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Climate comedy for teens may do better on TV
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Back in April, I wrote a column for this online newspaper that previewed a new cli-fi movie from an independent producer in Hollywood that had backers like Sir Richard Branson and the World Bank behind it: Chloe and Theo. The co-star was Theo Ikummaqs, an Inuit man from Canada who
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I-8 Jewish Travel: Mission San Diego
-20th in a Series- Exit 8, Mission Gorge Road, San Diego — Mission San Diego By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Under any circumstances a trip to Mission San Diego is worthwhile because it is the oldest mission in the chain that runs more than 600 miles along the coast of California and served as
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food‘The New Kosher’ passes household tests
The New Kosher: Simple Recipes to Savor and Share by Kim Kushner, WeldonOwen, San Francisco; ISBN 978-1-61628-7926-3 ©2015, $35.00, p. 193, plus index (Also available in Kindle) By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California– Kim Kushner, calling herself an ordinary New York housewife hailing from Montreal, and author of The New Kosher, loves to consume food
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Travel and FoodSeveral decades later, Blume still fires up imagination
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, 402 pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — In the late 1950’s through the late 1960’s I taught sixth graders in an elementary school in Michigan. Many of the young readers enjoyed the writings of Judy Blume and so did I. Recently I was given
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