Standing before a phalanx of potential investors, three young women make the case for their high-end day care concept. They’ve written a 37-page business plan, and they confidently whip through a PowerPoint about their mission, budget, and marketing plan.
Welcome to “The Pitch” – a culminating event for juniors at Fenway High School in Boston. In [...]

Anyone who wants to start or improve a small business venture has come to know SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” as a valuable service. Making it easier to access information, statistics, and mentoring, SCORE, based in Herndon, Virginia, has added a section for minority entrepreneurs on its Website, www.score.org/minority.html.
“It’s been in the works since [...]

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JavaVino: Regina Gallero, 8 p.m. March 29, 424 Main St., Racine.
Linneman’s: BSG, 10 p.m. March 28, Bill Camplin Band, 9 p.m. March 29, Sarah Louchs with John Davey and Andy Thiele, 9 p.m. April 3, 1001 E. Locust St.
Perk Pub: Tracy Beck, 8 p.m. March 29, 12862 W. Blue Mound Road, [...]

When Venetia Hill got the phone call from the organisers of the Cuisine New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards, she immediately assumed the worst: maybe her entry in the hobbyist category had gone mouldy while being couriered to Auckland from her Motueka home, and wasnt fit for judging.
But it was quite the opposite. The call [...]

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A rare exhibition of Arab and Italian art in an old caravanserai in the heart of Damascus is challenging taboos about European influences behind a late 20th-century renaissance in Arab art.
The exhibition, in the domed 18th-century Khan Asaad Basha, shows the work of Arab artists hanging alongside ones by Italian artists who [...]