Blanche, the fastest natural whitening cream from the Amira family of beauty creams and potions, and the progenitor of the five-day whitening regimen, formally presented its beauty queen endorsers Daisy Reyes and Josephine Ortiz in a glitzy extravaganza held recently at the Metro Bar in Quezon City.
HAMMOND, Ind. -- Classrooms were a little less crowded at Morton High School on the first day of classes: 128 students were sent home for wearing the wrong clothes.
Five years after winning a much-publicized lawsuit over the rights to Martha Graham's works, the dance company Graham founded struggles on. Still fighting its way out of a massive debt, the beleaguered troupe will spend much of this year touring to pay the bills. Sadly, there will be no true New York season in this, the company's 80th anniversary year — just a series of one-off performances like
Every morning I walk my dog through Washington Square Village, New York University's Corbusian, 1960s housing complex. This summer they have been renovating, ripping out sunken Zen garden-ish centerpieces in each lobby and replacing them with even tiled flooring. Maybe this is no loss to art history — period charm or not, they were mere décor. But with permanently installed, site-specific
NPR.org , August 14, 2025 · Darkness resonated in an upward spiral, pushing away the past. She could hear the silence. Then she heard the schoolyard across the street, the traffic, her alarm.
When summer's heat extends into the first days of school, kids will sweat if clad in the heavy corduroys, sweaters and the layered look that's popular at the moment. Though last year the state of Michigan banned starting the school year before Labor Day, heat waves may extend into early September.
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There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn—or worse, indifference—cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays.