Arts & Lifestyle Of Interest ... Author Lippman to lecture Bookmarks, an annual local book festival, will presents New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman on Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at 7 p.m. at RayLen Vineyards & Winery in Mocksville Lippman is on a national tour for her new stand alone novel "Life Sentences." The Winston-Salem Lift SI NTKM lis BP1I ill 11 35* ^2 appearance is one of only two scheduled tour dates in North Carolina Lippman grew up in Baltimore and attended city schools through ninth grade. After graduating from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Md. She attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The Baltimore Sun. Her other newspaper jobs included the Waco Tribune-Herald and the San Antonio Light. Her books include. "By a Spider's Thread," "The Last Place," "The Sugar House," "Baltimore Blues," and "Charm City." J R. Snider, host of WSJS 600/1200 AM "Triad Live & Local," will moderate the conversation. Tickets are available by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006. Or, order online at www; BrownPaperTickets.com/producer/ 12110. General admission tickets are $16. Premier admission, which includes a private reception beginning at 5:30 p.m., a copy of "Life Sentences," a book signing and an opportunity to meet Lippman and reserved seating at the event, is $75. $40 of which is tax deductible. All proceeds benefit the Bookmarks Festival of Books, www.bookmarksbookfestival.org. Students win music competition Thirty-six Wake Forest University students com peted in the 32nd annual Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance Feb. 21 at Wake Forest. Winners for the open and piano competitions were as follows: Open Competition ? Junior violinist Daniel Ruehr of Drexel Hill, Pa., won the first place, $500 Joseph Pleasant and Marguerite Nutt Sloan Award. ? Freshman clarinetist John Jacob Eichhorn of Greensboro was awarded the second place, $400 Patricia Sloan Mize Award. ? The third place, $300 prize was awarded to sopho more alto saxophonist Elizabeth Hartley of Winston Salem. ? Freshman guitarist John Kositer of Winston-Salem took the fourth place, $200 awarav ? The $500 Award for Outstanding Performance by a Non-Music Major went to sophomore clarinetist Andre Ta Nguyen of Raleigh. Piano Competition ? Senior Jason Paquette of Contoocook, N .H ., won the first place, $500 Sinai Prize, which was donated by alumni and friends of the music department in honor of Paul Sinai. ? Sophomore Tiancheng Phil You of Flushing. N.Y., took the second place, $300 Marc and Kirk Elvy Prize, donated by Cecilia Wyatt in memory of her sons. Freshman Ilchan Fraser Song of Raleigh, received the $500 Ward Virts Prize , for Pianistic Expressiveness, an award given in memory of a for mer competition winner by his parents. SECCA to host Family Fun Day Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) will have a free Family Fun Day on Saturday. March 7 from noon to 5 p.m. at Old Salem. Activities will highlight the opening of the public art sculpture "Rise Up Winston-Salem" by Virginia artist Charlie Brouwer. The day will include a Family Art Activity based on making lad ders (from noon to 4 p.m. at the Old Salem Barn); Spoken Word Poetry per formances by *?