The Pulaski County Tourism Bureau will unveil the winning submissions to the inaugural I Love Pulaski County! Photo Contest Friday, November 4, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. at Michels Frames and Things, 690 Missouri Avenue, Suite 21, St. Robert, MO 65584.
HISTORY
The Old Stagecoach Stop in the Waynesville Town Square was first constructed and opened by William Walter McDonald on land purchased in 1854.
Tribal Museum head to discuss county’s earliest residents.
Young people participating in the Richland Summer Reading Program read more than 2,800 books this summer.
Discover a treasure that will never lose its value by attending Book Island, an incentive reading program, at the Bruce C. Clark Library on Fort Leonard Wood.
The Silver Ghost Association Inc. (SGA Inc.) rolled into the Hampton Inn around 5 p.m. Saturday.
Joe Mathieu has illustrated more than 100 children’s books and has created thousands of illustrations for Sesame Street books and other products.
Nothing kills the mood before a show like a clunky cell phone announcement or fundraising pitch from the stage.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Leon Chiappini hooks a tire-sized cymbal around his finger and spins it like a basketball. He hits it and listens for the ding, the gravel and the growl: elements of crash that the average ear can’t hear. If it’s not perfect, Chiappini tosses it in the reject pile. “After 49 years, I’d better know if it’s good,” he said with a laugh.
I like to think of film critic Roger Ebert as a sieve. When Hollywood releases a film, it's probably going to go through him. And after taking in a flick and sharing his thoughts, his readers are left with just the stuff that they can use - a solid opinion, a little humor, an idea of whether or not they'll be wanting to shell out their money to take a look themselves.
Checklists, writes Boston surgeon and author Atul Gawande in his book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” are considered by many to be beneath us. Yet Gawande proves, without a doubt, that checklists — cognitive safety nets — save lives, millions of dollars and untold heartache, whether the task is flying an airplane, building a skyscraper or operating on an adrenal gland.
Bruce Brown of Springfield first discovered comic books as a child. A specialist recommended them to Brown’s parents to help their son overcome some reading difficulties. Now he not only enjoys reading comic books, he writes them, too. Brown’s latest graphic novel, released earlier this year, is “Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom.”
