Yann Martel's new novel, "Beatrice and Virgil," to hit shelves April 6
Canada East
The Saskatoon-based writer told The Canadian Press last month that he hopes "Beatrice and Virgil" will be his "Animal Farm," the novel in which George Orwell used barnyard animals to write about Stalinism. It's Martel's first new work of fi...
Farm sanctuary helps those who need nourishing
Philadelphia Inquirer
He started to map out pastures for grazing cows and sheep, a pen for the rowdy pigs, a warren for the rabbits and a barnyard for the emus, llamas, turkeys and pygmy goats. Then the animals began pouring in. There are now around 250, and car...
Northville hosts Yuletide events
MLive.com
For up-close-and-personal encounters with llamas, peacocks, cows, horses and other barnyard animals, show up from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. Bring the kids on Dec. 12, the last day for animal viewing, between noon and 4 p.m. to ...
LETTER: 4-H members fear program will lose its state funding
Morning Sun
My name is Emily Maslovich, and I am a member of the 4-H club The Barnyard Bunch. On Oct. 25 at the Sumner Community Center we had our October meeting. I am the reporter for the Barnyard Bunch and would like to report to you that Gov. Jenni...
Sears Houses presentation is at Avon branch
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Barnyard Boogie, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Saturday. Sing, dance and play instruments to your favorite barnyard tunes. For children preschool age and younger. • Jr. Tree House Club, 4-4:45 p.m. Tuesday. Make a creature that mysteriously climbs up an...
The Tea Party System
Counter Punch
... know, over at Ted Turner’s barnyard, that if you put an hour’s worth of programming together, you can snowball that into a 24-hour news cycle on a cable-grable channel. Over at 13th Century Fox, you’ve got Bill O’Piggy and his piglets ....
Longtime landowners ensure legacy endures
Bridgeton News
It's a picture-postcard site -- sheep and horses grazing in soft green fields, surrounded by acres of fenced-in country meadows and framed by colorful fall trees. A country house and barnyard complex complete the almost-English countryside ...
Review: "Picnic" needs dash of danger to spice up its flavor
Denver Post
Yet the same day his college jock friend Hal Carter hits town, his gal and his pal turn into carnal barnyard animals, much to the dismay of the widow Owens, swooning sister Millie and disapproving old maid Rosemary. If anything, "Picnic" tr...
Brock Lesnar: A Lesson in Revisionist History
Bleacherreport.com
... athletic big man like to ignore his professional wrestling past, everyone knows that anyone who came out of the WWE surely abused steroids, HGH, painkillers, booze, and small barnyard animals. How people can overlook such things is ridi...
Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best wooden toys
Examiner
Jack Rabbit Creations Barnyard Sort and Play This was one of the first toys created by Jack Rabbit Creations ten years ago and it's still one of their most popular. It comes with a set of animals and a shape sorting box. It's nice because y...
The goats stared back
San Diego Union-Tribune
No matter what, George Clooney’s barnyard co-stars would not keel over and play dead. On location in Puerto Rico, a herd of “fainting goats” had been rounded up for crucial scenes in “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” the fact-based spoof about ...
Nation prepares for deadly bat virus
CNET News
Bird flu, swine flu, anthrax; and now add Hendra --a lethal virus that resides in bat urine and horse spit--to the ever increasing list of barnyard threats. The U.S. and other countries are investing in Hendra virus research because they fe...
Don't be chicken: Allow chickens
Oregonian
Oregonians who grew up on farms, equating chickens with chores (and who happily left the barnyard behind) now see urban friends clamoring for the right to possess their very own .... chicken coops. It seems preposterous. And, yet, as brown ...
