Theatre Punchdrunk, and the Discover Childrens' Story Centre in Stratford, east London, are collaborating on a interactive show, The House Where Winter Lives, aimed at families with three- to six-year-olds.
Evelyne Lever's "Madame de Pompadour," translated from the French by Catherine Temerson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $26), and Christine Pevitt Algrant's "Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France" (Grove; $27.50) are compact, sympathetic lives aimed at an intelligent popular readership.
The family of the late Jack Kevorkian, the controversial pathologist named "Dr Death" for helping dozens of terminally-ill patients take their own lives, aimed to sell some of his personal effects yesterday at an auction.
Following a nationwide March 14 walkout from classes to honor the Parkland victims and to protest both gun violence in schools and inaction by lawmakers on the issue, the Florida students and their supporters plan to convene in Washington, D.C., on Saturday for the "March For Our Lives," aimed at urging Congress and the president to adopt tighter gun regulations.
In its second and third years, London Live aims to expand with original programming commissioned in genres including food, homes, fashion, comedy and drama.
Easy Living, aimed at women over 30 and launched last year at a cost of £17m, increased its circulation by 6.5% in the second half of 2005 to 182,146, but is still falling short of Coleridge's 200,000 target.
Rooms from £60 (sgl), £150 (dbl) The Grove, Hertfordshire The long-awaited Grove promises to be the most exciting country house hotel launch since Babington House, offering cosmopolitan country living aimed at the London style set - 'exclusive, but not excluding', reads the brochure.
A DORMANT textile mill in Paterson and a vacant site once occupied by a building-supply business in Bayonne are to be transformed into rental apartments with the help of a new state program called Downtown Living, aimed at reintroducing middle-income housing into urban neighborhoods.
Remember, you may have the jobs for the rest of your lives, so aim high.
Perhaps, then, the Lives also aim to train the reader's character, and in such a way to prepare them for the life of philosophy.
