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Lansing tangled with titans, kept the network’s shows on the air even as its offices closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and steered NPR through what he defined as an “existential” financial crisis.

Inside Look is returning to SeaWorld San Diego on Saturday, January 13 and continuing on select dates through Sunday, January 21. During the event, which is included with park admission, park visitors will have special access to areas of the park normally not open to general park guests, including the Rescue Center, as well as all-new opportunities to hear from animal care specialists about the park’s belugas and otters, see jellyfish up close, and learn about rescued animals. For more information visit: seaworld.com Stay Connected on Facebook

The women of our nation have been great warriors. From Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, to Mary G. Harris (Mother Jones) and organizing labor unions, to Ida B. Wells, fighting to end lynchings in the South, to Susan B. Anthony and the 19th Amendment, to Mary McCloud Bethune, First Lady of the Struggle & the Female Booker T. Washington, to Dolores Huerta and the United Farmworkers Association, to Angela Davis, Time Magazine’s Woman of the Year in 1971, our nation has been fecund in birthing women activists in social justice, AKA, women warriors. What about women poet warriors? Who are the women warriors of verse: the abolitionist, the suffragist, the civil rights activist, the feminist, the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer [or sometimes questioning], intersex, asexual, and others) activist, and in these days of the resurgence of hate and ignorance, the existentialist? The woman who looks at all that is happening around her which seems meaningless, and decides that she has to invent her own meaning in life. What seems to call her. The men in our nation who are not asleep or focused on a myriad of distractions or misinformation, face the goal of answering the same call. The first 90 minutes of this class for beginning or seasoned poets are focused on such abolitionist poems as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Eliza Harris, or suffragist poems such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Song For Equal Suffrage, to Alicia Ostriker’s essay on Muriel Rukeyser’s oceanic work, Learning to Breathe Underwater. Ostriker quotes Rukeyser with the following truthful, accurate paragraph on poem-writing: There are … two kinds of reaching in poetry, one based on the document, the evidence itself; the other informed by the unverifiable fact, as in sex, dream, the parts of life in which we dive deep and sometimes—with strength of expression and skill and luck—reach that place where things are shared and we all recognize the secrets. And do we all also recognize the story which resonates with, if not matches, our own. The second 90 minutes serves up the delicious verse nutrition of such women warriors of poetry as Ellen Bass, June Jordan, Naomi Shihab Nye, the current Poet Laureate of the U.S. Ada Limon, Lucile Clifton, and one of the voices of the Civil Rights Movement, Sonia Sanchez. Fulfilling Jim Moreno’s IMIC, the acronym that stands for Inspiration, Motivation, Imagination, & Contagion is an important goal in Jim’s poem-making classes. You will leave this workshop after completing two original poems. You will also have a bibliography that will provide you with hours of inspirational reading. Join Jim in this Zoom class to taste the poetry cuisine. Click the link at the top of this course description to register. San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

Sofia Nelson — a former friend and law school classmate of JD Vance — has made public dozens of email and text exchanges with the vice presidential candidate.

Premieres Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the story of an opera diva who returns to her native South America to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. Starring soprano Ailyn Pérez, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new production and Rolando Villazón hosts.

New technology is making it easier to find the origins of trafficked wildlife so they can be released back to the habitat they came from, instead of languishing for decades as sometimes happens.

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State leaders argue that the cargo ship was not fit to sail on March 26, and its owner, Grace Ocean Private Limited, and manager, Synergy Marine Group, failed to take precautions to prevent the crash.

Doherty, who died at 53, almost ten years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, was a child actor, most notably on Little House on the Prairie. She was in Heathers in 1988, which is a bright spot on any résumé. But she became an icon as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210, one of the biggest hits of the early '90s and the spark for many teen soaps that came later.