SPOTLIGHT
MANUSCRIPTS BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Remember English class, where everyone read the same book and then
talked about it for hours and hours? OK, so maybe that was mandatory. And
maybe the books weren’t always fun . . . but still, wasn’t there
something exciting about it?
The people who run the Manuscripts Book Discussion Group at the
Newport Beach Library certainly think so. The group will start its
2001-02 season of chats this Wednesday with a morning session on John
Berger’s “Pig Earth,” “Once in Europa” and “Lilac and Flag.” On Wednesday
evening “The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley will be up for
discussion.
Other books to be discussed this season include “On Gold Mountain: The
One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family” by Lisa See (Oct.
10), Bernard Malamud’s “The Natural” (Oct. 10), Dave Eggers’ “A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” (Nov. 14), “Oscar Wilde” by
Richard Ellman (Nov. 14), Myla Goldberg’s “Bee Season” (Dec. 12) and
‘Nine Stories” by J.D. Salinger (Dec. 12).
FYI
What: Manuscripts Book Discussion Group
Where: Newport Beach Central Library’s Friends Meeting Room, 1000
Avocado Ave.
When: 9:15 a.m. Wednesday for John Berger’s trilogy, 7 p.m. for Marion
Zimmer Bradley’s “The Mists of Avalon”
Cost: Free
Contact: (949) 717-3800
Can you say yummy, yummy, yummy?
TASTE OF NEWPORT
More than 30 of Newport Beach’s restaurants are expected to provide
food, wine, beer and cocktails for the Taste of Newport, which begins
Friday and ends Sept. 15 at Fashion Island. Yummy fun and it gets better.
KC & the Sunshine Band will perform Friday, followed by the Bangles on
Saturday and Toto on Sept. 16.
FYI
What: Taste of Newport
Where: Fashion Island on Newport Center Drive
When: 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m.
Sept. 16.
Cost: $15. Children under 12 will be admitted free on Saturday and
Sept. 16.
Contact: (949) 729-4400 or https://www.TasteofNewport.com.
PLANNING AHEAD
CAFE LUDWIG
Celebrate the chamber music of Beethoven with the Pacific Symphony
Orchestra’s Cafe Ludwig at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Sunday, Sept. 16
WALK FOR PEACE
Triangle Square will be the home base for the eighth annual Orange
County Peace Walk/Jam to celebrate the United Nations’ International Day
of Peace.
Saturday, Sept. 22
NUMERICALLY SPEAKING
50: Days until Daylight Savings Time ends.
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