‘Godzilla’ tops box office
Godzilla crashed to the top of the weekend box office.
The monster movie had the second-biggest debut of the year, behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through yesterday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak: 1. Godzilla, $93.2 million 2. Neighbors, $26 million 3. The Amazing SpiderMan 2, $17 million
4. Million Dollar Arm, $11 million
5. The Other Woman, $6.3 million
Sax player takes prize
Christopher ThompsonTaylor, an 18-year-old saxophone player from Cincinnati, has won the Hank Marr High School Jazz Award.
The award, with a $500 prize and a performance with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, honors a Columbus jazz musician (1927-2004).
Thompson-Taylor, a senior at Indian Hill High School, will play with the orchestra on Aug. 8 at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
He plans to attend the University of Miami (Fla.).
The runners-up: pianist Julian Dittmer, 17, of Bexley; and saxophonist Logan Moore, 17, of Hilliard Davidson High School.
Story time to have falcon
The creators of a children’s book about a peregrine falcon in Cincinnati — and a real falcon — will be featured during a Wednesday story time at the Main Library.
Susan Sachs Levine and illustrator Erin Burchwell collaborated on Harriett’s Homecoming: A High-Flying Tour of Cincinnati and a previous book, Packard Takes Flight: A Bird’s-Eye View of Columbus, Ohio.
The event, at 10:30 a.m. at 96 S. Grant Ave., is free.
Call 614-645-2275 or visit www.columbuslibrary.org.
Braunbeck wins award
Columbus writer Gary A. Braunbeck has won the Bram Stoker Award in long fiction for the novella The Great Pity.
Named for the Dracula author, the Stoker awards were presented on May 10.