Presentations of the year’s “best books” are well underway, and the New York Times Book Review’s annual list is among the most anticipated and scrutinized.For their” 100 Notable Books of 2021″ the NYTBR editors have selected 22 Fiction and Poetry and
Every morning, it is the same cycle: What do I wear? This question becomes nuanced when we consider how technology, social media and climate change will affect fashion in the future. It is no longer a consideration of trends, but a matter of long-term sustainability. “There’s a lot of focus on climate change and in order for us to meet goals set by the Paris Agreement, one out
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Covid Mitigations and the Kewanee Public Library
With ever-changing mitigations still underway, you may have been wondering what that means for your local library. No matter where we are in the mitigations, the Kewanee Public Library is still operating as before. We are open 9 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday and 9 am to 1 pm on Saturdays. We do ask that you continue to treat us as an “In and Out” Library, staying only as long as necessary and no longer than an hour. Masks continue to be required and must be worn covering your nose and mouth.
Other Voices when it makes its return to RTÉ2 and
The new season of Ireland s longest-running music TV show will also come from new locations, including Cardiff, and Ballina.
The series, presented by May Kay and Huw Stephens, is now in its 19th season and will run for 10 weeks, from March 4th at 11.05pm.
Pillow Queens
Hozier will kick off the season with an intimate, stripped-back, performance, featuring new string arrangements by Ireland s Crash Ensemble. Viewers can also expect performances from two Choice Music Prize nominated acts - the indie rock four-piece Pillow Queens and singer-songwriter Niamh Regan, both of whom released debut albums in 2020.
, by Jonathan Daniel Wells (Bold Type Books). This history of eighteen-thirties New York probes the cityâs entanglement with the slave economy, which made it âthe most potent proslavery and pro-South city north of the Mason-Dixon Line.â Despite the stateâs emancipation law of 1817, police marshals and bounty hunters began terrorizing Black communities, abducting several hundred people and selling them into bondage. Alliances between Southern plantation owners and New York bankers, judges, and politicians fostered a system âconstructed to cheapen Black lives.â Wells details how the funding of the cotton trade fuelled a nascent Wall Street and admiringly portrays David Ruggles, a Black abolitionist who gave the Kidnapping Club its name and organized to resist it.