Backyardigans Engages Kids, Parents In Live Theater
- May
- 11
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Several years ago, Shawn Shafner co-directed a play about Jonah in which live beluga whales were used on stage. Yes, beluga whales. Thankfully in tanks.
Which were thankfully in the world’s largest aquarium in Georgia.
The show, alas, did tank, in the negative sense, due to technical difficulties beyond everyone’s control (don’t ask).
These days, Shafner is playing [...]
Washington Bears part of Division III finals
- March
- 21
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While most basketball fans will turn their attention to March Madness and the NCAA tourney this weekend, Noblesville folks may want to keep their eyes glued on what will be happening at the Civic Center in Salem, Va.
That’s where the NCAA Division III national finals will be played on Friday and Saturday.
That’s where former Noblesville [...]
How subprime killed Bear Stearns
- March
- 18
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It started last summer when borrowers with weak credit started defaulting on their mortgages. Last night, it brought down an 85-year-old pillar of Wall Street.
How did we get to this point? How did rising foreclosures among subprime borrowers lead to Bear Stearns being scooped up in a fire-sale for two bucks [...]
Young activists pursue local global change
- March
- 6
From the halls of the Nassau County Legislature to church soup kitchens on the North Fork, a new generation of activists is rising.
They push for affordable housing and livable downtowns. They confront leaders of street gangs. They organize immigrant workers and fight open-air dumps.
Although activists of their grandparents’ generation integrated schools and lunch counters, these [...]
LI’s young civil rights activists push for local and global change
- March
- 6
From the halls of the Nassau County Legislature to church
soup kitchens on the North Fork, a new generation of activists is rising. They push for affordable housing and livable downtowns. They confront leaders of street gangs. They organize immigrant workers and fight open-air dumps. Although activists of their grandparents’ [...]
Investors may snap up a planned
- January
- 18
Investors may snap up a planned $1 billion debt sale by a unit of MBIA Inc, after the beleaguered bond insurer was forced to ramp up the deal’s yield to about 14 percent to attract greater interest, according to investors familiar with the deal on Friday. The issue of so-called surplus notes by MBIA Insurance [...]
