The American storytelling revival was jump-started in Jonesborough, Tennessee, by the first National Storytelling Festival in 1973.  The success of that first festival led to the founding of the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS), which changed its name to the National Storytelling Association (NSA) in 1994.  In 1998, in an effort to serve the needs of the diverse storytelling community better, NSA divided into two separate organizations, the National Storytelling Network (NSN) and the International Storytelling Center (ISC). National Storytelling Network now produces the National Storytelling Conference and other events and presents storytelling’s annual Oracle Awards.  Link to information including TELLABRATION!™ (always the Saturday before Thanksgiving) at http://www.storynet.org/about/index.html 

The Goldilocks zone or habitable zone or life zone is an area of space in which a planet is just the right distance from its home star so that its surface is neither too hot nor too cold.   http://science.howstuffworks.com/other-earth1.htm 

Curds and whey is a term for a very normal food:  cottage cheese.  There are some important differences between cottage, pot and farm cheese, chief among them how much liquid (or whey) remains. Of the three, cottage cheese has the highest whey content, followed by pot cheese and then farmer cheese, which is quite dry and crumbly.  Try cottage cheeses and cantaloupe.  Jamie Forrest  Link to recipes at http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/04/of-curds-and-whey.html 

Curds and Whey Solitaire  http://www.bvssolitaire.com/rules/curds-and-whey.htm

Q:  Whatever happened to Pittsburgh's "dancing" traffic cop?
A:  No one directed traffic like Victor S. Cianca Sr.  "(He) used as many as three limbs at once to hurry people along.  When someone drove too slowly, he would rest his cheek in his hands, miming sleep.  If a driver tried to explain away a traffic violation, he played an imaginary violin.  
"He took slow, silly bows, blew his whistles so hard they quit, and wore his white gloves so often" they are displayed at the police academy.  Cianca won fame on "Candid Camera" in 1964, in television commercials, and in a cameo in the 1983 movie "Flashdance."  He died Jan. 24, 2010, at the age of 92. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  http://www.thecourier.com/Opinion/columns/2013/Nov/JU/ar_JU_110413.asp?d=110413,2013,Nov,04&c=c_13 

StoryCorps began with the opening of our first StoryBooth in Grand Central Terminal in October 2003.  On February 10, 2006, the StoryBooth was dedicated to Danny and Annie Perasa, and on May 17, 2008, we recorded the last interview in Grand Central.  This StoryBooth has seen marriage proposals, birthdays, and family reunions; and has recorded more than 5,000 stories from both New Yorkers and visitors from across the country.  Though we are sad to leave our first home, we hope you’ll visit us at Foley Square (also known as Tom Paine Park) in downtown Manhattan.  http://storycorps.org/record-your-story/locations/new-york-ny/ and http://storycorps.org/gct/ 

On the front of the cinder-block library on Cesar Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles, near a building supplies warehouse and an auto parts shop, a rainbow-colored mural shows children reading books beneath lush trees.  Around the corner, a squat beige drop box awaits returned books and videos.  Only the name, the Anthony Quinn Public Library, gives a clue that this isn't your normal neighborhood branch of the Los Angeles County library system.  Inside, an oil portrait of the late actor smiles down on middle school students doing homework in the reading room.  A suit of armor stands guard in a Plexiglass case, a gift to Quinn from his mentor, John Barrymore, who had worn it in a stage production of "Richard III."  Zorba the Greek's hat, a memento of Quinn's signature role, is embossed in bronze in another case.  Built on the site of the home where Quinn grew up, the library is an unlikely repository of movie star glamour.  But it also offers a glimpse of how Hollywood treated ethnic minorities.  The library branch was named for Quinn 30 years ago, and, in 1987, the actor donated the large collection of personal papers, scrapbooks, movie scripts and financial documents.  Yet for all the time since, the 2,000 or so items were rarely visited and remained stored without proper safeguards.  Many Hollywood historians didn't know of the archive's existence and, without an inventory and sufficient library staff, it was difficult to determine what was there, let alone what was significant.  Now that is about to change.  Because of a $6,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the collection was recently reviewed by preservationists who recommended ways to ensure the archive's safety.  Library officials say that they are about to improve the storage and create a cataloging system and, if more funding becomes available, scan important items for online researchers.  David Roman, a USC professor of English and American Studies, is one of the few scholars to have explored the Quinn material.  He dug into it six years ago to research Quinn's Broadway stage career in the 1940s and how "a Mexican-born actor who grew up in poverty in East Los Angeles took on one of the most iconic roles in the American theater."  He was referring to how Quinn succeeded Marlon Brando as the male lead in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."  The library materials, he recalled, "helped me get a fuller sense of his life as an actor."  But Roman said he was shocked at how jumbled the Quinn papers were and how vulnerable they seemed, with some old items already damaged.  Daniel Hernandez, who heads the county library system's Chicano Resource Center and was a prime mover in obtaining the federal grant, said the goal was to ensure that the Quinn collection "will be around for a long time" and make it more accessible to the public and researchers.  Much of it will be moved over the next few months to another facility in Huntington Park for better security and climate control, he said, but some will remain in its original library setting along with the unusual artifacts already on display in the library's reading room.  Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and his parents had fought in the Mexican Revolution before moving to Texas and later California, picking crops for a while before settling in Los Angeles.  Although he sometimes played Latino characters, such as the patriarch in "The Children of Sanchez," he had a portfolio of earthy pan-ethnic roles, including an Italian circus strongman in "La Strada," a Ukrainian pope in "The Shoes of the Fisherman," an Arab warlord in "Lawrence of Arabia," and several Greeks beyond his famous turn in "Zorba."    "With a name like Quinn, I wasn't totally accepted by the Mexican community in those days, and as a Mexican I wasn't accepted as an American," he told The Times in 1981.  "So as a kid, I just decided, well a plague on both your houses, I'll just become a world citizen.  So that's what I did.  Acting is my nationality."  Larry Gordon   http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-c1-quinn-archives-20131106-dto,0,6780136.htmlstory#axzz2jyA6ygem 

Seven bidders pushed up the price of the triptych Three Studies of Lucien Freud by Francis Bacon to $142.4 million to make it the most expensive painting ever sold on Nov. 12, 2013.  The previous most expensive painting was a pastel of The Scream by Edvard Munch sold for $119.9 million in 2012.  The New York Times  Nov, 13, 2013  Read more and see images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Studies_of_Lucian_Freud 

List of the 19 most expensive photographs sold, 2006-2012  Top two are Rhein II by Andreas Gursky for $4,388,500 and Untitled #96 by Cindy Sherman for $3,890,500.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_photographs  

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University Libraries, holds its Grand Opening Festival of Cartoon Art  November 16-17, 2013.  The galleries will have extended hours from 10 am to 5 pm.  Beginning November 19, 2013 the galleries will be open its regular hours, Tuesday through Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm.  Check hours for holiday closings. There are three galleries featuring Treasures from the Collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, a permanent exhibition, and Substance and Shadow:  The Art of the Cartoon which will be open through March 2, 2014.  1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH  614-292-0538   http://cartoons.osu.edu/  The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum was established in 1977 in two converted classrooms in the Journalism Building with the founding gift of artwork and papers of alumnus Milton Caniff.  Its collections of original art and manuscripts have been built primarily through gifts-in-kind.  The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is now the largest and most comprehensive academic research facility documenting printed cartoon art.  Current holdings include more than 300,000 original cartoons, 45,000 books, 67,000 serials (including comic books), 3,000 linear feet of manuscript materials, 2.5 million comic strip clippings and newspaper pages.  http://cartoons.osu.edu/about-us/) ders pushed up the price of the triptych292-0538  http