Sentences with phrase «desert town»

The paths of two desperate individuals cross in a dusty desert town in the late 1970s.
A historic first for K - 12 school reform might be chronicled tomorrow in the small desert town of Adelanto, two hours east of Los Angeles.
Now the trailer for that failed potential series has gone online and sees the return to the small desert town of Perfection, Nevada where the epidemic of graboids began.
«Growing up in a small desert town on the Mexican border, I had no access to museums or galleries to see original art.
The alleged vandalism incident, as described in a police report filed by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Victor Valley station, gives a glimpse into just how contentious the parent - trigger process became in the small Mojave Desert town of Adelanto, Calif., a city of 32,000 people about 90 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
The problem was especially pronounced in Marfa, Texas — the remote desert town where the minimalist artist had decamped two decades earlier.
With her father Travers Goff (Colin Farrell) and mother Maggie (Ruth Wilson), she's moved to the remote desert town of Allora where her pops is a bank manager.
In California's first two major parent trigger attempts — first at McKinley Elementary in urban Compton and then at Desert Trails Elementary in the tiny desert town of Adelanto — the efforts driven by parent unions proved divisive and hostile.
The little desert town of Marfa makes no logical sense.
Saint Odd By Dean Koontz Bantam • $ 9.99 • ISBN 9780345545893 Odd Thomas returns to the fictional California desert town of Pico Mundo in what as billed as the «final adventure» for Koontz's popular character.
Unearth the true story of green - thumbed pioneer and activist Kate Sessions, who helped San Diego grow from a dry desert town into a lush, leafy city known for its gorgeous parks and gardens.
Catherine (Nicole Kidman) and Matt Parker are trying to adjust to their new life in the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari.
««Breastaurant» Buys Deserted Town, Changes Name to «Bikinis, Texas» Main Baseball Law: Are Teams Negligent for Not Having More Netting to Protect Fans?»
A group of parents at Desert Trails Elementary, located two hours east of L.A. in the dusty desert town of Adelanto, saw months of hard work thrown back in their faces last night.
In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains.
Legal precedents for California's 2 - year - old «Parent Trigger» law, which allows parents to force reform at a failing K - 12 school, are being set every day in the nowhere desert town of Adelanto.
John J. Bramble Tone), the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner (Akim Tamiroff) and a French hambermaid (Baxter) who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel (Erich Von Stroheim) and his German staff.
A Superior Court judge has given the parents in a Mojave Desert town who pulled the state's second «parent trigger» a milestone victory.
In 1996, Eric & Amber Snethen migrated from a nice Orange County California neighborhood to the beautiful desert town of Boulder City Nevada.
Add an assortment of winery tours, family theme parks, and cultural festivals throughout the year and it's easy to see that Canada's only true desert town offers a memorable trip for everyone.
Day 3: [Cabins] Turning north we leave the bitumen and head to the now deserted town of Kingoonya.
Start heading towards Jaipur and en - route visit old deserted town of Mughal Dynasty, Fatehpur Sikri.
Five days from today, nine of my very best girlfriends and I will be descending upon the gorgeous desert town of Palm Springs, CA for a weekend of pool time, floppy hats, and irresponsible amounts of champagne.
That's been the Chinese message throughout the U.N. conference that concludes today in this imperial desert town.
Paul Matuska is the closest thing the American West has to a water cop, and his beat includes Needles, California, a dog - eared desert town midway between Flagstaff, Arizona, and Los Angeles.
The movie leaves behind the sleepy desert town setting of the original and takes place in the world of international racing, which meant having to depict many cars moving through varied tracks and racing surfaces.
Sapphire opened in August the first commercial - scale algae facility in Columbus, N.M., a Southwestern desert town that sits atop vast saltwater aquifers.
Lucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90 - year - old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.
Friends are realizing that they only have each other in their most dire time of need, as a gang of sinister clowns begin stalking them through an otherwise deserted town.
The drought - afflicted desert town of Dirt makes him their sheriff, though it's a poisoned chalice given that the place is actually run by a wily old tortoise who sounds (and looks) like John Huston.
As the sun set behind the mountains in Palm Springs on Tuesday, what had struck me earlier that day as a quaint desert town — save perhaps for the big - name hotels and casinos — took a slight turn.
Charles (Evan Peters) is one such figure, a 17 - year - old living in a late - 1970s desert town in the touching if blandly predictable «Safelight.»
In a barren - looking desert town, a lawman and WW2 vet with only one arm (Spencer Tracy) tries to investigate an act of violence that may be a racially motivated murder.
With two weeks to perfect their plan, Ocean and his eleven accomplices swoop down on the unsuspecting desert town and begin rehearsing for their big event.
In the trailer, seen below, the warrior from a nomadic desert town shows off her many melee attacks.
It's a comedy of awkwardness and sadness, led by the real - life comedian Gregg Turkington as a failing comedian touring small desert towns north of the Mexican border.
His big plans are detoured when he gets impounded in the slow desert town of Radiator Springs.
PAHRUMP, Nevada — A hardscrabble desert town best known for strip - mall casinos and, uh, chicken and mustang ranches with zero chickens or mustangs might seem an unlikely site for celebrating automotive excellence.
We pull into a gas station in Fredonia, a grim little Arizona desert town just south of the Utah border.
Admittedly, many Berber desert towns are popular with tourists; they're reached via the modern - day equivalent to the camel: the air - conditioned bus.
Bestselling YA author Ally Condie's debut middle grade novel transports readers to a small desert town called Iron Creek, in the first summer following an automobile accident that changed 12 - year - old Cedar's life.
It's all about Junie Wye, a smart, sassy 17 - year - old forced to move from San Francisco to an isolated desert town hostile to her father's new job demolishing the last great dam on the Columbia River.
In a near - future wracked by climate change, Junie Wye is an urbane, sassy 17 - year - old forced to move from her big city to a divided desert town.
At first, Palmdale, Calif. seems to be little more than an unassuming desert town.
On the way we pass through another almost deserted town of Terowie, which claims to be the place where General Douglas McArthur proclaimed «He would return» during the Second World War.
In the Outback, visit the lively desert town of Alice Springs, Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Olgas (Kata Tjuta), the Bungle Bungles, Kings Canyon and Windjana Gorge, try bush tucker around a campfire under a vast desert sky glittering with stars and meet the Aboriginal people whose culture has survived for over 40,000 years.
It's been 10 years since I have been to this fascinating desert town on the Western edge of Rajasthan, close to the Pakistan border.
In preparation for upcoming zombie murder simulator Dead Rising 2, developer Blue Castle Games (in partnership with Capcom) is releasing a prequel DLC titled Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, set two years after the events of the first game and featuring Dead Rising 2 protagonist Chuck Greene as he slices, dices and guns his way through hordes of the infected in an overrun desert town.

Phrases with «desert town»

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