Culture

“Fantastic Mr. Fox" is based on a story by Roald Dahl and adapted and directed by the Sheridan Arts Foundation’s founder & artistic director Jen Julia. It is performed by students from grades 3 – 5. Performances Friday, May 2 – Monday, May 5. What do...

Celebrate Earth Week with the Disneynature documentary "African Cats," narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.   The film follows a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs living and surviving on the African savannah. Released on Earth Day, April 22, 2011, a percentage of the film’s proceeds went toward the...

Telluride Film Festival, (August 29 – September 1, 2014), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its Call for Entries in all categories including student, short and feature length films. Submission period begins April 15, 2014. Film Entry Form is available for download at www.telluridefilmfestival.org. Shorts and...

Let’s talk about something besides weather. Let’s talk about life, the miraculous body, the wonders of the heart, the agony of loss. And what is spirit? And what is love? And what are we here for, anyway? [caption id="attachment_40264" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Word Woman[/caption] That’s...

The Neue Galerie’s big spring show, “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937,” was close to  three years in the making, but the pay off in the timing was that it opened more or less on the heels of the discovery of...

My sermon for Palm and Passion Sunday was titled "Hating Life." It explored the words in John, "Those who love their life will lose it, and those who hate their life will save it."  Are we called to a life-hating faith or is there a...

Master wordsmith David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies,  All In The Timing and Time Flies. All In The Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season, was the most performed play in the country...

[caption id="attachment_40173" align="aligncenter" width="194"] Spectacular necklace patterned on the Julius Set, a chaotic mathematical arrangement. Contains 2000 diamonds and sapphires.[/caption] We arrived in the Big Apple on Monday, toast from a cross-country trip (in a truck. Long story). But, stalwart souls that we are, we hit...

Get-together to celebrate on April 22 Wilkinson Public Library and the Friends of the Library are pleased to announce that a new book return drop box has been installed on the porch of the M&M Mercantile in Placerville (240 Front St.) and is now in service....

Last Sunday my sermon featured the important concepts of repentance and mind. Many Christians do not fully grasp the connection between some of Christianity's key concepts with the larger context of Greek philosophy and religion. The message of repentance (metanoia)  is an invitation to change...