The Society of Professional Journalists has finalized their list of 2006 award winners.
High Desert journalists picking up awards in Riverside on May 13 include the following:
Hesperia Star
Peter Day
Beau Yarbrough
Daily Press
Gloria Zulema Baez
Lisa Benson
Justin Boggs
C.J. Daft
Tim Haran
Veronica Hill
Stuart Kellogg
Mike Lamb
Gretchen Losi
Mark Peinado
James Quigg
Kris Reilly
Kate Rosenberg
LeRoy Standish
Michael Stenerson
Jason Vrtis
Karen Yosten
Desert Dispatch
Kelly Donovan
Travis Dunn
Adrienne Ziegler
In the interests of letting folks get at the raw data themselves:
Did you know that the Education Code, sections 41401-41407 limits the number of administrative employees in high schools to 7 for every 100 teachers? Or that 43.3 percent of adult education learners are in English as a Second Language programs? These and other fascinating facts may be found in the newly updated California Department of Education’s 2006 Fact Book. The Fact Book is now available online at http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fb/ or you can order a hard copy by calling the CDE Press Sales Office at 800-995-4099. The cost is $18 each, plus shipping and handling.
It was an interesting night of television. At this point in the season, shows are dead, shows are retooling and shows are being introduced, all prior to the May sweeps period and the race towards the end of the season.
Tonight, I caught the first episode of American Idol that I’ve seen this season. They were covering Queen, with the somewhat odd new version of the band offering advice. It was pretty painful. With the exception of Chris Daughtry, not a one of them would have made it a week on Rock Star: INXS, which makes me miss that show all the much more.
Speaking of which, CBS has announced the band the show will seek to put a lead singer in front of: Supernova. “Who?” It’s various members of Motley Crue, Metallica and Guns N Roses (although that latter is sort of a reach in my book) looking to form a new hard rock band. It won’t have the poignancy of trying to fill Michael Hutchence’s boots, but it’s definitely something worth looking forward to.
A truly pleasant surprise, though, is Pepper Dennis, a Rebecca Romijn vehicle (I know, I know) and probably the first journalism television comedy or drama that didn’t include Ed Asner that actually works. It’s set in modern day Chicago, and Pepper is a television reporter, but it’s channeling the old school screwball comedy newspaper movie vibe (and some of the dialogue) and it works quite well. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Well, I’ve got another Dungeons & Dragons credit to my name: The Koboldnomicon is coming later this year. I made up the title for this compilation centering on the smallest of iconic D&D monsters, and contributed a number of new kobold magic spells, including background information on the kobold wizard who created many of them.
More details on it when I know them.
