Winners of the medallion must be citizens of the island state, or longtime residents or married to a Singaporean, and whose ...

Valerie Mahaffey's daughter Alice Ziolkoski is an actress in her own right. Ziolkoski, who has acted in movies like " The Witch Files ," posted a sweet tribute to the actress, who passed away at the ...

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To most people, the salient qualities of Gertrude Stein are unreadability combined with monumental self-belief. This is the ...

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Alice Toklas, only three years younger than Stein and also America-born, moved to Paris at the age of 29, some time after the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake in 1906 destroyed her family’s ...

The book is full of dynamic characters – including Stein’s friend Pablo Picasso – and much of the story focuses on Stein’s lover and longtime companion, Alice B Toklas. They called each ...

Gerturde Stein and Alice B. Toklas aboard the S.S. Champlain ocean liner ... imagines scenes in the life of Willia Marie Simone, a young African American woman from Harlem who arrives in Paris in the ...

Berners invited Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, to England to work on ... named for Stein’s Mexican terrier. Played by a younger dancer, Pepe acts as a surrogate of sorts for his ...