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...Explains Carl Smith, founder of the 2-year-old Southern Appalachian Radio Museum in Asheville, N.C.: "We need to show kids how we got to where we are in terms of technology." The Museum of Television and Radio, with branches in New York City and Los Angeles, offers such workshops as Re-creating Radio, in which kids from 9 to 14 produce an old-time radio drama using scripts, sound effects and music. A workshop called Now Hear This! Telling a Story with Sound demonstrates how sound is used to advance the plot or create characters. "Our goal...
...once just fun backyard play spaces for kids. But these days, it's grownups who are living out their Swiss Family Robinson fantasies. "People come to us wanting one for their kids. By the end, the tree house has a martini deck," says Anna Daeuble of Seattle's TreeHouse Workshop. Those who build long-awaited nooks are equipping them with windows, electricity and insulation. The annual World Treehouse Conference offers construction classes. David Pearson, author of Treehouses (Chelsea Green) says, "In this very stressful age, building a tree house connects people back to nature in a simple way." Bill Moloney...
...number. The same goes for Branch, who kicks off her single All You Wanted with the lines "I wanted to be like you/ I wanted everything/ So I tried to be like you/ And I got swept away." Carlton's very album title--Be Not Nobody--is self-esteem-workshop poetry...
...authors, who know each other from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, use "artifacts" of their romantic relationships to decorate the cookbook in colorful collages. Says Thisbe, "Erin and I both are total pack rats, and keep everything." Readers are rewarded with recipes for "Murray Dinkel's Egg Salad" and "Aaron's Post-Peace Corps Tom Yum Goong," as well as the story of the relationships. Thisbe admits that the book is "creative nonfiction": some of the boyfriends are composites, and others have had their identities blurred. But there are guys who are ready for another edition, says Thisbe, whose novel...
...good health, with sound behavior records?and some ability with a football?were considered for selection. The winners won't be granted anything as extravagant as their freedom?merely jail-bragging rights and a passable copy of the real World Cup trophy made of wood in the prison workshop...