Thomas Moran

Smithsburg Middle School Fifth marking period Distinguished honor roll Grade six — Bryce H. Arnold, Brett D. Baile, Hannah J. Barbarino, Matthew S. Burke, Alissa N. Callis Stottlemyer, Lucy E. Conrey, Lauryn M. Daniels, Elizabeth G. Harshman,...

Distinguished honor roll Grade six — Bryce H. Arnold, Brett D. Baile, Kaylee M. Bonenberger, Megan E. Bonham, Matthew S. Burke, Alissa N. Callis Stottlemyer, Lucy E. Conrey, Lauryn M. Daniels, Seth D. Dodson, Benjamin M. Hixon, Charles A....

In 1861 Carleton Watkins took the definitive picture of Yosemite Valley from the aptly named Inspiration Point. The sheer granite wall of El Capitan, as sharp as if cut with a cleaver, fills one side of the photo. A rising tier of rock monoliths marches...

The Orlando Museum of Art is focusing on Florida for its 2011-12 season. The season kicks off with a temporary exhibition, “Tony Robbin: A Retrospective,” which will be on view July 30 through Oct.30. Then, it's on to “Made in Florida&#...

Christopher Knight reviews Joan Nelson's landscape paintings at Michael Kohn Gallery...

You know western Wyoming and dumb luck are both on your side when: • Your daughter spies three mule deer in a Yellowstone meadow. Then a moose mid-river. Then bison, fox and marmot, trumpeter swans, a wayward seagull and a grizzly family —...

From Kendrew Morales Abueg to Christopher Gregory Zuzow, 162 students graduated Saturday morning from St. Francis High School in La Cañada. Hundreds of family members and friends gathered around the statue of St. Francis of Assisi to watch their sons,...

There is something wonderfully peculiar about the paintings of Gegam Kacherian, but it???s difficult to pinpoint just what it is. Each of the 15 works in his second solo show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery begins in a reasonable, even orthodox......

Thirty-five drawings from 2007 by Seattle-based artist Zhi Lin fuse long traditions of Chinese and American landscape art. Given their subject — construction of the transcontinental railroad, in which Chinese labor was both essential to success and...

Thomas Moran has been the principal at St. Francis High School in La Cañada for the last 18 years. Still, he can't help but get excited when the new school year arrives. "The last couple days [before school starts] are quiet, kind of like the calm...

Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona My brother, John, loves deserts, slot canyons, mesas, buttes and treacherous dirt roads. At home, he pores over U.S. Geological Survey maps, dog-ears pages in hiking books, studies dry treatises on the archaeology and...

Cities, with the exception of greater Las Vegas, aren't built for amusement. They're built to function as market hubs and transport hubs and government hubs, and then people build houses to be near the jobs generated by all that hubness. Gradually come...