![]() ![]() ![]() The number of new arrivals slowed this winter to about 10 people per day. Some came on busses mobilized by border states others bought their own flights or got one subsidized by aid groups. ![]() More than 8,000 migrants have come into Chicago since August, according to city officials. Texas’ Republican governor this week vowed to resume a program bussing new arrivals to Chicago and other cities. When border crossings increased last summer, Republican governors of border states bussed migrants to cities led by Democrats including Chicago, New York City and Denver, arguing that their own cities were overwhelmed. They’re depending on donors for food, medicine and clothing. Migrants awaiting beds in city-run shelters are sleeping on floors in police stations and in airports surrounded by suitcases. ![]() But a tenfold increase in recent days has taxed resources. cities already struggling to shelter thousands of migrants are calling for federal help and an end to Republican political gamesmanship over immigration, concerned that an expected increase in the number of people entering the country when pandemic-era asylum restrictions end on the U.S.-Mexico border May 11 will further strain their budgets and resources.Ĭhicago has long pledged to welcome migrants. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In a world where masculinity and violence are inextricably linked to power, the boys’ very identities are tied to the fathers whose names they bear and with whose legacies they must contend. He and his best friend, King, are “li’l homies,” lower in status and with everything to prove, especially after Mav becomes a father. Mav’s a prince whose family prospects are diminished due to his father’s federally mandated absence. Garden Heights doesn’t contain dragons or sorcerers, but it’s nevertheless a kingdom under siege, and the contemporary pressures its royalty faces are graver for the realness that no magic spell can alleviate. Thomas proves Game of Thrones–esque in her worldbuilding ability, deepening her landscape without sacrificing intimacy or heart. ![]() ![]() The tale begins in 1998 Garden Heights, when Starr’s parents, Maverick and Lisa, are high school seniors in love and planning for the future. This literary DeLorean transports readers into the past, where they hope, dream, and struggle alongside beloved characters from Thomas’ The Hate U Give (2017). ![]() ![]() ![]() “She’s definitely the smartest person in the room,” Palicki tells us. Both leaders hire the same man, the deformed torturer Quasi (Lemme), to assassinate each other, while Catherine and Quasi developing an affection for each other. Katherine is the (still beautiful) new Queen of 13th century France and she is both amused by and way ahead of everyone else around her, including her husband King Guy (Chandrasekhar) and the Pope Cornelius (Soter). ![]() ![]() Directed by Broken Lizard’s Kevin Heffernan and written by him and the rest of the team-Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske-the film dispenses with the tragic Esmeralda in favor of Catherine (Adrianne Palicki). Quasi, a satirical new take on the story from the Broken Lizard crew ( Super Troopers), has a decidedly different view of its female lead. For all her kindness and compassion, Esmeralda is basically treated terribly throughout the story and finally ends up hanged for a crime she didn’t commit, just as she reunites with her long-lost birth mother. (She’s also only 16 in the novel-a book from over 200 years ago). ![]() In most versions of the classic 1831 Victor Hugo tale, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the female protagonist is Esmeralda, a French Romani girl who is so beautiful that every major male character in the story either wants to marry her or seduce her. ![]() ![]() ![]() We will watch via the PBS website and chat/discuss via Zoom. Laura and Kate have selected a 30 minute segment from part 1, and another segment from part 2. The series also tackles the daunting ethical challenges that these technologies pose for humankind. ![]() The series tells the story of the rapid evolution of genetic science from Gregor Mendel’s groundbreaking experiment in the 19th century to CRISPR, and the hope that newfound powers to alter DNA with pinpoint precision will transform the treatment of some of the world’s most complex and challenging diseases. ![]() Two of our colleagues, Laura Milko and Kate Saylor have organized a remote watch party of “The Gene: An Intimate History,” a major new four-hour documentary from Ken Burns and Barak Goodman, adapted from the award-winning book of the same name by Dr. ![]() ![]() When we have been wronged, the belief that we are right by default is compelling. The ugliness of what we consider justice can be explained away easily, if we allow ourselves such myopic indulgence. ![]() ![]() “The truth was there to be seen if anyone wanted to look,” Mr. On November 23, 2021, Anthony Broadwater wept as the court told him what he always knew: He was innocent. After his separation from the project, Mucciante hired his own private investigator and examined the transcripts-which led to the truth in less than 48 hours. During production, producer Timothy Mucciante noted inconsistencies in Sebold’s book and the proposed adaptation, leading him to doubt the veracity of portions of her story. When the perpetrator was switched from a Black man to a white man in the film, though her attacker’s Blackness was a repeated point throughout the memoir, Mucciante raised concern and brought other inconsistencies to the director. Because of her compelling story and success, Lucky was in the process of being turned into a film in 2019 (her novel, The Lovely Bones, had been made into a hugely successful Peter Jackson-directed film in 2009). ![]() ![]() ![]() brims with a casual wisdom about life.”-*Chicago Tribune* Readers will love the Wildes of Lindow Castle! Read online The first book in Eloisa James’s dazzling new series set in the Georgian period glows with her trademark wit and sexy charm-and introduces a large, eccentric family. He’s never lost a battle.īut a spirited woman like Willa isn’t going to make it easy. She wants nothing to do with a man whose private life is splashed over every newspaper.Īlaric has never met a woman he wanted for his own. Her love of books and bawdy jokes is purely for the delight of her intimate friends. ![]() Willa presents the façade of a serene young lady to the world. Alaric escapes to his father’s castle, but just as he grasps that he’s not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very private, very witty, Miss Willa Ffynche. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. ![]() Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. ![]() ![]() By 1955, Marilyn, who had divorced her her first husband, had starred in movies like Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire and her biggest box office success of her career, The Seven Year Itch. ![]() It didn’t take long for her career to take off. (Marilyn never knew her father, though a 2022 test revealed that her biological father was Charles Stanley Gifford, her mother’s co-worker whom she had an affair with in 1925.) Marilyn moved from home to home throughout her childhood until her marriage to her first husband, James Dougherty, when she was 16 years old.Īround that time, Marilyn also started modeling and acting. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe, placed her into the foster care system when she was a child. ![]() Marilyn was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. ![]() Marilyn, whose real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson, had been married three times before her death on August 4, 1962. As one of the most famous women in the world, there’s been interest in Marilyn Monroe’s husbands-and why her marriages ended-for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Barca is changing - a girl who was once a slave but with a gift for healing - tends to his wounds, and as she does so, eases his tortured soul and teaches him how to be truly human again. But the defection of one of Egypts most celebrated generals, the Greek mercenary Phanes, to the Persians triggers a savage war that will test Barcas military skills and his humanity to the limit. For leading the fiight to preserve the soul of Egypt is the Phoenician warrior, Hasdrabal Barca, the pharaohs deadliest killer - possessor of a rage few men can fathom and fewer can withstand. Corruption and decay cripple its cities, infects its leaders and cripples its armies, while across the great expanse of Sinai, like jackals drawn to carrion, the forces of the omnipotent king of Persia watch and wait. For leading the fiight to preser 526 BC and the empire of the Pharaohs is dying, crumbling under the weight of its own antiquity. ![]() 526 BC and the empire of the Pharaohs is dying, crumbling under the weight of its own antiquity. ![]() ![]() Abarat: Absolute Midnight was published in September 2011. War - followed in September 2004, with both volumes spreading across the world in foreign language editions. The first volume - called simply Abarat - was published in October 2002 and the second volume - Abarat : Days of Magic, Nights of The Book Of Hours became a whole world - The Abarat - and as the paintings kept coming, so the story grew and grew into a series of The illustrations for a collection of 25 tales a 'Book of Hours' which would describe all the emotions of a day, hour by hour (with an In 1995 Clive began painting huge dream-images which were wholly unlike his previous paintings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s a tough one to answer, I don’t have a great origin story, I rarely do. The science of human/wildlife conflict is the boring way to say what the book is about. How do you deal with that? You don’t arrest them and fine them, so how do you deal with it? And can science help? They kill, they steal, they trespass, they jaywalk. Animals don’t read, have no reason to know about these laws, and they break them all the time. ![]() The subtitle is When Nature Breaks The Laws, but these are human laws, laws written for people. What is Fuzz about?įuzz is a book about people and wild animals getting in each other’s way, more or less. But as she explains in the following interview, while Fuzz has her usual mix of information, insight, and humorous observations, it’s not like watching videos of bear stealing food. ![]() Especially since her newest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law ( hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) seems like it could be her funniest one yet. At a time when people refuse to believe in science, facts, reason, or the experts, a new book by science writer Mary Roach is just what her fans need right now. ![]() |