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The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens is one of the premier birding spots in the NYC metropolitan area. In the invigorating early morning air during the annual spring migration it offers a parade of colorful birds and a chance to ponder the mystery of avian DNA at work.
It is hot and sunny, and a fabulous time to be playing softball while surrounded by the glacier and the snow fields — where else but Juneau? Last week was pretty quiet and that was probably good, as many players were still recovering from the Rainball tournament.
It’s been quite a ride for the original “Tugboat three.” Local art lovers know the story of Tugboat Gallery, but a recap seems nonetheless in order: Joey Lynch and Jake Gillespie left Lincoln, the original home of Tugboat Gallery, for Omaha and San Francisco, respectively.
When I wrote about the badminton ladies of Pacific Palisades in 2005, it was with a heavy heart because we had just lost two of our most active racquet-wielding women: Dorothy Perry and Mary Arlen. This time I can report life-affirming news.
There is rarely a moment in the Litherland household when someone is not thinking about food. Dad Andy Litherland is constantly thinking cuisine while he oversees the kitchens of the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead. His 13-year-old triplets, Kevin, Mick and Jay, are all competitive swimmers, and classic examples of eating machines, going through more than five gallons of milk each week. When mom ...
Dalton Trumbo's favorite of all his screenplays, Lonely Are the Brave, is a stirring adaptation of Edward Abbey's Brave Cowboy -- a moving and exciting modern chase western, with Kirk Douglas as Jack Burns, an individualist modern cowboy on the run from a posse that includes helicopters, high-powered rifles and police radio.
Fiberglass boats last forever — or so it seems. Early one recent morning, J.J. Johnston was working on a 25-foot outboard-powered Sea Vee center console from the early 1980s.
They are right at the back of the gallery and they are the smallest works in it — appropriate for art about an oppressed minority in a remote place — but the most important exhibits here are the portraits of ethnic Muslim Uighur from the Chinese province of Xinjiang by Emmanouil Bitsakis.
"It wasn't my intention to get notoriety," James Jorden said. It was a sunny morning, and he was sitting at a cafe near his home in Woodside, Queens, where he lives with his partner, Carl ("Queens is where all the queens are going now," he says). As an avid reader of his Web site about opera, Parterre Box, which is overseen by his alter ego, La Cieca, an imperious, loud, snarky, ...
This simple minigame collection is for the birds. Puffins, whose distinctive beaks grace the spines of children's literature and the front of lesser-known cereal boxes, are bringing their campaign to be the world's most recognizable bird to the digital screen.
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