Paul Fleischman is a Newbery Award-winning author of books for both children and young adult readers. He blends musical language with quirky looks at the world, viewed through the lens of human and natural history. "I'm a maker at heart," Fleischman decl...
Saturnalia is the feast with which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn, which was on 17 December. Over the years, it expanded to a whole week, to 23 December. Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals....
The Gutter Twins Saturnalia Sub Pop (761) Grade: *** It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the debut album by the Gutter Twins is stuffed with good-bad, sin-redemption, doom-more-doom concepts. The Twins' frontmen, Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan,...
Fed up with Christmas and all its excesses? Such woes have an ancient provenance. The following manuscript was recently unearthed during building work in Rome. Written in colloquial, even chatty, Latin (our translation can only be an approximation), the text is a first-century guide...
