The Lady Vanishes - Criterion Collection (DVD Talk) The term "popcorn movie" is generally applied to films that are entertainment at its most pure. The kind of movies that are full of twists and turns and we dare not look away as we scarf down our popcorn, stuffing our face with fluffy snacks while our eyes are stuffed with movie fun....more...Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report (AllAfrica.com) allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience...more... Cross-Media Publishing: Create DVD Slide Shows, Videos And Print Photo Books With One True Media (MasterNewMedia.org) Cross-media publishing is the ability to publish content across multiple media like the Web, printed books, video, slide shows and more. A new web-based platform provides all you need to assemble fancy multimedia slide shows with audio and music while providing you with all the facilities needed to publishing your creations to a variety of media at the click of a button. If you want to ......more... Nourishing Movies (in Entertainment) (The Tyee) Avoid the plexes, tuck into these filmic fests and feasts....more... Venerable Bay Wolf trumps turkey (Contra Costa Times) What a marvelous holiday Thanksgiving would be if that bird quacked instead of gobbled. Proof can be found every (other) Thursday at Bay Wolf in Oakland, where duck has been king for 32 years....more... Every School Every Thursday -- Urbandale/Johnston (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index) Plan to attend the upcoming free training, The ABC's of the Individualized Education Program, or IEP, sponsored by the Parent Educator Connection of Heartland AEA11 and Des Moines Public Schools from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Urbandale Public Library, 3520 86th St. Please register by Monday either online at www.aea11.k12.ia/paraeduc/ParentWorkshops , or call Jeri Messenger ......more... Every School Every Thursday -- Des Moines South (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index) There is no school Friday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Classes will resume Monday. Nicole Smith's second-grade class sure is learning a lot this year, from reading chapter books to learning how to regroup numbers. Their brains are getting bigger every day....more... Art Appreciation | Gather the family for a day at the museums (Urban Tulsa) With the holiday coming up, it's actually a semi-slow week in the arts world, believe it or not, so I thought we'd take it as an opportunity to recap some of the exhibits at the galleries and museums we've missed out on this month. Explore the Americas Last week, Gilcrease Museum, 1400 Gilcrease M... By Holly Wall....more... Calif. had biggest U.S. home-price drops in Sept. (Orange County Register) First American LoanPerformance says Los Angeles-Orange County area prices fell by 8.1% in September, sixth highest among the top 30 metro areas....more... |