Have you ever read the book How to eat fried worms? Because if you enjoyed the book, there is now a feature length film based on the book. It is the story about a new kid in school who gets dared by a bully to eat some worms, so see how he likes them! Have you ever read the Goosebump series by R.L. Stine? It was created into a t.v. program so if you want to watch some of these scary stories there are plenty available at the library. There is Goosebumps. Shocker on Shock Street. or My best friend is invisible. and several more. So come and check them out!

St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor will serve its daily hot breakfast on Thanksgiving from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. as it does every day of the year. The Original Cottage Inn will offer its annual Thanksgiving meal for the needy and homeless, a tradition that dates back about 26 years. The dinner is served on Thanksgiving between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. For information, call 734-663-3379. Next Wednesday, Nov. 26, Zorro’s Mexican Restaurant will open to anyone in the community who wants to come in for a hot turkey dinner between 3 and 6 p.m. Anyone is welcome, but the dinner is designed for those in need. For more information, call 734-891-1329.

Are there some basic computer functions you simply don’t understand but were afraid to ask someone for an explanation? Come to one of the Ann Arbor District Library's Open Computer Labs and get those questions answered! Open Labs require no registration and a staff member will be available to help you. Do you want to setup a new email account? Here’s the perfect time to do it. Would you like to improve your typing skills? Come to one of our Keyboarding Labs. You’ll find the times and locations online and in our computer brochure.

Check out a Museum Adventure Pass, good for admission for 2, and take a trip to see the current Andy Warhol exhibit. The exhibit, titled Andy Warhol: Grand Slam Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Films, runs through January 11 and features more than 200 signature examples of the artist’s work. There are a limited number of Adventure Passes available at each AADL location and they are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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Bo Hansson's 1972 album "Lord of the Rings" is like "a Renaissance fair with MOOG synthesizers," in the words of one staff person at Encore Recordings of Ann Arbor.

Patrick Pyne said he took the 36-year-old LP off the shelf and put it on the turntable one afternoon last week, because he likes the psychedelic vibe of the MOOG synthesizer. He has also enjoyed a Hansson album entitled "Magicians hat," which he described as "silly, but a good record."

Hansson also used drums, guitars, standard organs, and a saxophone to produce the album. But the MOOG is what lends the music its ethereal sound.

Pyne, a musician himself, said he likes the artistic innocence he perceives in Hanssons work, which he summed up as unpretentious. He said he's also been listening to Bruce Haack, another musician who used synthesizers to compose, but who built his own.

"This is just stuff that has been attracting my ear lately," he said.

Pyne plays various instruments for a local band called Wide-Eyed, for which he is also in charge of recording and producing. They've played at the Blind Pig, and at Ypsilanti's Dreamland Theater. More information about them can be found at Wide-EyedRock.com.

This amazing movie is based on Scott Heim's novel Mysterious Skin. The movie is an exploration into the sensitive and painful issues of childhood sexual abuse. One word can sum this movie up, "Powerful". It is powerful in its message, rawness, emotionality, acting, and its truth.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, plays the main character Neil, an emotionally detached gay teen who uses sex for money. Brady Corbet, plays the role of Brian, who has so effectively blocked the memory of his sexual abuse, that he has come to believe he may have been abducted by aliens.

Ten years after playing on a little league team together, the boys reunite. When Brian finally finds Neil again, he also finds his chance to unlock life altering secrets that he has been repressing for so long.

This shocking journey of discovery brings some closure to the years of insecurity and wondering Brian has had to endure. However, it also brings bitterness, hatred, anger, and finally acceptance for a chance at a new beginning. These characters are unforgettable. This movie takes no prisoners, and makes no compromises.

Are you or your children fans of the High School Musical franchise? The third movie is in theatres now, not to be released on DVD until sometime in the spring of 2009, but AADL has both Disney channel versions. High School Musical the original and High School Musical 2 are both rated G and though made for the tween audience, are engaging enough for parents to enjoy.

Another movie similar in spirit to HSM is the 2007 musical Hairspray, based on the Tony-award-winning Broadway stage musical (itself based on the 1988 John Waters' directed Hairspray). Set in 1967, it tells the story of teenager Tracy Turnblad as she tries to broaden the minds of her peers in racially volatile Baltimore. Much of the movie takes place on an after-school dancing television show, and features HSM's Zac Efron in a starring role. John Travolta is almost unrecognizable as Tracy's mother. The movie is rated PG.

Most famous for his oral biographies, Studs Terkel, sage, humanitarian, philosopher, author, radio talk show host and television star for many years, died recently at age 96.

Division Street: America (1966) about urban conflict in the 1960s was his first best seller, followed by Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.

He perfected the oral biography form with Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Good War’: An Oral History of World War II.

Born in the Bronx, Mr. Terkel spent most of his life in Chicago and had several radio and television programs there for many years. His personality can only be described as effervescent and curious, he never failed to impart optimism and humor about the human condition.

Check out the Ann Arbor District Library Catalog to see our collection of works by Terkel.

Journalism is said to be the first draft of history. A 24 hour news cycle makes it a very rough draft.

The History News Network exists to help put events in context and exposes those that misrepresent history intentionally or because of ignorance.

Read what historians are saying about current events—scholars with a depth of knowledge who look to the past to interpret the present.

Gain a better understanding of current events and at the same time save yourself from condemnation with HNN!!