Each season, New York City Ballet puts on a gala fundraiser, and the aim is always to create a little buzz – with a new work, or an interesting honoree. This year’s gala on September 22, featuring McCartney’s ”Ocean’s Kingdom,” surely had more buzz than all past galas combined. McCartney, who sang his heart out to packed Yankee Stadium crowds this summer and, at 69, seems to grow ever busier, has already released four classical albums, beginning with ”Liverpool Oratorio” in 1991. He had never, though, written a ballet score. With ”Ocean’s Kingdom” (a recording will be released next month), he not only accomplished that but wrote the story and contributed to virtually every aspect of the production. His daughter, Stella, created the costumes.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/24/paul-mccartney-beatle-and-ballet-composer-too.html

Poet Marcus Jackson http://www.poetmarcusjackson.com/about will return to his native Toledo and appear at The University of Toledo on October 6. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Review, and The Cincinnati Review, among many other publications.
Book Release Reading
"Please join in celebrating the publication of Neighborhood Register, Marcus Jackson’s first full-length collection of poems. The author will share his work and sign books, which will be available for purchase."
Thursday, October 6, 6:00-8:00 PM
The University of Toledo's
Driscoll Alumni Center, Room 1019
2801 W. Bancroft Street

There are two types of font family names
family-name : The name of a font-family, like "times", "courier", "arial", etc.
generic-family: The name of a generic-family, like "serif", "sans-serif", "cursive", "fantasy", "monospace".
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font-family.asp

In typography, a sans-serif, sans serif or san serif typeface is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without". In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text. The conventional wisdom holds that serifs help guide the eye along the lines in large blocks of text. Sans-serifs, however, have acquired considerable acceptance for body text in Europe. Sans-serif fonts have become the de facto standard for body text on-screen, especially online. This is partly because interlaced displays may show twittering on the fine details of the horizontal serifs. Additionally, the low resolution of digital displays in general can make fine details like serifs disappear or appear too large. Before the term “sans-serif” became standard in English typography, a number of other terms had been used. One of these outmoded terms for sans serif was gothic, which is still used in East Asian typography and sometimes seen in font names like Century Gothic. Sans-serif fonts are sometimes, especially in older documents, used as a device for emphasis, due to their typically blacker type color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
Common sans-serif fonts are Helvetica and Arial. Common serif fonts are Times and Times New Roman. Common monospace fonts, designed to mimic typewritten output, are Courier and Courier New.
Find more, plus examples and a link to the history of typefaces at: http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/fonts.html

I use Times New Roman for the muse--but, on occasion, some or all of the typeface morphs into Arial as I prepare e-mails for distribution.

Website of the day Cervantes Project http://cervantes.tamu.edu/V2/CPI/index.html
Sept. 29 is the birthday of Miguel de Cervantes (who was born in 1547). This site has biographical information, a bibliography, articles, artwork and more.
Number to Know 1: Ranking of “Don Quixote” in a poll by The Guardian on the greatest novel of all time.
This Day in History Sept. 29, 2005: The U.S. Senate confirms John Roberts as chief justice.
Daily Quote “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.” Miguel de Cervantes http://www.wickedlocal.com/swampscott/newsnow/x371957129/Morning-Minutes-Sept-29#axzz1ZLVKCkDK