Community classes, meetings, entertainment events, trips and more for the week of Nov. 4 through Nov. 11.

There are a few great events this weekend, including a silent auction and concert by  young singers, the Celebration of Tourism party and the opening of Dover Art League's annual holiday show.

First Saturday is once again full of fun for families, including a living history program on the life of a Civil War soldier.

In his just-published biography, “Abigail Adams: A Life,” the University of Richmond history professor explores lesser-known sides of the husband of one president and mother of another.

There's some riveting stuff going on in “The Fourth Kind,” a tale of alien abduction in Nome, Alaska. But did it really happen?

Originally slated for two October performances, the DSU production of "Top Dog/Underdog" was postponed due to actor illness. The free show will instead be staged at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the Education and Humanities Theatre.

GateHouse News Service reporter laments on the beauty of food on film.
 

Puerto Rican reggae band Gomba Jahbari brings their excellent live show to a full-length album that runs through some of their most recent studio records as well as some of the best songs from their 2003 debut.

It’s odd enough seeing the characters that George Clooney and Jeff Bridges play in the oddly titled, Iraq-set satirical film “The Men Who Stare at Goats." It gets even weirder when the two actors get together to promote the film, when they end up going on so many tangents that they seem to forget what they’re there to talk about.

Check here to see what new releases people in Dover are watching.

Fast-rising hip-hop artist Brother Ali's fifth album, "Us," was released Sept. 22 and has garnered the best response of his career, but he's not letting the praise go to his head.

Jim Carrey's portrayal of Scrooge is surprisingly even-handed, but filmmaker Bob Zemeckis goes overboard with special effects in this version of  "A Christmas Carol," and the story is lost.

Vin Scully, now 81, became one of the most well-regarded sports broadcasters of all time. His life is chronicled by Messenger Post columnist and radio commentator Curt Smith in a recently released book, “Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story.” 

There’s a bookcase in every room of our house, from the three-shelf antique in the kitchen filled with cookbooks to the battered four-shelf unit in the family room stuffed with paperbacks. My husband collects biographies of famous newsmen. I collect Nancy Drews from the 1960s. We’ve got self-help, reference, humor, history and a smattering of fiction. Hello, my name is Saimi, and I’m a bibliophile.

I have no idea if AMC’s “The Prisoner” will be any good. Frankly, I don’t care. As far as I’m concerned, it has already justified its existence by prompting the release of the original “Prisoner” on Blu-ray.