When I was a kid, one of my dream jobs was becoming a newspaper cartoonist. I was a big fan of Garfield and Peanuts, then later Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side. I went to college to become an illustrator. I was supposed to be drawing things for advertisements in magazines and stuff like that. All along though I would draw some funny comics to entertain my friends. I would make photocopied books and pass them out to whoever would take them. By the time I finished college newspapers were dying and my dream job was dying along with them.
In a nearby town, a woman with a son suffering from kidney failure makes her
children take turns eating on alternate days.
In a village outside Aleppo in northern Syria, people say they are living mainly on wild greens.
Aid workers say that
Syrian refugee children are arriving in northern Lebanon thin and stunted, and that suspected malnutrition cases are surfacing from rebel-held areas in northern Syria to government-held suburbs south of Damascus.
A boy, at a Syrian refugee camp near the border with Turkey, waiting in line for a hot meal, looked inside a tent at stacks of bread. Millions in the war-torn nation are suffering from hunger.
The bass doesnât get the attention of its flashier, six-string cousin.
Yet, talk to musicians and theyâll tell you that the bass is at least as important as the guitar â or, really, any instrument â since it sets the groove as it marries the rhythmic and melodic elements of a song.
California s Bay Area certainly has had more than its fair share of great bassists over the years, ones who could not only be counted on to hold a tune together but also found ways to repeatedly steal the spotlight.
Itâs time to celebrate those mighty groove masters as we offer up our list of the top 25 Bay Area bassists of all time.
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Alliance Francaise to spotlight dementia The Bangkok Post
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Alliance Francaise is staging Le Père (The Father), a play by French playwright Florian Zeller, at its auditorium from Thursday to Saturday at 7pm.
The black comedy is one of the outstanding hits of recent years, playing in London’s West End to 5-star reviews and top listings in the Best Plays of the Year.
Winner of the 2014 the Molière Award for Best Play, it centres around Andre, an ageing man who is facing persecution from all sides and refuses to take it any longer.
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