National Features

  • Houston Press
    Foreclosure Pets

    When homeowners are pushed out, animals get left behind.

    By Paul Knight
  • Broward-Palm Beach New Times
    On Your Honor

    A judge's alleged relationships with defense lawyers and prosecutors raise eyebrows.

    By Bob Norman
  • Village Voice
    A Soldier's Story

    Remembering the day a black mob lynched a white man.

    By Tony Ortega

As the selection for the Johnson County Public Library's Big Read, Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel The Maltese Falcon comes with support — in the form of discussion groups at local libraries. University of Missouri-Kansas City film professor Thom Poe gives a talk called "Film Noir and The Maltese Falcon" today at 2 p.m. at the Antioch Branch (8700 Shawnee Mission Parkway in Merriam). Call 913-261-2300 for more information.
Sun., April 27, 2 p.m., 2008

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