Wilderness Travel: Hiking Oregon’s Timberline Trail

Kraig Adams Films (August 13, 2023) – Timberline Trail is a hiking trail around Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is mostly in wilderness but also goes near Timberline Lodge, Cloud Cap Inn, and Mount Hood Meadows ski area.

Video timeline: 00:00 Timberline Lodge 1:12 Ramona Falls – Day 1 (28 miles) 7:33 Cloud Cap – Day 2 (14 miles) 10:28 Panorama Ridge 12:36 Vancouver13:23 Timberline Trail behind the scenes 15:56 Portland

Preview: “On The Verge Of” AI-Generated Short Film

Arts & Architecture Films (August 13, 2023) – ‘On the Verge of’ is an AI-Generated short film by Feen’Arts. It is the cinematic exploration of what Post-AI world would look like, inspired by the works of Manuel Hector Coto This short film is solely made using AI based language models.

Travel Guide: A One-Day Tour Of Trieste In Italy

DW Travel (August 13, 2023) – DW reporter Meggin Leigh tours Trieste, the capital city of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. A port city, it occupies a thin strip of land between the Adriatic coast and Slovenia’s border on the limestone-dominated Karst Plateau.

Video timeline: 00:00 Intro 00:22 Coffee at Antico Caffé Torinese 00:54 Piazza Unità d’Italia 01:16 Piazza della Borsa 01:32 Teatro Romano di Trieste 02:52 Arco di Riccardo 03:43 Old Town 04:18 Lunch at Buffet da Pepi restaurant 05:39 Grand Canal and the memorial of James Joyce 06:52 La Bomboniera pastry shop 07:47 Miramare castle

Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Slovenian influences are all evident in its layout, which encompasses a medieval old city and a neoclassical Austrian quarter.

2023 Exhibitions: ‘Banksy – Cut & Run’ In Glasgow

CBS Sunday Morning (August 13, 2023) – Putting together the first authorized exhibition in 14 years of works by the anonymous street artist Banksy required extensive planning and a cover story to hide its true identity until it opened, unannounced, in Glasgow this summer.

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The show will feature work from across his career titled CUT & RUN: 25 years card labour! Stencils from 2008 until 2023 are on display at this historic event.

Correspondent Seth Doane explores the art and the mysteries of Banksy’s world, including the continued speculation about the artist’s true identity, a closely-held secret for decades.

Sunday Morning: Stories And News From London, Helsinki And Istanbul

August 13, 2023 – Emma Nelson, Nina dos Santos and John Everard unpack the weekend’s hottest topics. Plus: check-ins with Petri Burtsoff in Helsinki and Hannah Lucinda Smith in Istanbul.

Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine — SEPT 2023

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Harper’s Magazine – September 2023: This issue features Justin E. H. Smith’s Elegy for Gen X; Zadie Smith and the Gen X novel; The Rise and Fall of an Iranian Exile and John Jeremiah Sullivan plumbs the Depths…

My Generation

Anthem for a forgotten cohort

by Justin E. H. Smith

Man Called Fran

Plumbing, the depths

by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Waiting for the Lights

The life of an Iranian exile

by Amir Ahmadi Arian

The New York Times — Sunday, August 13, 2023

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For President Biden, a Political Liability That May Not Go Away Soon

President Biden has defended his son Hunter in the past.

The collapse of a plea deal and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden mean the president could face political fallout for months to come.

Inexpensive Add-on Spawns a New Era of Machine Guns

Caison Robinson, 14, survived multiple gunshot wounds from a shooting near his home in Las Vegas.

Popular devices known as “switches” are turning ordinary pistols into fully automatic weapons, making them deadlier and a growing threat to bystanders.

The Iowa State Fair Saw Many G.O.P. Candidates but Only One Trump

Donald J. Trump asserted his dominance in Iowa on Saturday as he squared off against his closest rival, Ron DeSantis, in the Super Bowl of retail politics.

How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox

Declining rainfall, rising temperatures and invasive species have left the islands more susceptible to wildfires.