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Lois Ehlert illustrated picture books for children like 'Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.' She also created art for the Central Library's children's room.
How to get your travel mojo back If you’re feeling grounded, and worryingly contented about it, here are ten ways to rekindle your wanderlust Open an atlas and get excited about travel again Credit: Getty As lockdown has eased and a semblance of normality is returning, the experts have lined up (once again) to warn us that staying in might have become habit-forming, and that, following 14 months of bizarre semi-isolation, many of us will suffer from a domestic version of Stockholm Syndrome. Suddenly, we only want to travel as far as the bottom of the garden. We have given up on travel dream...
By Stacy Lambe Bravo After first competing on season 13 of Top Chef, Kwame Onwuachi has become a force in the culinary world, cooking for the likes of Beyonce and JAY-Z, being recognized by Food & Wine magazine and the James Beard Foundation, and publishing his memoir, Notes From a Young Black Chef. Now he’s back on the Bravo reality competition -- but this time as part of a rotating panel of judges on the Portland, Oregon-set season 18. Onwuachi’s return to Top Chef has been a welcomed one for longtime fans of the series, as he, Gregory Go...
Aminatta Forna’s essays about people and place and motion Daneet Steffens © Nina Subin Aminatta Forna is the author of four novels and a memoir. “The Window Seat,” Aminatta Forna’s new book of essays, opens with its exhilarating eponymous piece, encompassing her heady childhood experiences of flying internationally as an unaccompanied minor as well as the giddy experience of executing a loop de loop in a light aircraft. Both perceptive and informative, that essay sets the tone for the rest of this collection, in which Forna delves into a dynamic tapestry of resonant...
The A.V. Club: Congratulations on Shrill season three. It winds up in kind of an open-ended manner, with a lot of unknowns still out there; while you were making it, did you guys know that this was going to be the final season? Aidy Bryant: It’s weird, we kind of knew in the middle. I can’t remember exactly when we found out, but I know it was after we had written the whole season and mostly after we shot it, too. So it was more in the editing process where we were like, “Okay, how do we do this?”