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Bridget Thompson should be dead, she says. If not for a late cheer team meeting on a Tuesday night in October, the Pepperdine University senior would have been with her four best friends—three were her roommates—heading to an off-campus mixer.
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “It’s as if City Hall would rather avoid the inference that streets where people died are unsafe.”
Clark County Sheriff’s deputies have removed a roadside memorial honoring an elementary school student killed in a school bus crash late last month.
Just a handful of the fourteen paintings in Josephine Halvorson’s “Unforgotten” called on trompe l’oeil conventions. But with the show following hard on the heels of the controversial “Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was hard to avoid focusing on the connection. Halvorson has long depicted vertically oriented tableaux parallel to the picture plane (corkboards or just wooden walls) with pinned-up receipts, sketches, letters, and flyers, as in New England Blacksmiths, 2021, or Important Notice, 2023, both of which were on view ...
Mattapoisett firefighters repaired a broken Cross from a roadside memorial that was damaged by another vehicle when it crashed on Interstate 195 on Friday at the same exact spot where a woman was killed in 2018.