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Clearwater's Cleveland Street serves up a farmers market, box car rally, and a book and wine festival SaturdayThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 5:08PMBy Terri Bryce Reeves, Times Correspondent Thursday, September 9, 2010 Jay Zubov, left, and Kirby Kain work on Knuckledown Tattoo shop’s entry in the Achieva Credit Union Box Car Rally, when homemade cars in four divisions — corporate, adult, teen and peewee — compete in downhill races on Cleveland Street near the Harborview Center on Saturday. Now that the long Labor Day weekend is over and ...

Q&A with 'Terminated' author Simon WoodThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 1:14PMSimon Wood, a former engineer who was won the Anthony Award, has nearly 200 short stories and four novels to his credit. His latest thriller release, “Terminated,” is receiving rave reviews.

Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless' gets a 50th anniversary showing, plus this week's movie capsule reviewsThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 12:58PMGodard's industry-rumbling New Wave masterpiece starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as an unlikely duo in Paris is a real kick in the head. It plays three times this weekend at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque.

In the Electric MistThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 1:09AMThe writer James Lee Burke's In the Electric Mist is set in New Iberia, Louisiana, where Detective Dave Robichaux discovers the raped and tortured body of a young prostitute out in the bayou.

Judge-turned-author comes to BordersThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 12:32AMSome people just don't know how to retire. After 33 years of practicing law, including stints as a prosecutor, defense attorney and circuit court judge, not to mention a separate career as a show dog breeder, Barbara Levenson probably wouldn't know a Sudoku puzzle from a Bingo board. She's too busy writing crime novels from her homes in Miami and Quechee, Vt., and, of course, traveling the ...

Darren Jones: 'Hawke' series sure to please action, adventure novel fansWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:21PMNext week Ted Bell releases "Warlord," the sixth book in the Alex Hawke series which began in 2003 with the publication of "Hawke."

Robin Burcell, guest speaker at book-signing eventWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:12PMPosted: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:00 pm | Updated: 1:54 pm, Tue Sep 7, 2010. The Desert Sleuths held their annual Write Now! Conference Aug. 14 at the Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix.

PRODUCTS & SERVICESWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 8:23PMVeteran spy writer John Le Carre's day might have passed with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as he tells Today, shadowy Russian influence is still alive and well.

Rick Ayers: The Curse of Vietnam Now Haunting Afghan Killing FieldsWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 3:44PMAmerican fiction finds the view of the Vietnamese resistance unfathomable. Even in imaginative writing, most authors cannot come to terms with the people who defeated the US military.