American Idol top 12 perform LennonMcCartney (The Charlotte Observer)

After many years of threatening to secure the Beatles catalogue, Tuesday (March 11) nights episode finally sees American Idol tapping into the LennonMcCartney songbook. Its the start of the Top 12. Theres a new credit sequence (lots of scary closeups of pop singing avatars). Theres a new stage (big and, um, big). But what about the singers and their interpretations of some of the finest ... Read more

The Week: March 1013, 2008 (Isthmus)

Warmer weather and a wealth of options for fun and edification roll into Madison in this penultimate prespring week. Opportunities include: talks by Richard Dawkins, Gloria LadsonBillings, and David Loewenstein; book readings by Lionel Shriver, Charles Baxter and Richard Price, and Jodi Picoult; a farewell run of lt;igt;Riverdancelt;/igt;; a Spotlight film by Michael Robinson at MMoCA; ... Read more

The Forgotten Director (Metro Pulse)

Who was Clarence Brown Last month, the posh, 200yearold castlelike estate known as Kilruddery House, near Dublin, Ireland, offered a special Valentines Day showing of a film called The Eagle, a 1925 silent starring Rudolph Valentino as a stylishly vengeful cossack. Read more

Library Notes (Hibbing Daily Tribune)

March 4 and 5, 10 a.m. Celebrate a birthday and the end of the Winter Reading Program with Mr. Bell this week. Dr. Seusss birthday is March 3 and the stories this week will of course, be in his honor. Everyone is invited to come in for Green Eggs and Ham, Fox in Sox, and The Zax. Read more