City Arts Center at Fair Park’s “Summer Camp 2007” kicks off Tuesday and will continue on through the middle of August. This year’s theme is about art and culture from around the world. “We’re offering everything from puppetry, to film, to pottery, to natural dyes and fiber,” said education director Jackie Mania. TOPICS Located at […]
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Students document Katrina damage in photos
Proof that something good came out of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy of 2005 currently resides on the walls at the International Photography Hall of Fame & Museum. On display through May 31, “Eyes of the Storm: A Community Survives After Katrina” is comprised of 50 black-and-white images taken by students of Alba Middle School in […]
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Paseo gears up for arts festival
Local artists are taking to the streets Saturday through Monday for the 31st Annual Paseo Arts Festival. Held by the Paseo Artists Association, the festival will feature 75 artists from Oklahoma. The festival allows artists to sell their artwork, as well as allows the association to raise money for area events. “When you have an […]
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The Book of Fate
Brad MeltzerWarner Vision Warning: One of the worst books of 2006 is now out in paperback. It’s Brad Meltzer’s “The Book of Fate,” a “Da Vinci Code” wannabe involving a facially disfigured presidential aide, a presidential assassin and a presidential crossword puzzle. Lapses of logic are the least of its problems; an utterly unlikable protagonist, […]
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Police Blotter
Cops Getting No Respect: Taryn McCarthy, 21, in the course of a contentious January arrest for DUI in Portsmouth, N.H., was further charged with five counts of simple assault, including four separate incidents of grabbing a state trooper’s genitals. Felicha Marin, 18, was charged with shoplifting shoes from a store in Richmond, England, in March, […]
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Ewwwww!
Stewart Laidlaw, 35, was banished from Thirsty Kirsty’s pub in Dunfermline, Scotland, in March, following numerous complaints about his excessive flatulence. (A shocked Laidlaw said no one had complained before, but conceded that was probably because cigarette smoke had been masking the odor until Scotland’s recent smoking ban.) And in December, an American Airlines flight […]
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Principals Gone Wild
In February in Bethlehem, Pa., middle school principal John Acerra was arrested and charged with selling crystal meth from his office, but not to students (and when arrested in his office, after hours, he was reportedly nude). And in April, in Lorain, Ohio, principal Robert Holloway resigned after apparently too eagerly delivering on a wager. […]
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Bright Ideas
In breathtaking attention to detail reminiscent of the movie “The Great Escape,” some inmates at Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility chipped through 8 inches of concrete, then continued tunneling until they had cleared the facility’s two external walls by an extra 25 feet, but then a guard spotted an irregularity near a cell wall and discovered […]
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Shrek the Third
Reviewer’s grade: C Once upon a time, there was an ogre named Shrek. He was big, green and lovable “? and DreamWorks loved the big-time greenbacks he brought them in two box-office hits. That probably should have been the end of the fairy tale, but some storytellers don’t know when to leave well enough […]
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The Continuing Crisis
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which operates mass transit just south of San Francisco, and whose employees stage about three dozen office parties a year, issued 33 pages of specifications in January to invite local companies to bid on a contract to supply sheet cakes. The winning bidder must be versatile enough to offer […]