| PLAINFIELD: Library painting on loan for Chicago exhibit
A painting officials call "the finest and most noteworthy" in Plainfield Public Library's collection is on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago for an upcoming exhibit there. "Looking Over the Cliff," an 1882 watercolor by Winslow Homer, will be part of the "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light" exhibit, which runs from Feb. 16 to May 10, library officials said in a statement.
The library's painting will be one of 130 watercolors, drawings and oil paintings featured in the exhibit. Under tight security, the painting left Plainfield earlier this week and arrived Wednesday in Chicago in the middle of a storm that delivered 15 inches of snow.
Library Director Joseph Da Rold and the facility's Board of Trustees have been working with the exhibit curator since October 2006.
UPI Sports Calendar for Friday, Feb. 22
New Jersey at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Toronto at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Milwaukee at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Boston at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.
Utah at LA Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Portland at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
NCAA
No Top 25 games scheduled
Hockey
NHL
Edmonton at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Detroit at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Colorado at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Bensalem Student Found Dead In Harvard Bathtub
BENSALEM, Pa. -- Students at Holy Ghost Preparatory High School in Bucks County are mourning the death of a classmate who died suddenly during a visit to Harvard University. According to a statement on the Bensalem school's Web site, 15-year-old Yuriy Tutko died Saturday while attending a forensics tournament at the Ivy League school. Police were called to a hotel near Harvard's campus just after 7 a.m. .
Huskies hire Donatell
Willingham confirmed that he did first offer the job to UCLA's DeWayne Walker, and also said he talked to "a lot'' of candidates before settling on Donatell. Donatell said the rest of the defensive staff will remain intact, with Randy Hart staying at defensive line coach, Chris Tormey as linebackers coach and J.D. Williams as secondary coach. .
Luring clients and employees to shore
(FSB Magazine) Glendale, Wis. -- ShoreTrips' business is booming, so you'd think owners Julie and Barry Karp could relax a bit. The couple developed a niche - arranging land tours for Caribbean cruise ship travelers. While cruise vessels have been disgorging hordes of passengers into ports and onto buses and walking tours for decades, their operators faced increased competition from landlubbers when the Karps founded their firm in 2001. Since then, the Karps have located tour operators in scores of port cities and used them to deliver less costly and more intimate and original port experiences than the big ships offer. Clients come mostly through travel agents, who get commissions on any ShoreTrips tours they sell. The Karps put 75,000 travelers on their tours in 2006, and 100,000 last year.
Showing her true colours
Nine studio albums later she is still touring, most recently alongside artists including Debbie Harry, the Dresden Dolls, Rufus Wainwright and the Gossip, for the True Colours tour of the US, a human rights tour which she organised. A strong supporter of gay rights (her sister is a lesbian), Lauper will perform at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardis Gras this year, as well as doing her own shows. There's also a new CD in the pipeline – her first collection of new music since 2003's Shine, which "never even made it out of the box", because it was released only in Japan. "I'm under the crunch to get it done," Lauper says of her new, as yet unnamed, CD. "I worked with people from all over the world, which kind of makes it a little more interesting, but harder to get everything together.
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