Journey

Rowdie, a 14-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever from Weston, found himself in a tight spot Wednesday afternoon when he followed his nose into a drainage pipe near a Little League baseball field. During his daily walk at Burchard Park with his owner, Noel Estes, Rowdie caught a scent. "All of a sudden he just shot off," Estes said. He ran into a drainage pipe about 2 feet in diameter and was unable to get out. Estes said it had happened in the past, but the 80-pound dog was always able to get himself out, walking backward since the pipe was too small for him to turn around.

If a sign in front of a store mistakenly uses “it’s’’ instead of “its,’’ is the error a big deal? Is it a symptom of grammatical ignorance, or is it just an insignificant typo? Some may be bothered by the mistake, while others might not notice or care. The protagonists of “The Great Typo Hunt’’ notice, and definitely care. In March 2008, Jeff Deck, an editor with a keen eye for typos and other errors, set off from Somerville with a mission: to correct typos across the country, wherever he might see them.

After being diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer in 2011, Manyang Mayiik began to study for his US citizenship exam. On May 7, he passed the test, and his dream became a reality. Mayiik, 31, celebrated his new citizenship Tuesday at the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, where he receives care. "He was pretty proud; it's been such a long held dream of his," said Sondria Berman, the Chelsea Jewish Foundation's director of communications. "For him to do it now means even more to him than before his diagnosis.

An impossibly bright full moon creates a glow around a 15-foot rowboat on the stage of the Charlestown Working Theater. Inside the boat are two people, Odysseus and Penelope of Homer's ancient epic "The Odyssey," adapted and performed by Charlestown Working Theater codirectors Jennifer Johnson and John Peitso, a husband-and-wife team. Without ever leaving the rowboat, and with the simplest of theatrical techniques, Johnson and Peitso take the audience on a haunting and hypnotic version of Odysseus' journey, from Calypso's enchanted island past the dangerous sirens into the man-hating clutches...

Deen Castronovo, drummer in the rock group Journey, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Oregon to four misdemeanor charges related to a reported domestic violence incident in West Salem. The 47-year-old was arrested Jan. 20 after a dispute with a woman and charged with recklessly endangering another person, interfering with making a police report, criminal mischief and harassment. The Statesman Journal reports ( http://is.gd/DRZBLS) the woman told police he had accused her of cheating and they had broken up.

RE "FOUR families, four stories of loss, love, and resilience" (Page A1, Sept. 4): Jenna Russell ends her story about the widow of my old friend Bob LeBlanc with what he told Andrea the day before he died: "Bob told Andrea he had a 10-year plan for travel to developing countries… . He was saving the United States for later, he said, when he would need easier journeys. " In late August 2001, I ran into Bob in the grocery store near the University of New Hampshire, where we first met in 1965.

I spoke briefly with Ty Warren about his release, and while it is possible that a couple of the other veterans released today - possibly Alge Crumpler or Nick Kaczur - might re-sign with the team for less money, it is pretty clear Warren will not be returning. "I am definitely not mad about my release," he said. "I appreciate the Patriots and our journey together, and I appreciate the Krafts for drafting me in 2003 and providing an opportunity. "I look forward to doing bigger and better things.

("Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter's Eyes" By Dan Kennedy, Rodale, 288 pp.; $24.95.) Right now dwarfs are, well, big. It seems you can catch documentaries about dwarfs getting married, going to college, and simply going about their ordinary lives on everything from the Discovery Channel to MTV to Fox's reality show "The Littlest Groom. " But it is Peter Dinklage's role as Finbar McBride in the highly acclaimed film "The Station Agent" that has excited the dwarf community.

For a harmless "Indiana Jones" knock-off, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" has an awful lot riding on it. The new film - the umpteenth screen iteration of the 1864 Jules Verne sci-fi novel - is also the latest movie to try to take 3-D technology mainstream. Using plastic polarized glasses (rather than grandpa's red-and-green paper specs) and filmed with a camera invented by James Cameron for his own 3-D spectacular, "Avatar" (due in late 2009), "Journey" arrives in 800 US theaters that have been hastily fitted with the RealD digital projection system.

SUNDAY Meg Mitchell Moore ("So Far Away") reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord. MONDAY Ann Packer ("Swim Back to Me") reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books . . . Beatrice Peltre ("La Tartine Gourmande: Recipes for an Inspired Life") reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store . . . Jean-Christophe Valtat ("Auroraram") reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop . . . Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow ("Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums, and Hideouts")

The space shuttle Enterprise has been separated from the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier at John F. Kennedy International Airport, just weeks after flying over New York City. The shuttle is now resting under a de-icing shed at the airport. Next month it will be taken by barge to the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, the floating air-and-space museum that will be the shuttle's permanent home. The shuttle is scheduled to open to the public in mid-July. Enterprise never went on an actual space mission; it was a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and experiments on the...

SCHUYLER, Va. — Readers who can name all of John-Boy's siblings, know what the "Recipe Machine" is, and can visualize Ike Godsey's Store are probably among the tens of thousand of fans who have made the pilgrimage to the Walton's Mountain Museum, located in a tiny Virginia town near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Others may be surprised to learn that the museum, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this fall, is based in the building where "The Waltons" creator, Earl Hamner Jr., went to high school.

ORVIETO, Italy — Travelers visiting this ancient city perched on a cliff above the Paglia plain invariably find their attention drawn upward — to the lacy spires of the jewel-like Duomo and the clanging bells atop the Moro's Tower. Few realize that beneath their feet — and stretching far below Orvieto's stone-paved piazzas, chic boutiques, and open-air ristorantes — is a vast subterranean city, called Velzna by the Etruscans, who created it over nearly 3,000 years. In the sixth century BC, early inhabitants began hand-digging a labyrinth of caves and tunnels into...

Whenever an artist's family authorizes a documentary, there's a worry that it's going to be a rosy, public-relations piece. "Marley" is not that. It's an outstanding, warts-and-all look at reggae legend Bob Marley, who died young of cancer at age 36 in 1981 but not before becoming a Third World superstar. Marley overcame a ghetto upbringing in the Trench Town neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica, to become a gifted writer of socially conscious, spiritually uplifting reggae anthems.

As a solo jazz guitarist, Eric Hofbauer is in the midst of an epic American journey, but he still finds time to play with his friends at home and abroad. Since the late 1990s, the Boston guitarist has honed a singular approach to solo recitals, marked by distilled melodies and expansive repertoire, ranging from Charlie Parker and Andrew Hill to Kurt Cobain and Van Halen. He's deep at work on "American Grace," the third volume in a trilogy that includes 2004's "American Vanity" and 2010's "American Fear!"

Neal Pollack sprints through the first chapter of “Stretch’’ giving readers a breathy sketch of his quick rise in literary circles a decade ago, starting with the publication of several essays in the erudite hipster journal McSweeney’s. That quickly rolled into the book “The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature’’ and then a Vanity Fair column and guest spots on National Public Radio’s “Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!’’ But like a particularly gripping episode of VH1’s “Behind the Music,’’ Pollack metaphorically stuffs all of these achievements into...

There's little mystery about "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. " This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dollars purpose with pride, delivering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and most shameless. Again poking Jules Verne's remains with a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth" present their second modern take on the 19th century fantasist's wild stories. And "Mysterious Island" is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a movie that the...

Patrick Dempsey is bringing his passion for auto racing to television with a new documentary series. The "Grey's Anatomy" star will produce "Road to Le Mans," a four-part series about his competition in the venerable French race, the Velocity channel said Thursday. Dempsey, who has a professional auto racing team based in Georgia, will be both owner and driver at the 24-hour endurance race in June. "Road to Le Mans," set to air by mid-2013, will include his team's preparation for the event, including sponsor acquisition, training and time trials, and the race itself.

W ATERTOWN — When we first see the four members of the Tyrone family in the New Repertory Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," they're in the back parlor of their summer home, enveloped in darkness. Then James and Mary Tyrone, played by Will Lyman and Karen MacDonald, emerge into the light, bantering affectionately, the very picture of a contented old married couple, while their adult sons, James Jr. (Lewis D. Wheeler) and Edmund (Nicholas Dillenburg)