Two of American Dream s main attractions are set to open in May after being delayed for nearly a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The property s Sea Life Aquarium and Legoland Discovery Center are set to open on May 4, according to Merlin Entertainments, which operates both attractions. The two venues will add to the complex s entertainment options, with an indoor snow park and Nickelodeon-themed rides.
The 25,000-square-foot aquarium includes more than 10 interactive exhibits inspired by local landmarks, the company said, including “Sharks Fish Avenue,” and “Urban Jungle. Its main feature will be its underwater tunnel, which offers images of Manhattan landmarks scattered between schools of fish, sharks, rays and other sea creatures. The aquarium, similar to one that American Dream developer Triple Five hosts inside its Mall of America property in Minnesota, will be home to more than 1,000 creatures from the tri-state area to the Pacific Northwest.
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Just a few blocks from Notre Dame Seminary, a core group of about a dozen Eastern-rite Catholics in communion with Rome worship every Sunday in a chapel adorned with icons of Jesus, Mary and the saints.
For the last 22 years of its 45-year existence, St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Mission Church at 2435 South Carrollton Ave. – located in a former savings and loan building that has been beautifully adorned with iconography and stained glass – has been a sacred space filled with the bells and incense that most Latin-rite Catholics would associate mainly with Christmas or Easter liturgies.
Each Sunday at 10 a.m., St. Nicholas celebrates the Eastern rite’s Divine Liturgy – the term for Mass. Father Nile Gross, associate academic dean at Notre Dame Seminary, has faculties to celebrate the liturgy, assisted by Deacon Gregory Haddad of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, who was ordained in 1996 and has been the administrator of the Byzantine mission for the
Rev. Mark Gallagher and Jane McKinley will perform at Carols by Candlelight A UNIQUE drive-in carol concert, Carols by Runway Lights, is being held at St. Angelo Airport, Enniskillen on Friday, December 18 at 7pm, under the illuminated backdrop of the runway lights on one side, and Trory Parish Church on the other side. Soloists Jane McKinley (soprano), who sings in St. Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, and Rev. Mark Gallagher (tenor), rector of Trory Parish Church, will lead in a selection of favourite carols and Christmas pieces, interspersed with Bible readings and poems. Rev. Gallagher has pointed out that this is a carol concert, not a carol service. The sound will be transmitted through everyone’s car radio.