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A photo of a little girl standing in awe in front of former First Lady Michelle Obama's official portrait is melting collective hearts across the Internet. On Thursday, Ben Hines shared a photo of the girl staring up at Obama's painting in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. "Donna Hines and I made a pilgrimage today and we were delighted to wait in line behind this fellow art lover & hopeful patriot," the post said.
Mamie Hansberry, the sibling of "A Raisin in the Sun" playwright Lorraine Hansberry, talks about her late sister, Wednesday afternoon at Olsons Scandinavian Cafe and Delicatessen, February 21, 2018. Photo for The Daily Breeze/SCNG by Axel Koester.
Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits were unveiled this week at the Smithsonian National Portrait Museum in Washington DC, where they will hang along with portraits of every past US president. Former US President Obama described his portrait by Kehinde Wiley - "known for his Old Master-style depiction of African-Americans," says the BBC - as "pretty sharp" The former first lady chose Amy Sherald, an artist from Baltimore known for painting life-size portraits of black Americans, to paint her portrait.
The rapper was nominated for eight Grammy nominations on Tuesday, Nov. 28. Four of the five album of the y... . FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017 file photo, Kendrick Lamar accepts the award for video of the year for "HUMBLE."
Whether leading efforts to isolate North Korea or hailing cuts to the United Nations budget, Haley's ability to channel Trump's blunt style is prompting fellow U.N. envoys and foreign policy specialists to wonder whether the 45-year-old former South Carolina governor is laying the groundwork to succeed her boss in the Oval Office. U.N. ambassadors from other nations take Haley's "obvious domestic political ambitions" in stride, said Richard Gowan, a U.N. expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Smith has embarked on the first of several trips to bring her poetry to rural pockets of the co... The oldest victim swept away in a California mudslide was Jim Mitchell, who had celebrated his 89th birthday the day before and died with his wife of more than 50 years, Alice. The oldest victim swept away in a California mudslide was Jim Mitchell, who had celebrated his 89th birthday the day before and died with his wife of more than 50 years, Alice.
So, will U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' anti-pot jackboots soon be kicking in the doors of our local pot-friendly bars, yoga studios and massage parlors? Second answer: Yes, Massachusetts Cannabis Commission rules - now in their final draft stage - really would allow pot use at recreational venues like movie theaters and massage spas. Talk about "working your joints."
An Arizona man celebrated for the humanity that was showcased in his photographs of people across the Colorado Plateau and the world has died. John Running died Sunday of complications from a brain tumor at his Flagstaff home, said his daughter, Raechel Running.
Stephen Colbert, right, executive producer of the Showtime animated series "Our Cartoon President," takes part in a panel discussion on the show with fellow executive producer Chris Licht at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Jan. 6, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. Stephen Colbert, right, executive producer of the Showtime animated series "Our Cartoon President," takes part in a panel discussion on the show with fellow executive producer Chris Licht at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Jan. 6, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif.
New York-born Batya Medad made aliyah with her husband just weeks after their 1970 wedding and has been living in Shiloh since 1981. Political pundit, with a unique perspective, Batya has worked in a variety of professions: teaching, fitness, sales, cooking, public relations, photography and more.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? When I saw that headline, I immediately had a hunch and - surprise! surprise! - my hunch was correct: As the year comes to a close, Hollywood releases its final batch of films, many of which will go on to earn plenty of Oscar nominations. One of them is Call Me By Your Name , a coming-of-age drama about a 17-year-old boy who develops a romantic relationship with a 24-year-old man .
The coming union of the Disney and Fox media empires is set to create a new nirvana for fanboys and -girls, one that reunites superheroes and sci-fi characters long separated by an energy barrier of corporate legalism. Take, for instance, the fractured world of Marvel superheroes.
Oprah, Rob Lowe and Katy Perry's family are among thousands evacuated as fire bigger than NYC surrounds wealthy Montecito, kills two and turns so volatile that firefighters have to stand down 'Don't move one inch.
Whether through on-the-ground coverage or finely crafted portraiture, or the portrayal of a bad kiss for a viral short story, their work gave shape and color to the most exciting stories of 2017. out of its capital city, Raqqa, Mauricio Lima travelled to Syria with the reporter Luke Mogelson and embedded with Kurdish revolutionaries, including an all-female unit, as they fought to free the city.
According to Claudio Fuentes, photographer and human rights activist, he's started doing something like ten interviews and they haven't published any of them. Maybe it has to do with that mania he has to be always behind the camera, pointing the lens at the Ladies in White, other activists and even his own friends.
On November 21, 1852, Louise Clappe, a New Englander who had spent a year at a gold-rush mining camp in the Sierra Nevada, looked around in awe as she took her leave of the place. In a letter to her sister, she wrote, "Like an immense concave of pure sapphire without spot or speck, the wonderful and never-enough-to-be-talked-about sky of California drops down upon the whole its fathomless splendor."
These days renowned poet and cultural critic Kevin Young is one of the most reviled and dismissed of figures: He's a learned expert on fakery. The author of "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News" began the book six years ago, long before "fake news" became a depressingly common pejorative.
These tender black-and-white pictures, from the couple's early days in France, show a Julia Child before books, before cooking on television, before fame. of the most significant meals of the last century occurred almost seventy years ago, on November 3, 1948, when Paul and Julia Child, two years wed, arrived in Le Havre on the S.S. America from New York.