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Library events April 7, 2013
Each week, The News-Gazette will offer a selection of events provided by area libraries:
Champaign Public Library
Main library, 200 W. Green St.
Douglass branch, 504 E. Grove St.
Art Beat: We all lost a good friend in Roger Ebert
One of the last emails I received from Roger Ebert came Feb. 9. Characteristically, it was about someone he was promoting, both as one of his "Far Flung Correspondents" — FFCs, the bloggers from around the world that he featured on his website — and filmmaker.
Actress shows her love with her memoir/self-help book
Gloria Loring is probably best known for her work during the 1980s when she starred in "Days of Our Lives" as Liz Chandler, co-wrote popular TV show theme songs like "Facts of Life," and had a hit song with "Friends and Lovers."
Ted Kooser: American life in poetry March 31, 2013
Robert Morgan, who lives in Ithaca, N.Y., has long been one of my favorite American poets. He's also a fine novelist and, recently, the biographer of Daniel Boone. His poems are often about customs and folklore, and this one is a good example.
Living Tree
It's said they planted trees by graves
to soak up spirits of the dead
through roots into the growing wood.
C-U Haiku March 31, 2013
Angels
ice-stiffened wings
The iris tightens her grip
— Samira Didos, Champaign
Two more winners you'll enjoy
This week, I'm sharing two more Golden Kite Award Winners from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators:
UI press exhibit opening this week
CHAMPAIGN — The University of Illinois Press will host the annual Book, Jacket and Journal Show from Monday through April 12.
Sponsored by the Association of American University Presses, nearly 100 books and jackets — the best of university press publishing — will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the UI Press, 1325 S. Oak St., C.
Library events March 31, 2013
Each week, The News-Gazette will offer a selection of events provided by area libraries:
Champaign Public Library
Main library, 200 W. Green St.
Douglass branch, 504 E. Grove St.
Hardly heartfelt: Deep Throat's motivations less than honorable
In journalism, the Five W's — who, what, when, where and why — constitute the generic formula for getting the story.
Applied to Deep Throat — the super-secret news source for The Washington Post — the Five W's purported to tell the tale of the man who helped keep alive the scandal — Watergate — that ultimately drove President Richard Nixon from office in August 1974.
'Scent of Darkness' quite compelling story
As usual, once again I procrastinated on sleep with my nightly ritual of checking Pinterest.com. An hour (and many re-pins later) I was almost ready to go to bed when a quote in thick white letters against a brilliant red background caught my eye.
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
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