To most Boiseans, city hall is just a place to drop off parking ticket payments; it's an impenetrable fortress protected by a moat of department acronyms and insider jargon. In an attempt to get to the heart of the city's new Department of Arts and Hist

Joyce Ice, director of the Museum of International Folk Art since 1999, is leaving Santa Fe to become director of the West Virginia University Art Museum in Morgantown, W.Va.

Poet Donna Henderson and travel writer Bonnie Henderson - sisters in life and literature - are the featured authors at the October Nye Beach Writers' Series, set to begin at 7 p.m. Saturday in the upstairs community hall of the Newport Visual Arts Center

Two professors, two doctoral candidates, two undergraduate students, an IHUM fellow, a research coordinator and a staff member will be recognized during Commencement Weekend with the 2008 university awards.

James Earl Jones, the venerable actor renowned for his commanding, mellifluous voice and powerful physical presence, is to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.