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HILLS NEWSPAPERS: JUNE 10, 2011 It was the Black and White Ball on steroids — cakebread cabernet flowing like water; lavish presentations of food every few feet and pulsating entertainment on several stages. The climax of five days of International Pow Wow was a party of epic proportions, where Civic Center became a sort of [...]

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Video produced by Lion’s Club volunteer Stephen Woo (Stephen Woo Photography)

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HILLS NEWSPAPERS: January 14, 2011 The three guitars resting on her living room couch tell the story. “These are the girls” says Oakland hills singer/songwriter Caren Armstrong — each instrument poised to be played by an artist who can make the strings sing. Mention the name to any local guitarist and you’ll find Armstrong has [...]

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OAKLAND TRIBUNE: January 6, 2011 For many kids, playing the piano is a rite of passage that ranks somewhere between breaking a bone and getting braces. But for 13-year-old Omar Abdul-Rahim, the piano holds the key to helping other children. On Sunday, this eighth-grader at Corpus Christi School in Piedmont will play a benefit concert [...]

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HILLS NEWSPAPERS: December 24, 2010 Now that it’s officially winter, boating season is under way in the upper Midwest. We’re talking ice boating here — a sport that combines sailing and snowmobiling in weather so raw your whole body has to be covered.

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It was a dark and stormy night. No, really. The rain fell in punishing waves and the wind whipped the trees like a dungeon master. There were voices, too…shrill, torturous sounds coming from the sea that was thrashing about,  just yards from my bedroom window. My mind was racing. 400 years of history were flashing [...]

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One of America’s most beautiful cities has General Sherman to thank for its survival. When Savannah, Georgia fell to the North in the Civil War, Sherman spared it from the fiery fate he’d metered on so many other Confederate towns. The gilded southern seaport survived – and still thrives – to this day. Savannah was [...]

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HILLS NEWSPAPERS: March 19, 2010 Some folks are born with a silver spoon. I was born with two boards. My folks had me skiing when I was old enough to walk. That’s not unusual in Minnesota, where everything you’ve heard about winter is true. It’s cold, it’s long and it’s spectacular. But something happens to [...]

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HILLS NEWSPAPERS: FEBRUARY 19, 2010 These days, sending a student off to college almost always includes a semester abroad. Add up the cost, and you know the strain this can put on the family budget.  But at St. Mary’s College, last month, my students and I traveled the world in 16 days – for less [...]

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Midwest transplants, rejoice! Winter promises to bring more than one snowfall to the East Bay this year, thanks to El Nino and colder-than-normal temperatures. Here is a wonderful video, courtesy of student Bryan Navarro at St. Mary’s College in Moraga,  of our first snow of the season, Dec. 7, 2009: And thanks to Bennett Hall [...]

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