By Mark Arnest, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. May 9--If interest inside the theater community is an indication, the Fine Arts Center's new production of "Beauty and the Beast" will be hit. The audition drew 165 people -- by far the largest anyone can remember at the center.

By Janice Gaston, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Oct. 16--Sometimes pain goes too deep for words. Sometimes sorrow and guilt and grief can be better expressed in clay or on canvas. The art exhibition "Love Your Body" was born of pain, the pain Sara Yates felt as she fought anorexia.

By Deborah G. Steele< Correspondent A building blitz begun last year at one of the county's largest private schools will come to an end soon, according to officials at Augusta Preparatory Day School. Classes begin at Augusta Prep on Friday, Aug. 15.