
Michael O’Leary / The Herald |
Everett girl dreams of a career in dance, and Nutcracker brings...

Heres how much Catherine Lawton loves to dance. She chose to be home-schooled this year to better work her education around her dancing. [More]

By Theresa Goffredo
Herald Writer | December 6


Bellevue author to appear at Mill Creek book store

Bellevue author Christina Dudley will read from and sign her novel, “Mourning Becomes Cassandra” ($15.95), at 7 p.m. Monday at University Book Store at Mill Creek. [More]

December 6


Julie & Julia blogger turns sights to meat, marriage

From the title to the last page, former blogger Julie Powells startling second memoir, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession ($24.99), is smart and compelling but frequently coy: Does she mean cleaving together? Or... [More]

By Laura Impellizzeri
Associated Press | December 6


After a slump, King returns to top form in massive new novel

I tried to write a book that would keep the pedal consistently to the metal, Stephen King writes in an afterword to Under the Dome ($35), his massive new novel his 48th! an explanation for why you will carry... [More]

By Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers | December 6


Nearing the end of the alphabet, Graftons still got her A-game

Can it really be 27 years since Kinsey Millhone sifted through clues in A Is for Alibi? And can Sue Grafton really be approaching the end of the alphabet? [More]

By Mary Foster
Associated Press | December 6



Bill O’Leary / Washington Post |
White House party crashers epitomize crazed reality-TV personality

Anyone spot a pattern here? A family that has appeared twice on a reality-TV series and had aspirations for another concocts a story about a runaway balloon that has allegedly carried off their 6-year-old son. International infamy ensues. [More]

By Paul Farhi
The Washington Post | December 6


Tennessee mayor rips into Obama for preempting ‘Peanuts' special

In the opinion of Arlington, Tenn., Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama's speech this week on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the “Peanuts” television Christmas... [More]

Scripps Howard News Service | December 6



Associated Press |
Daughter of Billy Joel in hospital for overdose

NEW YORK Alexa Ray Joel, the daughter of pop star Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, was hospitalized after taking eight pills at her Manhattan apartment, a law enforcement official said Saturday. [More]

Associated Press | December 6


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