Vauxhall Collective: The UK's Most Talented And Exciting Creatives Are Announced (The Auto Channel)

LUTON, United Kingdom – December 1, 2008: As part of its ongoing commitment to style and design, car company Vauxhall in conjunction with a Style Council made up of arts industry experts, has identified six of the brightest creative stars and given them a commission of up to £20,000 each, accompanied by a high profile PR campaign, to help them take their careers to the next level.

Review: The Choice of Hercules by A.C. Grayling (Guardian Unlimited)

Review: The Choice of Hercules by A.C. GraylingThe philosopher's latest thesis considers how pleasure and virtue aren't mutually exclusive after all, writes Helen Zaltzman

Security issue reworks King statue event (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Washington — Pioneers of the civil rights movement are set to gather next week for what was supposed to be a two-day celebration of the groundbreaking on the National Mall for the memorial for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

No scanners to read ID cards (Guardian Unlimited)

Britain's first biometric ID cards cannot be read because the government has not issued any scanners

Review: "The Art of Ceremony" at Hallie Ford (The Oregonian)

Photo by Frank MillerSue Perry Olson's dentalium from Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw, 2002 SALEM -- "There are two kinds of music," Duke Ellington famously said. "Good music, and the other kind." As the ambitious and visually...

Famed dancers, singers and musicians performed in the Park Theater in Meadville back in the 1920s. Decades later, ... (Erie Times-News)

Built in 1922 as the Park Theater, the structure was recast as the First National Bank from 1959 to 1995. Ed Fine, a Meadville resident since 1975, brought the vacant building back to life nine years later in his own effort to revitalize the downtown he remembered.