Balkan Insight reports that Serbs Again Try For Record-Breaking Sausage: The small village of Turija, some 30 km north of Vojvodina's capital Novi Sad, lives for their international sausage festival in the last week of February, when each year...
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, 2009. Multimedia producer Matthew Roberts documents its final days -- the Scripps executives announcing first that the...
I'm just getting to bed after a night of writing other things, so here's the short version: BOB DYLAN - NEW JERSEY 1988 ERIC CLAPTON - TOKYO 2009 THE BEATLES - Revolution Take... Your Knickers Off! (His Master's Choice 006,...
Update: You can see last night's performance tonight at 8 p.m. on PBS. PBS via AP "Please give it up for Mr. Stevie Wonder," said the President, after awarding the Gershwin Prize to the blind musician. There's18 seconds of Stevie...
Mardi Gras seemed irrelevant this year, maybe because life already feels a lot like Lent. We're all giving up all sorts of pleasures now, in the name of prudence or necessity. When I was a kid, everybody I knew...
02.27.09 - Update: After an interview with Journal publisher Howard Sutton, Journal reporter Neil Downing reports today (Journal Co. laying off 74 to cut expenses) that At the Journal, about 100 positions will have been eliminated after the reduction in...
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci discovered in Basilicata. Credit: Ordre Souverain et Militaire du Temple de Jérusalem (Italian Knights Templar)This newly discovered 17-inch by 24-inch painting of Leonardo da Vinci may be a self-portrait.What may be a hitherto unknown portrait...
Potholes are sneaky and dangerous; the worst offer the motorist a choice that isn't a choice: Crash down into it or swerve into traffic in an adjacent lane. If we know where they are, we can avoid them; if we...