From Half Moon Bay To High School Musical
- June
- 9
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OMG! The live stage version of Disney’s “High School Musical” is finally bopping into San Jose. The chipper “tween” juggernaut hits the Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday through Sunday as part of the American Musical Theatre season.
A It’s been so great to see my family and friends and my boyfriend. What’s really cool [...]
Lost in the system
- April
- 13
A lot of people tried to do the right thing for Jeff. And yet, it all went very wrong.
When a neighbor saw what she thought were choke marks on his little sister’s neck, she reported it.
Adams County human services responded quickly. Investigators talked to the children in person and away from their mother. [...]
Atlantan returns to her roots in Midtown home
- April
- 8
For some folks, the old homestead is a big house surrounded by gardens tended by grandparents. For Liz Weaver, the family homestead is in the middle of Midtown, surrounded by sidewalks, blacktop and views of the skyscrapers a few blocks away.
Four years ago, Weaver moved back to town from Dunwoody and into the house where [...]
Group Housing for Vets Raises Concerns
- April
- 6
McCaffrey, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004, said she has tried to reassure the neighbors, but “they are afraid of it because they don’t want to understand it.”Projects similar to McCaffrey’s have cropped up in other communities across the country, with some also raising concerns from neighbors, in part because of the many [...]
Funerals go online for distant mourners
- April
- 6
Association president Neil Little said technology had changed the format of services and more funeral directors were changing with the tide.
Where once people would play a song during reflection time, the song is now accompanied by a DVD slideshow of images.
Directors were asked weekly to arrange funerals that involved friends and relatives overseas, he said. [...]
Increase your potential with a Social CV
- April
- 6
I took friends and friends of friends CVs and improved on them, usually by just adding punctuation and correcting the spelling.
Sometimes I would ask them a few questions and use the answers to give their document a bit of punch.
It struck me then, as it does now, that we spend a lot of time embellishing [...]
Honoring a commitment to children and theater
- March
- 29
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As 10-year-old Brett Orenstein walked alongside his grandmother on a VIP tour of Government House in Annapolis recently, he had a brainstorm.
He told first lady Katie Curran O’Malley that he found her home to be “very impressive” and that he’d like to hold his bar mitzvah there when he turns 13.
“She proceeded, of course, to [...]
Going One-on-One With Apple’s Tech Tutors
- March
- 14
‘The Nordstrom of Technology’
Stepping into an Apple Store is a cross between attending a seminar led by graduate students and hanging out at Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) . In addition to the tech tutors, there are staff manning the “Genius Bar,” Apple’s help-desk-by-appointment that provides assistance when things get stuck.
You can also book an hour with [...]
Going One-on-One With Apple’s Tech Tutors
- March
- 14
‘The Nordstrom of Technology’
Stepping into an Apple Store is a cross between attending a seminar led by graduate students and hanging out at Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) . In addition to the tech tutors, there are staff manning the “Genius Bar,” Apple’s help-desk-by-appointment that provides assistance when things get stuck.
You can also book an hour with [...]
Bryon Kelso teacher of the week
- March
- 6
Age: 27. Reason for becoming a teacher: My lifetime love of sports; my high school PE teacher, who was not only my PE teacher from kindergarten to 12th grade but was also my high school basketball coach for two years and soccer coach for four years; and my grandmother, who [...]
