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“What creature is that?” Lauren Ambrose asked, craning her neck during a video interview from her home in the Berkshires. “I see this, like, crazy hawk sitting on a tree outside my window. It just caught my eye.” The setting was fitting, since Ambrose is about to become bonded with, and haunted by, the natural world. Joining the cast of “Yellowjackets,” Showtime’s thriller about a girls’ soccer team stranded in the wilderness and pushed to the extremes, she plays the adult version of Van, short for Vanessa, one of the lucky and savvy few to make it to middle age. Ambrose, who also stars in the Apple TV+ series “ Servant ,” was excited by the opportunity to help create a character (played in her teenage years by Liv Hewson) and by the women she said she’s grown up watching. “I love looking at the call sheet and seeing that the top chunk is all of these incredible women who I’ve admired and whose careers I’ve followed — who’ve influenced me so much as actors,” she said. … [Read more...] about Lauren Ambrose Just Wants to Go to French Clown School

0 Politics & Government Patch is providing candidate profiles for the April 4, 2023 election. Samantha Gasca is running for Board of Education for New Lenox D122. Lauren Traut , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply Patch is providing candidate profiles for several races in the area. If you are a candidate seeking an opportunity to complete our profile form, please email [email protected] Please note your position sought. Name: Samantha Gasca Age as of Election Day : 35 Town/city of residence: New Lenox School district: New Lenox District 122 Family: Hi there! This is a somewhat difficult question as I oftentimes feel the assumption is I am married or have children; however, I have neither. I simply care very much about children as I grew up being severely abused sexually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. For this reason, I became somewhat of a child advocate. … [Read more...] about New Lenox District 122 Board Candidate Samantha Gasca: Election ’23

The following is the full text of President Obama’s victory speech on Wednesday (Transcript courtesy of the Federal News Service). PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. (Sustained cheers, applause.) Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. (Cheers, applause.) It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family, and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people. (Cheers, applause.) Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and … [Read more...] about Transcript of President Obama’s Election Night Speech

64 Politics & Government Bo Jackson's tournament dome plans are that "he's developing these things where they have hotels, restaurants and recreation," D'Arcy said. John Ferak , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Replies The New York Times ran a ran story in 1979, announcing that the U.S. Steel plant, Joliet's second-largest private employer, was shutting down. It's along Ohio Street. Roughly 160 to 180 people attended Monday's "Town Hall With Terry" D'Arcy at Stone City VFW. D'Arcy, who hopes to become Joliet's mayor, suggested Joliet needs a Bo Jackson sports facility at the old U.S. Steel property. JOLIET, IL — During his annual state of the city presentation two weeks ago, Joliet Mayor Bob O'Dekirk revealed plans to draw a car battery recycling plant and green energy jobs to the long abandoned U.S. Steel plant . On Monday night, O'Dekirk's opponent, Terry D'Arcy, suggested Joliet … [Read more...] about Bo Jackson Dome For Joliet? Terry D’Arcy Draws Crowd To Town Hall

To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . T he last stranger Adriene Mishler hugged before the pandemic was a woman who may or may not have sideswiped her car. It was Friday, the 13th of March, and Mishler, a YouTube yoga celebrity with more than eight million subscribers, was driving back to her house in Austin, Texas. It was exactly a week after the city canceled the annual South by Southwest festival. A female driver in a tan or gold sedan scraped the side of Mishler’s vehicle and, instead of pulling over like a decent person, raced off. The yoga guru gave chase. “I was not going to chew them out,” Mishler said a few weeks later, reflecting on the incident. “I didn’t give a [expletive] about exchanging insurance or anything — well, obviously I did.” But that wasn’t the point of catching the driver. The point was to have a conversation with that person about the importance of goodness and accountability … [Read more...] about The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga

close Video Murdaugh son’s dead classmate to receive autopsy after found dead near Murdaugh property in 2015 Fox News senior correspondent Laura Ingle reports on the family of the deceased Stephen Smith, a classmate of Buster Murdaugh, raising enough money to receive an independent autopsy after he was found dead near the Murdaugh estate in 2015. Buster Murdaugh, Alex Murdaugh 's eldest son, is speaking out against what he describes as "baseless rumors" surrounding the 2015 death of his high school classmate, Stephen Smith. "These baseless rumors of my involvement in Stephen's death are false," he said in a Monday statement shared by his family's attorney, Jim Griffin, on Twitter. Video Smith, who was 19 at the time of his death, was killed in what police initially described as a hit-and-run just miles from the Murdaughs' Islandton, South Carolina, hunting property called Moselle, where Alex fatally shot his wife, Maggie, and … [Read more...] about Buster Murdaugh blasts ‘baseless rumors’ surrounding 2015 death of classmate Stephen Smith