The Help News

Forty Thousand Moms, I think of the racist characters in The Help . Yes, I read that shit.

Mine's nine. What's your number? The number of books you've read off of South San Francisco High School 's summer reading list for incoming freshmen, of course.

One of Joeff Davis' photos nominated for a 2012 AAN award: The Georgia Bulldogs beat the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 31-17 in front of 55,000 crazed fans at Bobby Dodd Stadium.

Each dress is named after the region they originated from. Chiapas is a dress with vibrantly colored hand-embroidered flowers.

Batavia resident Dorothy Hanson, 82, was serving as cashier and horticultural adviser at the Calvary Episcopal Church plant sale in Batavia when she answered nine questions for the Kane County Chronicle's Brenda Schory.

FICTION1. ' Explosive Eighteen' by Janet Evanovich 2. ' Kill Alex Cross ' by James Patterson 3. ' The Best of Me ' by Nicholas Sparks 4. ' The Help' by Kathryn Stockett 5. The biggest stretch of imagination in women's fiction may not be the happily-ever-afters. It's the number of novels that present publishing and journalism as viable career ... (more)

What I love about books, and libraries, and catalogs, is the somewhat weird trail one can follow starting with just one title.

West Marine's newly renovated store says as much about the righting of a listing economy as the retailer's own success.

It is rare that I see a movie before I read the book but after seeing the movie and hearing the good reviews of the book, I couldn't pass up the chance to enjoy what so many have acclaimed as one of the best reads to come along in a while.

Age, school, grade: 19, Antietam High School, senior. I see myself as: Happy, outgoing, adventurous, dedicated.

Now that "The Help" has come and gone, for the most part, Evanston producer/director Kathe Telingator is ready to kick her own documentary about black housekeepers in white homes during the Civil Rights era into high gear.

Kathryn Stockett, who wrote "The Help," and Tate Taylor , who directed the film based on her novel, will be the keynote speakers when Christus St.