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Mutt of the Week: Cracker Jack This past weekend, our Mutt of the Week went for a wildflower hike with the Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab team and friends from the Canyonlands Field Institute. Once she arrived at the trailhead, Cracker Jack became a crowd favorite. Cracker Jack was friendly and excited to meet anyone that passed the group on the trail and was good at leading the group to shade to relax. Sometimes dogs need a break from outside the shelter walls to show their true personalit...

Wicked sense of humor on full display in Have a Very Bad Day Laughter provides best medicine for artist with rare lung disease Donna Liquori FacebookTwitterEmail 2of6 3of6 5of6 6of6 What do you get when you take micro stories, a delightfully warped worldview and a wicked sense of humor?  You get Richard Lovrich’s book “Have a Very Bad Day.”  We can all relate because we’ve lived through many bad days since the pandemic began. Sometimes, laughter can be the best remedy, especially when...

Buy us some peanuts and Cracker Jack: Its baseball week on The Range. With less than two weeks to go before the Wichita Wind Surge makes its long-awaited debut at Riverfront Stadium, we talk to the teams CEO, logo designer and No. 1 fan about Americas pastime. Tags: 

Jonathan Ahl / St. Louis Public Radio Originally published on April 27, 2021 5:54 pm JEFFERSON CITY — Activists from all over the state rallied outside the Missouri Capitol on Tuesday, demanding lawmakers follow the people’s wish to expand Medicaid. “A budget says what we care about as a state,” said Susan Sneed of Metropolitan Congregations United in St. Louis. “And when there is a zero next to Medicaid expansion, what the people voted for, what does that say?” Some lawmak...

Dog Gone: Farmer John Weiners No Longer Served at Dodger Stadium The longtime supplier of Dodger Dogs has opted not to renew its contract with the team. Posted On Six-year-old Elias (left) and younger brother Jonas, 4, dig in to a couple of Dodger Dogs during Opening Day at the stadium in 2011. (MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS/Rafu Shimpo) Rafu Staff and Wire Reports Perhaps as beloved as the team itself, Dodger Dogs have long been as much a part of a visit to Dodger Stadium as hits, strikeouts and the...

A Toast to Jim Steinman: The Songwriting Powder Keg Who Kept Giving Off Sparks RIP to the self-proclaimed "Little Richard Wagner" who redefined rock melodrama Rob Sheffield, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In a better time for the world, we’d all be hitting the karaoke bar tonight to mourn the late great Jim Steinman. This man was more than just the composer behind mega-bombastic hits by Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, Air Supply, and so many others. He was the patron saint of karaoke...

Rolling Stone Menu A Toast to Jim Steinman: The Songwriting Powder Keg Who Kept Giving Off Sparks RIP to the self-proclaimed “Little Richard Wagner” who redefined rock melodrama By Niels van Iperen/Getty Images In a better time for the world, we’d all be hitting the karaoke bar tonight to mourn the late great Jim Steinman. This man was more than just the composer behind mega-bombastic hits by Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, Air Supply, and so many others. He was th...

Coronavirus: Business Updated Published April 9, 2021 9:21 AM Marlene Beckford in front of Ackee Bamboo with one of her restaurants signature dishes, ackee and saltfish. (Chava Sanchez/LAist) Leimert Park, one of L.A.’s few majority black neighborhoods, is a rare pandemic success story. Last summer, Black Lives Matter protests and a Juneteenth celebration brought thousands to the neighborhood. Coming up on a year later, people are still showing up to buy streetwear made by Black designers ...

IMMIGRATION Updated Published April 9, 2021 4:58 PM Asylum seekers from countries including Honduras wait outside the El Chaparral border crossing port as they wait to cross into the United States in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on February 19, 2021. - The Biden administration plans to slowly all On the heels of Long Beach approving its convention center for use as an emergency shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, the Pomona Fairplex has been announced as a second child migra...

baseball Updated Published Alberto Valenzuela says "some tears might come" during the ring ceremony. (Libby Denkmann/LAist) The Dodgers welcome fans back to Dodger Stadium today for the first time in a year and a half when they host the Washington Nationals. Around 15,000 fans will be on hand to witness the presentation of the team’s 2020 World Series rings and the raising of its championship banner. They’ll fill a little more than one-quarter of the 56,000-seat stadium, allowing for safe...