click to enlarge"Looking back now, it's clear that Jini Dellaccio is the premier visual interpreter for Northwest rock and roll artists during the '60s and '70s. Jini truly gave Northwest rock and roll its 'mystique'. Here's proof." ~ Barrie R. Jackson from the IntroductionToday marks the 45th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance in Washington State. It was a few years before this historic event that Jini Dellaccio picked up a camera and started photographing the music scene in the Northwest.Before long, Dellaccio was firmly entrenched at the center of the Northwest rock scene. Northwest bands like The Wailers, The...
Alibris Jumps in Bed with Better World Books and Takes Their Booksellers With Them
Imagine the shock many booksellers felt when they heard that unbeknownst to them they were now selling their books through Better World Books (BWB).Yes, the same BWB that has plagued the bookselling world by mastering the art of penny selling; the same for-profit company that parades around in a non-profit guise (see our previous post Better World Books : Are They Better For the Book World).Alibris has recently entered into a partnership with BWB to provide them with the inventory of their booksellers. That inventory now shows up on BWB and is attributed to the various independent booksellers.If that alone...
Book Cloud Passes Over the Baltimore Sun
It seemed innocent enough. The Baltimore Sun runs a story, Money Wasters To Avoid, offering readers various ways to save some money during these challenging times. The piece included the usual money-saving tips like eat out less, wash your own car, rent DVD's instead of buying them, and a few more abstract ones like don't speed because tickets are expensive, you burn more gas and if you're caught your insurance premiums will go up.All sounds good. But then they included the almighty book."Some books are nice to have - like your favorite one, for example. But really, buying the newest...
Folger Shakespeare Exihibt
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BoysRead.org is on a Mission to Transform Boys into Lifelong Readers
Here are the cold facts:America's boys are the most violent in the industrialized world. 50% of all minority male students drop out of school. 87% of boys play explicitly violent video games. 92% of convicted violent felons are male. Seattle-based BoysRead.org is an organization of parents, educators, librarians, mentors, author that believes that "male literacy is part of the solution."In 2004 the NEA study, "Reading at Risk: a Survey of Literary Reading in America," found that reading by young men plummeted from 55 percent to 43 percent; by working to develop a lifelong passion for reading in boys, which includes...