Small town, big drama
By LYNN ISRAEL of the Tribune’s staff 
ARROW ROCK — It takes a village — and a village inside a village — to nurture the 46th season of the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre.

NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN EMERGING ARTIST
Jane Mudd
By SETH ASHLEY of the Tribune’s staff
After a six-year absence, Fulton’s Art at the Pond celebration is back, and it’s largely because of Jane Mudd. Mudd is a Fulton artist and teacher who served as chairwoman for the event, which happens Saturday. 

Coppola expects new baby

Maher brings wit to Web

Record deal makes him proud

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NOTES AND TONES
Record producer pinches a penny to turn out gold
By JON W. POSES
HighNote Records is the latest in a long line of Joe Fields-owned independent record labels that spans the course of his more than 50-year career as a record producer. Some liken Fields - who has started, sold, dismantled and/or reorganized such labels as Muse and Savoy during his career - to a kind of used car salesman of the industry.

Songs and shadows
By DAVID BAUDER of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - While growing up, Neko Case always took comfort from voices in the dark. She’d retreat to her room and listen to the radio and records, to people she thought knew her private thoughts and imagined she knew as well.

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Tim Russert collects our fathers’ wisdom
By JOHN MARK EBERHART Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - "He worked hard to support us: 12-hour shifts with 13 days on and only one day off, because overtime paid the bills."

COVER TO COVER
“Akuma No Dance” translated by Itsuko Hirata (Tokuma Shoten, 256 pages)
By HANS GREIMEL of The Associated Press
TOKYO - A novel supposedly finished by Saddam Hussein the day before the U.S. invasion was on sale last week in Japanese bookstores, telling the story of a Euphrates River tribe that ousts an invading force 1,500 years ago.

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Turmoil in Texas
By JIM VERTUNO of The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas - The first thing that stands out about the new Blanton Museum is the space - more than 100,000 square feet with soaring ceilings and windows on the University of Texas campus.

With a wink and a sneer
By MARK KENNEDY of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Sandra Bernhard almost lost her mind in the back seat of a taxi.

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