![]() ![]() Friends of elite cyclist Ethan Boyes, who was killed in the Presidio in a vehicle collision three weeks ago, are demanding answers from federal authorities about what exactly happened in the crash.The San Jose Fire Department has submitted a formal report on the Pink Poodle strip club incident, saying that one of the dancers demanded a ride-along and that firefighters simply complied.Fog horns were blaring on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning, despite it being clear around the city, because it was very foggy at the Golden Gate.Residents of the Montclair neighborhood in the fire-prone Oakland hills are making a stink over the fact that they are not included in PG&E's plans to underground 10,000 miles of power lines across the state.A person was shot and gravely injured in SF's Oceanview neighborhood Wednesday around 2 p.m.Oakland police were all around the city's downtown Wednesday morning following the discovery of a body, and the death has been called suspicious though they haven't released any details.Temperatures are expected in the low 90s in inland valleys on Thursday afternoon, and it should be balmy in SF too. ![]() You may have thought we'd never see another warm, sunny Spare the Air day after the wet winter we had. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Readers immediately took to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and another tale from the Sketch Book, “Rip Van Winkle.” Although little formal criticism greeted the arrival of the story specifically, the Sketch Book became wildly popular and widely reviewed both in the United States and in England. The story demonstrates the two qualities for which Irving is best known: his humor, and his ability to create vivid descriptive imagery. ![]() Ichabod Crane courts Katrina Van Tassel, but is frightened away by his rival, Brom Bones, masquerading as the headless horseman. ![]() Constructed from German tales but set in America, it is a classic tale of the conflict between city and country, and between brains and brawn. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” takes place in Sleepy Hollow, New York, a snug rural valley near Tarrytown in the Catskill Mountains. Readers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean thus encountered the story at approximately the same time. The Sketch Book was published in installments in the United States beginning in 1819, but the section that included this story was not issued until 1820. The great American short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was written while Washington Irving was living in England, and it was published in England in a volume called The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ![]() ![]() The Arkham Knight game will be released on June 2, 2015. Let us know if you're excited for this novelization and if you'll be reading it alongside (or instead of) playing the game in the comments below. He even adapted the latter story into prose form back in 2005. 3 - YouTube This is 'Batman Arkham Knight: The Official Novelization' by Marv Wolfman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later this month DC Comics will launch a digital-first Arkham Knight comic book that will serve as a prequel to the game.Īrkham Knight #3 cover by Dan PanosianWolfman is certainly no stranger to the DC Universe at this point, having penned a lengthy run on the New Teen Titans comic during the '80s and the massive crossover epic Crisis on Infinite Earths. Batman Arkham Knight: The Official Novelization' by Marv Wolfman. We know that the Arkham Knight game will take place some months after the events of Arkham City, as Batman faces an escalating conflict with Scarecrow and a mysterious new villain known as the Arkham Knight. No other details have been revealed about the novelization yet. I no longer have to keep throwing her out of my office while I'm working. Anyway, whew, it feels great finally being able to talk about it. I'll post the cover here once it's official. The story is highly emotional and I'm exceedingly happy with the results. ![]() I wrote the official novelization for ARKHAM KNIGHT, based on the upcoming video game, and had a ball doing it. Play Wolfman said: Well, I can finally tell folk what I've been working on these past months in total secrecy, even from my dog. ![]() ![]() Why would a person receive an age-old letter and suddenly disappear into the thick of night.paying to be flown out of a closed airport in the worst possible weather conditions, by a pilot who hadn't had his hand on the stick in years? Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow.an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. ![]() Is about to change the entire human race. ![]() ![]() Sent from a dark, remote corner of the planet, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “For several seconds of the eyes of the murderer marveled at the astounding stillness of the forest, where the vault of hanging creepers gilded by a mysterious sun in a dim yet sparkling air filtered through from immense far-distant blue skies, and where the depths were illuminated by the infinitely variables lights and shades of all walking dreams.” The luscious gold of Genet’s prose, a kind of perverse combination of Flaubert and Baudelaire, is truly original and his descriptive powers are extraordinary Genet’s remarkable alchemy, in which the story of a serial killer becomes a kind of paean to murder and Querelle a high poet of murder, resembles the alchemy which Querelle himself undertakes of friends who he betrays but transforms into the gold necklaces, braces and watches which will be his reward for his betrayals. The world of Genet reverberates with blood and poetry, violence and vituperation are transmogrified into poetry, a punch into a flower whose petals scatter via the wind of Genet’s prose, like the blood of the toughs and thugs who populate Genet’s novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() After another spinning, sliding journey across worlds, the Greystone kids must solve mysteries that have haunted them since the beginning: what happened when the Gustanos were kidnapped, what created the alternate world, and how a group of mismatched kids can triumph once and for all against an evil force that seems to have total control. And FIND US, SEE US, HELP US.The coins are messengers, telling the Greystones and their allies that their friends in the alternate world are under attack-and that the cruel, mind-controlling forces are now invading the better world, too. ![]() And with the right touch, those symbols transform into words: PLEASE LISTEN. They are inscribed with codes that look just like what the Greystones' father was working on before he died. But no one believes the danger is past.Then mysterious coins begin falling from unexpected places. ![]() Now available in paperback.As book three of the Greystone Secrets series opens, the Greystone kids have their mother back from the evil alternate world, and so does their friend Natalie. ![]() turning, suspenseful story that shows the importance of teamwork, telling your story, and taking action when it matters most. In the dazzling conclusion to the Greystone Secrets series from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, the Greystones and their doubles, the Gustanos, must team up to save the alternate world-before both worlds are lost. Greystone Secrets #3: The Messengers (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]() ![]() ![]() But can she escape the curse, or is her own destiny also bound by violence?Įlektra follows three women from Greek mythology in the lead up to, duration and aftermath of the Trojan war: Cassandra, the Trojan priestess gifted with power of prophecy but cursed never to be believed, Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and Elektra, youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. The youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Elektra is horrified by the bloodletting of her kin. She is powerless in her knowledge that the city will fall. Princess of Troy, and cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it. Her husband raises a great army against them and determines to win, whatever the cost. The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon – her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. ![]() ![]() ![]() What it’s about: Emmett Watson, 18 years old and newly released from a juvenile work farm where he was serving time for involuntary manslaughter, hits the road on a tour through 1950s America in an absorbing novel from the bestselling author of “A Gentleman in Moscow.” ![]() “The Lincoln Highway,” by Amor Towles (Viking, fiction) The buzz: “Franzen’s intensely absorbing novel is amusing, excruciating, and at times unexpectedly uplifting – in a word, exquisite,” says a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.įall reading guide: 20 books we can’t wait to read by Katie Couric, Billy Porter, Jonathan Franzen and moreĢ. ![]() Russ and Marion Hildebrandt each seek to free themselves of their marriage oldest child Clem comes home from college popular sister Becky is veering into counterculture and youngest brother Perry has been selling drugs to middle schoolers. What it’s about: Franzen tells the story of a Midwestern family in the 1970s at a pivotal moment, the action largely unfolding across a single day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The White Queen joins such Amazon Prime original series as multi-Golden Globe winning Transparent, and Mozart In The Jungle and Alpha House. BBC One television series The White Queen is a 10-part adaptation of Gregory's novels The White Queen (2009), The Red Queen (2010) and The Kingmaker's. Gregory gives readers Margaret Beaufort in her own words, from innocent nine-year-old to conspiring courtier who stops at nothing to see her son on Englands. It is the story of Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England. Max Irons, Rebecca Ferguson, Amanda Hale, James Frain and Janet McTeer star. The Kingmaker's Daughter is a 2012 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series The Cousins' War. ![]() It’s based on three historical novels from Philippa Gregory’s The Cousins War series: The White Queen, The Red Queen and The Kingmaker’s Daughter. ![]() in August of that year and scored Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for best miniseries. ![]() The White Queen was originally commissioned by the BBC with Starz boarding in May 2013. The series will, however, remain available for Starz to schedule on its channels and services. A commercial and critical success, The White Queen marks the first deal of this kind between Amazon and Starz Digital Media in the domestic market. Starz’s original miniseries The White Queen will take up residence at Amazon’s Prime Instant Video under a deal that makes the streaming service the exclusive home for the 10-parter in the U.S. ![]() ![]() After visiting and interviewing founders of dozens of successful and failed communities, along with her own forming-community experiences, the author concluded that "the successful 10 percent" had all done the same five or six things right, and "the unsuccessful 90 percent" had made the same handful of mistakes. Ninety percent failed, often in conflict and heartbreak. But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community groups actually succeeded. The 90s saw a revitalized surge of interest in intentional communities and ecovillages in North America: the number of intentional communities listed in the Communities Directory increased 60 percent between 19. ![]() An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual sustainability over several generations. An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. ![]() |
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