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Love At First Listen: 'The Jazz Baroness'

Jazz great Thelonius Monk had a unique sound that won him millions of fans — and it certainly stole the heart of the Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter. In a new documentary, The Jazz Baroness, filmmaker Hannah Rothschild explores the unusual friendship between the American jazz pianist and the Englishwoman, and the impact they made on modern music.

Best Young Adult Fiction Of 2009

Critic Jonathan Hunt's picks include love stories between historical figures, fantasy and supernatural fiction that doesn't concern vampires or werewolves, and time traveling mysteries.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Celebrities Behaving Badly

The editor of The Daily Beast gives her picks for the best reading on celebrity antics, from Tiger Woods to Roman Polanski.

Fugard's 'Have You Seen Us?': Looking Within Again

Have You Seen Us? is set in San Diego — a first for playwright Athol Fugard, a South Africa native and one of the English theater's great humane bards. It's having a world premiere production at the Long Wharf Theatre, with Sam Waterston as the embittered, alcoholic academic at the center of the story.

Book Suggestions For A Passionate Holiday

The act of passing on a passion is one of the greatest gifts you can give. Book critic Maureen Corrigan promises that the books on this list — mostly slim, unforgettable volumes about places or things that the writers themselves deeply love — are merrily infectious.

Three Sequoyah Softball Players to Sign Scholarship Commitment Letters to RSU

Three members of the Sequoyah Schools’ varsity fast-pitch softball team will sign letters of intent to play softball at Rogers State University in Claremore on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 11 a.m. in Sequoyah Schools’ The Place Where They Play.

Cherokee Nation Three Rivers Health Center Featured on Holiday Tour

The Cherokee Nation Three Rivers Health Center will be a featured stop on the 2009 Kelly B. Todd Cerebral Palsy and Neuro-muscular Center Holiday Parade of Homes Tour, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6, from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. each day.

Cherokee Nation Hosting Tobacco Cessation Class

The Cherokee Nation will be offering a five-week tobacco cessation class on Tuesdays each week beginning December 8, from 11 a.m. until 12 noon at the Cherokee Nation AMO Health Center in Salina. The classes will run through Tuesday, January 6, 2010.

Tribe to Host Downtown Tree Lighting Ceremony

Music, fellowship and refreshments are among the highlights planned for the tribe’s holiday tree lighting program on the Cherokee Nation Courthouse Square in downtown Tahlequah on Friday, Dec. 4.

Cherokee Nation Honors Indian-Owned Businesses

To honor the success and accomplishments of Native American owned businesses, the Cherokee Nation recently held the second annual Tribal Employment Rights Office Awards Ceremony at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Catoosa.