Art to Heart offers (a piece of) the shirt off Tiger's back (Palladium-Item)

An annual sell-out, Art to Heart XVII will mix art, entertainment and a fundraising auction. Tickets are still available for the Jan. 10 event, where those gathered at Forest Hills Country Club will have a chance to bid on work by many area artists.

Western Montana life in ’08 - Small towns filled with interesting stories all year-round (Missoulian)

Warren Winter and his wife, Wanda Thorpe, wash and dry puppies taken in by the Thompson River Animal Care Shelter last February in Thompson Falls. The shelter took in 289 cats and dogs in its first year of operation and adopted out 252.

Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 Exhibitor Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SAN FRANCISCO----Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 takes place January 5 - 9, 2009 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.

It's time to toast New Hope's 30th (The Sun Chronicle)

ATTLEBORO - For the past 30 years, New Hope Inc., the area's nonprofit domestic and sexual violence agency, has served the community, and the agency plans to celebrate the milestone in a big way.

Get a step ahead on globe-trotting (Santa Fe New Mexican)

24-31: Elko, Nev. — National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. 25th annual roundup of silver-tongued ranch hands. 25: Ayrshire, Scotland — Homecoming Burns Supper. Poet's 250th birthday party launches return-to-Scotland year.

Obituary: Art World Loses Singular and Durable Talents this Year (Art Daily)

Swiss Art Collector Hildy Beyeler Died at Age 86. The art world lost some singular and durable talents this past year.