Laure Calamy shines at the center of Caroline Vignal’s charming French comedy “My Donkey, My Lover & I,” in a performance that earned her a Cesar Award for best actress in 2021. The original French title of the film is “Antoinette dans les Cevennes,” or “Antoinette in the Cevennes,” a reference to the film’s inspiration, the 1879 book by Robert Louis Stevenson, “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.”
I just mowed ten acres of crunchy grass for my weekly therapy. It didn’t need mowing, except for the weeds, which are thriving during this drought.
There may be some fear that the Supreme Court, now with six conservative justices, will expand the holding in the abortion case (Jackson v. Women’s Health Organization, decided June 24) to other freedoms. There are several prior decisions of the court that could be impacted by the Jackson case, including Griswold v. Connecticut (right of married persons to obtain contraceptives), Eisenstadt v. Baird (right of unmarried persons to obtain contraceptives), Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Washington (right not to be sterilized), Loving v. Virginia (the right to marry a person of a different race), and Lawrence v. Texas (the right to engage in private, consensual sex acts).
I made my way down to the far end of my brother-in-law’s field, and the sun rose higher. It was pushing 100 degrees. From one tree to the next, I scooped 2-year-old Joshua and carried him 20 feet down the line to the next tree, where I carefully planted 20-inch chestnut saplings.
The Mediterranean diet and the ketogenic, or keto, diet have both received praise over the past few years for their abilities to help people lose and maintain weight, as well as cutting blood sugar levels in people with prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
Here’s a Cobb salad with a tropical twist. Ripe juicy mangoes are at the height of their season, and I added them along with shrimp sauteed with coconut to make a refreshing summer salad with a hint of the tropics.
The city of Independence will host an open house Wednesday evening to introduce the final four police chief candidates. The meet-the-candidates event will be 6 to 8 p.m.
From The Examiner during the week of July 17-22, 1972: “DISAGREEMENT ON RAMPS THREATENS SHOPPING CENTER” – “Somebody’s got to give,” Independence City Manager Lyle Alberg emphasized Monday night after the city council learned the major shopping center planned at 39th and Missouri 291 may not be built. Truett C.
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This weekend’s sports broadcast highlights SATURDAY’S TELEVISION • Australian Rules Football: Melbourne at Western, 4 a.m., FS1 (Comcast 43) • Tennis: ATP/WTA Hamburg/ATP Gstaad/WTA Palermo, 4 a.m., Tennis (277) • Australian Rules Football: Gold Coast at Brisbane, 4 a.m., FS2 (740) • Golf: LPGA Amundi Evian Championship, 4:30 a.m., GOLF (27) • Soccer: Paris Saint-Germain vs. Urawa (club friendly), 5 a.m., CBSSN (274) • Cycling: Tour de France (Stage 20), 7 a.m., USA (52) • Golf: Champions Tour Senior British Open, 8 a.m., GOLF (27) • Auto racing: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series CRC Brakleen 150, 11 a.m., WDAF 4 (6) • Golf: Champions Tour Senior British Open, 11 a.m., KSHB 41 (8) • Basketball: TBT: Syracuse Regional: Round of 32, 11 a.m., ESPN (13) • Women’s lacrosse: Athletes Unlimited: Team Read vs.