When I ask him to summarize his workday for the past 21 years as associate director and chief curator of the Crocker Art Museum—the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi (and one of the most modern, as we’ll discover in a moment)—Scott Shields grins.
The book is subtitled “The Next Stage of Jobs for Adults with Autism, ADHD, and Other Learning and Mental Health Deficiencies.” Released by Skyhorse Publishing and available at amazon.com, it’s a collaboration between Vismara and Michael Bernick.
In a number of industries, it’s often said that a new product or idea has “legs”—meaning it’ll be around for a long time to come. That must be good news for Jennifer Forsberg Meyer, whose new essay collection has four of them.
A small irony to me is that the only near-memorable song in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” is called “Memory.”
From her double-wide trailer in North Highlands—a somewhat drab, low-income residential and industrial area which includes a decommissioned U.S. Air Force base reinvented as a business park—Christine L. Villa creates richly colorful worlds populated by curious kids and talking animals.
Like many of you, I’ve been following the ongoing tale of Bill and Melinda Gates’s domestic worries with equal parts empathy, anger and apathy. The latter part is beginning to swallow up the first two parts. But there’s still time to comment before I nod off.
A poet laureate spreads the word about art—and a notable First LadyBy Ed Goldmanhile she lives in Eliot, Maine, Tammi J. Truax is the poet laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. But, she says, “I work in Portsmouth and when I leave my cottage, I...
Companies can waste a great deal of time and money—and doubtless, staples, paperclips and Ticonderoga Number 2 pencils—making bad hires.
It was reported recently in every conceivable news outlet, on all social media websites, via carrier puffins and by zombie Pony Express riders that Prince Harry—aka, the Duke or Duck of Sussex, depending on how badly you suffer from Anglophilia—has been hired by the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder.
Michele Hillen-Noufer, founding executive director of the NorCal School of the Arts, tells me she loves what she’s doing so much that she doesn’t miss acting. I’m not sure acting doesn’t miss her, however. She had a dramatic range and projected an incandescent beauty on stage that were rare and compelling—never more in evidence (for me, anyway) than when she played the tragic Desdemona in a production of “Othello” at the Sacramento Theatre Company some years ago. A small, slender woman with the face and grace of a ballerina, she was all you watched—even in other shows that mandated she be a humble ensemble player.
