“The T.A.M.I. Show,” a legendary 1964 concert film long out of circulation, will be released on DVD for the first time on Tuesday.

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Pop History Revealed! Doing Splits! (New York Times)

Md. native says film based on his cartoon stories adds heart to middle-school tales Jeff Kinney, author of that best-selling "novel in cartoons," "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," is the rare writer and cartoonist who considers the movie version of his book superior to the source, at least in one crucial way: "What I'm happy about it is the emotional content, which I think is absent from my book," he says ...

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The Wimpy Kid does Hollywood (Baltimore Sun)

There's always that one kid waiting to be discovered, the rare find, the one whose destined for gridiron greatness if only a scout could see him play.

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A touch of class (Appeal-Democrat)

The oldest item in Yale Law School's rare book collection is a 1,000-year-old fragment of a medieval manuscript bound inside an Italian guidebook for notaries. The newest is a bobblehead doll depicting William H. Rehnquist, 16th chief justice of the United States.

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Bobbleheads of justice (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

We are pleased to be chosen to sell the estate of Charles and Reiko Tuttle of Rutland Vt., owners of Tuttle Publishing of Rutland and Tokyo, Japan, and Tuttle Antiquarian Books. The Tuttles were well known Rutland Citizens and Philanthropists

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Robert M. Prozzo - AUCTIONEER - Estates Bought and Sold Rutland, Vermont 05701 (802) 236-5628 IMPORTANT ESTATE AUCTION ... (Antiques and the Arts)

Pretend you could turn your house upside down and give it a good shake.

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Appraise worthy: North Naples man determines value in just about anything (Naples Daily News)

Very recently, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy became a rare writer to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters.

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Walking with the Comrades (Dawn)

One of the new establishments to open in the Wan Chai neighborhood is the Pawn, once a pawnshop and now a popular gastropub.

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New Life in Old Hong Kong (New York Times)

Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her daughter, Christy Carpenter. Carpenter was 89.

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Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies (AP via Yahoo! News)

Captain Graebner has been in the news lately after the History Channel discovered that he owned two rolls of eight millimeter color film that he shot while sweeping across France and Germany with the Army’s 5th Armored Division following D-Day in 1944.

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WHAT'S BREWING: World War II vet in history world spotlight for rare films (The Medina Sun)