"Few humans know more about how to stay motivated under less-than-ideal conditions than Nate Zinsser." -- Bloomberg Businessweek

The Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet, founded in 2010, is particularly focused on performing and recording music by composers who've been unjustly overlooked over the years (mainly due to their race or gender).

On Saturday night, the 26th, Gómez Guillén will lead a concert titled "Fantastical: The Firebird meets Harry Potter."

"No mere dessert, king cake in New Orleans is a beloved tradition, a creative muse, and an emblem of home. King cake culture runs deep, and Matt Haines gives you an inside look at what makes it so vibrant and delicious." -- The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate

Ambassador Shannon recently gave a talk at the TCFR titled "Diplomacy in a Contested World: How to Keep the Peace and Advance American Prosperity in the 21st Century."

"Horton is able to face the grief she's lived through -- the pain of her childhood, the loss of her disabled sister, and the guilt over patients she couldn't save. She then sets out to rediscover the pieces of herself she's had to shut down during long, sleep-deprived, stressful hours at the hospital. This is a poignant book and, at times, a funny one." -- The Toronto Globe and Mail

A memoir of life among the Sámi people, i.e., the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra. It's set mainly in the tiny town of Kautokeino, Norway.

The free concert is being offered as a tribute to our community's health care workers, essential workers, and all who've been lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Those of us who feel the weight of the crisis will find [this] book both clarifying and helpful, as is [Hawken's] final exhortation: 'It's not your job to save the planet.' Rather, it is all of our jobs." -- The San Francisco Chronicle

"Another World" has striking work by Raymond Jonson (American, 1891-1982), Emil Bisttram (American, 1895-1976), Agnes Pelton (American, 1881-1961), Florence Miller Pierce (American, 1918-2007), and several others.