Blog

Did you know that the library has up-to-date, verified information that you can access at any time from your home computer?

The Walker four and the Blackett pair are most definitely British kids floating around in their boats on the lake they reluctantly share in Swallows and Amazons.

Why the Liverpool Public Library for this generosity?“This is ours,” Meg Ames says. “We enjoy everything about it. We enjoy perusing all the books.

The day following the concerts, I posted song videos on our Facebook page. They scored lots of views.I squirreled away a couple for here, though.

I recall him talking about his relationship with Frank Sinatra’s music for my podcast with community radio station WAER, complete with his snippets of The Chairman of the Board’s familiar...

Some things are not supposed to happen. An aging and bored queen eats herself into a stupor at a feast in her honor until a 24-year-old Indian clerk marches up...

Do you have any words of love for your favorite library?

And Andrew Rubino brought his microphone and recorder for a radio segment for the same site.They reported that the program does very good things.

Genius has no limits, Henry figured, even when you’re 10 years old and raising your mother and little brother.

Take a good look at the headline for this installment of my Mr. G blog.

Neil stuff for sale at the show. Karen got a T-shirt.In fact, I don't know which I enjoyed more.

It's time for America's music to sweeten the Carman Community Room again.The 2018 edition of the Origins of Jazz series will honor The Jazz Singer.The first of four concerts, on...

When your phone is locked, suppose something happens to you, and a bystander or first responder needs to contact your family to let them know?

There was no getting away from the unbearable tension at Dunkirk those striking days during World War II when the German forces had the Allied troops sealed off on the...

If you lived through the ‘70s, the phrase Battle of the Sexes is no stranger. Women were working hard to get their just due, and certain men were quite reluctant...

The seats were full to experience the holiday sounds from the Salt City Harpers on Sunday, Dec.

There's bound to be a marvelous holiday spirit when the world of harp music visits the LPL.The Salt City Harpers will turn their four big stringed instruments onto a batch...

For the front portion of Maud’s life, oh, so much tried to make a point that she wasn’t worth the effort.

Life is sort of smooth for this Mexican flock as the papa and mama birds pull off their magic in making the family circus work as their son Cuco pays...

And one of the glories of the movie is we get to see why in bits and pieces of flashback to Ove’s youth growing up virtually in a train yard...

A present from Big Mike Fiss to the LPL local music-loving community.

The third installment of the Fall Music Series reaches the Dulcimers stage of the proceedings Sunday, Nov.

Artist John Mariani hangs a painting commissioned by an Eastwood neighbor from a park that honors the artist's late son, Louis.

Kaili Blues presents a poetic prism on modern Chinese cinema.

Phrases such as "I like they key changes" and "It's all in the phrasing" met with nods and, and maybe even a smile or two.It was obvious that all were...

Teens being teens, they both want more. Especially Maddy, who longs to actually go to the ocean, which by the looks of things, can’t be so far from this gorgeous...

You can’t help rooting for James to turn his life around for good. And for Bob to come out OK, too.

The Jefferson String Quartet will include Sonya Williams and Edgar Tumajyan on violin, Lindsay Groves on cello and Dana Huyge on viola.Classical music, yes.Traditional string quartet show, no."We will show...

Johnny Depp is back as Captain Jack Sparrow to continue Disney's moneymaking Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Comic book lovers and TV viewers of a certain vintage certainly are no strangers to the powers of Wonder Woman.

Some things in Conor O’Malley’s life are all too real.

Frank Adler stood up when hard times came knocking.

Mack had things good in life. Lovely and loving wife. Three smart and connected children. A robust family dynamic that included curious talk and practice of faith that strayed just...

The new music series that fills the LPL’s Carman Community Room with wonderful sound starts this Sunday, Sept.

Oh, what happened to 5-year-old Saroo.

Keith Gatling, also known as our tech expert Mr. G, shows off his personalized sweatshirt at his Drop In Tech Help station in the LPL main room.

Josh Burke was 17 years old the last time I sat with him in a conference room, talking rock music and life.

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis find the uneasy peace in 'Fences.' (From IMDb.com)

African American women mathematicians played a critical role in the early success of NASA. (Photo from IMDb.com)

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling spin for each other's affection in 'La La Land.' (Photo from IMDb.com)

Patrons roll up in the underground parking garage and drop their once-cherished books into the big blue bins.They walk up to staffers behind the customer service desk and hand over...

Woody Allen did a lot right in his direction of Cafe Society, the Hollywood legend’s period piece about a New York City kid coming of age in the 1930s.

There were some stinkers on my list this year.

I sat and pondered with the list of first-run and Blu-Ray/DVDs I’d watched these past 12 months, thinking about the effect they’d had on me in the theater or on...

I never saw a Sophistafunk set where people weren't up, out, flying about in the middle of a great time.The new album from Real Vibration the Syracuse funk and hip-hop...

Edgar Pagan can make a few calls, send a couple of emails, punch out a text or three and put together a CD that stands up to anything out there...