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25 Oct

Backyard Naturalist: Birds and portents

A pileated woodpecker in western Maine. Andrew Hrycyna photo, via GBIF A commotion of flapping erupted within the trees along the sting of the woods where I used to be walking last week. Then what gave the impression of a forest war cry. Plain as day in an alder thicket 20 or 30 yards away, a big black body as big as a crow with a vibrant red head. It was a pileated woodpecker. It sounded the war cry again. That red top, vibrant and conspicuous within the tree. A chill rippled in my back. It was as if the bird desired to be seen. I watched it work within the branches. I wondered what it was attempting to say. Then it...
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8 Jul

First Indignant Birds Retail Café to Open in Latest

BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER: With greater than 25 billion downloads and 25 million-plus social media followers, Indignant Bird has evolved into greater than an amusing mobile game. The most recent sign of that burgeoning enterprise, which incorporates two feature movies and a Netflix series, is the opening of the primary Indignant Birds retail café. Interestingly (and strategically), the iSwii by Indignant Birds outpost won't be based in the guts of the tourist-flooded Times Square, but in Flushing, Queens. The three,300-square-foot space debuts Saturday inside Tangram, a 1.2 million-square-foot engaging mixed-use development. Within the Instagrammable café, shoppers and Indignant Bird players can attempt to buy the stylish bubble teas and pastries, do some gaming, buy Indignant Birds merchandise and, after...
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27 Jun

Pasifika Artist Niki Hastings-McFall Takes Us Inside Her Auckland

Courtesy of Niki Hastings-McFall. Recent Zealand artist Niki Hastings-McFall (b. 1959) began her profession as a jeweler, fabricating adornments that drew from her Samoan and Pākehā heritage. Over the a long time, the artist’s creations have evolved in additional sculptural dimensions and she or he has turn out to be well-known for her “lei bombing” installations, through which a whole lot of nylon floral lei are strung together to form sweeping installations that play with ideas of organic and kitsch in addition to questions of the Western gaze. Today, Hastings-McFall is thought to be one in every of the leading contemporary artists who's...
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