What are little girls made of? In Elissa Schappell's latest short- story collection as novel, "Blueprints For Building Better Girls," they are not made of all that's nice. Little and not-so-little, these girls are anorexics, rape victims, betrayed and self- betraying wives and girlfriends, battered party girls, femme fatales wounded by their own sexual power and frustrated, unfulfilled mothers. Ms. Schappell's heroines are not templates for a new uber-woman. They are a troubled and troubling collection of middle- and upper- middle-class women whose helplessness, loneliness, self-abuse and self-hatred are made more compelling and harder to bear by Ms. Schappell's cool, matter-of-fact narration. Few writers are capable of this degree of unflinching frankness, and with this book Ms. Schapp...
New York City Council Deputy Majority Leader [Leroy Comrie] (D-27th District) celebrated this past Women's History Month by hosting his annual Unsung Queens Heroines awards program at York College's Performing Arts Center in Jamaica, Queens. Each honoree was presented with a New York City Council Proclamation during the festive ceremony, which featured a diverse group of heroines from across the borough. Pamela Ann Bluford - is an educator at Public School 48, Queens . She is a member of the Greater Queens Chapter of the Links, the Alpha Phi Alpha Senior Citizens Board and St. Albans Congregational Church. Joan Serrano Laufer- is the Executive Director of the Queensboro Council for Social Welfare, Inc.(QCSW), a council that encompasses more than sixty Queens agencies. . She serves as th...
Heroes and heroines fulfill our dreams. They hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the World Series. They substitute for the prima ballerina at the last minute and dance beautifully. They complete dangerous military missions. They successfully teach our children.
AUGUSTA Joanna Hall, a teacher and coach at Rockland District High School, and Susan Lougee, a coach and athletic trainer at Presque Isle High School, were among five recipients of Unsung Heroines in Maine Sports awards presented during the Mentoring Women in Sports XIII conference hosted this week by the Maine Principals Association. Other recipients were Gwen Bacon, co-principal of Messalonskee High School in Oakland; Anita Murphy, retired teacher and girls tennis coach at Lewiston High School; and Rebecca Hefty, a teacher and track coach at Edward Little High School in Auburn.
Mississippi Ride of Honor celebrated active and veteran military and raised funds to support Heroines on the Home Front. Motorcycle riders braved the cool weather on Nov. 6, leaving Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson to ride throughout DeSoto County. Grand marshals for the ride were the five mayors, although only three could participate the day of the ride; Mayor Sam Rikard of Olive Branch, Mayor Chip Johnson of Hernando and Mayor Nat Baker of Horn Lake. Each rider in the event had the opportunity to name military personnel to honor or memorialize. The morning began with a pancake breakfast sponsored by the Christian Motorcycle Association. The Horn Lake High School ROTC raised the American Flag and the POW flag presented by Mississippi Rolling Thunder. The After-Ride lunch and party was ...
Hacienda Heights resident Yumei Lu has spent half her life volunteering and teaching at the Hsi Lai Temple School. She spent most of her time volunteering to spend time with her daughter, who graduated from the school seven years ago and is now 25 years old. This was a chance to spend time with my child who was in the Chinese program," Lu said. "It was not difficult (to balance out parenting and volunteering) because my daughter went to class and I could volunteer.
The further they get from Jane Austen, the better the zombie mash- up books become. Enter "Dreadfully Ever After" by Steve Hockensmith, book three in a zombie trilogy that started with "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," which was a combination of Jane Austen's classic novel of manners set in the early 1800s and contemporary zombie mania written by Seth Grahame-Smith.
Quinnipiac University law professor John Thomas is out to unlock the secret of what made the "Banner Era" acoustic flattop guitars turned out by Gibson Inc. during World War II some of the best ever built. Just as importantly, he's out to turn the key on a related secret about how those guitars were built - and by whom.
It's really something to see the girls change from Monday to Friday," says camp director HaUe Pollay "It's amazing to listen to and watch. "By the time the show is over, as exhausted as we are, nobody wants it to be over," says Pollay. "The girls are excited to be on stage, with lights and an audience. It makes them feel like those rock stars that they watch all the time." "You never know what it's going to be," says Pollay. "There's always some sort of transformation."
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