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Dragon Age is probably my favorite videogame franchise. Granted, I don’t play many videogames at all, but of the few I have played, I love Dragon Age the best. I could list all the myriad reasons why this series (and the Mass Effect trilogy) opened my eyes and changed my mind about just what videogames could be, what stories they could tell, and how, but no. The real reason I love Dragon Age is romance.

Disclaimer: This is brought to you by Singapore Hospice Council. When I was in my 20s, I saw tributes to a schoolmate all over Facebook one day. She had passed away, after grappling with cancer for years. This was not something I expected. Because even as I caught glimpses of her battle on social media, she seemed like she was in good spirits. The shaved head. Her frail, bony frame. No matter how many tubes they inserted into her, no matter how many injections she endured, she did so smiling.

Oh, brother, you've guessed, I'm a dude David Bowie first offered “Suffragette City,” which he had already recorded for the yet-to-be-released Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars album. Bowie had learned of Mott the Hoople’s impending breakup from bassist Pete Overend Watts, who had rung him up looking for a job, and resolved to save the band. Watts played Bowie’s demo of “Suffragette City” for the band’s singer, Ian Hunter, who liked the song but rejected it on the basis of “it was a good tune and it rocked, but we already had good tunes that rocked.

Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to actor Elizabeth Yu, who is of mixed Korean and white heritage. I first saw Elizabeth in May December, the Oscar-nominated story of a woman (portrayed by Julianne Moore) infamous for her 23-year relationship with her husband (played by Charles Melton), who she met when he was 13. What felt rare is the fact that the rest of their family was cast as mixed – enter, Elizabeth.

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This essay is written by a known author, under the pseudonym C.L. Kemp.I’m four or five the first time I recall being taken along on one of my father’s junk food binges. My mother asks him to take care of some shopping and other errands, and to bring me along while she stays home to tend to my baby sister. The particular errands escape me, but to this day I remain haunted by the calorie-laden detours in between.

This the can-do dough – it swings sweet and savory, so you can just as easily use it for a fruit tart as for a quiche. In fact, it’s what my Paris friends do, which is why I dubbed it all-purpose. It’s a rich butter dough that bakes up firm, so that it can hold the pretty ins and outs of a fluted tart pan. You can find this crust’s sweet sister here.

When I moved to Troy, NY, some of my favorite features of my new city were the alleys – all 43 miles of them. Troy’s alleys can be found almost everywhere within the city. Downtown Troy has the largest concentration, but alleys can also be found going north into North Central and between many streets in Lansingburgh and south into South Troy. Many of these alleys have street names, so if you were a stranger to Troy and looked at the Google map of the city, you might not realize how many alleys we actually have.

November 1, 2023 Born into a Cape Cod family of 12 in 1839, a direct descendant of Elder William Brewster from the Mayflower, Gustavus Swift started life on a rock-strewn farm unsuitable for crops, and ended with a multi-million dollar empire of refrigerated rail cars suitable for dressed meat. Trying to eke out a living by farming land that could not be farmed, Gustavus’ father turned to animal husbandry. The corn would grow, but only in between the rocks in the sandy soil, and could not be harvested effectively.