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6 AM CST TUESDAY. digits across Southeast Oklahoma to near 20 degrees across East Central Louisiana is expected Sunday night with very little temperature recovery during the day Monday. On Monday night, temperatures are forecast to fall into the single digits areawide. southeast Oklahoma, south central and southwest Arkansas and east and northeast Texas. IMPACTS.Hard freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. ....
The board is set: More than 80 candidates running for San Antonio mayor and City Council FacebookTwitterEmail San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, left, and City Council District 6 member Greg Brockhouse shake hands at the end of a mayoral debate at the Wyndham Riverwalk on April 3, 2019. Nirenberg defeated Brockhouse in a runoff that year for a second term; there will be a rematch between the two men in the May 1 city elections.Jerry Lara /Staff photographer The slate of candidates for San Antonio mayor and the city’s 10 council seats on the May 1 ballot is set. After Friday’s deadline for filing, city records showed 81 people are running for a spot on the City Council in a race defined by the human and economic toll inflicted on the city by COVID-19 as well as a reckoning over the power of the San Antonio Police union in the wake of a public demand for law enforcement reform. ....
Book World: Natalie Haynes A Thousand Ships brilliantly reframes the Trojan War Carol Memmott, The Washington Post Feb. 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - Modern classicists are blowing up traditional notions about ancient narratives and sparking renewed interest in the mythological women whose dramas often play out in the shadows of their male counterparts. Rock-star mythologist Natalie Haynes, like Madeline Miller, whose Circe retells the story of the witch at the center of The Odyssey, reboots ancient epics with fresh perspectives. Haynes highly praised 2017 novel, The Children of Jocasta, reimagines two Sophocles tragedies, and her most recent myth-based novel, A Thousand Ships, is equally provocative. Reimagining source material from Virgil, Homer, Euripides and others, Haynes delivers a sparkling narrative about the Trojan War that will appeal to fans of Game of Thrones as well as die-hard mythology nerds. ....
I stole a book. I was a book thief. I found it in another kidâs desk and began reading, hiding it behind some boring textbook, and couldnât give it up. And when the last bell rang, I hid it furtively under my jacket as if it were some rare, precious and struggling bird, and walked home. Itâs still with me. Iâll never give it up. That book that opened up the world to me. What was it? âOdysseus the Wanderer,â written for children by the classicist Aubrey de Selincourt. It is a version of the âOdysseyâ of Homer, the greatest adventure story ever told. Iâve since read several translations of Homerâs âIliadâ and âOdyssey.â ....