In this week’s small business column Kehlan Kirwan looks at finding inspiration in the most unlikely place and how it will probably be the best business book you’ll ever read.

Opera will be to the fore in the list of top-class entertainment by the Everyman after the Cork theatre unveiled its spring and early summer schedule.

Four young friends took delight in imagining all the places their lives would take them, but their promising paths ended in a place of grief and sorrow.

Protesters in Ferguson pressed pause yesterday as the city welcomed Thanksgiving, decorating boarded-up storefronts with some Dr. Seuss inspiration and gathering for church services — a stark contrast to previous days of outrage over the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case.

Now in its ninth year, the Pampers UNICEF campaign has helped to eliminate maternal and newborn tetanus in 15 countries. 

Michael Jackson regained the title of the top-earning dead celebrity in the past year, easily surpassing Elvis Presley and cartoonist Charles Schulz, Forbes magazine said.

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An Army private accused of sending reams of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website was kept in tight pre-trial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, told a court today.

Based on the book by Dr Seuss, ‘The Lorax’ is an environmentally conscious story of one boy’s noble quest to restore balance between avaricious mankind and Mother Nature.

MANNY, Ellie, Diego and Sid are hauled out of the deep freeze for another shaggy mammoth tale in Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (PG).

Quiet

As Bloom prepares to open next weekend, Kya deLongchamps talks to exhibitor Fiann Nualláin about his unique approach

You’re My Little Star by Julia Hubery and Cee Biscoe (Little Tiger; €8.35 HB) is an easy-to-follow board book for babies.

Johnny Depp is set to play Dr Seuss in a live-action version of the classic books.

Paula used to live in Africa. After university, she taught for five years. Then she worked in the area of human rights in South Africa.

AN UNUSUAL friendship is the theme of Quick, Slow, Mango! By Anik McGrory (Bloomsbury; €7.10).

TICKETS have gone on sale for the 50th Waterford International Festival of Light Opera, which features seven nights of competitive shows in November.

Two men posed as police officers to rob a family of its presents on Christmas Eve.

The return of Dr Seuss, the storyteller much loved by kiddies, in a fun animation in which an elephant (Carrey) finds a tiny world existing on a clover leaf and vows to protect it.

The Taoiseach is depicted as a Grinch character in a Young Fine Gael poster campaign, it emerged today.

Based on the children’s books by Dr Seuss, this is a very bad, bad, bad film of loud vulgarity and no wit.

The movie version of Dr Seuss classic The Cat in the Hat shot to the top of the film chart in America at the weekend, according to figures out today.

Filming's begun on the new adaptation of Dr Seuss' Cat In The Hat.

Teenage singing star Charlotte Church stole the heart of the Grinch at a Florida theme park.

Harry Potter is laughing all the way to the bank - after the boy wizard conjured up record takings over the Thanksgiving weekend.