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Hartford Public Library has announced  that actor, director, producer, philanthropist, and New York Times best-selling author, Henry Winkler (better known as “The Fonz”  to most) will be the featured speaker at the Library’s annual...

Email Jenn: jbates@kwch.com Like Jenn on Facebook: Jenn Bates Facebook Follow Jenn on Twitter: @jennbates12 Jenn Bates is a member of the Eyewitness Sports team. Before coming to Wichita in 2008, Jenn reported for KNDU in Kennewick, WA. Jenn started...

Meditations From a Garden Seat by the Judy Dworin Performance Project Nov. 1 – 3, 2012 Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford www.charteroakcenter.org or (860) 249-1207   For Judy Dworin, choreographer, human rights...

As Lucy Kobbs turned the final page of the seventh and last book in the "Harry Potter" series, she took a pencil to the wall beside her bed and memorialized the end of an era: 7/22/07, 3:20 a.m. "It's one of those books that will stick with me for life,"...

One thing to know about our book club: Our group formed about five years ago with people living in two condo communities in the West Loop. Although some of us have moved away, it is a testament to our group that we now meet all over town as we continue to...

One thing to know about your book club: We began our first meetings at the historic Dole Mansion in Crystal Lake; we later moved on to a couple of coffee houses. But for the past year we have been having breakfast meetings at Benedict's restaurant....

CHICAGO -- Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying "prayer and careful thought" led her to her decision. Winfrey told the audience that she loved...

Fiction 1. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger($14.95) 2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery ($15) 4. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ($14) 5. New Moon by...

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || weeks on list || || 1. || Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. || 27 || || 2. || Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown:...

Words & Ideas TODAY Jessica Lange The actor and photographer will present and sign her new book, "50 Photographs." Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 2 p.m. Free. (310) 659-3110. Rhapsodomancy Reading Series This installment of the...

Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...

The heat was making the attorney general's pants slip. A cover band was pumping out a disturbingly loud version of ``Beware the Devil Woman'' and there was no shade whatsoever on the dusty grounds of the Elks Club in East Hartford, where the annual...