Reading

March 03March 03
NBCares: Read Across America Day
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In 1997, the National Education Association created “Read Across America” day as an initiative on reading for elementary school children. It’s observed across the country on March 2, which is the famed children’s author Dr. Seuss’s birthday. And here in the Coachella Valley it’s a very important day for the volunteer readers who are part […]
March 02June 02
Dr. Seuss: A poem to celebrate Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday
- Entertainment
(CNN) — You read his timeless rhymes You watched all the cartoons The “Cat in the Hat” Thing One, and Thing Two But do you know how it all started? Do you know where it all began? The story of the man who brought the world “Green Eggs and Ham”? No need to sit and […]
March 02March 02
Last week a 13-year-old was bullied for his love of books. Now he has 230,000 Instagram followers
- Entertainment
(CNN) — It all started with a tweet from a concerned big sister. “Can’t believe how awful kids are,” Ellis Landreth, 24, wrote on Friday, explaining that her little brother was being bullied for setting up an Instagram account to review his favorite books. “Kids in his new school have seen it and have created […]
February 27February 27
NBCares: Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
- NBCares
Who doesn’t love to get lost in a good book? And who doesn’t love a good book discussion, especially with the author?! That was founders, Jamie Kabler and Helene Galen’s inspiration for the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, which just finished up last month. Once again it was a sold out, very successful event, but this […]
October 09October 09
Former NBC staffer accuses Matt Lauer of rape in Ronan Farrow’s new book
- Entertainment
When NBC News fired Matt Lauer two years ago, the network said an employee accused him of “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” Now that employee, Brooke Nevils, is speaking publicly for the first time, and alleging that Lauer raped her in 2014. The disturbing account is detailed in “Catch & Kill,” a book by Ronan Farrow that […]
March 27March 27
Michelle Obama’s book is set to become the best-selling memoir in history
- Entertainment
Michelle Obama’s memoir ‘Becoming’ could become the biggest-selling autobiography ever, its German publisher said, expressing optimism that husband Barack’s forthcoming account of his two terms as U.S. president will also be a hit. The former first lady’s recollections, for which she received a reported advance of more than $60 million from Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House […]
February 06March 18
NBCares: Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
- Community
- NBCares
we all know how powerful the written word is. Did you know there are more libraries in America than there are McDonalds? We love to read and it’s that very passion that fuels the popular Rancho Mirage Writers Festival. Now in its sixth year and once again, it’s sold out, which means many wonderful community […]
January 10January 10
Report: Officer killed by driver who was texting leaves behind wife, 10-month-old
- Community
- Entertainment
The driver of a vehicle that fatally struck a police officer on a Phoenix-area freeway was texting his wife before the crash and has been arrested and accused of manslaughter and other crimes, authorities said Wednesday. Jerry Sanstead, 40, told investigators he was driving home from work and reading and writing text messages to his […]

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