If you or your kids are whizzes with building blocks, you’ll want to enter Saturday’s Legos contest at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. The winner gets a trip to Legoland in Southern California. Contestants will bring their own Legos to Turtle… Continue Reading
Lots of folks are fascinated by the work habits of authors. Writing a novel is such a huge undertaking, how do authors make the leap to start one? How do they keep going? Because it’s a solitary activity, quirks are bound to emerge.… Continue Reading
If “Cash for Clunkers” rebates were used to buy new vehicles with only marginally better fuel economy numbers, was the program a failure? That’s the question posed by a big story zooming around the Intertoobs today: An impressive examination of last summer’s “Cash for Clunkers” program by… Continue Reading
If you notice a whiff of woodsmoke in the air around Redding this week, it’s likely from a prescribed burn scheduled for Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. The 226-acre Buck fire is planned for an overgrown area in the park’s southeast section, weather… Continue Reading
Yikes, is my face red! I looked at the calendar wrong on Friday and reported that Cypress Avenue bridge construction would require big traffic pattern changes over the weekend. But, duh, it’s NEXT weekend. Nov. 6-8. Otherwise, the information, repeated… Continue Reading
The Shasta String Trio, featuring violinist Cherie Gans, will perform at 6 p.m. today at the Redding Library’s community room for this month’s “Musical Tuesdays at the Library.” The “Musical Tuesdays” program presents free performances by musicians from different genres the… Continue Reading
Northern California authors will display their wares on Saturday at Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding as Writers Forum sponsors its sixth annual Authors Fair. This is a fun event, with music and skits as well as a bunch of friendly authors, who will… Continue Reading
Regular news outlets don’t seem to have the story yet, but several websites are reporting that harmonica legend Norton Buffalo died this weekend. We reported here at the Corner Booth on Friday that the singer-songwriter and harmonica virtuoso was suffering… Continue Reading
This might be a good weekend to avoid the Cypress Avenue bridge in Redding. Work crews will limit the crossing over the Sacramento River to one lane in each direction while they reroute traffic lanes. By Monday, auto traffic (two lanes in… Continue Reading
Predicting hit songs has always been the Holy Grail of the music industry, which has a success rate of only 10 percent. Now, a high-tech company says it has an algorithm that can predict which singles have the best chance of… Continue Reading
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