Rae Robison News Today

As faculty at Cal Poly Humboldt, we deplore the use of physical violence by police and the deployment of extreme tactics to surveil students, escalate tensions, and criminalize free speech exercised by students calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Modern renditions of fairytales are simplistic, bland stories that encourage learned helplessness and non-consensual kissing — a far cry from the dark folk tales collected...

Into the Woods The iconic hit Broadway musical with songs and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, directed by Rae Robison with musical direction by Elisabeth Harrington. Into the Woods intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. Into the Woods allows the audience to see their own stories in the characters and their journeys. Far from a happy ending, the characters will be challenged, they will ...

Opening the cracks in our lives

A Northern Humboldt Unified High School District trip to Europe has been derailed by COVID-19 outbreaks, leaving some students in locked quarantine facilities overseas and...

Around two dozen children from Humboldt County are currently trapped in Italy, after a spring break education tour of Europe went disastrously wrong last week, after about two dozen student and several adults contracted COVID, leaving many of them institutionalized and unable to return to the Uni

Cal Poly Humboldt's Something Rotten!

Girl, same. Although Wonder Woman first appeared in DC comics in 1941, I didnt discover her until 1975, the same time the Lynda Carter television series came on. After surviving elementary school a foot taller than every other kid and being teased mercilessly, leaving middle school a whopping 5 foot 10 inches (the same height as Carter and Gal Gadot), the only brunette among 14 blonde cousins, imagine my joy at discovering a female superhero who looked more like me than all those Barbies on the...