Tests and basketball

At 8 a.m. Saturday, May 3, the test books flew open. The sharpened No. 2 pencils began bubbling in Scantron sheets. And the man sketched…

‘The Nile Project’ at The Clarice works to raise awareness about the disconnect among countries in the river’s area

The Nile Project, a concert with a humanitarian mission, is running at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center this weekend. As a part of The Clarice’s Artist Partner Program, the project aims to inspire action, said Mina Girgis, the project’s co-founder and executive director, who started the project after seeing an opportunity to unite the diplomatically fractured countries that share the Nile basin.

Thoughts of a drunk

These are the observations and thoughts of a man at a party, told in a poetic stream of consciousness style. The language is uncouth, the thoughts are jumbled and the content is controversial. And that is the point.