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‘Didi’ is a warm, nostalgic hug straight from 2008

Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three things — all while keeping the story of a child of immigrants at its heart — are harder to ...

What’s Flying: Take some time to yourself and enjoy a warm day

“Warm summer sun,/ Shine kindly here,/ Warm southern wind,/ Blow softly here.” – Mark Twain in “Warm Summer Sun” Summer has settled in and marches on. The unfortunate new part of summer in the Upper Peninsula has also arrived – high atmospheric smoke form forest fires in the ...

A look at heat records that have been broken around the world

This year has already seen many heat records broken as the world grows hotter with more and more greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere. For many places, the highest temperatures since record-keeping began have come in just the last 10 to 15 years. That’s the clearest possible sign that ...