Going once . . . going twice
     JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers SOLD TO THE LUCKY WINNER- "The Bachelor's" Chris Harrison, left, and New West Symphony music director Boris Brott lead the live auction for a diamond ring during the New West Symphony's Poinsettia Ball at North Ranch Country Club last week.
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Library hosts photo exhibit
      Rodney Nicholls is hosting a show of his fine art blackandwhite and toned photographs through January at the Calabasas Library, 23975 Park Sorrento. These photographs were shot during a recent visit to Iceland. All photos are available for sale.
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Local actors present Dickens tale on the air
      Actor Lane Davies is the celebrity guest host for the Every Now and Then Theatre's 18thyear radio drama presentation of Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story." Goldcoast Broadcasting's AM 1520 KVTA will broadcast the locally produced ghost story and stream it over their website at kvta.com, commercial free, at noon, 5 and 10 p.m. Mon., Dec. 24 and at 7 a.m.
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The Movie Nut
      "I Am Legend" is the third attempt by filmmakers to translate Richard Matheson's 50-year-old novel of apocalyptic terror. In 1964, Italian film director Ubaldo Ragona pitted Vincent Price against a hoard of bacteria-infected vampires in "The Last Man on Earth." In 1971, Hollywood released "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston.
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