#inspirations

#inspirations

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In celebration of Local Comic Shop Day, which honors the role of locally owned, independent comic shops as "fire-starters of pop culture," Cosmic Monkey will offer a special selection of premium titles, listed here.(Cosmic Monkey Comics, Rose City Park, free)
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Show off your pride and grab holiday gifts crafted by local LGBTQ2SIA+ artists at this wintry pop-up market, where visitors will find sparkly ceramics, textiles, jewelry, accessories, housewares, and more at the Art Design Xchange (ADX) creative space.

A sailor has successfully circumnavigated all 262 islands around England and Wales and said his lasting memory from four years completing the 1,300-mile challenge will be the genuine human kindness he saw along the way.Ken Fowler, from Mudeford, Dorset, began the challenge in 2019, taking time out around his job as a former air traffic controller to complete the mission in stages in a RS Aero sailing dinghy named Yoda which he said was the size of two bathtubs and about as wet as one.

George Winston, who during decades when pop and rock dominated the musical landscape became a best-selling musician by playing soothing piano instrumentals in a style that was often described as new age but that he liked to call rural folk piano, died on Sunday in Williamsport, Pa.He was 74.His publicist, Jesse Cutler, said the cause was cancer.

When the composer and performer Pauline Oliveros died in 2016, at 84, her reputation in music was secure.Her early electronic and tape-music pieces from the 1960s and '70s are widely seen as key contributions to post-World War II American experimentalism.Oliveros's solo shows, on a tricked-out digital accordion, were destination concerts at New York spaces like the Stone well into the 2010s.

Over a balky wireless connection that seemed to symbolize how fleeting human contact has become, Natalia Lafourcade smiled as she showed off her garden in Xalapa, the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz.She had emerged from the recording studio she built there, rattling off the trees that surround her home  guayabo, higuera, mulato  as she explained the genesis of her new album, De Todas las Flores (Of All the Flowers), which bloomed in the aftermath of a romantic split.

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art has unveiled plans for a major new building designed by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye, which is on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale.Set to become India's largest art and culture centre, the museum is under construction on a 100,000-square-metre site in Delhi.

Welcome to Fan Chant, a weekly column for K-pop fans, stans, and newbies alike.Each week, I'll be rolling out interviews, lists, and all kinds of content to keep you in the loop on the latest and greatest from our friends in Seoul and beyond.Also, make sure to subscribe to my companion newsletter!DAWN is ready for a bit of peace and quiet.

Dear Diary: I was at a bagel shop on Lorimer Street on a very busy Sunday morning.The crowd of people waiting for their orders was packed to the walls.I and another young man had been waiting up against the counter for a while.What did you order again, babe? the woman running sandwiches called out in our direction.

Elmer is a modern bistro In the northern Marais, not far from République.Chef Simon Horwitz (ex-Septeime, Pierre Gagnaire) bases his ever-changing menus around impeccable seasonal ingredients and has an affinity for large portions intended to be shared by two or more diners.I recently returned for a solo lunch and was blown away by how good (and sneakily healthy) everything was.

Chef Spencer Horovitz knows his way around the kitchen, having worked at popular restaurants such as Itria and, most recently, Slug in Oakland.He's even done the pop-up thing before, cooking at Mission bar Elda, for instance, during the pandemic.Yet, despite his extensive experience, Horovitz says he felt that for most of his career, he struggled with what to cook and the story he wanted to tell.

Tess Gunty attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York.Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP NEW YORK  Tess Gunty's "The Rabbit Hutch," a sweeping debut novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, has won the National Book Award for fiction.

Washington Commanders Head Coach Ron Rivera's mother Dolores passed away this week.He had gone to visit her in California before she died on Monday.Today he announced that he will match $100,000 worth of donations made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.Rivera said his family has dealt with cancer, but his mother said children's cancer is the worst.

Dates: 18-19 March Matches: Saturday - Manchester City v Burnley (17:45 GMT); Sunday - Sheffield United v Blackburn (12:00); Brighton v Grimsby (14:15); Manchester United v Fulham (16:30).Click here for full BBC coverage details.

"I woke up to the sound of explosions and sirens," says Manor Solomon.

England manager Sarina Wiegman has been named women's coach of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards, while Spain and Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas was the women's player of the year.England's Mary Earps won the women's goalkeeper award at the Paris ceremony.Wiegman guided England to European Championship glory on home soil last year, the team's first major trophy.

A new way to organize all your design inspirations
Most creative people, such as product designers and digital artists, are familiar with Pinterest.People use it to build and collect inspiration boards for website designs, paintings, and architecture, among other things.Pinterest has been a part of my life for a long time and my first collection dates back to 2012.

The American Conservatory Theater has technically been back open and audiences have been seeing shows there since last September.But this week's opening of a new play by San Francisco-born playwright Christopher Chen marks a more complete return for the theater in presenting a new work on stage.After months in which A.C.T.'s main stage has featured out-of-town imports (), a rerun of a one-man show (Bill Irwin's ), and the annual production of , the "regular" season at the theater now begins with .

BANGKOK Duong Tuong, a prolific translator who for more than half a century introduced a wide range of Western literature to Vietnamese readers, died on Feb. 24 in Hanoi, Vietnam.He was 90.His daughter, Tran Phuong Mai, confirmed the death, from respiratory infections, at a military hospital.A poet who turned to translation to support his family, Mr. Tuong translated more than 50 books, large and small, from English and French, as well as performing secondary translations from Russian, German and several other languages.

Biden is the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images Joe Biden delivered a sermon on Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, becoming the first sitting president to do so at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor.

Uncover the strategies for producing compelling content to attract more followers and develop your brand.In a short amount of time, TikTok has become one of the world's most favored social media outlets.With more than 1 billion monthly active users from across the planet and expanding, this platform is essential to constructing any organization, particularly personal brands!

It's that time of year again, folks.The 2023 Grammy Award nominations are here, and while it's always fun to see deserving artists receiving shoutouts and industry accolades, the Grammys tend to include some head-scratching decisions, too.The category of Best New Artist, in particular, tends to raise some eyebrows.