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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.
Colleagues and friends didn't hold back when showing appreciation for Samuel L. Jackson as he was honored by American Cinematheque on Monday.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 has become the latest Missouri county to meet rigorous compliance standards created by the Council on Accreditation.
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.
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.
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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