Emma Dakin’s Shadows in Sussex launched on Oct. 21 with a fully-subscribed reading at the Gibsons Public Library. Emma Dakin is the pen name of Marion McKinnon Crook, who last year won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Community History Award for her memoir of nursing in B.C.’s Cariboo-Chilcotin, Always Pack a Candle.
The idea regarding not gaining anything if we’re not willing to take a risk can be traced back to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” in the late 1300s. It’s a pretty
The Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival (Flag Shakes) continues their streak of top-notch productions at Coconino Center for the Arts with one of the Bard’s least performed plays “The Two Noble Kinsmen”.
The ultraconservative Texas judge who ruled the FDA never had the authority to approve mifepristone recently used the Comstock Act, a 19th century sexual purity law still on the books, to uphold a Texas university’s decision to prohibit drag performances on campus against First Amendment objections. Legal historian Mary Ziegler argues that this development signals how extreme conservatives hope to use the Comstock Act as a linchpin in their efforts to censor speech about sex.
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