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If you ask someone to imagine an orchid, chances are pots of moth orchids lined up for sale in a hardware store will spring to mind, with their thick shiny leaves and vibrant petals. Orchids like this may be what comes to mind when you think of them, but there are actually more 30,000 different orchid species. Shutterstock But Australia’s orchids are greater in number and stranger in form than many people realise. Rock orchids, fairy orchids, butterfly orchids, leek orchids and even onion orchids all look more or less the same. But would you recognise a clump of...

Finding More Than Humbug in Scrooge and Company This year a critic (and fan) of “A Christmas Carol” finds it especially resonant as a “timely study of what it truly means to be a decent person in a community.” Video Published Dec. 13, 2020Updated Dec. 16, 2020 When I was younger, I drank in every version of “A Christmas Carol” I could find like they were tumblers of eggnog. Eventually, I became a connoisseur. (I maintain the supremacy of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” and “Scrooged,” which I am obligated to watch whenever they’re on TV.) It isn’t the holly-jolliness tha...

By Dominique Paul Noth - Dec 13th, 2020 06:06 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol December 10 – 24, 2020. Foreground: Lee E. Ernst, Background: Dan Kazemi. Photo by Michael Brosilow. Stick close to Dickens. That’s the secret for every adapter of a Dickensian story like A Christmas Carol. The more of his galloping language, almost grotesque characters and moving demands to address bad social conditions, sentimentality be damned, the bett...

12:00 AM Les Miserables: School Edition - In nineteenth century France, Jean Valjean is released from years of unjust imprisonment, but finds nothing in store for him but mistrust and mistreatment. He breaks his parole in hopes of starting a new life, initiating a lifelong struggle for redemption as he is relentlessly pursued by police inspector Javert, who refuses to believe Valjean can change his ways. Finally, during the Paris student uprising of 1832, Javert must confront his ideals after Valjean spares his life and saves that of the student revolutionary who has captured the heart of Val...