Pooh and the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood learn a lesson about caring and sharing in Valley Youth Theatre’s annual Christmas show.

Two storybook classics are featured on the West Valley youth theater stages this weekend. Theater Works’ YOUth Works production of “Winnie-the-Pooh” will play Friday in the McMillin Black Box Theater at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts.

Two storybook classics are featured on the West Valley youth theater stages this weekend. Theater Works’ YOUth Works production of “Winnie-the-Pooh” will play Friday in the McMillin Black Box Theater at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts.

LONDON -- When we left them, Christopher Robin was going away, and Things were going to be Different.

WASHINGTON — Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested.

Isabella Camberlango’s room is modern, stylish and completely in vogue. And she’s only 8 months old. As Isabella toddles happily across the oversized shag rug in the center of her mostly green and white room in the family’s Scottsdale home, her contented gurgles give no indication she misses the usual baby decor found in traditional nurseries — an overload of teddy bears, cartoon character wallpaper or pastel walls.

You’ll need a library card and a pair of reading glasses, it seems, to get through this theatrical season.

November 28, 2004

For Audrey Johnson, proof of the value of children’s theater came when her daughter, Haley — normally a soft-spoken, reserved girl — got up to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in front of her entire elementary school.

September 24, 2004

Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles: