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0 Community Corner A number of county and city programs are being activated to help families with childcare, homework help and meals during the LAUSD strike. Paige Austin , Patch Staff Posted Reply LOS ANGELES, CA — Families struggling to find childcare this week during the massive 3-day LAUSD strike shutting down school for more than 420,000 students can turn to the Los Angeles County and city parks programs for some free options including at the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Recreation Center in Sherman Oaks. Many Los Angeles families were caught off guard by the strike, which was officially announced Monday. For children to take advantage of many of the free educational events at the LA Zoo and The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park and La Brea Tar Pits, a guardian needs to attend with the children - that has made the opportunities inaccessible to many working families. Tuesday's torrential downpours, … [Read more...] about Free Sherman Oaks Program To Help Families Through LAUSD Shutdown

THE NEW EARTH , by Jess Row Officially, there is no hall of fame for unhappy families. But even the staunchest Russian novelist might be hard pressed to match the particular gift for dysfunction that the Wilcoxes, subjects of Jess Row’s sprawling metafiction “The New Earth,” display with such impressive esprit de corps across nearly 600 dense and often wildly discursive pages. Death and divorce are a given; immigration, climate change and crises of faith crowd the margins, clambering to compete with a thousand-year conflict in the Middle East. Incest eventually enters the chat, an assiduous but uninvited guest, and race hovers over it all, a quivering question mark. (The impetus for everything, naturally, is a wedding.) It’s all richly imagined, reflexively neurotic and frequently quite dazzling. It’s also more than a single book, even one guided by a keen and careful hand, can adequately contain: a Gordian knot of domestic melodrama, global politics and high-flying philosophy … [Read more...] about And You Thought Your Family Had Problems

0 Community Corner Coming Together is an annual community partnership in Niles Township that highlights a different topic through literacy, cross-cultural ... Press Release Desk , News Partner Posted Reply Press release from the Morton Grove Public Library: Debbie Wiedeman February 16, 2022 Coming Together is an annual community partnership in Niles Township that highlights a different topic through literacy, cross-cultural awareness, and community-building programs. The 2022 theme, Sharing Experiences of Disability , will bring focus to the voices, experiences, and talents of members of the disability community across Niles Township, as well as advocacy and support resources available to all community members. We're excited to host several kids book discussions at MGPL in March related to this theme. Click the titles below to register, then visit the Youth Info Desk to get your free copy of the book. … [Read more...] about Morton Grove Public Library: Coming Together With Kids Book Clubs

In the name of protecting children, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed bills outlawing drag shows, banning “inappropriate” books, outlawing gender-affirming care for minors, and restricting school bathrooms to the gender a student is assigned at birth. But for all his talk about shielding kids, Lee has done nothing about guns—even though they are the leading cause of death for children, both in his state and nationwide. The latest fatalities in Tennessee include three nine-year-old students and three staff members at the Covenant School in Nashville. The killer wasn't a drag queen, but a 28-year-old woman named Audrey Hale armed with two assault rifles and a handgun. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a press conference Monday afternoon that Hale was transgender. After last year’s mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead, a group of gun control advocates and clergy arrayed stuffed animals, backpacks and flowers outside Lee’s … [Read more...] about After Nashville, Let’s Admit Drag and Books Were Never the Real Threat to Kids

Protesters near Mar-a-Lago. Photo: Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images In March, as Donald Trump put out word that he was about to be arrested — by a “SOROS BACKED ANIMAL” for “A CRIME THAT DOESN’T EXIST” — Florida governor Ron DeSantis floated a subtle contrast. “Look, I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just — I can’t speak to that,” he told reporters, alluding to Trump’s very extant crime. To emphasize his own, porn-star-free marriage, DeSantis gave an interview to Piers Morgan in the New York Post. The Post, like most of the Murdoch media empire, has been operating almost indistinguishably from DeSantis’s proto-campaign for president. (“We see him as the future of the party,” a Fox News producer wrote in an email a few years ago.) This article fawned over DeSantis’s family, showing the devoted couple and their adorable children in a series of photos. And yet the weak point in this pitch … [Read more...] about What Ron DeSantis Can’t Fake

0 Community Corner Patch has your complete guide to Independence Day fireworks shows, parades and other celebrations in and around San Fernando Valley. Susan C. Schena , Patch Staff Posted Reply SHERMAN OAKS, CA — Happy birthday, America! After a year or two of COVID-related restrictions, cities and towns throughout the San Fernando Valley and nearby, including near Sherman Oaks, are back in the star-spangled swing with Fourth of July parades, events and fireworks extravaganzas. July 4, 2022 falls on a Monday. Do note not all Independence Day events are on that date, with several spread throughout the holiday weekend or earlier. And always confirm with organizers that events are proceeding as planned. Scroll through our annual event guide to find what's going on near you. And have a happy, safe and festive 4th of July, from Patch! ----------- BURBANK: JULY 4: Starlight Bowl July 4th Concert, Flyover … [Read more...] about July 4th Fireworks 2022 Near Sherman Oaks