The Other Home Run Chase (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Rabid baseball collector and comic-book entrepreneur Todd McFarlane has his own legions of fans. ...more...Antiques calendar (Stamford Advocate)
AUCTIONS & SALES ...more... Community bulletin board (Napa Valley Register)
Education Tasting room training The Wine Tasting Room Training for Winery Personnel offered by Napa Valley College Hospitality Institute features key tips and proven techniques for identifying different types of customers, how to listen and ask appropriate questions and how to effectively ?make the sale.? The workshop is Aug. 15, 9-11:30 a.m., at Umpqua Bank, 305 Soscol Ave., #100, Napa; and ......more... Antiques calendar (Greenwich Time)
TUESDAY: That's the deadline for collectors who want to consign historic autographs and collectibles for Alexander Autographs' live and online auction to be held in October....more... Maumelle Public Library displays a variety of collections (Maumelle Monitor)
Vita sine litteris mors est. Translated from Latin it means something to the affect that ?life without books is like death.?...more... Through history's lens (The Pueblo Chieftain)
Natural history gets new attention in a display of photos at a local museum. Pueblo history gets attention, too, because the more than 40 photos shown in the Carriage House at Rosemount Museum, 419 W. 14th St., were taken by Herman Woodworth Nash, a local turn-of-the-century photographer who left his mark in many places. The small exhibit is the culmination of months worth of correspondence ......more... 30 years on, Elvis fans keep 'King' alive (The Times of India)
A news bulletin on All India Radio 30 years ago left Zahir Chinoy all shook up after King was dead and so was Chinoy's dream of seeing him perform live. ....more... The hitchhiker's guide to Florida (Creative Loafing Tampa)
Pirates, savages, Capri-Sun ? how to hitchhike Florida and survive... By Alex Pickett.This is not good. Not good at all. Lots could go wrong on this one. Cops. Beaten and robbed. Stranded. Definitely the worst ride yet. Shouldn't have gotten in this van. [image-1]I glance over at Ethan. He's looking straight ahead. Even his pet rat Echinacea is still. I roll another cigarette and inhale deeply. ......more... Where childhood innocence meets high church of America's geek elite / Comic books aren't the half of it at the ... (San Francisco Chronicle)
They came, they saw, they conquered and were conquered in turn - willingly, deliriously, gratefully. With dazed smiles, sweat-stained Superman T-shirts, pink hair, deathly pallor, yards of tattoos, rolls of fat and an occasional pair of detachable devil... ...more... |