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From red pandas to crows, zoo animals across the U.S. are painting works of art as part of enrichment programs.
“The Penguin Lessons” does just that, thanks to the balancing act of director Peter Cattaneo — and the Magellanic penguins playing Juan Salvador (the bird is named after Jonathan Livingston ...
The bird is inexpressive but cute. It has a gift for seducing everyone it comes into contact with, not something you could say about Michell. What doesn’t work is any attempt to plumb Michell’s tragic ...
The Boston Red Sox are 1-0 in the Alex Bregman era after an Opening Day win over the Texas Rangers, but we can't really credit their new third baseman. Bregman was held to a frigid 0-for-4 at the ...
“The Penguin Lessons” is more than a silly film about flightless birds. Directed by Peter Cattaneo, the film is adapted from Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name. Delving into ...
“The Penguin Lessons,” starring Steve Coogan, left, and penguins Baba/Richard as Juan Salvador, is inspired by the true story of Tom Michell rescuing a penguin in Uruguay in the 1970s. Photo: Andrea ...
In one of the film’s many implausibilities that you just have to go with, he smuggles the bird to Argentina and ... who take a renewed interest in their lessons. And for Tom himself, who ...
As the debate on a fresh delimitation of legislative constituencies heats up, a number of concerns have been aired along with their solutions, including the very sensible proposal to freeze the ...
Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...
The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...