Local Briefs: 9-04

No newspaper on Labor Day There will be no issue of the Sentinel-Tribune on Monday due to the Labor Day holiday. Today's issue has comics and features for Saturday and Monday, and expanded television listings. BG delays trash pickup a day Bowling Green trash collection will be a day late next week because of the Labor Day holiday. Bowling Green City Council will also meet Tuesday at 8 p.m ...

To see the true beauty of the Norwegian Epic, you’ve got to think inside the box

The Norwegian Epic is a homely ship. Boxy, lacking the graceful lines of most cruise ships, she looks a little like a stretch Humvee limo, all muscle and utility. But as our parents tried to teach us, when it comes to beauty, it’s what’s inside that counts.

Woman's purse is snatched in driveway

A resident in the 28000 block of Jacqueline had her purse snatched Monday night while she was getting out of her car in the driveway of her home.

This is Shyness by Leanne Hall (review)

Wolfboy and Wildgirl are the main characters in Leane Hall's debut novel This is Shyness , and these young characters spend a night of adventure together. The manuscript for This is Shyness won the 2009 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. Part of the prize is a publishing contract and the book came out this year. In the novel, Shyness is a place where the sun never rises, so when ...

'New Faces' of indy works

The Grand Cinema is calling it the highest-profile film event ever in Tacoma: Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film."