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Out and About: (The Morning News) 29 August 2008The Thing To Do Silver Dollar City's National Harvest Festival Silver Dollar City, long known as the home of American craftsmanship, celebrates its roots with this year's National Harvest Festival, set for Sept. 11-Oct. 25 at the Branson, Mo., theme park. Special events include "A Salute to the Great American Cowboy," the new "Tribute to the American Farmer" and the Sept. 11 debut of the ...
Boni Frederick's family, friends and co-workers attend emotional sentencings for her killers (The Gleaner) 26 August 2008Family, friends and a contingent of social workers gathered Monday morning in Henderson Circuit Court to watch as the two people who pleaded guility in the 2006 murder of 67-year-old Boni Frederick were ordered to spend the rest of their lives in prison. Henderson Circuit Judge Karen Wilson sentenced Henderson residents Renee Terrell, 35, and Christopher Luttrell, 24, to life in prison without ...
Masdar breaks ground on thin film PV plant (CIOL) 25 August 2008ABU DHABI, UAE: Less than three months after announcing a strategic investment into thin-film photovoltaics, Masdar, the Abu Dhabi renewable energy company, has broken ground on its first photovoltaic production plant in Ichtershausen, Germany.
So Many Books ... (San Diego Union-Tribune) 24 August 2008... and so little time. Every year in this country some 60,000 tomes are published, and Books can't get to most of them. Nonetheless, we've culled some from the herd that might be worth a look.
Romance-writing hopefuls discuss craft in S.F. (San Francisco Chronicle) 18 August 2008Forget scones and Devonshire cream. Red meat is on the menu in the new generation of romance novels. According to fall book promotions, "the alpha male is back," paired up this time with a "kick-butt heroine." " 'Sex and the City' has had its influence," said...
'SNL' stars put themselves on 'The Line' (USA Today) 14 August 2008I just spent a good chunk of my afternoon watching The Line, an online comedy series starring Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis and more of our Saturday Night Live/comedy friends. The guys came up with a perfect summertime premise: Hader plays...
CD REVIEWS / Jake Heggie / New Music (San Francisco Chronicle) 10 August 2008RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Seattle's Music of Remembrance, dedicated to music of the Holocaust, divides its attention between the work of composers murdered by the Nazis and new music written in commemoration of those atrocities. Jake Heggie's 30-minute dramatic...
Do Not Disturb (Backstage.com) 01 August 2008August 01, 2008 By Ron Cohen Do Not Disturb is noteworthy for the efficient way it crams five one-act plays into a brisk, intermissionless 75 minutes. It helps, of course, that they all take place in the same setting: a generic hotel room.
Liberals launch complaint over taxpayer-funded Tory flyers (CNews) 30 July 2008OTTAWA - A Liberal MP has filed a formal complaint accusing the Conservative party of misusing taxpayer-funded mail-outs - an allegation the Tories call unfounded.