Read to a child: Oh, the places you’ll go

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Saturday, on what would have been his 109th birthday, we celebrate the author behind those words — Dr. Seuss — by doing a whole lot of caring about children’s literacy. The festivities have gone on all week to push literacy as a priority.

Historic Screenland Armour theater needs our help

E-readers killed the book shops and the MP3 murdered record stores. Will digital format be the death of independent theaters? At my favorite neighborhood movie house, Screenland Armour, two new projectors with new sound systems are going to cost nearly $110,000.