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Show The Park Record C-12 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 11-14, 2011 Ira Glass comes to SLC Ira Glass, host and producer of NPR's popular This American Life, brings his unique combination of journalism and storytelling to Kingsbury Hall on Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. Ira Glass, on stage with his sound board, will tell the often hilarious stok ries of his adventures in public radio and the back-stories of some of his well-known broadcasts in this one-night-only appearance. Tickets are $20.50, $27.50 and $34.50, and are available by calling 801-5817100 or visiting www.king tLx.com. This American Life show had its premiere on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ in late 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.7 million listeners. Most weeks, the podcast of the program is the most popular podcast in America. Under Glass's editorial direction. This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including the Peabody and DuPontColumbia awards, as well as the Edward R. Murrow and the Overseas Press Club awards. The American Journalism Review declared that the show is "at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." It has won critical acclaim and attracted continuous national media attention over the years. In 2001, Tune magazine named Glass "Best Radio Host in America." A television adaptation of This American Life ran on the Showtime network for two seasons, in 2007 and 2008, winning three Emmy awards, including Outstanding Nonfiction Series. The show has put out its own comic book, three greatest hits compilations, DVDs of live shows and other events. 500-year-old book for sale By BRIAN SKOLOFF Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A partial copy of a 500-yearo!d book considered one of the earliest and most lavishly illustrated works of the 15th century is now on sale for $35,000 at a rare book shop in Utah. Book dealer Ken Sanders was shocked back in April when while volunteering at a fundraiser for a small town museum in Sandy, just south of Salt Lake City, a man arrived with the unusual find pulled from his attic. It had been gathering dust for decades. "There was just something almost dreamlike, something surreal about a five-centuryoid book being found here," said Sanders, who appraises items for PBS's Antiques Roadshow and owns Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. The German language edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed by Anton Koberger and published in 1493, is a world history beginning in biblical times. It is believed there are several hundred copies in circulation worldwide, making it not-sorare of a find, especially with about two-thirds of its pages missing from its tattered binding. Still, to a book collector, it's a genuine must-have, said Heather O'Donnell, a book seller at Bauman Rare Books in New York City. •'It's an incredibly exciting book. Every page is visibly beautiful. Even a single page oi a Nuremberg Chronicle has genuine value," O'Donnell said. "It's a landmark of printing ... There's always more buyers than copies available." BaumaiTs store sold a complete copy with hand-colored illustrations for more than $300,000 in 2006. Four peregrines hatch Salt Lake City - Four white, fluffy peregrine falcon eyases (newly born falcons) are enjoying their first days of life in a nest box on the northeast corner of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. The building is just west of State Street, between South Temple and North Temple streets. Bob Walters is excited that Salt Lake City's famous falcon pair successfully hatched four L . chicks this year. "I'm way www.wildlife.utah.gov/perepleased that the famous falcon grine. pair are proud parents once Walters says officials with again," says Walters, The Church of Jesus Christ oi Watchable Wildlife coordina- Latter-day Saints have placec tor for the Division of Wildlife two cameras and some micro Resources. phones in the nest box. "Turr Walters says the newly born the volume up on your comfalcons are doing well. "All puter," he says. "Falcons are four young-of-the-year are quite vocal-even noisy- thriving," he says. 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