With the recent filming of a movie version of Atlas Shrugged, there has been a lot of attention paid to Ayn Rand and her works.  Atlas Shrugged and  The Fountainhead vie for the title of masterpiece of Rand's writing.  As a young English major I devoured all her works, finding the philosophy behind them intriguing and attractive, although diametrically opposite to the f

    Eye treats abound in this scrumptious little book. Pure Michigan: Eating fresh and local in the Great Lakes State is a book to guide you as you plan your next vacation. Or the perfect gift for the relative you keep asking to visit.

Join us in the Carnegie Auditorium Thursday evening at 6 pm for a showing of Academy Award Winner The Descendants.  This R-rated film is a comedic drama about a Hawaiian land baron trying to reconnect with his teenaged daughters after his wife is badly injured in an accident.  Free refreshments.

   The Scorpio Races is getting a lot of attention lately--deservedly. A friend described it as atmospheric, and she is so right. It has atmosphere, adventure, thrills, humor and more! Set on an island that, one infers, is somewhere near the British Isles, the island, Thisby, occupies as large a part of the book as any of the characters.

Contagion the DVD is an engrossing, totally arresting movie!  Not for children, the reality and ugliness and fear of a major pandemic is terrifyingly portrayed.