Category: Bright

Huevos Rancheros

View the print-ready version of this recipe. I fell in love with Huevos Rancheros when my husband and I lived in Mexico.  Don’t miss all my other favorite Mexican recipes. Please tell me you have heard of this incredible dish before? Huevos Rancheros (Spanish for “rancher’s eggs”) is a popular Mexican recipe that’s made up of…


Unpacking Boxes From the Past

A museum’s interest in historic boxes does not depend on whether they still contain their original contents or are now emptied. Scholarly unpacking of these boxes shows the breadth and depth of their materiality, form, function, and beauty. Their exteriors stand on their own, continuing to delight viewers today. A highly prized material in medieval…


‘Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities’

“White flight” is one of those terms that drips with resentment and feeds on self-hatred. As a label for the mass movement of white Americans out of cities during the 20th century, it’s no friendlier than “gentrification,” used to define the reverse movement over recent decades. But many white people, such as “White Fragility” author…


Happy Homecoming for Conjoined Twins After a Complex 6-Hour Separation Surgery

A set of conjoined twin girls are heading home with their parents after a successful separation surgery that involved a complex six-hour procedure requiring a total of 17 specialists in fetal medicine at one of the largest children’s hospitals in the United States. Ella and Eliza Fuller were born via planned cesarean section to parents Sandy and…


Florida Deputies Rescue Nonverbal Child With Autism From Snake-Infested Pond (VIDEO)

Body cameras from two Florida deputies have recorded the heroic rescue of a 4-year-old nonverbal boy with autism from a snake-infested pond. On July 11, at 10:30 a.m., two deputies from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), Deputy Arron Gibson and Deputy Clarissa Brady, were called separately to Valleyridge Court on the busy Thonotosassa Road to follow up on…


Florida Deputies Rescue Nonverbal Child With Autism From Snake-Infested Pond

Body cameras from two Florida deputies have recorded the heroic rescue of a 4-year-old nonverbal boy with autism from a snake-infested pond. On July 11, at 10:30 a.m., two deputies from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), Deputy Arron Gibson and Deputy Clarissa Brady, were called separately to Valleyridge Court on the busy Thonotosassa Road to follow up on…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘3 Godfathers’

NR | 1 h 45 min | Drama, Western | 1948 Several 20th-century filmmakers, among them notably John Ford, took turns bringing Peter B. Kyne’s novella “The Three Godfathers” to the screen: a Westernized retelling of the timeless Biblical Christmas tale of the Three Wise Men. Three robbers flee a posse of Arizona lawmen across…


Smoked Pork Butt

Packed with robust flavors only achievable through hours in the smoker, this dish stays true to the saying that the best things take time. A simple but delicious brown sugar rub is all that’s needed to create the most juicy, tender pork dish perfect for any summer barbeque. Make this dish for a cookout with friends or for a dinner…


New SC Museum Brings Home Black Slavery Experience

By Nedra Rhone From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Charleston—The first time I viewed the Charleston Harbor, I was standing at the former site of Gadsden’s Wharf, where more than 40% of the nation’s enslaved Africans had arrived centuries ago when they were forced into chattel slavery. I stood with my 12-year-old daughter facing the water at…


Dear John, Please Put Down the Toilet Seat!

By Lance Reynolds From Boston Herald A couple grads from Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have finally solved the long-lived bathroom dispute between men and women on how they should leave toilet seats after they’re done using them. The group of five graduates teamed up to form Cleana, a Boston-based technology startup that’s all…