Book lovers in Walnut Creek and Lamorinda will enjoy sharing the art of storytelling as both communities join other local libraries in celebrating a love of reading.

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Hypnotic, elliptically opaque and dream-like, " The Limits of Control ," may test the limits in which Jarmusch fans call themselves card-carrying Jarmusch fans. If " Broken Flowers " was his most accessible (and financially it was), 'Limits' might be his most willfully esoteric or at least a nod towards the past (though really it's the auteur doing whatever he pleases at any given moment). A moody tone-poem, all one needs to do to become basically acclimated with the atmospheric tenor of the

“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” came out 20 years ago and grossed $330 million worldwide, and for all the talk about another big screen venture for the animated bunny and his voluptuous sweetheart Jessica, nothing over the last two decades moved into production. And it was starting to seem like nothing ever would. But when MTV News caught up with director Robert Zemeckis recently, he dropped a news bomb that had our eyes popping cartoon-style out of our sockets. “I’ll tell you what is buzzing around

Saturday night I had the privilege to see a house concert. Geof hosted Eric Peters at his condo clubhouse and the audience consisted of me and six other people. And Eric. Eric playing some really amazing music. I don’t know if the concert would have been as amazing with any other singer. Would I have been as moved if it had been anybody else? Would I have connected to the songs in the same way if someone else had been singing? And I think the answer is no. The music was amazing and his si