How cool that self-described “word nerd” rocker David Cook claimed the American Idol crown last night. Remember when Simon Cowell rolled his eyes and berated Cook back in February after the singer revealed that he enjoys crossword puzzles in between performances?
Last night the smart kid with a heart of gold pulled off the biggest upset [...]
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Paging the new American Idol
Performance art
Roshawnda Bettencourt, a student at Placer County’s Oakmont High, captured first place in California’s Poetry Out Loud state finals. She recited “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows [...]
Some (really) good bookstore news for a change
The Book Standard reports that 115 new independent bookstores opened in the U.S. in 2007 — seventeen of them here in California. California even led the country in bookstore openings, while New York claimed the No. 2 spot with eight new stores. Bookselling This Week has compiled a complete list here.
We’d like to welcome [...]
Happy ?.;! to you
Somehow we missed it, but style maven Maj Harmon is always on top of festivities great and small. She advises that today is National Punctuation Day!
Dutton’s lives on!
The LAT reports that billionaire Charles T. Munger has scrapped his plans for luxury condos on San Vicente Boulevard. Instead, he is building a two-story retail complex that would retain Dutton’s Brentwood Books in a new and improved space.
Munger, 83, said the neighborhood’s staunch opposition to the project and concern for Dutton’s prompted his [...]
Paging the new American Idol
Performance art
Roshawnda Bettencourt, a student at Placer County’s Oakmont High, captured first place in California’s Poetry Out Loud state finals. She recited “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows [...]
Some (really) good bookstore news for a change
The Book Standard reports that 115 new independent bookstores opened in the U.S. in 2007 — seventeen of them here in California. California even led the country in bookstore openings, while New York claimed the No. 2 spot with eight new stores. Bookselling This Week has compiled a complete list here.
We’d like to welcome [...]
Happy ?.;! to you
Somehow we missed it, but style maven Maj Harmon is always on top of festivities great and small. She advises that today is National Punctuation Day!
Dutton’s lives on!
The LAT reports that billionaire Charles T. Munger has scrapped his plans for luxury condos on San Vicente Boulevard. Instead, he is building a two-story retail complex that would retain Dutton’s Brentwood Books in a new and improved space.
Munger, 83, said the neighborhood’s staunch opposition to the project and concern for Dutton’s prompted his [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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