Dana Wilde ponders nature’s many announcements that spring is subsiding and summer is rolling over lazily toward autumn.
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On the Edge: Prince of Darkness vs. The Donald
J.P. Devine imagine a mysterious figure sweeping into a courtroom in an ankle-length black cape and fedora, holding a carved walking stick.
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Reporting Aside: Wrong-way driving elicits angst
As the July 4 holiday week approaches, we’d do well to watch for wrong-way drivers, Amy Calder writes.
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‘Delivery Man’ stars always-in-trouble Vince Vaughn
It all started in 2011 when director Ken Scott put his French Canadian film “Starbuck” on the market, and soon we’re told, it was the most successful film in Canada. Still, nobody outside of Canada knew much about it. Now we’ve got it. Scott’s remake of his film with Vince Vaughn as the local miscreant […]
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Backyard Naturalist: UFOs and strange things going on
Thinking about strange lights in the sky has reminded columnist Dana Wilde about an unexplained encounter he had about 50 years ago with a cone-shaped aircraft.
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On the Edge: Thank Heaven for my little girls
I’ll share a secret with you. When you lose your father at age 9 you spend the rest of your life — I mean every day, month and year of it — searching for someone to take his place. And I’m here this year, a nonagenarian father with two girls lucky enough to have one, […]
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Oakland man extends kindness to students from afar
Gil Roy has hosted more than two-dozen foreign exchange students from around the world in the last 14 years and has two more coming this summer, Amy Calder writes.
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‘Blue Jean’ script has problems, writes J.P. Devine
Life is softer for LGBT people in the UK now than it was in the ’80s in “Blue Jean,” when Margaret Thatcher initiated “Section 28.” Now, as the clouds thin, we find ourselves in a small, dreary school in Newcastle upon Tyne, where our young Jean, a gay physical education teacher, is a basketball coach. […]