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Gray Areas: Cameron teams with Eilish for 3D concert experience

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Social media is filled with memes that are a variation of, “Find a man who looks at you like …” accompanied by some image from pop culture. If it doesn’t already exist, someone should make, “Find a man who loves you like James Cameron loves 3D.” Moviegoers have a fling with 3D every 15 years or so. A filmmaker embraces the technology in a way that makes a new generation go, “This is so cool!,” followed by lesser copycats that make audiences eventually realize, “This is … just more expensive.” 3D movies haven’t disappeared. About 20 movies released in 2025 had ...

Stage Left Silver Players present comedy variety show

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Fairy tales meet real life in “Once Upon a Time …,” a comedy variety show staged by The Stage Left Silver Players. Set in the imaginative Magic Kingdom Retirement Community, the show follows princes, kings and princesses as they spend their days at the Royal Park and Work Out Center and ...

McGuffey series presents Poe program

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Mark Dawidziak returns for a William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society Memories of a Lifetime program on author Edgar Allan Poe. Dawidziak covered film and television for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Akron Beacon Journal for decades and was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame in 2015. He also is the author of books on “The Twilight Zone,” “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” “Columbo” and five books about author and humorist Mark Twain, who Dawidziak has portrayed on stage for 45 years. Dawidziak wrote “Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of ...

Lovina helps family prepare for church service

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It is a dreary April morning with no sun in sight. We had a thunderstorm during the night with lots of strong wind and rain. My garden beds are still empty and I haven't even started with getting seeds, plants etc. around. I should have onions and potatoes already in the ground. Time has a way of slipping by and we will enter the fifth month of 2026 on Friday. How can it be possible that we are entering May already? Last week on Wednesday my daughters Elizabeth, Susan, Verena and Lovina, along with their preschool aged children and daughter-in-law Grace spent the day at daughter ...

Lessons from California

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Every great wine region has garnered respect for its vintages by growing quality fruit and developing winemakers serious about their craft. Those are certainly givens, but are truly only part of the story. In our area, as we seek to move from regional respect to national acclaim for our wines, there are many things we can learn from our friends in California. The words and images associated with the names “Napa Valley” and, more recently, “Sonoma” are synonymous with “exceptional California wine." They have some of the state’s best soils and climate for producing great, ...

The quiche that made Michael Anthony love leeks

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Michael Anthony learned to love leeks and their rich and mild flavor while in cooking school in Paris. He includes a recipe for the Leek Quiche he learned there in his cookbook “V Is for Vegetables.” The quiche consists of three main components: dough, filling and an egg mixture. It’s ...