Art calendar (Honolulu Advertiser)

"CREATE A COLORFUL CORAL REEF!," part of the Hawai'i State Art Museum Second Saturday event series, with demonstrations and hands-on activities with the Hawai'i Watercolor Society, for all ages, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 10, Hawai'i State Art Museum, 586-0307.

01-06-09 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)

STEVIE, STREISAND AMONG INAUGURAL INVITEES: Plus, Jonas Bros and possibly Miley Cyrus to sing at Jan. 19 kids event at Verizon Center. *Fox411 columnist Roger Freidman has been looking into the number of celebrities who have been formally invited to perform at one of the 10 official Inaugural balls.

ANAND PRAKASH (Business Standard India)

A few good people who decided to quit good jobs for better ideas. Eight years ago, Anand Prakash, an economics graduate from Delhi University, created a sample card for Rs 100. “It was immediately rejected,” laughs the businessman whose turnover this year is slated to be Rs 75 lakh.

Enesco Signs Licensing Agreement with My Souls WindowTM Brand (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

ITASCA, Ill.----Enesco, LLC, a leader in the gift, and home and garden décor industries, announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Maggie Lindley, the artist and creative inspiration behind the successful My Soul’s WindowTM brand.

'Gran' slam (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

The framework for "Gran Torino" -- Clint Eastwood's latest Oscar vehicle -- was built in Minnesota by a jack-of-all-trades.

The year's best books: a shelf of standouts (The MetroWest Daily News)

The Journal's first book review in 2008 discussed Newsweek reporter Daniel McGinn's "House Lust," about America's real-estate binge before the lust went bust, and today's paper carries a review of John W. O'Malley's "What Happened at Vatican II." Between those bookends, our reviewers introduced Journal readers to hundreds of titles on a kaleidoscopic array of subjects