Emiliana Torrini Wed & Thur Brisk, bright, glacier-melting alt-folk from the Icelandic singer- songwriter, who co-wrote "Slow" for Kylie. Her recent album, Me and Armini, merits a similar shot at success. Trinity, Bristol, Wed; St Giles Church, London WC2, Thur Elbow Mon to Wed...
Inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case, "Rope," the first showing in an Alfred Hitchcock film series at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 S.W. 10th, deals with a pair of thrill killers. The free screening begins at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium. The Capital-JournalFrench...
Alan Weisman, author of "The World Without Us," will be at Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, Tuesday, 7 p.m., tickets are $10 (581-7100 or www.kingsburyhall.org) Alexander McCall Smith, author of "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency," "44 Scotland Street" and the "Dr. Von Igelfeld" series,...
SANTA CLARA -- Steve Young was on the phone line as he picked up his kids from school. He interrupted the interview to see what his 7- year-old son thought of the news. "They're retiring my number," Young explained. "Nobody will ever wear No. 8 again." ...
At last it begins. After all the months of sparring, feinting, showboating and shadow-boxing, after all the conflated controversies about lipstick on pigs, God'n' guns for hicks and sex education for kids, we are on the verge of what every self-respecting big fight MC knows as the main event. ...
On Heels of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nomination LOS ANGELES -- WAR: What is it good for? Just the most memorable hits of all time, including "Cisco Kid," "Low Rider" and "The World is a Ghetto." On October 14, 2008, War will release three special commemorative...
Digest Onstage Theatre -- "Helen's Most Favorite Day," at School House Culture Center, 2050 Oak Park Blvd., Pleasant Hill. 8:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays through Oct. 11; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, Oct. 5; 8 p.m. Oct. 2 and 9; tickets $15; $12 students/seniors. 925-944-9006....
The ruins still smoulder and the smell wafts pungently through the air. At the entrance of the Marriott Hotel, Shah Hussain, a 25- year-old waiter, casts his eyes across the shards of glass, torn carpet and bits of the roof strewn around his feet in despair. Lifting...
SAN ANTONIO -- As the Cahill clan gathers near Boston for matriarch Grace Cahill's funeral, a select group of family members are summoned to the mansion's great hall and issued a challenge by the executor of the estate. "If you so choose, each of you may walk...
By Phil Anderson THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Sometimes, mothers with young children just want a short break from their adoring kids and a chance to visit with other moms in a relaxed atmosphere. For moms like this, there is Mothers of Preschoolers, an...
A TEENAGER who feared he could have contracted a deadly virus when he was stabbed with a tattoo gun has finally been given the all clear. It has been an anxious summer for 13-year-old Nathan Cunningham, who was stabbed in the arm with a tattoo needle as he...
SEB Coe has saluted Britain's amazing success in Beijing - but warned that we must not go back to the dark days when sport was being strangled. The Olympic legend believes that the only way to build on the great haul of China when London hosts...
KRISTEN SCHAAL AND KURT BRAUNOHLER Assembly @ George Street *** New York comedy scene darlings and all-round kooky kids Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler serve up an erratic mix of knockabout double-act banter and sketches in Double Down Hearts, to little avail. The...
Talks: Jeremy Scahill (ICA, LONDON) The writer discusses the use of private armies with the journalistStephen Armstrong. (020-7930 3647) tonight Pop: Black Kids (ACADEMY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) Funky-fresh melodic flurries, cheerleader harmonies...
NORTHERN Rock is offering youngsters the chance to give golf a shot while one of the world's largest junior golf festivals is held at Matfen Hall, Northumberland. The Rock is a festival aimed at allowing children the opportunity to try golf, improve their skills or play in a...
WHY IT'S COOL: Alameda's historic aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet, is always a fun excursion with kids. Between the ghosts, space race artifacts and flight simulators, there are plentiful thrills. But this weekend, the Hornet hosts two special events. Spend the night aboard the aircraft carrier this Friday and you'll...
IT'S BETTER late than never - and no kidding! Two Anglo Nubian goats have been born at Cannon Hall Farm, Cawthorne. The farm normally receives baby goats in Spring but the twins, who will later named by visitors, arrived four months late. Also born...
AMERICAN FORK -- The Celebration Young Performers and Extreme Kids V.I.P. will perform Monday at 7 p.m. at the Amphitheater at Quail Cove. Six groups of performers, all age-based, pattern their shows after Brigham Young University's Young Ambassadors, director Angie Bynum said. The groups rehearse in a...
THE IDEA WAS BORN BEFORE Chipper Jones was, when the "old block" was just a chip himself. Larry Wayne Jones Sr. was a kid in Baltimore when he fell in love with the switch-hitting Yankee Mickey Mantle. He saw the power Mantle could generate left-handed...
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