHIP Clark Craig, owner of the City Ice Plant Company, was nominated by Rep. Lyle H. Boren for the office of Shawnee postmaster. This culminated a lengthy contest in which several local men sought the position. Boren revealed his nomination of Craig in a letter to the News-Star on Thursday, Sept. 16, 1943. Craig led a field of applicants in a civil service test for the position several months ear...

After space flight, “Moneybags” Bezos acknowledges workers “paid for all this” On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame, the world’s richest individual, flew briefly into space, along with three other companions. The American media establishment, by and large, swooned at the vision, celebrating the “historic space trip.” The various pundits, sycophants in the pay of the oligarchy, would congratulate Bezos were he to prove that one and one equaled two (“How innovative!” “What a ...

In announcement news today, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has set Jon Chu’s In the Heights for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 8/31, with the Digital release expected on 7/30. The 4K will include HDR10 high dynamic range, while both the Blu-ray and 4K will include Dolby Atmos audio. You can see the 4K cover artwork at left. [Read on here...] Extras on the Blu-ray and 4K will include 7 featurettes ( Paciencia y Fe: Making In the Heights, Paciencia y Fe: When You’re Home, Pac...

Jul 11, 2021 “Lady Joker” by Kaoru Takamura was published in Japanese in 1997, but its English-language debut in 2021 still feels timely. On the surface, this classic of contemporary Japanese fiction — twice adapted for the screen — is a crime thriller, but underneath it’s a state-of-the-nation novel that is perhaps even more apposite today than 24 years ago. Lady Joker: Volume One, by Kaoru Takamura Translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell 600 pages SOHO CRIME The ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Talk Prince, Working With Mariah Carey and Usher, and Why Their Debut Album Took 35 Years A.D. Amorosi, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The songwriting-production team of James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III and Terry Lewis have dropped so many hits since leaving their Prince-mentored band the Time in 1983 that their publisher released a four-CD boxed set of their hits… in 1997. Since then, they’ve added at least another four CD...

A Labour of Love The Whole Singing Ocean by Jessica Moore Benjamin Lefebvre (Editor) The L. M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print.University of Toronto Press (purchase at Amazon.ca) “Children are refreshing. Stories about them are,” L. M. Montgomery told the reporter of the Boston Traveler in 1910 during her visit to that city. After the instant international success of her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, and aided by her Boston publisher L. C. Page and Company, Montgo...

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