Thanksgiving Side Dishes
Well this is cool: the Consumers Union (which it turns out is the nonprofit publisher of that indespensible publication, Consumer Reports) and Eat Well Guide, which is an online directory for finding local, sustainable food, are issuing a challenge to
TV show to find the super cops of China
CHEN Dong, who has won Internet fame as "the most handsome traffic police officer in the city," is among the candidates in a nationwide vote for China's most popular police officers and firefighters.
The traffic police officer, together with a local
Rockin' Our Turntable: The Killers
The band's new album, Day & Age, works to meld the '80s pop beats that brought their debut so much praise, with some of the ideals of the populist sing-alongs that defined the finest moments of Sam's Town. The result is a welcome return to their
?Joe the Plumber? looks to cash in on his 15 minutes of fame.
yeah, he?s looking to become the grand wizard of his local chapter of the kkk.
And look for that book in the 99 cent store near you soon.
I?m guessing the bulk of the budget will have to be devoted to fact-checking.
Oh, wait ? what am I thinking? It?s
Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Brad Pitt half-clothed in our Top 10 male celebrity torsos
Hugh Jackman - officially the Sexiest Man Alive. Anyone who saw him as Wolverine in any of the X Men movies will whole-heartedly agree. We cannot WAIT to see him get his pecs out again in new Baz Luhrmann movie Australia..
Daniel Craig as James Bond.
Spotlight is glarin' on Baron now, but he had game before fame
Even after 35 minutes on the court, a slew of interviews, a shower and long plane ride, Jimmy Baron still could not sleep Sunday night when he arrived home following his now legendary performance at Duke that wowed everybody who saw it, including Mike
Remembering Anthony Walker
Getting to know a young hoop fan I never had a chance to meet.
Promoting his documentary Black Magic last spring, filmmaker Dan Klores talked about including a reference to the 1960s shooting of black students by state troopers on the campus of South
Egypt: Convicted for being a Blogger
Is blogging a serious crime? And is speaking up for others something which warrants punishment?
Blogging is a means of expressing one's opinion. In the beginning, the term ?blogger? used to raise a lot of eyebrows and people wondered what the word
The Palin-Reagan connection
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National
Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my
Dad reborn; only this time he's a she.
And what a she!
In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected
my Dad's
Miriam Makeba Sings Home!
COLUMN
20 November 2008
Posted to the web 20 November 2008
She will be remembered for having vowed to "continue singing and never retire."
When she turned 75 last year, she said she would sing for as long as possible. Makeba, artistically, referred to
