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Issue 51 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our July and August 2023 online issues. It includes contributions from conservation biologist Zhengyang Wang, science writer Alla Katsnelson, astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli, writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams, and more. This issue also features a new illustration by Jennifer Bruce.
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Issue 50 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our May and June 2023 online issues. It includes contributions from environmental journalist Charles Digges, neuroscientist Anil Seth, a special section highlighting Facts So Romantic from each previous print issue, and more. This issue also features new illustrations by James Yang and Jorge Colombo.
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To keep our kids safe, there will be no trick-or-treating on Halloween this year. See below for alternate events and times in your area.
Morris County
A Trunk-or-Treat will be held in the parking lot behind St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on Saturday, October 7, at 3 p.m.
Jackson County
Trick-or-Treating will be held (quietly!) in the stacks at the Jackson County Library from 9 to 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, October 15.
Furlow County
Harry Potter-themed Trick-or-Treating will be held in the empty “Diagon” alley behind Tony’s Auto Repair & Smoke Shop on Wednesday, October 25, from 5:15 to 6 p.m.
Samoy County
A Trick-or-Treat will be held in the condemned warehouse at the corner of Coulton and Maynard on Friday, October 27, from 6 to 7 p.m.
KING Tide Breweries and The National Cartoon Gallery have joined forces to share the joys of celebrating cartoonery. As a lead up to the 35th Rotary Cartoon Awards to be held at the National Cartoon Gallery from 24 November, King Tide Brewing has teamed up with the National Cartoon Gallery to create a pop-up gallery...
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ALL manner of lovingly created items using fabrics and threads will be on show at Coffs Quilters and Needlecraft Inc. (CQ&N) Members Exhibition. Displayed in the Norm Jordan Centre, Coffs Harbour Showground on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October, members will be manning tables and mingling to chat with visitors about their creations and the...
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KOI, Bonsais and Bromeliads are stars of the show at an exhibition hosted by Vitality Bloom Nursery in Boambee, running from 9am to 4pm Friday 20 through to Sunday 22 October. An extensive range of bonsais and bromeliads will be on show, many of which are supplied by the Coffs Harbour Tokonoma Bonsai Society. Advertise...
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NOT everyone’s bowl is filled these days, a fact the local Coastal Claymakers are working towards changing for at least one day through their Empty Bowls fundraiser. Hosted at Bellingen Riverside Cottages, people come along and browse through the locally made bowls, select one and then have it filled with salads and crusty bread. Advertise...
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IT’S ON, the Coffs Harbour & District Eisteddfod’s 52nd competitive performance will take to the stage in May and June 2024. With the organisers’ AGM held in September, the committee is in place with another year of planning is underway thanks to the support of the valued volunteers. Advertise with News of The Area today....
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IN 1870 a young Finnish seaman named Carl Frederik Doepel jumped ship in Sydney and found his way to the Bellinger River. Fred, as he was generally known, met Mary Ann McNally and they married in 1886, with a family of nine children to follow. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...
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To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our favorite former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today features the glorious return of Tendency legend Ben Greenman, who wrote several fake musicals for us between 2000 and 2012, many of which can be found here. Others can be read in our 2012 collection The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals.
[KEVIN McCARTHY, facing a government shutdown, cuts a deal with House Democrats. He is proud while facing cameras, but when he turns away, there is terror in his eyes.]
Russian offensive military campaigns in eastern Ukraine have been partly behind a 90% increase in Russian casualties recorded by Ukraine, according to an intelligence update from the UK Ministry of Defence.
Russia has been carrying out offensive operations in the area of Avdiivka, a small city just to the north of Donetsk.
We’ll note first that UK intelligence has been just a wee bit biased. So if they say 90%, well, take it with a tablespoon of salt.
There are few groups in history who have suffered as many waves of dispossession and displacement in such a short period as the Palestinian people. On May 15 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homeland and over 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed in what is known as the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’. The […]