Posts Tagged ‘Thursday Night Magazine’
New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
By Kaitlyn Sawyer Our travel and features writer for Thursday Night Magazine, Kaitlyn Sawyer, has just moved to Portland, Maine. She’s spent the last while residing in Bar Harbor with Acadia National Park as her backyard. Now she is shifting gears and moving into the city scene, and as she writers in her column, she [...]
Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
With one suspect dead and the other captured and in hospital wounded, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned Saturday to questions about the men’s motives and to the significance of a trip one of the bombers took to Chechnya. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed early Friday after a shootout with police in Watertown, [...]
Newtown: What to Tell the Children?
By Rebecca Mead – The New Yorker (Dec. 17, 2012). Every morning, my seven-year-old son and I ride the subway to his school, a public elementary in Brooklyn. There are posters on the station walls, many of them advertising movies and TV shows and video games, and often my son has questions about these posters. [...]
The 27-year-old who triggered Rob Ford’s downfall
By Daniel Dale In the wake of Mayor Rob Ford’s stunning ouster from office on Monday, someone started a “Thank You Paul Magder” group on Facebook. The group would have more aptly been called Thank You Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler. Magder, a businessman, was the Average Joe face of the lawsuit that brought Ford down. Celebrated lawyer [...]
Rob Ford says he’s sorry, but pledges to fight
A contrite Rob Ford finally apologized Tuesday to those who don’t like the way he handled his conflict of interest situation, but said he would fight to stay on as mayor. Ford also said his appeal of a judge’s decision to boot him from office should not be construed as criticism of the courts, although [...]
Diploma Goes Up in Smoke
Court asks Appleby College to reconsider denial of diploma to student Tony Van Alphen A lot of hard school work literally went up in smoke and out the window for student Gautam Setia at prestigious Appleby College in Oakville on the last night of his final year. The 101-year-old private college, whose motto is “reflecting [...]
Via train derailed at four times the speed limit
The following story appeared in today’s Burlington Post Newspaper (March 1, 2012). (http://www NULL.insidehalton NULL.com/community/burlington/article/1308359) Via Rail Train 92 was going more than four times the recommended speed limit when it entered a track crossover and derailed, killing three engineers Sunday, said the Transportation Safety Board of Canada at a press conference this morning. At [...]
Good Samaritan led passengers away from twisted wreckage
‘I could hear people screaming and crying’ By Dennis Smith, Special to The Burlington Post (http://www NULL.insidehalton NULL.com/article/1306110–good-samaritan-led-passengers-away-from-twisted-wreckage) Joe Lacroix was working at his Enfield Road business on Sunday afternoon when the building suddenly shook. “I tell you, it was like an earthquake,” he recalled on Monday. “There was dust coming out of the concrete [...]
Hot Hotels in Suburbia
Power hospitality players call on Jolanta Lukus to make their hotels into distinct masterpieces If you’ve been wondering what Royal Design Inc (http://www NULL.royaldesign NULL.ca). has been up to the past few months, let me assure you that this well-known company based out of Richmond Hill, ON, has been more than busy the past few [...]
Explore the world’s creepiest places – if you dare
By Robin Esrock, Globe and Mail Newspaper BONE CHURCH, CZECH REPUBLIC With a sprinkle of sand from the Holy Land, a 13th-century abbot created one of the most sought-after burial lots in Central Europe – Sedlec Ossuary, in the city of Kutná Hora – eventually resulting in a cemetery and church housing the remains of [...]
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Yngwie Who?
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New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
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Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
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Boston in lockdown
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Bombs dirty and deadly
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You are so amazing and inspirational! I always love your posts! Thank you -
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A very funny, insightful and a wonderfully written "slice of life" documentary d -
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