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Pennsylvania's alcohol laws seem designed to waste everyone's time and energy. Bob Dick from the Commonwealth Foundation offers his thoughts.

If you resisted getting hooked on ABC’s twisty FBI thriller Quantico due to fears that it would meet the fate of many intensely serialized dramas — i.e. Led by breakout star, Priyanka Chopra, the series has emerged from the fall premiere season dust to become a genuine hit, with a full-year order that will take it all the way up to May…and probably beyond. “Speed” also applies to Quantico’s breathless plotting, with a narrative that shifts back and forth in time, chronicling the exploits of characters... Читать дальше...

Find out how Pixar raised the CGI bar for ultra-realistic environments and landscapes in “The Good Dinosaur.”

Find out how Pixar raised the CGI bar for ultra-realistic environments and landscapes in “The Good Dinosaur.”

Der zweite Teil vom Ersten!

Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof.

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Schmerz lass nach.

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Das ist Jacke wie Hose.

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Holla, die Waldfee.

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Lhuillier in Venice (All photos: Monique Lhuillier)

The LRC Junior season has come to an end. The U16s hosted the final tier2 jamboree at LRC Nov22. The tier 2 was a collection of players from different clubs who got together in a jamboree format allowing everyone to get playing time and improve themselves. It included players from Langley,Surrey,Richmond,United and Chilliwack. The LRC […]

By Ben BoychukbrbrSan Bernardino used to be called ldquo;The Friendly City.rdquo; That was a long time ago, well before the municipal bankruptcy and the recession and the housing market collapse and the blight. The city still had Norton Air Force Base and the economic prosperity that came with it. The nicknamemdash;which was really more of a Chamber of Commerce gimmick, much like neighboring Bloomingtonrsquo;s short-lived effort to brand itself ldquo;Southern Californiarsquo;s Undiscovered Shangri-Lardquo; (not even close)mdash;fit... Читать дальше...

Morocco: handmade art in a beautiful place Sleeping under the stars in the desert and seeing the sun come up on the dunes. Seeing all the beautiful handmade blue boats in Essaouira. Spices and a wonderful silver Berber bracelet. [...] hiring a guide in the cities when we first arrived, to get our bearings. Less, so I could bring tile and pottery home.

It seems as if a high-pressure job at a Silicon Valley startup would have been dangerous for someone newly sober. But the opposite is true for Geidt.

There are plenty of ways to meet a mate, but let’s not forget about the good old office romance. Defne Altan and Cameron Crowe (not the Hollywood film director) met over a cubicle in an office building in downtown San Francisco in the fall of 2010. The public relations firm she worked for shared office space with the tech PR firm he was at. When he walked in with his bicycle the first day on the job, she couldn’t help but notice the strapping young man with a smile on his face. “She has this... Читать дальше...

Guest:

Ilya Matveev, PhD student in Political Science at the European University at St Petersburg, Russia where he studies Russian political economy and neoliberalism in comparative perspective. He is an editor of the online platform Openleft.ru and a member of the Public Sociology Laboratory.

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In the hands of General Manager Jessica Evans, poached from New World Bistro Bar in Albany, the space has been wrenched into eclectic shape with steel girders, Dumpster-dive finds, folkloric dancing-skull murals and hand-painted Mexican floor tiles. [...] Ama Cocina seems to be driven by an F-word: Tricked out in diamond-plate metal, exposed ceiling ducts, hand-sawn wood panels and a food truck-style window embedded in a wall (actually from a 1960s-era passenger bus), this split-level, mixed-media vision spilled directly from Evans' mind. Читать дальше...

Fly me to the moon!

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