Kevin Dobson, founder, director and on track to be the first principal of the yet-to-be-built Capital College & Career Academy (CCCA), says he works out most mornings at 4:30 “mainly because I love to eat.”
Among the instruments musician and private teacher Chet Chwalik plays are the trumpet and piano. He sometimes plays them simultaneously.
Legendary guitarist, likely racist and noted simpleton Eric Clapton has taken the courageous stand that he won’t play any concerts at which attendees must prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19, or its increasing number of spin-offs.
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...
