The marriage of Austen's prose and the verbal acrobatics of the Book-It cast makes for an auditory treat. The civility of the spectacle--rather the insistent lack of spectacle--makes for a very light and polite affair, a demure humor. The cast nails the important part: Austen would've recognized these as her characters, this as her story. more ›

What's the plan? Karaoke for a cause, The Airborne Toxic Event and Austen at the Center are on our calendar today. more ›

Is February Jane Austen month? PBS has turned every Sunday evening into a Jane celebration (see the KCTS Jane Austen blog for the definition of overkill), but if you want to experience Jane Austen the way she meant to be experienced (if you get our drift) and are too lazy to read a book, then Book-It's Persuasion is all you, baby. more ›

If faced with the prospect of falling 1-2 stories out of the sky, just what would you exclaim at the moment you realized your free fall was imminent? Most likely not "Oh my..." with the intonation of a shocked heroine from a Jane Austen novel, but that is exactly what came out of my mouth when I fell off the chairlift at Summit West last Sunday. more ›