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- Carlos Alcala: Huge endowment sought for Center school district (The Sacramento Bee)
That's real money: While Davis, a fairly affluent community, struggles to raise $4 million to close a budget gap, the president of the Center Unified School District is proposing a district foundation that will raise (deep breath) $150 million.
- Robert Shortt Web-chat (RTÉ News)
RTÉ's Washington correspondent Robert Shortt gave a live webchat from Austin, Texas, on Wednesday 5 March at 2pm. Read Robert's answers below. Robert: Hi, Robert Shortt here. It's a beautiful, clear morning here in Texas.
- Seasonal poetry contest underway - Newsdurhamregion.com
Newsdurhamregion.comSeasonal poetry contest underwayNewsdurhamregion.com, Canada - 5 minutes agoWith a change in season, it’s time for a poetry contest just in time for spring. If you’re in Grades 6 to 8, here’s your chance to write a poem about the ...
- A small tale of democracy (The Borneo Post)
A TIMELY question in this heady season of politics would be: where has all this business of democracy, voting, and changing of government come from? This question has become all the more urgent in an age when the young seems to have lost their sense of history.
- Books: Bird-watching and 'the Jewish question' (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
No doubt because I once worked at a Jewish newspaper and have written a novel about a woman rabbi -- not to mention a work of nonfiction called "The Talmud and the Internet" -- I am sometimes asked if my new book about bird-watching, "The Life of the Skies," is a Jewish book.
- Acts More Important than Numbers - On Faith
Acts More Important than NumbersOn Faith, DC - 1 hour agoIt has been said that prayer without action is simply poetry. The loss of membership which for some has caused them whistfully to retreat to the unreality ...
- City Week (Tucson Weekly)
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
- From Andover to India: Lunch is delivered - Andover Townsman
From Andover to India: Lunch is deliveredAndover Townsman, MA - 5 hours agoThe dancers will perform a rare form of classical Indian dance called Odissi, which is based on religious sculptures, texts, art and poetry. ...
- Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery has new exhibition (Evansville Courier & Press)
Eight area artists’s work get showcased treatment in a fresh exhibition in the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana’s Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery.
- School district honors students - Logan Daily News
School district honors studentsLogan Daily News, OH - 46 minutes agoLOGAN - Several people were awarded with plaques this week's Logan-Hocking School Board meeting, including spelling bee winners, Poetry Out Loud winners and ...
- Class has new spin on history (Oakland Tribune)
Classes of U.S. history of yesteryear featured musty teachers poring over maps, quizzing students on the exact boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase... Today, teacher Dean Whitbeck tries to make U.S. history more palpable for teenagers raised on the Internet and video games.
- Harrison Birtwistle: The Minotaur - Musical Criticism
Musical CriticismHarrison Birtwistle: The MinotaurMusical Criticism, UK - 5 hours agoAnd in the creation of a large-scale, institutionally sanctioned new opera that still manages to speak on its own terms of high goals of poetry, ...
- Guest commentary: Some poetry bridges the past and the present (The Sacramento Bee)
Poetry is everywhere, and it has existed for eons. More than any other literature, poetry links us to ancient cultures and to cultures different from ours. The pharaohs wrote poetry to their loved ones, even as men and women pound computer keys in rapture with someone today. Cleo Fellers Kocol
- Cashing in on art - Express Hotelier
Cashing in on artExpress Hotelier, India - 8 hours agoIt showcases the journey of ice cream across various nations, a picture gallery, some interesting facts about the frozen treat, ice cream poetry and the ...
- Egg donations needed by today in Hillsdale (The Enid News & Eagle)
Hillsdale Booster Club met March 8. The group is sponsoring an Easter egg hunt Saturday in Hillsdale Park. Doughnuts, coffee and juice will be served at 7:30 a.m. in the Community Building. Cost is by donation.
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