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Comic-Con@Home opening panels discuss the importance of comics in education

| July 26, 2020 | 0 Comments
Comic-Con@Home opening panels discuss the importance of comics in education

San Diego, CA: Wednesday, July 22, was the opening day for Comic-Con@Home, the virtual iteration of the annual event that normally brings tens of thousands of fans to Downtown San Diego in a celebration of all forms of pop culture. This year, because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) and all other […]

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Ground Breaking Takes Place for a New Urban Discovery Academy

| February 3, 2015 | 0 Comments
Ground Breaking Takes Place for a New Urban Discovery Academy

KCM Group, a full-service construction management and consulting firm, recently announced that construction is underway on the Urban Discovery Academy. The K-8 public charter school will be permanently located at Silo-Makers Quarter in the heart of San Diego’s East Village neighborhood. “Urban Discovery Academy is fortunate to reach an important milestone in the construction process,” […]

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Mission Hills Native Shares Gift of Music

| April 3, 2012 | 0 Comments
Mission Hills Native Shares Gift of Music

by Denise Montgomery Anna Robitaille gestures with a seahorse puppet while singing an ocean-themed song. Enthusiastic toddlers follow her lead, singing and waving seahorse finger puppets while sitting in parents’ and nannies’ laps. She tells the kids they will get to dance under a large blue parachute, which they will pretend is the ocean, and […]

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Grammy Award-winning Thelma Houston Performs

| March 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
Grammy Award-winning Thelma Houston Performs

Malashock Dance is pleased to announce a fabulous new twist to their 5th annual fundraiser, Malashock Thinks You Can Dance! – A Night at Studio 54, at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, March 10.  The entertaining fundraiser will be held at the city’s premiere supper club and music venue, Anthology, in Little Italy.  All proceeds benefit the […]

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Harsh School Discipline Challenged

| October 31, 2011 | 0 Comments
Harsh School Discipline Challenged

Common Sense Approach Proposed The California Endowment announced events in support of the National Week of Action on school discipline, which occurred this past October, to shine a spotlight on the alarming overuse of suspension, expulsion and other harsh punishments in California schools. In the 2010-11 academic year, California schools issued more than 720,000 suspensions […]

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