Seven girls will compete in the 23rd annual Little Miss Black Joliet Pageant at 6 p.m. Saturday at Joliet Central High School Auditorium.Advance tickets are $12 or $10 for children age 12 and younger and seniors age 62 and up. Tickets are $15 for everyone at the door.The Little Miss Black Joliet Pageant was organized in January of 1983 by the late Robert J. Johnson and the Hill Memorial Center's Advisory Board. The pageant is designed to help young girls develop charm and...
She has played an Irish frontier woman, an all-singing and dancing French escort and Virginia Woolf, and it was announced yesterday that Nicole Kidman is to add a decidedly glamorous role to her CV - to be the face of Chanel No 5.The Oscar-winning actor, once most famous for being Mrs Tom Cruise (they divorced in 2001), will reunite with fellow Australian Baz Luhrmann, who directed her in Moulin Rouge, to film the adverts this December in Australia. They will be screened and published in...
BARRICADES across roads in Rwanda's government-held area can be death traps if you are not from the right ethnic or political group. In a single day of traveling across this French-protected humanitarian zone in southwestern Rwanda, this reporter passed through nearly 40 barricades. Only one was manned by the French.The rest were guarded by armed remnants of Rwanda's mostly Hutu Army or civilians armed with machetes. Often consisting of simply a pole across the...
With a Twist $6.95, Focus Books AUSSIE bartender Naren Young has created this simple cocktail guide.With a Twist contains over 500 recipes for cocktails, mocktails, mixed drinks and snacks.``We've included all the oldies, my favourite the manhattan, the bloody mary, long island ice tea, many variations of the martini and so on. ``We've also searched the world for the hottest modern mixes,'' Young said.Recipes are indexed by...
Our sugar house has recently been abuzz with folks from all over the world coming to learn about maple sugarin'. I love talking to them and learning about their cultures and occupations. Like the different grades of Vermont maple syrup, there are such varied personalities out there. Most of my sugarhouse conversations tie, in one way or another, to a comparison with maple sugarin' in Vermont. The other day a tired-looking, elderly woman from England approached me after...