Nancy at Capital Fringe Festival: The inaugural Capital Fringe Festival, running from July 20-30 in DC, will host 400 different theatrical performances in more than 30 venues around the US capital city. Among the many performances is "Slippery Sleuth and Ancient Muse", a dance show where fictional girl-detective Nancy Drew and old-world poetess Sappho share the same space, performed by Dance Performance Group. Read more ...

Nancy as Lesson in Life: Falling in love with "Nancy and the Boys" leads to life long addiction. Read more ...

Nancy Drew Interest Leads to Police Academy: If you read Nancy and you want to know more about what police do then the Police Department in Hendersonville TN has a class for you. This worked out real well for recent academy graduate Holly Folsom who says, "Some of the first books I ever read were Nancy Drew books." Applications for the Citizen Police Academy may be picked up at the department's front desk. The cost is $30, which covers the all materials and supplies. And if you're lucky you might find a husband like Holly did. Read more ...

Does anybody really know what time it is ... or maybe the Secret of the Old Clock? Someone who got this game for Christmas, someone who just blows through Sudoku and Zelda, someone who is more than a little outside the 10 - 14 year old age group this game is targeted for, is still struggling with helping dear Emily Crandall and would certainly like to know. No, not me, I'm just sitting on the sidelines watching her change tires, golf and look for clues while drinking just about any Cabernet Sauvignon she can find. Hmmmm ... maybe that's the problem. Oh well ... anyway, the point is that there's a nicely done review of Secret of the Old Clock PC game here ...

Graphic Nancy Wins a Franklin: The first volume in the Nancy Drew graphic novel series from Papercutz, that would be "The Demon of River Heights", was awarded the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award for best graphic novel. The Franklin Awards are given out by the Publishers Marketing Association, the independent publishers association, at an annual gala held just before the opening of Book Expo America, the book publishing industry's convention. The Graphic Novels category is new this year. Hmmmm .... maybe I need to find a copy of "The Demon" somewhere ... and while I'm thinking about it, maybe I should check out Netfix for Nancy videos and add them to my queue. Learn more about the Franklins ... or about Book Expo America ...

What would Nancy Drew: Kristi Martinelli, 18-year-old Grayson High School senior who holds a private investigator's license from the state of Georgia and thinks "It's pretty cool to follow people" was a big fan of the Nancy Drew detective novel series and is now apparently living the life ... court papers, drug-trafficking, prom dresses ... oh my! Read more ...

Nancy Wins: Mystery Writers of America have announced their 2006 Edgar Winners. Among them, as top book in the Best Critical/Biographical category, is Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak from Harcourt. Read more about 2006 awards at MWA ...

Nancy Drew at AMAZON.CA : Tomorrow, Tuesday May 9th, is the release date for the 1995 Nelvana versions of both Nancy Drew - The Complete 1st Season and The Hardy Boys - The Complete 1st Season at Amazon Canada. Read more ...

All About Nancy ... well, not exactly ... but the short piece called "The Ghost of Nancy Drew" that Kihm Winship includes under "miscellany" at Faithful Readers where it almost gets lost among the many articles about beer such as "Beer Frames: The Meaning of Malty Movie Memories" not only gives an insightful history of the series, but also provides a sense of the fun the books provide and is well worth reading . You could do that right now. Read article ...

Project Sunshine: In their newly released title "The Fake Heir" we get what the Papercutz people call "a little peek at the type of thing Nancy Drew does when she's not solving a mystery" and learn that:

Nancy, along with her best friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne, appear at a local pediatric hospital in River Heights as Project Sunshine volunteers, wearing the organization's distinctive yellow T-shirts. In a comics panel, in which Nancy is making balloon animals, while George juggles, and Bess entertains as a clown, the classic Carolyn Keene character explains "once a month, we do a little act for all the children with serious illnesses, just to try to bring them, well, a little sunshine."

Project Sunshine is a nonprofit organization which provides many free programs and services to children with cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses. Project Sunshine Week, a special week in NYC in which businesses collaborate to raise funds and awareness about Project Sunshine, is coming up May 8th to May 15th. Read more about Project Sunshine ... read news release ... or read more about the fifth Nancy Drew graphic novel from Papercutz, "The Fake Heir".