I celebrated a mini Maslenitsa with some friends- we ate Bilini (a pancake) salad, lox and a very inventive giant Sun-like cup cake.(according to wikipedia: In Russia, the last week before Great Lent is called Maslenitsa. Its literal meaning is "Butter Week", although a more appropriate translation would be "Pancake Week".) It is a celebration for ( Read more... )

Christi my pal and ol School of Visual Art's classmate, has a chance to get her thesis film, ArkCity aired on PBS.  The short  is about her hometown Arkansas City, KS.

I'll let her tell you about it herself:

"I told a lot of people that my thesis film "Ark City" is going air on PBS Channel 13 Saturday, July 12th. OK I didn’t know that was a lie. I ( Read more... )