Church, school partnership benefits students
Elementary schools in the Gilroy Unified School District
Ring in New Year with delicious drinks
“End of the year” reviews are a wonderful tradition. As we look back on the passing year, it gives us perspective while we look forward to a new beginning and new year. To complete my first full year writing “The Flavor Chronicle,” I offer a few recipes for celebratory nonalcoholic beverages.
10 years on and still chuggin’ along
Though there were no parties or celebrations, I recently had an anniversary. And it was a somewhat unusual one for a journalist: 10 years with the same newspaper.
‘Other Desert Cities’: An interesting, delicate theme
When Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Jon Robin Baitz put pen to paper (or fingers to PC) to write “Other Desert Cities,” he was either in split personality mode or solving a Rubik’s cube puzzle – or both. His play is about dysfunctional family members with fragile backgrounds. Some have a secret that could break the delicate hold that - at times - keeps the family together.
Proper distance from the ball is key
Trying to hit a golf ball when you are standing too far away is
Eric’s Bench
I woke on a Wednesday morning in early November with an odd feeling that, like Alice, I had stepped through the looking glass into a strange alternate reality. It was an uneasy feeling, but one for which I knew the perfect tonic: getting out.
