A lot is going on in Colorado culturally right now. If you happen to be planning a visit to the state, you might want to do so around upcoming events and activities. For example, next spring, the Denver Zoo will be privy to an Asian Tropics exhibit (that took $50m to construct), marking the largest […]
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US Town Names
Some Remain “Nameless” Years ago, it wasn’t so easy getting a name for your town in the United States of America. Indeed, in 1880, a very small Travis County community set about the task as they wanted to get a post office in their town. But a post office requires a town name! So the […]
LA Music Awards
Earlier this week, the American Music Awards took place at LA’s Nokia Theatre. At the event, the country picked their favorite musicians. Great music was heard, smiles were seen on the faces of the winners and fun performances graced the evening. Nick Minaj and Taylor Swift won big time, with Swift taking three awards and […]
Wise White Rockians
While New Mexico’s White Rock town may be small geographically, it appears that it is rather large in the brain department. Indeed, the 6,244 population of the town comes up pretty high on the academic scale. Indeed, almost 40 percent of adults living in White Rock have graduate degrees. Next on the list is Eldorado […]
New Lake Champlain Bridge Opened
On Monday, literally hundreds of people gathered on Lake Champlain Bridge to snap photos and celebrate the reconnection of the communities located on either side of the lake. A much anticipated relief, the bridge will allow Vermont residents to return to their normal routines for the first time since the old bridge was closed in […]
Kevin Durant Plays Flag Football With Kids of OKC
On Monday, the NBA Star tweeted “This lockout is really boring…anybody playing flag football in okc… I need to run around or something!” George Overbey, a player on Sigma Nu fraternity’s intramural flag football team at Oklahoma State, replied immediately, with little hopes he’d actually hear back from from Kevin Durant. But he was wrong; […]
Miss South Carolina Sends Message to All Teens
The current Miss South Carolina, Bree Boyce, weighed 234 pounds when she was in high school. Now, she is a 124 lb beauty queen, working to inspire teens to change their lifestyles and start caring for their health.
The Wage Gap in Virginia
A recent report shared that the difference between the top 10% and bottom 10% of earners in Virginia is the widest in thirty years, second only to New Jersey. The report, published by the Commonwealth Institute, revealed that the top 10% made a minimum of 5.7 times more than the bottom earners. Michael Cassidy, the […]
Amanda Knox Returns to Seattle
Amanda Knox has returned home to Seattle, Washington, following her acquittal of the murder of Meredith Kercher. Knox was interrogated and placed in an Italian prison in 2007 after her foreign exchange student roommate was found murdered in their apartment, and has finally been released and sent home. Feeling very emotional, Knox expressed her appreciation […]
Jellyfish Eat Up Fishing Business Along the Coasts of Alabama and Mississippi
Natural disasters have been popping up around the world recently, the latest of which being slightly unusual. Affecting fishermen and shrimpers along the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi, jellyfish have clogged the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico. One year ago, the same fishermen were left to deal with the consequences of the BP […]