Bottom-up journalism from the pros: News, tech and culture by Sheila Lennon
Uniiverse has launched, and it's not a social network. It does use a social layer to link people offering and seeking goods and services and especially experiences, producing something like Craigslist with references. TechCrunch (With Funding In Tow, Uniiverse Launches...
Patrick Connolly Maine lobster and crab nachos. NYC Chef Patrick Connolly -- brother of Patriots offensive lineman Dan Connolly -- has done New England proud with his Maine lobster and crab nachos. We've scoured the nation's food section Web...
Ken Oringer makes Carne Asada Tacos We'll be scooping up recipes from the nation's newspaper food sections over the next few days, but The New York Daily News came out early with a recipe smackdown: "Big game food rivalry:...
For fans, the wait is excruciating, the hype unrelenting. For the players, maintaining an edge must be exhausting, and some over the years, have fallen over it. For the teams' hometown journalists, it's the junket of their lives. In 1974,...
Our family has gathered at my house for every Patriots game since Drew Bledsoe was quarterback. We're hardcore football fans who troll through several courses, nervously nibbling as we root. But the late start of Sunday's Super Bowl -- 6:30...
Bill Ray/TIME & LIFE Pictures "Buzzard and an old lady on a California freeway, 1965." Hell's Angels on Harleys: From LIFE Magazine, In early 1965, LIFE photographer Bill Ray and writer Joe Bride spent several weeks with a gang...
BOB DYLAN AND ETTA JAMES Providence 1986 Live at the Marriott Hotel, Providence, RI; July 10, 1986. Very good to excellent soundboard. This is an after-hours jam session with Bob Dylan and Etta James and her band. The Bob...
French plan 'Napoleonland' theme park which will stage daily reenactments of Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar, reports the U.K. Daily Mail. The Battle of Waterloo, which put an end to Napoleon's rule in France, is expected to be recreated on...
This is what happens when you make the Internet mad. Web Strike Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia Blackout: An #altwiki Band-Aid Electronic Frontier Foundation Statement by (former) Sen. Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of...
Robbie Robertson, "When The Night Was Young""...The sign reads, "God bless America, guns and ammo" / I'm not sure that's what it means." Judge Ronald R. Lagueux's 40-page decision that ordered the removal of the school prayer banner in...
The Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame Board of Directors are, front row from left, Don "D.C." Culp, Rich Lupo, Josh Cournoyer, James Toomey, Consuelo Sherba, Mary Ann Rossoni. Back row from left, Jonathan Flynn, Russell Gusetti, David Goldstein,...
Journal photographer Bob Breidenbach was at Gillette Stadium today for Patriots practice and time in the locker room as the teams readies for Saturday night's playoff game with the Denver Broncos. Coaches Bill Belichick, left, and Josh McDaniels. Defensive back...
Dr. Michael White National Anthem Sugar Bowl 2012 - YouTube Jazz clarinetist Michael White adds a funky reality layer to the emoting of cabaret singer and former Mad Men actor Bryan Batt, whose voice was fortunately up to the...
In Icons photo $99.99 Steve Jobs doll. Maybe it's the piercing gaze or the saintlike poses of this 12-inch doll, but this Steve Jobs action figure ($99.99 plus shipping) from DID Corp. has definitely creeped out more than one...
Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas. -- Wikipedia Colonial Williamsburg photo "Rich Cake" for a Twelfth-Night Celebration, from a 1747 recipe. Cakes for...
Fertile Underground, the West End grocery that raised seed money on Kickstarter, is now open seven days a week at 1577 Westminster St. Hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday thru Saturday and 8 a.m to 3 p.m. on...
Senegalese music star N'Dour to run for president - Reuters NYT: Singer Responds to 'Patriotic Duty' to Enter Senegal's Presidential Race. His universal name recognition in Senegal is tempered by his lack of both formal education and hiphop cred....
This is about 2/3 of the Fiesta Bowl trophy, but winning Oklahoma State players were just passing around the very top -- the 18K gold football with 2,400 diamonds -- after they beat Stanford Monday night. From the Fiesta Bowl...
A Rickshaw Workshop by S. M. Samsu, 2005 · 103942 paintings -- about half of the U.K.'s national collection -- are now online at the BBC, with the rest expected by the end of this year. As the painting...
AP / Bernat ArmangueArmenian and Greek Orthodox clergymen scuffle, attacking each other with brooms inside the Church of Nativity, believed by many to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem Wednesday. Click image for...