Zora Neale Hurston

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Check this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...

Tags: Networking, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Miami Hotels, Gymnastics Clubs, Concerts

Jay Stream Middle School Book Club

One thing to know about our book club We are the Jay Stream Middle School Book Club. We started in 2003, and we all are, or have been, staff members at Jay Stream Middle School in Carol Stream. -------------------- This piece first ran in Printers...

Tags: Schools, Frank Lloyd Wright, Middle Schools, Authors

Guest column: Anthropologists should do a better job of promoting their field

Tags: Archaeology, Emily Deschanel, Arts and Culture, CBS Corp., The New York Times

Zora! festival organizers tell Orange County finances are back on track

Eatonville's annual Zora! festival is on track toward financial stability after a few rough years, organizers told the Orange County Commission on Tuesday. The festival, which celebrates the legacy of the historically black town's most famous resident,...

Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Culture, Ceremonies, Finance

'Great Floridians' not always so great

What do college football's Tim Tebow and Bobby Bowden have in common with businessman Wayne Huizenga and Everglades demolisher Hamilton Disston? They've all recently been named "Great Floridians," what is supposed to be a high honor, bestowed upon...

Tags: Jeb Bush, Sports, Florida Gators, Elections, Everglades

Why We Still Need Black History Month

At Zora! Festival, 'Question Bridge' looks at the state of black males

Davidson Taylor, a public-relations professional working with the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, wrote this story about the "Question Bridge: Black Males" exhibition, on view as part of the Zora! Festival. The festival is running through...

Tags: Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Artists, Zora Neale Hurston Festival

Seminole State opens August Wilson's 'King Hedley II'

Where do the years go? Seminole State College is up to its eighth installment of August Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle" of plays. Wilson, the noted African-American playwright who died in 2005 wrote 10 plays set in Pittsburgh. Each takes place in a...

Tags: Arts and Culture, Mad Cow Theater, Seminole State College

Zora Neale Hurston Festival opens this weekend

WHAT: The Outdoor Festival of the Arts from Feb. 1-3 is the centerpiece of this year's Zora! Festival in Eatonville, but you don't have to wait until next weekend to honor the city's rich heritage and the life of its most famous author, Zora Neale Hurston...

Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Eatonville, Orlando, Zora Neale Hurston Festival

Zora! Festival's producers work on reducing red ink

This year's Zora! Festival has a mission that goes beyond celebrating Eatonville's most famous resident, author Zora Neale Hurston. It has to spend less and make more so its parent organization can get its financial house in order. The finances of the...

Tags: Music, Parent Organizations, Money and Monetary Policy, Arts and Culture, Entertainment

In books, Baltimore beats Denver

As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down. The East Coast city had...

Tags: Entertainment Events, Denver Broncos, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Arts and Culture, H.L. Mencken

Chinese-American novelist to speak at UM

Maxine Hong Kingston's most recent book, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life" — possibly the last from this pioneering Chinese-American novelist, memoirist, poet and activist — includes a glossary to help readers with all the loan words. "I...

Tags: James Baldwin, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, David Henry Hwang, Fiction