Antelope Valley

May 10 2013

Mothers’ Day Tea includes private preview

The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) will celebrate its one-year anniversary on The BLVD with the museum-wide show: BLOOM 2013. The entire museum will be filled with eight new exhibits centered on growth, renewal and the beauty and complexity of the botanical world. From Penelope Gottleib’s large-scale acrylic paintings of extinct plants to Jennifer Vanderpool and Patrick Melroy’s site-specific installation based on flowers and aerospace technology, each artist interprets the role of the flower differently and asks the viewer to see the botanical world with new eyes.

May 10 2013

Joseph Fitzgerald of Palmdale among the honorees

Four people, including two men who stopped an assailant involved in an attack last November on a woman in Monterey Park, were honored Wednesday as “courageous citizens” by District Attorney Jackie Lacey.

Hoa “Tony” Luong, 21, of Rosemead, was lauded for coming to the aid of a 60-year-old woman as she was being struck in the back of the head with a claw hammer and struggling with the assailant in a residential neighborhood of Monterey Park.

May 10 2013

First duo to have their first two singles reach No. 1

 

May 10 2013

Grammy award winner

Grammy award winning country and pop music star Juice Newton will perform at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center. Newton is well known for hits such as “Queen of Hearts,” “Angel of the Morning,” and “Sweetest Thing.” Her 1981 record sold more than a million copies in the U.S. and went triple platinum in Canada. In 1982, Newton received Grammy nominations for Best Female Vocalist in both the Pop and Country categories.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
May 10 2013

Here’s a look at individuals and issues making headlines throughout the country.

Arkansas

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.