Venus News

Centuries collided last weekend in a smallish room in Chelsea Studios, where some of the biggest names in the early-music movement - from Anonymous 4 to Piffaro to soprano Julianne Baird - were collaborating in ways they'd never attempted.

I've frolfed at French Creek State Park. But a disc of another sort was spotted there last week.

It's been quite a year for stargazing. There's been a lot of great conjunctions; the best one was just a few weeks ago when the crescent moon had a beautiful dance with the bright planets Jupiter and Venus.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, as one of the sage old Christmas songs proclaims.