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Professor Publishes 'Folktales of the Amazon'
Published December 2, 2008, 1:26 pm, Newswise
As a boy living on a small farm with his grandparents in the Amazon region of Colombia, Juan Carlos Galeano was entranced with the lush, naturalistic and often violent folktales that had been passed down from tribal Amazonians and had evolved through generations of natives and multiethnic newcomers like his relatives.
Cinematheque honors Samuel L. Jackson
Published December 2, 2008, 12:03 pm, The Hollywood Reporter
Colleagues and friends didn't hold back when showing appreciation for Samuel L. Jackson as he was honored by American Cinematheque on Monday.
Lone Star Library: ‘Life Is Good’ co-author due in Southlake
Published December 2, 2008, 8:45 am, Fort Worth Business Press
Bert Jacobs, co-developer of the Life Is Good line of clothing and accessories, is due Dec. 7 at Jake’s Loft in Southlake for a book-signing session. The book, Life Is Good: Simple Wisdom from Jake & Rocket , is a hefty hardcover volume of deceptively sparse content — stick-figure pictures, each juxtaposed with a few accompanying words — that proposes to equip the reader with a keener ...
Best novels of 2008
Published December 2, 2008, 6:45 am, The Christian Science Monitor
For a slideshow of the Monitor's fiction book jackets from 2008, click here. A Golden Age By Tahmima Anam (HarperCollins, 288 pp., $24.95) Bangladeshi author Tahmima Anam’s moving debut novel tells the story of a widowed mother’s fight to keep her son and daughter safe during Bangladesh’s war for independence. This beautiful work ...
SI's Sportsman Of The Year: Michael Phelps
Published December 2, 2008, 5:48 am, Sports Illustrated
The party of the year in the swimming world took place not in Beijing's Water Cube in August but in a New York City hotel ballroom the week before Thanksgiving. The occasion was the Golden Goggle Awards, the Oscars of the amphibious set, and most of the 43 members of the U.S. Olympic swim team turned out for the splashy event. With their short skirts, high heels and ripped biceps the women were ...
Making a difference: Grandmother won’t leave kids behind
Published December 2, 2008, 2:32 am, Cleveland Advocate
Linda Boles, 48, is a busy woman. Working full-time at a funeral home and raising four grandchildren doesn’t leave her a lot of time.
Greene County social services receive accreditation
Published December 2, 2008, 1:23 am, The Springfield News-Leader
Greene County has become the latest Missouri county to meet rigorous compliance standards created by the Council on Accreditation.
Ogle proud to call Wooden a friend
Published December 2, 2008, 12:09 am, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
WARSAW – Photos of the man crowd the shelves, those famous Hoosier features looking out at you from behind the famous bemused smile. His books line up neatly. Somewhere, clearing space like a power forward blocking out, the Pyramid of Success appears, as immutable as time itself.
Los Lobos takes to the stage at Bloomington's performing arts center
Published December 1, 2008, 11:04 pm, The Pantagraph
At first glance, it would appear that Steve Berlin is the odd man out in Los Lobos. He’s not from east Los Angeles; the others are.
'They should have called him Magic'
Published December 1, 2008, 10:36 pm, The Morning Sun
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines summed up Al Ortolani in just one word. “The biggest thing that stuck out for me was that he had an amazing ability to make you relax,” Gaines said in a phone interview with The Morning Sun Monday “They called him Magic Fingers, but they should have just called him Magic.” Gaines worked with Ortolani, the longtime Pittsburg State and USA ...
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