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    Feb 13, 2013 |Story| La Cañada

  1. Julie Andrews visits Flintridge Bookstore and Coffeehouse

    Hundreds of fans crowded Flintridge Bookstore and Coffeehouse on Monday night to see Julie Andrews.
    Hundreds of fans crowded Flintridge Bookstore and Coffeehouse on Monday night to see Julie Andrews. The English actress and singer is also an author of children's books. She signed copies of her latest work, “The Very Fairy Princess Follows Her...

    Tags: Julie Andrews, Google Inc.

    2. Nov 5, 2012 |Story| LA Canada

  2. One City One Book author talks writing in La Cañada

    The inspiration to write can be found anywhere, even on a freeway overpass.
    The inspiration to write can be found anywhere, even on a freeway overpass. That was one of the observations author Ron Carlson made Sunday in La Cañada Flintridge as the city celebrated Carlson's 2009 novel “The Signal” as its One City One...

    Tags: University of California, Irvine

    3. Nov 2, 2012 |Story| LA Canada

  3. Around Town: Nonprofit 'Greatness' is a bestseller

    I've had a blast working on “In the Shadow of Greatness,” a nonprofit book co-written by U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2002. Required disclaimer: I am one of 33 contributors to the book. My activities are all pro bono. The authors and editors...

    Tags: U.S. Air Force, Loyola University Maryland, Fiction, United States Naval Academy, U.S. Marine Corps

    4. Nov 1, 2012 |Story| LA Canada

  4. Program hopes to draw in male readers, for a change

    Men, stop what you are doing and pick up a good book.
    Men, stop what you are doing and pick up a good book. That is one goal of La Cañada Flintridge's One City One Book program, which this year selected Ron Carlson's acclaimed novel of the outdoors, “The Signal,” as the work to read, contemplate...
    5. Oct 25, 2012 |Story| LA Canada

  5. La Cañada Organizations: Thanksgiving centerpieces, Halloween Haunt, author to speak

    <strong>PTA ready for 'Halloween Haunt'</strong>
    PTA ready for 'Halloween Haunt' La Cañada Elementary School on Encinas Drive will be teeming with activity Saturday when the PTA stages the annual Halloween Haunt. Hours for the event are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a family affair, with games, an...

    Tags: Auction Service, Holidays, Mardi Gras, Halloween, PTA

    6. May 21, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Where to bury the truly awful

    If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body &mdash; potentially a teaching tool, a source of lifesaving organs, but little more.
    If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of lifesaving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...

    Tags: Dismemberment, Religion and Belief, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Ethics, Values

    7. May 21, 2013 |Story| SFL

  7. Michael Connelly's trail of blood leads back home

    Crime in Florida has reached a 40-year low, but Michael Connelly doesn&rsquo;t expect to run out of material any time soon.
    Crime in Florida has reached a 40-year low, but Michael Connelly doesn’t expect to run out of material any time soon. Even back when he was standing next to a bloodied body as a young police-beat reporter at the Sun Sentinel in the mid 1980s,...

    Tags: Artists, Crime, Law and Justice, Museums, Michael Connelly, Murder

    8. May 21, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. More poor in U.S. suburbs than cities, report says

    Once considered the definition of the middle-class American dream, the suburbs are now home to a larger, faster-growing poor population than urban areas, according to a new analysis.
    Once considered the definition of the middle-class American dream, the suburbs are now home to a larger, faster-growing poor population than urban areas, according to a new analysis. During the 2000s, the number of poor living in U.S. suburbs grew by 64...

    Tags: Calumet Heights, Poverty, Environmental Issues, Social Issues, Consumer Goods Industries

    9. May 21, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  9. Teacher and author profiles career of helping at-risk youth

    Michelle Pfeiffer's Louanne Johnson in the film "Dangerous Minds" and Hilary Swank's Erin Gruwell in "Freedom Writers" tell the story of a teacher inspiring at-risk kids to rise up from the disparity of their surroundings and to be better. Susanne Jacoby-...

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Teaching and Learning, Coral Springs, Teachers, Students

    10. May 20, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows

    Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis.
    Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...

    Tags: Blue Island, Environmental Issues, Social Issues, South Holland, Brookings Institution

    11. May 20, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Bill Clinton visits Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Former President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos and visiting Bogota, where Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi. Then Clinton took time out to visit with Nobel Prize-winning...

    Tags: Bill Clinton, Google+, Colombia, Health Treatments, Nobel Prize Awards

    12. May 20, 2013 |Story| HB Independent

  12. In the Pipeline: A show of heart from Little League

    The playoffs are upon us. I'm not referring to the NBA or the NHL, though there are some terrific series taking place in those leagues. I'm talking about Little League baseball here in Huntington Beach, where, as the Jeff Pratto-led Ocean View team showed us a couple of seasons ago, it is never too early to start dreaming about the World Series in Williamsport.
    The playoffs are upon us. I'm not referring to the NBA or the NHL, though there are some terrific series taking place in those leagues. I'm talking about Little League baseball here in Huntington Beach, where, as the Jeff Pratto-led Ocean View team showed...

    Tags: Little League Baseball, Basketball, Baseball, Book, National Basketball Association

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