On Saturday morning, June 10, several hundred graduates of Benicia High School will attend their graduation ceremony in the stadium at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. They will celebrate the end of a some 12 years of schooling, often in the Benicia Unified School District. There will be celebration aplenty, bottles popped and toasty […]
Counseling matters: Waiting for that little white envelope…
We’re not very good at waiting – our western culture rather abhors it. And up ’till now, many of Benicia’s families and students have been doing it for months – years, in some cases. For these days, you can hear certain sounds ripping the air from the families of Benicia’s high school seniors: sighs and […]
Review: Zany humor, great acting in DVC’s ‘Noises’
SOME FINE YOUNG ACTORS ARE SHOWING OFF THEIR TALENT at Diablo Valley College in the troupe’s current production of “Noises Off,” Michael Frayn’s frolicking farce about what goes on behind the scenes at a theatrical production. In fact, countless things can go wrong, and Frayn has chosen some doozies to spoof in this, his most […]