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Month: February 2015

1920s Movie Palace Restored

February 4, 2015 – Following a two-year, $95-million renovation, a celebrated 1920s movie palace reopened Tuesday in the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.  Diana Ross’ opening night performance in the 3,200-seat Kings Theatre was sold out. With gilded décor inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House, the theater first opened just weeks before the Wall Street crash of 1929.  It was […]

World War II “Devil’s Brigade” Honored

February 4, 2015 – More than 40 surviving veterans of a unique American-Canadian prototype Special Forces unit from World War II received the Congressional Gold Medal Tuesday.  The medal is the U.S. government’s highest civilian award. The elite outfit trained at a U.S. Army base in Montana to conduct nighttime raids requiring skills in mountain climbing, amphibious […]

“To Kill a Mockingbird” Sequel

February 4, 2015 – Novelist Harper Lee, 88, will be publishing her second novel after the long-lost manuscript from the 1950s was discovered last year.  “Go Set a Watchman” was written before “To Kill a Mockingbird.”  It features Scout Finch as an adult.  The manuscript was set aside when Lee’s editor preferred the flashback sequences and urged the novice author to write […]

The King’s Highway in Hawaii

February 1, 2015 – Hawaii’s King’s Highway, a beautiful and sometimes challenging 220-mile trade route forged 500 years ago along the Maui coast, has mostly faded away with time.  Photographer Daniel Sullivan has captured the beauty of the trail in a book of 100 photographs taken during a 2013 trek.  King Pi’ilani, who ruled Hawaii in the 16th […]