Thursday, May 27, 2010

“Local Bowling Alley Offering Free Games for Kids - WSAW” plus 2 more

“Local Bowling Alley Offering Free Games for Kids - WSAW” plus 2 more

Local Bowling Alley Offering Free Games for Kids - WSAW

Posted: 27 May 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Before it was a game on Wii, there was real bowling.

The owner of Dale's Weston Lanes in Weston wants to help your kids get back to the real bowling.

That's why parents can sign their kids up for free bowling.

The only cost involved is to rent bowling shoes.

The program goes through September.

Click on the link below to sign up.

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Picture Book Parade: Alice Schertle's 'Button Up ... - Examiner

Posted: 27 May 2010 09:09 AM PDT

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New Year's suggestion: Why not resolve to take your children to the library more often? A treasure hunt of great reading awaits.

If your shoes or jacket could talk, what might they say? Children's poet Alice Schertle has some ideas on the subject. She shares them in, Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes , which is on many libraries' lists of the most popular children's picture books of 2009.

A pleasing discovery
I am thankful for librarians who do a great job of putting lots of tempting picture books on display. That is what recently led a young friend of mine to find Button Up!. His discovery of the book led to my discovery of the author.

Schertle is a former school teacher who is a prolific and popular writer of rhyming picture books with topics ranging from how to build a snowman (see the second YouTube video below) to a history of humankind called We.

In an interview (the first YouTube video below) posted by the publisher of We, Schertle talks about the challenge of covering millennia in the classic 32-page spread of a picture book.

Couldn't stop giggling
But back to Button Up! My friend, who is in second grade, couldn't stop giggling at all the funny things the clothing said.

"Emily's Undies" drew lots of laughs with its opening: "We're Emily's undies/ with laces and bows./ Emily shows us/ wherever she goes."

Since he is a bicycling enthusiast, he found "Bob's Bicycle Helmet" irresistible with lines such as "Bob skins his elbow./ Bob scrapes his knee./ Bob doesn't hurt his head—/ Bob's got me."

Finally, we both got a kick out of "Bill's Jacket," in which a puffy blue jacket is anxious to go outside. Schertle writes, "Snap! goes the collar/ under Bill's chin. / Everybody holler, / BILL'S ALL IN!"

A top pick for a Caldecott
Button Up is illustrated by Petra Mathers, who has been nominated for a Caldecott Award for her humorous and joyous illustrations. The American Library Association will announce the awards in mid- January.

Mathers has populated Schertle's poems with a menagerie of animals such as Joshua the crocodile, whose jammies include a tube for his tail, and Rick the ostrich, whose eyes bug out —perhaps due to the prickly turtleneck sweater that tickles his long, long neck.

Schertle and Mathers are well matched. They share a silly aesthetic that tickles more than an ostrich neck. It would be a pleasure to see another project by this delightful duo.

For more information:
• Interview with Alice Schertle in the book Climb Inside a Poem

• Horn Book's top children's picks of 2009

 

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New Kids embrace new decade, keep party going - Atlantic City Press

Posted: 27 May 2010 02:43 AM PDT

New Kids on the Block are hardly the new kids on the pop music scene - the Jonas Brothers are currently filling those shoes - and its members haven't been boys for a very long time.

But the '80s boy band that paved the way for the likes of Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and the Jonases, still has that certain something, as far as its diehard fan base - thirtysomething women - is concerned.

NKOTB devotees are more than willing to buy new music from the group - its 2008 comeback album, "The Block," debuted at the top of the pop chart - and to travel far and wide to see them.

Last week's second annual NKOTB cruise onboard the Carnival Imagination, during which the band signed autographs, partied and performed, sold out in minutes. Some 1,800 female passengers (and 300 men) took part in the three-day voyage.

"I am so glad we had the cameras rolling because it's not quite possible to explain our weekend together," New Kid Joey McIntyre writes in a blog post about the cruise. "Tuxes, togas and conga lines on shoulders. Sweet days and nectar filled nights. … Big moments, little moments - creating a mosaic so special. In other words, we had a (expletive) blast!!! Wow wow wow."

For this year's tour, which makes a stop at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Friday, May 28, and Saturday, May 29, the Kids - brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood and McIntyre - are mixing it up musically.

The Boston-raised group is taking audiences back to the '80s and early '90s with signature hits such as "I'll Be Loving You Forever," "Hanging Tough" and "Step by Step," and also is trying to stay current by including a number a number of tracks from "The Block."

"The concert - 20 songs in 85 minutes, with a lot of crotch-grabbing and -thrusting choreography - was remixed and remastered by an onstage DJ, so the vibe was uptempo and the crowd on its feet," Las Vegas Sun reviewer Don Chareunsy writes of a show earlier this month at The Pearl at The Palms.

Although the dance vibe kept the show moving - and helped to obscure the sameness of some of the words to the songs - Chareunsy actually preferred the few moments when the group took things down a notch.

For this mini-set, NKOTB perched on stools, and accompanied by two guitarists, performed several ballads, including "Please Don't Go Girl," led by McIntyre.

The latter performer, who enjoyed a popular turn a few years back on "Dancing with the Stars," also delivered one of the few songs not associated with the group, a cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)."

The New Kids' resurgence is proof of what a difference a decade (or two) can make in a pop career that seemed like it would have its first 15 minutes and no more.

The boys are also a reminder of how you never know where or when the next breakout star might turn up.

Among the songwriters for its comeback record was a certain Lady Gaga, who opened for them during their 2008 tour, but of late has done pretty well on her own.

New Kids on the Block

WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 28 and 29

WHERE: Event Center, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Atlantic City

HOW MUCH: Tickets, priced at $89.50, are available at the Borgata box office or www.pressofatlanticcity.com/tickets.

WEB SITE: www.nkotb.com

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