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Moby-Dick , Herman Melville's classic American novel, celebrates its 156th birthday Saturday at Gallerie Zaum in Newport with a 24-hour marathon reading in response to the success of the gallery's recent art exhibit, Chasing the Whale in Northern Kentucky: Local Artists Respond to Moby-Dick . The 24-hour reading will be split between Saturday and ...

Today is Saturday, November 14, the 318th day of 2009. There are 47 days left in the year.

Jaxton Hunt may not be at a reading level of Herman Melville and "Moby Dick." But suffice to say he's long past "Dick and Jane." Hunt, a second-grader at Coleman Elementary, won the Cleburne ISD Reading Bee Thursday at CISD central administration.

The newly ordained Rev. Fernando Jimenez will celebrate his first Mass on Sunday at his home parish, St.

Goodness gracious, the dithering I've done since I wrote here that I'd only be reading Herman Melville in November.

They are creatures of the deep immortalised in fictional bestsellers like Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick and Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Dr. John Bryant, an English professor who has been with the University since 1986, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $175,000 over the next two years to launch the Melville Electronic Library , an online archive of Herman Melville's body of work.

THEATRE: Spymonkey brings a reworking of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick to Liverpool, above.

Forget family nights with board games. For NYU instructor Fred Benenson, family bonding means texting and decoding challenging Emoji sentences to one another.

The great American novel "Moby Dick" will come alive on Summit Stage II. The classic novel by Herman Melville was published in 1851 and is considered one of the treasures of world literature.

But Fred Berenson, a clearly fascinating research associate at New York University, has managed to gain sufficient funding to attempt a project that I feel sure none of you has contemplated.

Bathurst native Gary Levert, in character as Peth the blacksmith on the set of the new miniseries adaptation of the classic novel Moby Dick.

Merrick here... I surprised it took this long... Twentieth Century Fox will develop a retelling of the story of Moses, from his near death as an infant to his adoption into the Egyptian royal family, his defiance of the Pharaoh and deliverance of the Hebrews from enslavement.

Mastodon. How do you improve on a concert by supreme metal band Mastodon? You get the coolest fake metal band since Spinal Tap to share top billing.

Reading Eagle: Jeremy Drey Richard Walter sits Monday with other members of the Vidocq Society at Albright College, listening and asking questions about the facts in the 2003 death of William "Hoover" Spayd, a Reading 3-year-old. About Vidocq, the society Eugene Francois Vidocq was an 18th-century French crook-turned-cop, a confidant of at least ...

Bathurst native Gary Levert, in character as Perth the blacksmith on the set of a new mini-series adaptation of the classic novel Moby Dick.

This Columbus Day weekend, a Berkshire County staple gets a major celebration for having reached a major milestone.

WOULD Herman Melville redraft Moby Dick after seeing Spymonkey's version of the maritime adventure? Would he be tempted to pop in a mermaid and cast wandering sailor Ishmael as a lively Spaniard? The theatre company, whose members live in London, Brighton, Bilbao and Vienna, got together with a director in Paris to create their "re-telling" of the ...

Caught up in Moby Dick Nova Scotia-born actor James Gilbert off to Malta and more Moby Dick By ANDREA NEMETZ Entertainment Reporter Fri.

LOCAL choir The Capriccio Singers will appear in an anarchic spoof version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.