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Immigrant faces captured in life-sized portraits by artist Betsy Ashton look the viewer straight in the eye, as if eager to tell their stories of leaving home to brave new struggles in a strange land.

By Dyrinda TysonFor The Oklahomandyrinda@gmail.comIf “going green” brings up images of solar panels on the roof and electric cars parked in the driveway, chances are you’re overthinking it. Marla Esser Cloos, of The Home Green Coach/Sustaining Spaces, said she always starts off clients with one basic question: “What is really important to you with your home?” She builds on her work from there. “It’s like anything else,” she said.

By Brandy McDonnellThree-time Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum-selling group Pentatonix - which includes former University of Oklahoma student Kirstin Maldonado - delivers an effervescent cover of Cosmo Sheldrake's "Come Along.

Helen H. Richardson, The Denver PostMolly Jansen, a recent contestant on the popular Discovery reality show “Naked and Afraid,” is photographed at her home on March 18, 2019 in Denver. Molly Jansen can’t reveal much about her time on “Naked and Afraid,” the six-year-old Discovery Channel series famous for putting au naturel competitors in brutal, do-or-die environments. But she did say the secretive, month-long separation from her family — and civilization-at-large — nearly killed her.

In Amsterdam South, a newly renovated office building with a shimmering silver roof has achieved BREEAM Outstanding, a green building rating that arguably makes the property the most sustainable adaptive reuse project in the Netherlands. Formerly a neglected office complex, the empty building was transformed in the hands of Dutch architectural firm Benthem Crouwel Architects and now serves as the energy-positive offices for Goede Doelen Loterijen (Dutch Charity Lotteries). A major goal of the new Goede Doelen Loterijen office was to gather the company’s approximately 600 employees — who had been distributed at different branches for years — into a single location.

When Medellín-based architecture studio Juan Manuel Peláez Arquitectos (JUMP Arquitectos) visited its client’s property in nearby Colombian town of La Ceja, the team was so impressed with the landscape that they resolved to minimize alterations to the site. To that end, they adapted the built forms to the uneven terrain by splitting the residence — dubbed the C47 House — into three gabled volumes united by two glazed bridges.

By Brandy McDonnellThe Sixth Annual Oklahoma City Jazz Festival will celebrate OKC's rich jazz history throughout the month of April at various locations around the city. As previously reported, the festival will include a special performance by jazz and hip-hop violinist Lucine Fyelon April 13 at the Auditorium at Douglass to benefit Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer Byron Berline.

The household cleaning aisle at the store features dozens of spray cleaners for different surfaces, and the ingredient lists are a mile long with chemical names that are impossible to pronounce. While many of those cleaners are effective for getting rid of dirt and germs, some of the chemicals inside are environmental hazards.

By Brandy McDonnellToday's featured event:The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, is celebrating decades past with its monthly Third Thursday event from 5 to 9 p.m.

DEAR ABBY: For several years, my husband and I were good friends with "Pam" and "David.

Staff reportsKINGFISHER — A Barn Quilt workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Oh, deer! DEAR MELBA: It's always barbecue time, and right now it's really time for barbecued venison. VENISON POT BBQ •About 5 pounds venison (boned or bone-in meat that has lots of gristle) •2 strong onions, quartered •2 cooking apples, quartered •6 stalks celery •1 tablespoon salt •1 tablespoon black pepper •1 cup barbecue sauce •1 cup ketchup •2 tablespoons Louisiana hot sauce •1/2 cup water Put meat in electric Crock pot.

Swedish architectural practice Wingårdh Arkitektkontor converted a large old farm in the south of Sweden into a holiday home with a cozy woodland cabin atmosphere. Commissioned by a family who reside in the nearby city of Malmö, the countryside retreat was fashioned as a luxurious escape into nature built predominately with timber and designed to embrace views of the lush forest through floor-to-ceiling glazing.

Crafted to embrace spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean, the Ziering Residence is defined by its dramatically curved architecture and walls of glass. Local practice SPF: architects designed the contemporary house that’s perched high in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and engineered to take advantage of passive systems, including cooling ocean breezes and the thermal mass of concrete floors.

Any time we cover generational trends, the overwhelming reader response is that millennials aren’t different: They’re passing through the same phases as other generations, but a hysterical media is interpreting each stage as a groundbreaking consumer trend. When they’re 20, the theory goes, millennials were said to not be having children.

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