"This is a new beginning. It's not the end. Marta will focus on what she wants to do with her art. She'll continue to meet with visitors." There's even a plan to develop "Dinner and a Movie with Marta" nights at the opera house. No doubt they'll be a...

Moby-Dick’s otherwise simple storyline has been made into at least three normal-length screenplays and more than one stage play, but stripped of Herman Melville’s seeming descriptive excess, the results are often surprisingly bloodless (the 1956 film...

That's a great set-up, and I've always been a sucker for stories exploring the ramifications of troubled first contact scenarios (Ray Bradbury's THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, several episodes of the original STAR TREK series, and much of human history being...

...arts classes in the Appleton Area School District: ť "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie ť "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson ť "Hitler Youth" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ť "A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmeal...

Ready to play with your food? Well, put all your senses (taste, touch, sense, smell) on alert. Then, as Braun Costello puts it, “mess with the recipe.” Armed with a few of her ideas below, head into the kitchen with this quote she offers from writer...

With apologies to Ray Bradbury, the famous title of his short story is far more than the annotation on a map when it comes to Kentucky. Rupp Arena has become a place where teams, good and bad, have been forced to abandon hope of victory for the last...