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7) i i i rnvri v.H'i it ii i ii 1 1 1 1 1 i hi I I ll I I I ll li lfl I i BETWEEN Poet and playwright read at Writer's Voice i 1 1 1 iTi i 1 The Complete History of 1 America (abridged) Reduced Shakespeare It 111111,111 if iiiuiiiiiiiiiu THEATER v' Via fl SUPERVALU 1 1 1 POET Veronica Patterson and playwright Jacquelyn Re-ingold, residents at the Ucross Foundation in Clearmont, will read at the YMCA Youth Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 26. This is part of an ongoing series of regional authors who will present their work at the YMCA in The Writer's Voice Community Reading Series. Veronica Patterson's poetry is characterized by striking images, a strong narrative voice, a quirky humor, and a sensitivity to the human condition; her poems invite you to take a long look at the world and to keep on looking. Patterson's first collection of poetry, How to Make a Terrari-um, was published by Cleveland State University Press in 1987.

Her poems have been published in numerous magazines including The Colorado Review, The Spoon River Quarterly, The Southern Poetry Review, Caliban, The Mid-American Review, Negative Capability, The Indiana Review, Kalliope, Phoebe, The Louisville Review, and The Malahat Review. Jacquelyn Reingold is a playwright from New York City whose work The New York Times has called "wild reaching, a jolt of adrenalin, gripping, hilarious with plenty of interest, tension and ideas. THE PAGES PAPERBACKS "The Alienist" By Caleb Carr. Period details abound on every page of this fascinating story about the search for a serial killer in 1896 New York City. Teaming up to find the murderer of young male prostitutes in lower Manhattan are the narrator, crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; an unconventional young woman named Sara Howard; physician Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychology; and Teddy Roosevelt, the reform-minded police commissioner.

As the clandestine investigation progresses with the aid of a pair of detectives and some other colorful characters, clues to the personality of the killer become more clear and a hunt ensues that takes readers from elegant mansions to immigrant slums. Orlando Sentinel KIDS' BOOKS "The Great Bird Detective." By David Elcome Avid bird-watchers, take note of this nifty little "detective's" notebook for budding young bird-watchers. The bird-sized notebook includes a section on how to help care for birds and their environment. Blank record sheets "to help you with your snooping" also are included. On these, young bird detectives can note the time and place they saw a bird, indicate its colors and shapes.

Elcome's book probably would work best for children in the second grade and older. Associated Press "Alice Nizzy Nazzy." By Tony Johnston. Illustrated by Tomie DePaola. A terrific little children's book, this novel combines words that work and pictures that please. Company Join these cultural comedy guerrillas on a 90-minute roller coaster ride through the glorious, hilarious, history of America.

Tickets $14, $18 Sponsored by: SUPERVALU, Radisson Northern Hotel, Yellowstone Public Radio. Ui 1 Tickets Writer's Voice Readings by Veronica Patterson and Jacquelyn Reingold Time: 7:30 p.m. Date: Tuesday, September 26. Place: YMCA Youth Services Center. Cost: Tickets are $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, and free to members.

Her play Girl Gone received the 1994 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Roger Stevens Award, was a finalist for the 1995 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, received an honorable mention for the Jane Chambers Award, and was produced by Manhattan Class Company in New York. Her work has been published in Women Playwrights: The Best of 1994, Best American Short Plays 1994-95, by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, and in The Quarterly. Reingold is currently working on a new comedy, and the screenplay of Girl Gone. The reading is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

26, at the YMCA Youth Services Center, 3215 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets are $2 adults, $1 seniors, students, and free to Writer's Voice members. Point Returns. lb.

'j ll i BEAUSOLEIL The most highly acclaimed Cajun band in America is still riding a wave of popularity that began in the mid '80s when America discovered Cajun great food, hot culture. Alice Nizzy Nazzy lives in Santa Fe, N.M., and is so old and so mean that people say she's a witch. This evil creature, based on the Russian Baba Yaga, lives in an adobe hut that stands on skinny road runner feet inside a fence of prickly pear. When Manuela loses her sheep, her path leads straight up to the witch's house. The little girl is put in a pot to boil but is saved temporarily when she recalls a place where the witch can find the rare flower that will keep her from aging.

Associated Press, CRIME NOVELS "Riding the Rap." By Elmore Leonard. This is a sequel to last year's "Pronto," which introduced straight-arrow U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens; retired bookie and unrepentant boozehound Harry Arno; and exotic-dancer-turned-mother-hen Joyce Patton. In "Pronto," Raylan and Joyce went to Italy, where they helped rescue federal fugitive Harry from a mob hit then returned him to Miami to seal some cases. The story is lean by Leonard's( standards but full of enough enjoyable twists and turns and state-of-the-art hard-guy dialogue to justify any reader's investment of time and money.

Chicago Tribune 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday, uct. 1 Tickets $25, $30 KULR TV-Sand "The BOB' 103.7 FM First Interstate Bank U) ALSO CHOOSE FROM MOVIES LIKE: Billie Madison The Brady Bunch Movie Dumb Dumber The Quick The Dead Pay Per View: The JESUS CHRIST SUPERS From the composer of "CATS" and "Phantom of the Opera," Andrew Lloyd Webber, comes the original rock musical. This elaborate Broadway production stars Ted Neelcy, recreating his role of Jesus from the enormously popular motion picture. IrSj Billings Tele-Communications, Inc. L1! a TO I COMPANY We're taking television Into tomorrow.

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