BOOK WORMS GET BUSY The Orange Coast...

BOOK WORMS

GET BUSY

The Orange Coast College Friends of the Library host their 2005

Spring Book Sale on Wednesday outside the library on campus. Used

bestsellers, romance novels, textbooks and more going for a dollar

each. The library will hold a “dollar a bag” sale in the last hour of

the event. All proceeds from the event go to benefit Friends of the

Library.

The sale takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the north end of

the Adams parking lot near the intersection of Fairview Road and

Monitor Way. Call (714) 432-0202 for more information.

A FESTIVAL

HERE AT HOME

The Newport Beach Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with a

showing of “Crash” at 7:30 at Edwards Big Newport at Fashion Island.

For information, visit www.newportbeach filmfest.com

SHAKESPEARE

LOVES ATHENS

UC Irvine’s drama department on Friday presents one of William

Shakespeare’s least-known plays, “Timon of Athens,” about a wealthy

man who gives excessively to his friends and finds himself faced with

unpaid bills, at the Winifred Smith Hall on campus. Director Robert

Cohen takes the bard’s tale of corruption and political betrayal in

ancient Greece and stages it in contemporary times.

Performance times are 8 p.m. on April 22, 23, 28 and 30, with a

Saturday matinee on April 30 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $9 to $17. Call

(949) 824-2787 for more information.