Record - Guests could see the arrangements as well as examples of miniature bonsai trees. Presentations include a martial-arts demonstration. And a musical interlude featured the Japanese koto, a stringed guitar-like instrument. Adapted from a seventh-century Read more

Salon - And those other Midwestern girls who’ve never had a real life other than bulimia and blood blisters and chest binding and galloping tendonitis, whose growths have been willfully stunted like bonsai trees. These poor young women must be set free. Who Read more

Newsday - But perhaps only in a country famed for its “small-is-beautiful” culture of pocket electronics and bonsai trees could the trade-ins be so diminutive. Known as “kei,” or light, cars in Japanese, minis are limited to an engine size of up to 660 cubic Read more

Raleigh News & Observer - DURHAM - When it’s hydrated, the crape myrtle in the small traffic circle at Knox Street and Dollar Avenue is a grand and colorful sight for folks wending their way through the Trinity Park neighborhood. But when it doesn’t get enough water? Blech Read more

Journal - NEW ULM The New Ulm Tree Advisory Commission will vote on whether or not to recommend a city-wide tree inventory at its next meeting on Sept. 6. Commission members briefly discussed the idea Thursday but did not take a formal vote. Commissioner Read more

The Ledger - VALRICO - Inspectors trapped a rare and potentially destructive fruit fly in an orange tree this week, triggering state and federal investigations. But agriculture officials had not found any others by Thursday, after four days of aggressive trapping Read more

Spokane Spokesman-Review - A 21-year-old University of Idaho senior was found shot to death early today in his Moscow apartment. David Robert Boss, a history major and Boise native, was found dead by a roommate about 2 a.m., Moscow police officials said. Boss roommate Read more

Bayou Buzz - Other demonstrations and performances for the day include: bonsai, anime films, origami lessons, martial arts demonstrations, raku pottery firing, folk arts demonstrations, haiku poetry, archery, Japanese dress-up, Zen meditation and Japanese music Read more

Naples Daily News - Her husband has both a bonsai and an organic garden, which she has raided on occasion for her zoo animals. Indeed, on recent rounds at Franklin Park, Weston Murphy displays an almost maternal affection for the animals, even a scaly skink that only a Read more