Before there was The Phantom of the Opera, before there was Cats, before there was Evita, before there was Jesus Christ Superstar, two young English men (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) created a 15-minute “Pop Cantata,” based on an Old Testament story, for a boys’ school to perform in 1968.
Ricki runs Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbook and Kitchenware Shop at Bon Vee’s Culinary House Museum in the Garden District in New Orleans. She’s not used to the enthusiasm New Orleans has for Halloween. To get in the spirit, Ricki suggests turning Bon Vee into a haunted house for the holiday with a scary version for adults and a much tamer experience for the kids.
Having found success renovating homes for their Domestic Partners show on Home Design Television, bestselling author PJ “Pete” Penwell and his partner JP Broadway are taking on the challenging 1913 manor built for lumber baron William Royce Woods. Infamous for a family curse that has been passed down and led to the deaths of many of the Woods family, this renovation has been planned to coincide with Halloween in their hometown of Pleasant Woods, Michigan.
by Sarah Peterson-Camacho
“The Weekly Alta has recently begun the publication of the story of Joaquin Murrieta, revised. The story is more attractive in its new form than ever before, and the publishers have been unable to supply the demand for back numbers.” --The Santa Barbara Times, Saturday, November 26, 1870, p. 2
For the upcoming Gala Week ushering in the New Year and raising funds for the Silvercrest Library, the cast of the popular mystery television show Chasers have been invited to premiere their new episode written by local resident and mystery author Calliope Nightfall. Tabitha Baxter, the president of the library board and self-declared leader of the gala, is thrilled to be welcoming the star Whitney Wilton and her niece/party planner Lyra, at least right up until Lyra falls ill and is later found dead.
The Gods of Olympus! Titans! Monsters! Centaurs! Medusa! Furies! Hades! Minotaurs! Ares! Stolen Lightning! Charon! Satyrs!
It’s not a quiz for Greek Mythology 101. It’s The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, a lively journey through a modern-day world where ancient gods (and their part-mortal children) and monsters battle for survival, a River City Theatre Company production now playing at the Reedley Opera House through October 13.
This week we have 4 more cozy and historical mysteries for your fall reading-Quilty as Charged: A Measure Twice Sewing Mystery Book Two by Maggie Bailey, No Paw to Stand On: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery by Laurie Cass, The Grim Steeper: A Witches Brew Mystery #3 by Gretchen Rue, and Murder at the White Palace by Allison Montclair.
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This is the second book in a new Jackie Layton series. I just want to start by saying how much I like that the series is titled “Organized Crime” as a play on the word organized, as in organizing spaces. Cozy sleuth’s usually have regular day jobs, like café owner, librarian, baker, and even pet-care specialist, but never an organizer.
Due to the fact that I’m filled to the brim with kittens, it has been a somewhat slow month. I have been helping people get cats fixed and doing TNR as well. I will set traps at various locations and hope for the best. Some locations make trapping difficult, and it is often slow going. I trapped for one family that I had previously helped with several cats.
