October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month; this benefit show will not be an outpouring of grief. The Spence, Cann, and Powers families are immensely grateful for the support and love that they have received from the community in the weeks following this tragedy. Continue reading

Here's a good place to start: Arts & Letters Daily. Each day, two or three new articles appear on the top of each column. If you read nothing else, ever, you will be a well up-to-speed news- and culturewise only reading this once a day. Continue reading

A Wrinkle in Time (and its sequels, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet) featured the first fictional protagonist I found who I wholly identified with: the bespectacled, brave, brilliant, mousy-haired Meg Murry. Meg made smart cool. Continue reading