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The elevated Haitian cuisine at Kann earned the chef Gregory Gourdet two of his three James Beard Foundation awards.
In a city besotted with farmers’ markets, the Saturday PSU Farmers Market is the biggest, and the only one that operates year-round.
Its diverse music scene has birthed talents ranging from Everclear to the Decemberists to Aminé.
Its dining scene is one of the country’s finest.
Next year, offerings expand when the James Beard Public Market opens across 38,000 square feet downtown.
Portland’s reputation for weirdness is warranted: Its annual can’t-miss event is a naked bike ride.
Local artists turned a dead mall’s D.M.V. office into a creative co-working space.
Lin-Manuel had seen the discourse around the musical shift in an altered environment before.
The only way to deal with it is to stick with your collaborators and write something.
The world that received “Hamilton” in July 2020, however, was not the world that had made it the toast of the 2016 Tony Awards.
As “Hamilton” celebrates 10 years on Broadway, the filmed version of the musical will be released in movie theaters nationwide and in Puerto Rico beginning Sept. 5.
The UN independent, international Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela has thoroughly documented hundreds of cases of extrajudicial executions; enforced disappearances; arbitrary detentions; and torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment committed in the country since 2014.
Venezuela has been suffering a deep and multidimensional human rights crisis for at least ten years.
Amnesty International has denounced grave human rights violations and also crimes under international law, including crimes against humanity, and an ongoing complex humanitarian emergency, both of which have forced over 25% of the country’s population to flee abroad.
It is unconscionable that almost 200 children are now among the thousands of victims of Nicolas Maduro’s decade-long policy of repression and persecution.
Four months on, at least 198 children remain subjected to either unfair detention, trumped up criminal charges, or the serious mental and physical consequences of abuse perpetrated by the Venezuelan authorities.
We demand the immediate and unconditional release and redress for all children currently suffering the endless cruelty of the Venezuelan authorities.
Amnesty International published new research today exposing the arbitrary detention, torture, ill treatment, and gross violations of the right to a fair trial of six children in Venezuela committed between 29 and 31 July.
Elizabeth Preston is the author of “The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care,” publishing on May 5.
Around 45 percent of students at the city’s public schools are Asian, up from 13 percent more than a decade ago.
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