Congratulations to Jermaine Paul for winning Season 2 of “The Voice.” Paul, former back-up singer for Alicia Keys, beat out three other amazing singers to capture the top prize — a recording contract with Universal Republic Records.
The first thing I see when I open Mark Kurlansky’s entertaining new biography, “Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man,” is a portrait of Clarence Frank Birdseye II sitting at his desk in September 1943. By the end of the book you have to wonder when he ever sat down. The small, wiry genius didn’t stop till his heart gave out.
Despite competing against delegates who were mostly in their late 20s to early 30s, Francine Edwards, 43, of Townsend, didn’t let that stop her from being crowned the 2012 Mrs. Delaware United States Pageant winner.
The third annual "Peace, Love & Horseshoe Crab Festival" celebrating the annual spectacle of migrating shorebirds and spawning horseshoe crabs takes place this weekend at the DuPont Nature Center in Milford.
Wahida Clark has been called the “Official Queen of Street Literature” and “Queen of Thug Love Fiction,” and credited with the creation of the “thug love fiction” genre itself, a sub-genre of street lit fiction. Wahida’s storytelling abilities initially grabbed readers’ attentions with “Thugs and the Women Who Love Them,” her first bestseller. “Thugs” is the story of three women rising within the educational system to become a lawyer, psychologist, and a doctor. What they share is a magnetic attraction to men who can destroy not just their ambitions, but their very essence.
Reviews of the latest from Boston blues great Paul Rishell, fledgling Philadelphia rock act D&M and New York "popcore" punks Well Excuse Me, Princess, along with capsule reviews for Bonnie Raitt, Counting Crows and fun.
Local blues band Bad JuJu is hosting a pet food drive and benefit for the Kent County SCPA this weekend at J.W.'s Sports Bar and Restaurant.
The Delaware Arts Alliance is hosting its first 2012 networking event for artists and art lovers of Kent County.
