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Mar 07 2010
Connect to Facebook/Twitter, recommend via email and much more. When Pixar chief John Lasseter was hired to head up Disney animation, the first item on his to-do list wasn’t “Toy Story 3.” It was to produce an old-fashioned, hand-drawn, two …
Feb 18 2010
ECCENTRIC Cornish ensemble Kneehigh Theatre have quite a following. The Arts Centre was packed on the first night of their quirky, irreverent and often hilarious adaption of the macabre Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Jan 16 2010
Tuesday evening, minutes after the first reports that a massive earthquake had levelled Haiti’s capital, and still trying to convince myself it couldn’t be that bad, I sat down at my computer and called up a file entitled Haitiphones. The list of …
Jan 14 2010
Amid Haiti’s death and devastation, one small but significant piece of good news has emerged. The staff and guests at the country’s most historic hotel survived, the building apparently not having suffered extensive damage.
Jan 08 2010
Student Council members reading the “Gingerbread Pirates” to the first graders of Treasure Coast Elementary. VERO BEACH — The student council members of Storm Grove Middle school went on a field trip to Treasure Coast Elementary to deliver letters …
Jan 04 2010
MERRY OLD: Lake Windermere in the Lake District, England. CHOO: The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway is a heritage railway in Cumbria, England
Jan 03 2010
Eileen Christofferson helps her three adopted daughters from Ukraine — from left: Anna, 9; Tatiana, 17; and Sophia, 12 — make gingerbread houses at their home in Boulder on Dec. 23.
Dec 30 2009
The word “cookie” is a corruption of the Dutch koekje, meaning “little cake.” But cookies are not a Dutch invention. Cookie-like confections date to 7th century Persia, not coincidentally one of the first regions to cultivate sugar cane
Dec 27 2009
RICHLAND — Step into Baum’s House of Chocolate in Richland and the perfume of chocolate is the first thing you notice. Then your eyes go wide as you see chocolate, lots of it — dark, light, white. Chocolate, molded and coated, is everywhere …
Dec 27 2009
RICHLAND — Step into Baum’s House of Chocolate in Richland and the perfume of chocolate is the first thing you notice. Then your eyes go wide as you see chocolate, lots of it — dark, light, white
