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Andrews McMeel’s Comfort Food Cookbooks Can Warm Up The Winter
Saturday, January 26th, 2013
by Michall Jeffers on Reading Around
The freezing days we’ve had this winter have made me rethink the “just a salad, please” meals of summer. A little comfort food is in
Jazz Appreciation Month Recalls Sinatra the Activist
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
The act of a single person—even through music—can influence history. The Smithsonian We remember Frank Sinatra as perhaps the greatest singer who ever lived. Overlooked
I Married Wyatt Earp—The Women’s Story
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848 –1929) was a gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer best known to American history for a shoot out with the
Bach’s Cello Suites, March 26 at the Library of Congress
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
You have heard them in commercials and in the movies. In fact, Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are probably the most performed and popular
When We Were Strangers—Coming to America
Friday, February 11th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around
My grandmother emigrated to the U.S. from Southern Italy in the early 1900s. Only a teenager, she left her mother and several siblings behind, making
Before Facebook and Twitter, There Were Diaries
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
As a teenager, I churned through numerous diaries, chronicling my day-to-day adventures no matter how boring. My favorite book was pink with a ballerina on
Lethal Legacy—Behind the Scenes at the Public Library
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around
Linda Fairstein’s mysteries also serve as tour guides into some of New York’s storied landmarks. In Lethal Legacy, her eleventh, we go behind the scenes
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