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Won’t You Be My Neighbor

from The Village Voice “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and Mister Rogers Insist Humanity Can Be Better Than This by LARA ZARUM If your cold, cold heart doesn’t melt at some point during Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred “Mister” Rogers, well, I don’t know what to do for you. Watching this […]

The Water Wars

from the LA Times via Bristol Herald Courier One of LA’s oldest community gardens thrived for decades. Then the water wars began By Joe Mozingo For more than 40 years, Italian, Mexican, Croatian, Filipino, Indonesian and Laotian gardeners have built productive mini-farms on the parcels. Jason Neubert / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The […]

Andrew Solomon On Suicide

from The New Yorker Preventable Tragedies By Andrew Solomon Anthony Bourdain was almost inconceivably high-functioning; the gap between public triumph and private despair is treacherous. Photograph by Mike Coppola / Getty The pattern of highly accomplished and successful people committing suicide is transfixing. It assures the rest of us that a life of accolades is […]

Life On Mars Found

from USA Today NASA Mars rover discovers ‘building blocks’ for life: 3-billion-year-old organic matter by Doyle Rice The “building blocks” for life have been discovered in 3-billion-year-old organic matter on Mars, NASA scientists announced Thursday. Researchers cannot yet say whether their discovery stems from life or a more mundane geological process.  However, “we’re in a really […]

Karma

from Real Clear Life Plot Twist: The Strange Story of Douglas Parkhurst He became a hero in the last moment of his life—but did he redeem himself? By Steve Huff It was the first day of June, the unofficial beginning of summer, and a maroon car was careening across a Little League baseball field in […]

Kate Spade Gone

from NPR Fashion Designer Kate Spade Found Dead In Apparent Suicide by AMY HELD Kate Spade, the designer who built a billion-dollar brand of luxury handbags and accessories, was found dead in her Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan on Tuesday. She was 55.  Bebeto Matthews/AP New York Police Department officials said that police received a call […]

von Furstenberg III

from WaPo via SFGate Fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg is ready for her third act Robin Givhan Photo: Photo For The Washington Post By Jesse Dittmar NEW YORK – After more than 45 years in fashion, Diane von Furstenberg has been looking for a graceful exit. She is 71, and she has designed a lot […]

Whopper Juniors and Chocolate

from The Telegraph Macon woman turns 105, credits chocolate BY WAYNE CRENSHAW Virginia Pair Witherington holds a photo of herself in her younger days during her 105th birthday party on Sunday. Wayne Crenshaw wcrenshaw@macon.com MACON, GA – Virginia Pair Witherington puts it simply when asked her secret to living to 105, and not looking near her […]

Crucifixion Find

from LIVE SCIENCE How Jesus Died: Rare Evidence of Roman Crucifixion Found By Tom Metcalfe This cross was erected inside the Roman Colosseum as a monument to the suffering of early Christians in Rome. The Christian Bible describes the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as occurring in Jerusalem under Roman rule at the beginning of the […]

Bowie Outside Rehearsal