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• ‘Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic’ at the Brooklyn Museum (NYT)

  20 février 2015 ( #arts, #Kehinde Wiley, #the USA? Brooklyn )

  You can love or hate Kehinde Wiley’s bright, brash, history-laden, kitsch-tinged portraits of confident, even imperious young black men and women. But it is hard to ignore them, especially right now, with scores of them bristling forth from “Kehinde Wiley:...

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is Closed but Active (from The NYTimes)

  26 mars 2014 ( #arts, #museum, #San Francisco )

  Neal Benezra, the museum’s director, has given a lot of thought to those questions and speaks about short-term sacrifices for long-term gains. He called the transformative new wing by the Norwegian firm Snohetta“necessary — not at all a pipe dream,” given...

• National High-Five Day

  17 avril 2014 ( #gesture, #high five, #high five national day )

  The Gesture’s Low Reaching Roots Long before the high five, there was the low five, although, at the time it was known as “giving skin” and “slapping skin.” The low five started way back in the jazz age and while there seems to be no detailed record of...

• US elections : meet the candidates / meet Barack Obama (part 1)

  16 septembre 2012 ( #barack obama, #politics, #us elections )

  Meet Barack Obama Here’s the scoop on the President’s life AUGUST 27, 2012 By TIME For Kids Staff SAUL LOEB—AFP/GETTY IMAGES Where did Barack Obama grow up? Find out all about his early years Barack Obama, Jr. was born on August 4, 1961, in Hawaii. The...

• Roland Garros French Open gets underway

  28 mai 2012 ( #french open, #roland garros, #tennis )

  Home crowds can elevate their own. Fifth seed Jo Wilfried Tsonga started so sluggishly against the unseeded Russian Andrey Kuznetsov that he lost the first set 6-1. The crowd did a few Mexican waves and an hour or so later, it was au revoir Andrey. Roland...

• US elections : meet the candidates / meet Mitt Romney (part 2)

  16 septembre 2012 ( #mitt romney, #politics, #us elections )

  Meet Mitt Romney Here’s the scoop on Romney’s life AUGUST 27, 2012 By TIME For Kids Staff BILL PUGLIANO—GETTY IMAGES Where did Mitt Romney grow up? Find out all about his early years Willard Mitt Romney was born on March 12, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan....

• International Day of Children's Rights

  06 novembre 2012 ( #children, #international day, #rights )

  FAMILY MUM DAD STEPMOTHER STEPFATHER SON DAUGHTER BABY BROTHER SISTER AUNT UNCLE COUSIN GRANDMOTHER GRANDFATHER RELATIVES T S R B G G F Q C D R S Q E A R M W P C V O M U O B Q T G Z Z I B N S C C O W F S C X E G T S Q R D A D A U G H T E R P R H G H O...

• Fashion : read an article taken from The Guardian about Victoria Beckham

  11 février 2012 ( #fashion, #the guardian, #victoria beckham )

  Here's the thing about Victoria Beckham: of any celebrity I have ever encountered, she is the one who in real life is least like her public image. The character of Victoria Beckham is so well established in popular culture – the Spice Girl who made her...

• Mission District (San Francisco)

  07 mai 2014 ( #Mission District, #San Francisco )

  Mission District (San Francisco) The Mission District, also commonly called "The Mission", is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA, originally known as "the Mission lands" [2] meaning the lands belonging to the sixth Alta California mission,...

• Rugby : comments from Saint-André after the game France - Italy

  05 février 2012 ( #rugby )

  Philippe Saint-Andre only had six training days with his players before his maiden match as France boss Getty Images Saint-Andre far from happy with French performance 5 February 2012, 1:37 pm By Sportsbeat New France boss Philippe Saint-Andre says he...

• "12 Years a Slave" - trailer

  25 janvier 2014 ( #12 years a slave, #cinema, #movie, #Oscar, #slavery, #Solomon Northup, #Steve Mc Queen, #the USA, #trailer, #true story )

  12 YEARS A SLAVE is based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing...

• At the museum : MoMA,The Museum of Modern Art /The Collection (NYC)

  16 janvier 2014

  Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. In 2010, Shore received an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal...

• Summertime, no school = no lunch for millions of American kids

  31 mai 2014 ( #children school, #help, #hunger, #no school = no luch, #poverty, #pupils, #share, #summertime, #the USA )

  It's SUMMERTIME! Summertime is awesome, but unfortunately not for everyone. During the school year, 21 million school children receive free or reduced-price lunch -- but during summer, 90% of those 21 million kids have limited or no access to meals they...

• Britain will soon ban smoking in cars with children

  22 février 2014 ( #ban, #cars, #children, #cigarettes, #health, #illegal, #law, #legal, #smoking )

  AFTER READING WORD SEARCH:Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words 'smoking' and 'ban'. smoking ban TEST EACH OTHER:Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they...

• Coats for Kids program gets youngsters ready for winter (from Anchorage Daily News)

  23 octobre 2013 ( #alaska, #anchorage, #charity, #childre, #children in need, #coats, #firemen, #the USA, #winter )

  About 200 first- and second-graders received new winter jackets through the Firefighters Coats for Kids program at Tyson Elementary School on Monday in Mountain View. Tim Thompson of Alaska Airlines, right, assists a youngster. The Anchorage Firefighters...

• Cartoon : Angela Merkel's cellphone tapped by U.S.

  26 octobre 2013 ( #cellphone, #Germany, #Merkel, #NSA, #Obama, #politics, #spy, #tapped, #the USA )

  BACKGROUND German Chancellor Angela Merkel called US President Barack Obama on Wednesday after receiving information that the US may have spied on her mobile phone. A spokesman for Mrs Merkel said the German leader "views such practices... as completely...

• Learn Halloween vocabulary with this memory game

  12 octobre 2013 ( #black cat, #game, #halloween, #haunted house, #mask, #memory game, #mummy, #pumpkin, #vocabulary )

  http://www.eslgamesplus.com/halloween-vocabulary-esl-memory-game-ghost-mask-pumpkin/ Comme cela est expliqué, il faut faire au moins deux fois le jeu pour 1) mémoriser les mots 2) à la 2ème fois, de nouveaux mots sont proposés. Et pour les plus courageux/...

• Jamie Anderson Olympic Slopestyle Gold Medal Winner Pre-Olympic Interview

  09 février 2014 ( #athletes, #gold medal, #interview, #Jamie Anderson, #Slopestyle Surf, #sports, #surf, #the USA )

  Snowboarder Jamie Anderson, the 2014 Winter Olympic Slopestyle Snowboarding Gold medalist, talks with Michalea breaking down how she qualified for the Olympics at three back to back events at Mammoth Mountain during the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix. We...

• Reuters Video: Aussie family decks the house in half a million Christmas lights (+ transcription)

  23 décembre 2013 ( #Aussie, #Australia, #Christmas, #house, #lights, #Oz, #records, #Reuters )

  REPORTER: Ever wondered what your house might look like covered in half a million Christmas lights? Well, the Richards family found out. They draped 502,165 lights around their home in Australia, and in doing so, they set a new Guinness World Record for...

• 'Geezer Bandit' Unsolved 3 Years Later

  26 novembre 2013 ( #crime, #FBI, #investigation, #police, #reward, #San Diego, #the Geezer bandit, #wanted notice )

  It has been three years since one of San Diego’s most notorious bank robbers began his crime spree. The so-called Geezer Bandit, responsible for 15 bank robberies throughout California, hasn't been caught. Now, one of the investigators with the FBI believes...

• Lou Reed, A perfect Day (+lyrics)

  28 octobre 2013 ( #a perfect day, #death, #lou reed, #lyrics, #rock, #singer, #song, #the USA )

  Lyrics Just a perfect dayDrink sangria in the parkAnd then later, when it gets darkWe go home Just a perfect dayFeed animals in the zooThen later a movie, tooAnd then home Oh, it's such a perfect dayI'm glad I spent it with you Oh, such a perfect dayYou...

• Who is Hopper?

  09 octobre 2012 ( #art, #exhibition, #exposition, #hopper, #painter, #painting, #paris, #usa )

  Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker . While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching . Both in his urban...

• This is Derby!

  13 janvier 2015 ( #athletes, #derby, #roller derby, #rollers, #skating, #sports, #women )

  “In roller derby, you can be any shape and make yourself a powerful version of that shape and be celebrated for that.” -Kamikaze Kitten Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track....

• "A Long Hungry Look", forgotten photos by Gordon Banks (from The NYT)

  28 décembre 2014 ( #1950's, #artist, #Gordon Banks, #photos, #segregation, #the New York Times, #the USA )

  BOSTON — In 1950, Gordon Parks was the only African-American photographer working for Life magazine, a rising star who was gaining the power to call his own shots, and he proposed a cover story both highly political and deeply personal: to return to Fort...

• If you want to read some British Young Adults Classics...

  11 novembre 2014 ( #advice, #books, #children books, #lists, #literature, #reading, #young adults book )

  Books mentioned in this video: A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian. GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.com/Little-... Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge. GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3......