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Nicole Pedro has been hearing stories about Up With People her whole life. Her parents, Jay Pedro and Mia Pauwels, toured with the performance group in the 1990s. “They’re always talking about the good times they had,” the 18-year-old said. “I think ...

Bruno Rocca puts it this way, “Paradoxically, our goal is not to ‘make wine’ but to guide its evolution to help it best express itself. Our land, not the producer, is inscribed on the wine.” Documents show that the Rocca family were in the town of Ba...

Friends since middle school, Denae Burchall and Zoe Smith talk — and sometimes argue — about everything. Current events, their friends’ love lives, nothing is sacred. Figuring there had to be other people just like them they started a podcast with he...

Dying is something a lot of people would rather not think about. Robin Sidders had no choice. Doctors had recently told her mother, Bobby Lea McPhee, that she had stage four melanoma and that it was inoperable; that she had only a few weeks to live. ...

Cecille Snaith-Simmons’s grandson left for school and she began mailing him handwritten letters every two weeks. She didn’t realise what she was letting herself in for. When Nasir came home on a break from his studies at United World College, he not...

Stephanie Hill is not ashamed to say a lot of people have slept with her over the years, or at least in her beds. Roman centurions, lords and ladies, musicians — they’ve all been guests at the bed and breakfast she ran in Somerset, England. “Over the...

If you haven’t yet bought a ticket for Annie, do so. Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s production, now on at City Hall, is fantastic, although you should expect a few surprises if you’ve only seen the 1982 film. This one is based on the 1977 Tony Award-wi...

At 1am, while many of us are fast asleep, Toney Edmonds is out on the road running, or riding his bike. Before he goes, he eats a home-made muffin; when he returns, he has oatmeal. “I’m simple like that,” the 48-year-old said. His wife, Victoria, o...

During a recent meeting with the special events co-ordinator of one of our fine-art galleries, I commented that she, like myself, has devoted her time to understanding unnecessary things. In her case, I refer to various coloured liquids applied to ...

As her guy friends hunted fish with knives and spears, Taylor Barit looked on wondering if she also had what it took to go for the kill. She decided she did. Within a week she had a fishing licence and a 10ft spear. Her first catch, off Shelly Bay S...