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0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Neighbor News March for Meals is a month-long, nationwide celebration of Meals on Wheels and our senior neighbors who rely on this essential service. Zoe Broussard , Community Contributor Posted | Updated Reply Meals on Wheels Diablo Region will be part of the 21st annual March for Meals – a month-long, nationwide celebration of Meals on Wheels and our senior neighbors who rely on this essential service. Their ability to remain healthy and independent at home, is critically important during a time of a lingering pandemic and high inflation. MOW Diablo Region’s celebration plans include various site visits from local and state officials throughout March. “This past fiscal year, MOW Diablo Region delivered over 600,000 meals! This is the most we have ever delivered in our 55-year history and represents a 50% increase since … [Read more...] about MOW Diablo Region Joins Nationwide March for Meals Celebration

Once there was a man who wore the finest silks in Italy, but traded them all for sackcloth. His father was a wealthy cloth merchant, and in his youth he gamboled about Umbria in colorful, dandyish outfits. But when he had his calling he stripped off his fine clothes, pledged his body to God, and spent the rest of his life in a mendicant’s robe. He was Saint Francis of Assisi , and when the archbishop of Buenos Aires was proclaimed pope in 2013, he gave himself a new name, in honor of a man unembroidered. I wonder what both Francises, saint and pontiff, might make of “Heavenly Bodies,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s colossal, hotly debated and richly anointed exhibition on the interweaving of fashion and Roman Catholicism. Years in the making, it includes exceptional loans of vestments from the Vatican — some of which have never before left Rome — and more than 150 ensembles of secular clothing from the last century. Here is papal regalia of unsurpassed intricacy, but also … [Read more...] about ‘Heavenly Bodies’ Brings the Fabric of Faith to the Met

In Wakanda, the techno-brilliant African nation of the Marvel film “Black Panther,” black warrior women don’t wear wigs. Compelled to conceal her shaved head to carry off an undercover mission, General Okoye, played by Danai Gurira, calls her flowing wig “a disgrace” and discards it the instant she draws her spear to battle the bad guys. The general and her royal guard of female combatants, the Dora Milaje warriors, are among a cast of characters graced with gorgeous natural hairstyles that imbue this film with the visual power of holistic black beauty. The movie weds a Black Nationalist aesthetic to an ethos of global kinship. It projects a resilience that captures the mood of our present moment. Despite and perhaps because of a surge in white supremacist language in the United States, a wave of black cultural resistance is flooding the arts as well as the streets. And with it, black hair in its natural state of sublime uprightness has returned as a symbol of political … [Read more...] about Black Hair’s Blockbuster Moment

close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines of 3/27 Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Orlando Bloom is sharing snippets from his recent trip to Ukraine, his first visit to the country since 2016. The "Lord of the Rings" actor announced he had arrived in Ukraine on Sunday as part of a trip with UNICEF, during which he would learn more about how the ongoing conflict with Russia has affected the children in the country. Bloom shared photos and videos from his trip on Instagram, saying he visited the UNICEF supported Splino center and was "fortunate to hear children's laughter" there. "Spilno means 'together' in Ukrainian and there are over 180 of these centers here. The one I visited today was built deep down in the metro to ensure their safety," he wrote. Bloom posted photos of his visit to the Splino center in Ukraine, where children affected by the conflict with Russia can … [Read more...] about Orlando Bloom visits children affected by war in Ukraine: They ‘need their childhoods back’