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"Pick a song that you can stand to sing over and over, maybe for years," is advice that Elizabeth Wolf of Merrimac, Mass., gives new parents."Doesn't matter how well you sing it.Over time that will be the most soothing sound your child knows."That sentiment was reflected in the many, many lovely stories you so generously shared with us in response to our story on lullabies.

Susan Cervantes has made a new home for two of the 126 ficuses that once lined 24th Street.As of May, two stumps that spent 80 years growing on 24th between Harrison and Alabama streets, trees that saw generations of Mission kids pass under their shade, live permanently as exquisitely tiled seats on the corner of 24th and Harrison streets near Mercy Housing's Casa de la Misión, affordable housing for seniors.

It's almost 11:30 a.m. on a brisk, sunny Tuesday and Huck Finn Restaurant in McKinley Park is getting busier by the minute.Huck Finn retains the classic American diner traits: Squat glasses of water sweating on linoleum countertops, elderly couples silently stirring creamer into ceramic cups of coffee, toddlers gleefully digging their fingers into piles of scrambled eggs: this is a diner, from its white paneled drop ceiling to the vaguely wood-patterned tiles on the floor.

When the water came, Alex Gibson was prepared for, as he put it, "regular flooding."But regular flooding was not what surged through multiple counties in Eastern Kentucky in late July of 2022, killing over 40 people and displacing thousands from their homes.For five days, heavy rain struck an area already vulnerable from decades of exploitation.

We got down from the car and went inside.I made the line to pay for groceries.He made a party to celebrate his son's birthday.These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans In Miami, however, they've become part of the local parlance.According to my recently published research, these expressions along with a host of others form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida.

Driving down El Monte's Peck Road, between the 10 freeway and the batting cage with a giant golf ball painted with baseball stitches, the array of restaurants boasting vintage signage is impossible to miss.From Taiwanese noodles to churros and horchata to Vietnamese food, the independent restaurants on this strip can satisfy a variety of cravings, but one business on the corner of Lambert Avenue - the iconic Jolly Jug - is particularly eye-catching, with its giant, retro sign advertising the "Southland's most honored sandwiches."

The U.S. Open, one of golf's most fearsome tests, is headed into its final round at Los Angeles Country Club.Although the course has sometimes seemed more forgiving than past Open venues, any championship round has the potential to become excruciating especially when the final round starts with a tie atop the leaderboard.

The Home Rule Music Festival.(Nick Moreland)Gift Article One day in May, Vice President Harris made a surprise visit to HR Records in Brightwood Park, a store that specializes in jazz, soul, reggae and African records.As the VP browsed the racks, owner Charvis Campbell tried to toss her a musical softball, aiming her toward John Coltrane, but Harris demurred and headed deeper, for Charles Mingus.

Photo by Austin Transit Partnership
Thursday, June 8, 2023 by Luz Moreno-Lozano
Austin leaders on Tuesday gave an official thumbs-up to the city's massive rail line project just two weeks after the plan was revealed to the public.The final vote taken by City Council, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors and Austin Transit Partnership sets in motion the next phase of the plan, which includes the design work and initiates the funding process.

Football commentator Martin Tyler is to leave Sky Sports this summer after 33 years with the organisation.Tyler, 77, is one of the sport's most well known voices and has been Sky's lead commentator for every Premier League season since it began in 1992."It's been a privilege to play a small part in the broadcasting history of the greatest league in the world," he said.

Paying tribute to the diners that Chicago depended upon




As Eater concludes Diner Land, its week-long celebration of diners across the country, a few concerns continue to pop up.The biggest disagreement is a fundamental one: What defines a diner?What disqualifies a restaurant from being considered a diner?

Tucked behind a picket fence, this tidy brick Italianate in Newburgh offers some picturesque charm and a renovated interior.While updated, the house on the market at 14 Elm Street in the architecturally rich city still has some elements that might be familiar to the generations of one family that called it home for over 65 years.

Jonathan Ross has remembered artist John Romita, famed for his role in creating Marvel characters Wolverine and Mary Jane Watson, as a kind, generous, compassionate and thoughtful man following his death, aged 93.Romita died peacefully in his sleep, his son confirmed in a Twitter post on Wednesday, describing his father as the greatest man I ever met.

Buffalo Trace Distillery is thrilled to announce the launch of Daniel Weller: an experimental line exploring the impact of different strains of wheat on its storied bourbons, inspired by and named after the trailblazer of the Weller family.This exciting release from the original wheated bourbon brand demonstrates Buffalo Trace Distillery's excellence in innovation while honoring a forefather of American whiskey, Daniel Weller - grandfather to William Larue Weller - and the family distilling traditions he passed down to the generations of whiskey pioneers that followed him.

Red Sox "I think I'm more proud that I'm here right now than what I did last year."Daniel Bard's journey through baseball has had more than its fair share of twists and turns.A promising young reliever with a blazing fastball, Bard was a key cog in the Red Sox bullpen in 2010 and 2011.But severe control issues derailed his career, prompting Boston to designate him for assignment in 2013.

Once upon a time, furniture was seen as more than just functional objects inside a house but also as heirlooms to be passed from generation to generation.That's not only because of their ornate designs or luxurious materials but also because of the craftsmanship and longevity of these products.Mass-produced furniture these days has nothing on their ancestors, though, especially since they seem to be made to be short-lived in order to encourage buying new ones every so often.

A landmark climate change trial was set to begin Monday in Montana, where a group of youths has sued government leaders, accusing them of embracing fossil fuels in ways that are destroying the environment and robbing the futures of the state's young residents.The lawsuit, more than a decade in the making, is the first of a number of similar efforts to go to trial in the United States.

Jon Rahm was at home last Tuesday, preparing coffee with his children underfoot, when the news arrived in a flood of text messages.Collin Morikawa glanced at Twitter and saw the word there.During breakfast at Michael Jordan's private club in Florida, Brooks Koepka peered at a television and glimpsed a headline.

Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it.The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jews during the Third Reich in 1939.That's when they ordered all German Jews to bring their personal silver objects to pawn shops across the Reich one of many laws created to humiliate, punish and exclude the Jews.

UK universities and tech companies are to receive 4.3m in government funding to develop space-based solar power.The technology, which collects energy from the sun using satellite-mounted panels and beams it to Earth, had huge potential to boost the UK's energy security, the UK's energy security secretary, Grant Shapps, said.

(John Minchillo / Associated Press)

Section 53.49 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is a classic of lawyerly syntax and needless verbosity.It appears on a sign outside my local public library branch and reads as follows:
"It shall be unlawful for the owner or person having custody of any dog to fail to immediately remove and dispose of, in a sanitary manner, by replacing in a closed or sealed container and depositing in a trash receptacle, any feces deposited by such dog upon public or private property, without the consent of the public or private owner or person in lawful possession of the property, other than property owned or controlled by the owner or person having custody of such dog.

Danish furniture company Takt has launched Spoke Sofa, a sofa that can be fully disassembled and have its parts replaced and recycled, in Copenhagen for 3 Days of Design.Spoke Sofa, which is the brand's first sofa, was developed in collaboration with Norwegian studio Anderssen & Voll.Rooted in circular principles, it aims to provide an alternative to conventional sofas, which are "notoriously wasteful," according to the brand.

It is September 2003 and Sweden have just been awarded a second penalty against San Marino in a European Championship qualifier.The team's designated penalty taker, Kim Kallstrom, has dispatched the first and expects to take this one too.However a 21yearold Zlatan Ibrahimovic has other ideas.He is the player who has been fouled and grabs the ball to take the spot-kick.