Toward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It’s got a lot of ’60s folk-rock, including, she notes, “the four J’s.” Presumably she means artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Janis Ian. But maybe one of the J’s is the narrator herself — Jodie Rattler, a moderately famous singer with a knack for writing melancholy love songs. “Lucky” is framed as a rock ’n' roll novel, but it’s a tricky and...
Earlier this week, a teacher was removed from a middle school because a
There are a lot of indie survival horror games that are fifth-generation throwbacks, but à la mode games has a particularly special one in the works.
The ATM at a Huntington National Bank branch closed in February has been damaged, a bank spokesperson confirmed.
(FOX40.COM) -- The only Cracker Barrel in Sacramento recently closed its doors for good.•Video Above: $20 minimum wage for California fast food workers in effect A post on Reddit shows what appear to be construction workers boarding up the Howe Avenue location on Monday, which left onlookers with questions about what happened. "To our Sacramento []
The city centre store has been open for over 40 years
What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial press, which is really an arm of the government and its central bank, wants to ignore, as much as possible, references to gold as...
Alfreds Café at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum closed on Monday
The University of Arizona's Campus Health Pharmacy will be closing its doors on the last Friday of June, leaving students and staff to find alternative options for their prescription needs.
Residents in Riverside County’s sunny Coachella Valley area are advised to remain vigilant amid an uptick in “sophisticated” criminal activity, officials from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department warned. According to an April 11 news release, individuals have been stealing jewelry and other valuables from residents after approaching them in parking lots and starting conversations. In some cases, the subjects have robbed victims at gunpoint of money and other items. In others, scammers have...
Reported financial crimes rose by 15 percent last year, reaching an all-time high.
The documentary An American Bombing shows how the 1995 act of terror, which killed 168 people, spoke to an increase in US anti-government extremismCivil War, director Alex Garland’s imagining of a divided states of America, appears to have touched a nerve, topping the weekend box office. For some cinemagoers, it may offer escapism. But for those who remember a spectacular act of domestic terrorism that struck the heartland a generation ago, it may feel more like destiny.“Our documentary will...