It’s Perseverance Week At Zócalo

We Keep Working, Keep Living in Oklahoma, and Keep Improving Our Teeth

How Dare You Call Californians Flaky? Californians might be social flakes, but we have a good excuse—we’re all working too damn hard! We lead in agriculture revenues, high-wage services, fastest-growing companies, patents and inventions, job creation, and the list goes on. In the words of Joe Mathews, we carry Team America.

 

The American Way of Teeth. What’s so great about perfect teeth anyway? Englishman Hugh Aldersey-Williams says that we have Hollywood and huckster dentists to thank for our obsession with teeth, which are considered the second most alterable feature of ourselves after the hair.

 

Why I Put Up With Tornadoes. In 1986, Le Cambell was having a barbecue party and poker game at her house when a tornado funnel touched down in her yard and went right back up, hurting no one. Since then she has lived through more storms, including the F5 that hit Oklahoma last week. Even so, Cambell would never leave Norman, Oklahoma, the place she calls home.

 

The Cans That Saved ChoirChi Jasmine Jia didn’t know where to begin when she was told she needed to fundraise for her daughter’s school. But, inspired by her frugal parents, who used to recycle cans for money, Jia started the LACES Green for Green program, which to date has raised $15,500 for the school and recycled about 75,000 pounds of waste.

 

Are the Arts Dead in California’s Public Schools? When it comes to cutting funds in California public schools, arts programs are usually the first to go, and it’s been that way for decades now. So we asked several educators and professionals if the arts in California’s public schools were dead and, if so, what, besides money, might revive them.

 

Next week …

Zócalo has found Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa a new home.

On Monday, the multi-talented Debbie Allen visits Zócalo for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the arts in our community.

On Thursday, The Houston Chronicle’s Claudia Kolker visits Zócalo to discuss how immigration reform would transform life in Houston.


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