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Share The creative sector continues to lose some of its best to the cold clutches of death. IT’S not been a good week in art house with the Grim Reaper continuing from where it left off in December. A former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors and Minister of State for Education, Professor Jerry Agada and prolific movie director, Chico Ejiro, were some of the high-profile departures from the creative sector in the last month of 2020. But despite prayers for a halt to the deaths, two other eminent art personalities passed days apart during the week. Veteran journalist and former...

Managing Anger in the Dark Days of Winter The holidays are behind us, the winter solstice has come and gone, so the days are getting longer. (Cheers to that!) Still here we are kicking off the dark days of January—which means even more time indoors. And that can result in feeling more agitated, less stable, and angry. “This seasonal component is related to the amount of sunlight,” says Melvin McInnis, MD, director of psychiatry programs at the University of Michigan Depression Center in Ann Arbor. “In the wintertime, people are more depressed.” The medical field has long established...

Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh addressed Joe Biden’s prediction that the “darkest days” of the coronavirus pandemic are ahead on his last show of 2020, describing the comments as “the last thing I would say.”

Credit: Brie Passano Dark days demand dark chocolate. Obviously. How else to navigate the chasm between last holiday twinkle and first spring crocus? We know what dwells in that valley: Work. Weekend. Work. The cold slog ahead calls for discipline, determination and a deep, dark secret, one best compounded in private: Melt chocolate, soften with butter, sweeten with sugar, spike with espresso. Scoop into mounds as densely packed with mood-lifting agents as a sphere of molten sunshine. Slide into the oven and let set....

ONE doesn’t turn 70 everyday, and writer Alma Cruz Miclat decided that her 70 th birthday was the perfect day to release the second volume of her book celebrating Filipino poets, writers, and artists. “The bulk of the book consists of features about Filipino poets, writers, and artists who make our country proud,” she said during her birthday party cum book launch on Zoom on December 15. These were collated from her articles in the aforementioned daily, but also the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ (NCCA) Sanghaya journals, among others. Soul Searchers and Dreamers Volum...