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Interested in band? Here are some upcoming events for your perusal.

March 26 DCHS Band Booster meeting

April 2  DCHS Pre-Festival Concert

April 4  Regional Solo-Small Ensemble Festival

April 6  SHCS Spring Concert

April 15 State Large Group Festival

It's that time of the year for everyone to start heading outside and testing their greenthumb.

Here is a way that you can be green and green at the same time. It is called Xeriscaping.

What is Xeriscaping?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

 The following is a list of contributing artists and event sponsors provided by the organizers of the Wine Tasting and Art Auction.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Maryn Austin - tattoo

Gene Bunker – functional pottery

Brendan Carl – enamel on gesso board

Norma Clare – cowboy paintings

Murry Eckles – painting completed as a demonstration at the first Family Art Adventure, Feb. 14, 2009

Carolyn Johnson – jewelry

Rollin Karg – glass

Martha Kenton – jewelry

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It's hard to resist a book that starts like this: "It's okay with me if you hate karaoke. But ask yourself: Do you really want to be like Don Henley?"

That's how Brian Raftery opens his 2008 book "Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life." And those two sentences set the tone for a delightful exploration — part memoir, part cultural history — of Raftery's obsession with karaoke.

When Dana Canedy first met First Sgt. Charles Monroe King, she was immediately attracted to him — but she worried that they were too different to build a relationship together.

Time proved them wrong, and they began a deeply loving relationship that ended much too soon when he was killed in Iraq.

 Dodge's long and storied history doesn't have to be relegated to the 19th Century shenanigans we're all so familiar with. There is some more recent history that is having an immediate affect on peoples lives. This comes from the Wichita Eagle's series "To the Stars: The Story of Kansas," talking about Dodge native Ellis "Skip" Cave.

http://www.kansas.com/news/state/kansas-history/story/701338.html

From the article:

On paper, Dave Zeltserman's 2008 novel "Small Crimes" has all the ingredients for a classic noir novel: A crooked cop trying unsuccessfully to mend his ways, an even-more-corrupt sheriff and a district attorney out to avenge himself on the cop, who maimed him eight years ago.

But "Small Crimes" lacks the spice that would make it sing. The result: A pale imitation of the real thing.

When I first saw the movie "Dead Man Walking" in 1996, I was so overwhelmed that I walked out of the theater in a daze, and it took me about 10 minutes to shake that feeling and return to earth.

The same feeling gripped me this morning when I finished re-reading Sister Helen Prejean's 1993 book "Dead Man Walking," which inspired the movie.

  Like many police procedurals, Richard Price's 2008 novel "Lush Life" begins with a homicide and follows the police as they interview possible suspects, chase down leads and try to pry details out of their informants.