A tiny TikTok star whose inspirational videos have won her 4.5 million followers and 96 million likes in a year has been dubbed 'Bella the Brave' after charming fans, despite a cocktail of devastating health problems.
Bella Thompson, from Saskatchewan, is eight-years-old, but she's still the the size of a 12-month-old baby, after being born with three debilitating genetic conditions, which saw her hospitalized for the first two years of her life.
Over the years, many authors have dealt with alcoholism, addiction and recovery — think of plays like Long Day's Journey into Night, or films like Days of Wine and Roses. Now a new play from England joins them: People, Places & Things takes an unsentimental and, at times, harrowing look at addiction and recovery.
As it begins, the lights come up in the middle of a scene from Chekhov's The Seagull.
Los AngelesEunisses Hernandez, an incoming council member, is grappling with what it means to gain power in an unequal system
In 2014, Eunisses Hernandez, a young Latina activist, watched as a Los Angeles politician was sworn in as the first Latino leader of California’s state senate in more than a century.
“I got chills the whole time,” Hernandez recalled on a recent Monday afternoon at a restaurant in Highland Park. The background of Kevin de León, the child of working-class immigrants who had now won serious political power in the state, reminded her of her own family, and of herself.
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Ancient North Americans gouged elaborate rock art into a heap of big boulders northeast of Reno, Nev., more than 10,000 years ago and perhaps 15,000 years ago. That makes the carvings the oldest known petroglyphs on the continent, according to a paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Experts have known about these petroglyphs and believed they were old, but nobody knew just how old until paleoclimatologist Larry Benson used his expertise in the history of the climate of the West to date them.