Storytelling has always been an oral tradition of the Chamorro culture. Whether they're legends of old to explain our existence or stories of our ties to the land and the ocean, we have always been a people connected to our past through storytelling.

Storytelling has always been an oral tradition of the Chamorro culture. Whether they're legends of old to explain our existence or stories of our ties to the land and the ocean, we have always been a people connected to our past through storytelling.

Don't be surprised if you hear the sound of books being cracked open by little hands in Esquimalt on Saturday (Oct. 1).

Thousands of yellow rubber ducks will bob down the Neckar River for the sake of charity on Saturday as they compete in Tübingen’s annual Entenrennen (Rubber Duck Race). Participants bring their own yellow ducks or buy an officially numbered duck for 3 euros. Cut-off registration time is 1 p.m. at the starting point on the Alleenbrücke, and the race starts at 2 p.m.

Visually ravishing and narratively dry, 'The Mill & the Cross' is a restaging of 'The Way to Calvary,' the 1564 allegory by Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder. As art history, the movie is splendid. As a film, it is didactic and photogenic -- but not cinematic.