How 2009 will shine (Erie Times-News)

Now that 2008 is in the pop-culture scrapbook, we know it was a huge year for heroes and superheroes, courtesy of James Bond, Indiana Jones, Batman and Iron Man.

Photos galore? Nine ways to organize them in '09 (The Star Press)

Getting organized is one of the top 5 New Year's resolutions. This week, Life will offer you tips and the right tools to help you. Have tips of your own? Send them to us at features@muncie.gannett.com.

Scrapbook it now (Post-Bulletin)

Eight years ago, Josie Schwarz immersed herself in a scrapbooking project to commemorate her junior prom

ARCHIVE SEARCH (East Bay Express)

In the last week I discovered, bought, and read all seven Optic Nerve s. Everything was going fine until I realized that #7 came out relatively recently, and that you're actually still in the area ... With every issue I read, it feels like my boring, lonely life is being exposed more and more.

'Clash' recall's the band heyday (The Wichita Eagle)

"The Clash" by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon (Grand Central, 384 pages, $45) -- Despite its influence, the Clash has inspired only a handful of books. It's a pretty thin shelf for the group that billed itself as "the only band that matters" and that, in the five-year whirlwind of its prime, produced three of the most monumental albums of the punk era, one of which ...