Tag: books
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Eirerate
If you haven’t seen Brooklyn, you should. Saoirse Ronan is the actress of her generation, and her portrayal of an Irish immigrant torn between two countries and two families is something to behold. The scene with her Italian soon-to-be in-laws is also precious, and Jim Broadbent’s performance as an Irish priest is an homage to every…
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Commencement24
Graduates, congratulations. Finishing high school has never been easy, even when it’s just the usual twists and turns of making it through 9th grade PE with your self-esteem intact and surviving senior prom. In your case, the ride has had a few more challenges, and still, here you are. Many commencement speeches offer advice about…
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Hamtramck
Hamtramck is a Detroit enclave with Polish roots, a part of town where, in the day, neighbors would scrub their sidewalks together until you could eat off them. It’s a wonderfully diverse neighborhood now, still hosting a Paczki run each Lenten season, named after the Polish donut with a zillion calories you eat on Fat…
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News
I subscribed to a daily newspaper for years. There were a few times I walked to the end of my driveway to discover no paper in the paper tube. But I never discovered no paper, but a note from the carrier saying “The publisher realized there wasn’t all that much going on you need to…
Six O'Clock Sky 