Grace Bennett

Nov 2, 2024 | theinsidepress.com | Grace Bennett

When I came across the “improvisational comedy” workshop description for Pleasantville’s Arc Stages, I felt my heart leap. In transition, I thought this could tap my lighter side and get the creative juices flowing. I also had no idea just how much fun I was about to have. So now, as I write this, I’m well into a second eight-week class working with instructor Jonathan Evan Goldberg.

Nov 2, 2024 | theinsidepress.com | Grace Bennett

A must see this holiday season, particularly as Hanukkah approaches, and with many of us still praying for a miracle for the hostages in Gaza (at the time of this writing, October 16, 2024, 101 still trapped after over a year of captivity), is the movie White Bird. Helen Mirren, playing the grandmother of a teenage boy named Julian, sets out to share some profound lessons about bullying and exclusion – but ultimately also about the power of kindness – by finally relaying ‘her story’.

Sep 28, 2024 | theinsidepress.com | Grace Bennett

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Jun 27, 2024 | ksby.com | Grace Bennett

Highway 154 remains closed in both directions from San Antonio Creek Road to Painted Cave Road, Caltrans announced Thursday. There is also a soft closure at Highway 192 and at the Highway 154/ Highway 246 Roundabout in Santa Ynez allowing access to local businesses. Caltrans said the closure is due to roadway cracking extending across all lanes of traffic. A drilling operation to insert 40-foot dowels into the highway is happening 24 hours a day.

Jun 27, 2024 | ksby.com | Grace Bennett

SpaceX will launch a new mission out of Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday evening. The mission will release a satellite into Earth's orbit in efforts to increase "space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance," according to a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) April press release. The satellite's structure follows the NRO's new design for proliferated space architecture — a system using constellations of many smaller satellites to increase space resilience.