Little Red Riding Hood

Despite the sharp rise in popularity of digital marketing in recent years, print advertising continues to hold a prized place in the hearts and budgets of advertisers. This year, major publishers including Hearst and Time Out teamed up to promote print's pot…

2019 Expressions Theatre Festival When: May 17 to 25 Where: Waterfront Theatre Tickets: from $12 at brownpapertickets.com 1. Emerging artists. The Expressions Theatre Festival showcases burgeoning talent in the Lower Mainland, with productions that draw f…

Theatre Tales is an app for children that aims to recreate the joy of puppet shows. It mostly succeeds, but only for about five minutes. Then youre done. Shows over. Head on home, kids. The show itself is actually kind of cute. You start with access to Littl…

The greatest amusement parks aren’t necessarily the most famous ones. Micheal Welsing/CC BY-ND 2.0 Who doesn’t love a great amusement park? Sure, there are bigger, better-known options out there, but we’ve got a soft spot for the smaller, local theme parks a…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources says 11 properties including one-room schoolhouses, libraries, and a blacksmith shop have been added to the state Register of Historic Places. A one-room brick schoolhouse in Mason built i…

Page from “Red Riding Hood,” Lydia L.A. Very, 1863. Cover, right. Photos by Shawn Miller. Frankly, we’ve always wondered about how quick on the uptake Little Red Riding Hood actually was. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you can’t tell the differenc…

photo credit: BigstockNew York Public Library In recent columns Ive argued that Steven Pinker, Kevin Williamson, and others are terribly wrong to insist that material progress entails a superior form of life. For our problem today is that we Americans are so…

Sponsored by our giveaway of $100 to spend on YA lit! In April 2017, a routine insurance appraisal of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburghs rare book collection revealed 321 missing items, including atlases, maps, plate books, photograph albums and manuscripts…

A schoolgirl's murder could finally be solved 73 years later - thanks to one of the world's oldest pieces of forensic evidence. Police believe 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater might have been a victim of a notorious serial killer when she was raped and murdere…

The art of storytelling dates back thousands of years, with the earliest discovery being a series of cave drawings found 36,000 years ago. To this day, stories remain an intrinsic part of our society and culture. Not only does the act of sharing experiences p…