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Savory Books has recently announced the upcoming release of six new cookbooks featuring the recipes of celebrated chefs and restaurants.

For years, the UUA's Skinner House Books has produced resources to help Unitarian Universalists explore, understand, and appreciate the complexities of our diverse faith. Here is a selection of books that explain and celebrate the intersections of Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, and Unitarian Universalist identities.

The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has selected Oakland Reads 2020 as a 2013 Community Pacesetter, an honor bestowed upon select communities nationwide that have set the pace in improving reading proficiency among its youngest students. This honor reflects the energy, mobilization and creativity the Oakland community has incorporated in its collaborative efforts. Thirty-seven communities across the U.S. were selected for this honor for 2013.

Saturday, January 11 3pm • Merri Rudd • Life Planning in New Mexico Guide to New Mexico law on powers of attorney, end of life issues and more. More »

A rare opportunity to hear a living legend of Indian classical music, sitar and surbahar maestro Ustad Imrat Khan, with his world renowned son, sarod maestro Ustad Wajahat Khan.

Following its tremendously successful gala in November—which featured some of the world's top ballet stars from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Boston Ballet—and annual Nutcracker performances, Ballet San Jose will open its first repertory season planned by new Artistic Director José Manuel Carreño February 14-16 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. The program will feature the Company premiere of Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin's inventive and popular Minus 16, the return of Balanchine's sublimely neo-classical Serenade—the first ballet he choreographed in the U.S.—and Jorma Elo's Glow-Stop, which was a hit of Ballet San Jose's 2013 season. Performances will be given Friday, February 14, at 8 pm; Saturday, February 15, at 1:30 and 8 pm; and Sunday, February 16, at 1:30 pm.

On Monday, January 13, 2014 at 9:00 PM at the Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit Street, Columbus, Ohio 43202, Popgun & Records Per Minute are holding an event to replace Stan Smith's Record Collection.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 season with four exciting POP-UP CONCERTS: Thursday, February 6, 2014, Ensemble Signal; Tuesday, March 4, Ekmeles - Miller Theatre debut; Tuesday, April 1, Tony Arnold and Jacob Greenberg; Tuesday, May 6, Juilliard415 - Miller Theatre debut

The opening concert of the St David's Anglican Church, Burnside, 2014 concert season will be a program of exquisite Baroque music presented by visiting German trumpeter, Marco Frizenschaf, Soprano Trudie Jackson and St David's Music Director, Organist, Ray Booth.

The World Music Institute is thrilled to present, along with the Apollo Theater, the second edition of Africa Now! —a weekend festival with a focus on today's African music scene, featuring artists who draw upon their roots for inspiration, and transplant them into the global music landscape.

Like all the great religions, Vodou has an external, public practice of rituals and ceremonies, and also an internal, mystical dimension. Before Nan Dòmi, works about Vodou have concentrated on the spectacular outward manifestations of its observance—hypnotic drumming and chanting, frenetic dancing, fits of spirit possession. But practically all reports on Vodou are outsider accounts, which means that they are stopped at the threshold. This is the only telling of Vodou's private, mystical practice available, spoken from Vodou's purest heart.

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7:30pm at Opera America's National Opera Center, New York Festival of Song opens the 2013-14 edition of its forward-looking NYFOS Next series with MARK ADAMO & FRIENDS.

The 2014 Festival will take place from 17 May to 24 August 2014 and includes three new productions: Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera, Verdi's La Traviata and revivals of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Handel's Rinaldo.

Imagine receiving an unforgettable glimpse into the past. That's just what happened when author Dennette McDermott was given letters from her great-great-grandfather Dwight J. Brewer, born in 1842 in New York, who served with the 20th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. In this new book McDermott shares some of those letters, which were kept in their original envelopes for 150 years.

The majority of you reading this are book lovers and supporters of your local independent bookstore. That makes you members of several communities. There's the community of your town or city, of which your store is an important part. Together with other locally owned businesses, your bookstore helps give your community a special character and serve its residents in ways no other businesses can. Because more of the money you spend at locally owned businesses stays in the community than money spent elsewhere, purchases at your local bookstore in a variety of ways support your local economy, schools, government, services, charities and other organizations.

The public is welcome to attend next week's online live event, a book release party for Brian Hodge's Whom the Gods Would Destroy. It will be held on DarkFuse's Events Page at 9 PM EST on Tuesday, 12/10/13. You can sign up to be reminded about the event HERE. There will be prizes drawn at random for several lucky attendees.

OperaDelaware presents Peabody Opera's Hansel and Gretel, today, December 7 at 10:30 am / 1:30 pm.

Now available in Kindle, paperback and limited edition hardcover is Peter Giglio's latest novel, Lesser Creatures. Fifteen years. That's how long the dead have walked among the living. But these corpses aren't the feral monsters mankind feared. Instead, known as Second-Lifers, they appear relatively harmless and in need of help, presenting a strain on an already struggling economy and creating a generation with the fewest technological advances in centuries.

New York Theatre Ballet with A Music Hall and Music Without Borders presents Keith Michael's The Nutcracker today, November 30, 2013 at 3pm at Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main St., Tarrytown, NY. Tickets are $35, and are available at online at tarrytownmusichall.org, via TicketForce at (877) 840-0457, or in-person at the Tarrytown Music Hall box office. For more information, contact the Tarrytown Music Hall box office at(914) 631-3390 ext.100.

Start shopping tomorrow morning at 8:00 am, online or by phone. Choose from six different opera packages including some with performances by Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. All Black Friday packages will be double their existing discount and NO FEES!