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Family still has hope son with schizophrenia can turn his life around,
Credit: Superstition Fire Medical District Author: Rich Prange Updated: 9:07 AM MST May 11, 2021
APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. Apache Junction Police responded to a mobile home fire on Monday morning, and investigators determined it was intentionally set.
The Moore family was picking up the pieces of what’s left of their mobile home destroyed by the fire.
“I just have some minor burns on my arm. I had to break a window to get out,” said Mistie Moore.
Moore and her boyfriend were injured when the mobile home when up in flames. They had to escape through a bedroom window. Moore suffered minor burns and her boyfriend was transported with more serious burns while trying to save pets.
Monday, March 15, 12:00 pm EDT
Artist and consultant Tiffany Jana (
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions) discusses their work, a practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees and members can feel a sense of belonging. In conversation with Kaki Dimock. Free, with registration.
Ethan Porter and John Mark Hansen:”The Consumer Citizen”
Monday, March 15, 6:00 pm EDT
Ethan Porter will discuss
The Consumer Citizen. He will be joined in conversation by John Mark Hansen. Presented in partnership with The Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at George Washington University. Free, with registration.
New in Paperback: âThinking Inside the Boxâ and âThe Mountains Singâ
By Jennifer Krauss
March 5, 2021
THINKING INSIDE THE BOX: Adventures With Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Canât Live Without Them,
by Adrienne Raphel. (Penguin, 304 pp., $18.) This affectionate analysis of a cultural fixation that in 1924 The Times dismissively compared to âthe temporary madness that made so many people pay enormous prices for mahjong setsâ succeeds â our reviewer, Peter Sagal, argued â because âlike a good crosswordâ it challenges us to âback away from our assumptions,â âthink differentlyâ and âapply ourselves again.â
TYLL,
by Daniel Kehlmann. Translated by Ross Benjamin. (Vintage, 352 pp., $16.95.) Our reviewer, Irina Dumitrescu, called this picaresque fable in which the proverbial trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel tightrope-walks above the brutality of 17th-century Europeâs Thirty Yearsâ War â
Bartlett Sher and moderated by
Ira Weitzman. The Adam Guettel-Craig Lucas musical premiered in 2005 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, and earned seven Tony Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Actress in a Musical for Clark. For tickets, click here.
Hershey Felder stars as Sholem Aleichem in
Before Fiddler Live From Florence, running for one night only on
February 7. Before the beloved musical
Fiddler on the Roof, there was Sholem Aleichem and his beloved character of Tevye the Milkman. Before the beloved songs Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Matchmaker, and more, there was music of the Old World . a music that imitated talking, laughing, weeping, and singing, where musicians didn t just make music, they spoke to you in song Klezmer. In Florence, Italy, one of the oldest artistic centers in the world, a group of such musicians have been, by day, virtuosos in Florence s world famous