4 January 2009, 4:14 am
Mike McFae from Canada writes: It's getting harder to tell if these Chicken Little articles are valid or just fear mongering to sell papers. It's difficult to believe that this growth was monitored in the 1500s and 1600s when so much work was needed ...... Read More »
2 January 2009, 3:58 pm
It is said that everyone has two books in them: a good book and a bad one. The good book is the story of their life and the bad one is an account of what they believe. However, this inner journey by Jonathan Wittenberg confutes that neat ...... Read More »
2 January 2009, 1:28 pm
It seems that I am guilty of a crime. I played Mozart for my son when he was a baby and toddler. Also Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini and others. According to a recent article in The New Yorker on over-parenting, I crossed the line. "Most of us have ...... Read More »
1 January 2009, 10:40 pm
This is the time of year when the studios send DVDs of their movies to the members of the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild and, in my case, the Writers Guild. It’s not altruism. They’re hoping to garner our votes for the various awards ...... Read More »
1 January 2009, 6:26 am
Destination DC, the tourism and marketing arm for Washington, has put together a list of 44 free and cheap things to do while in D.C. for the inauguration. Do you know of something else that should be on this list? E-mail me at examinerben@gmail.com ...... Read More »
31 December 2008, 8:04 pm
In the introduction to Madha Allamatni al Hayat (What Has Life Taught Me), economics professor and bestselling author Galal Amin quotes his favorite writer, George Orwell, who once said that an “autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals ...... Read More »
31 December 2008, 3:53 pm
Tony Sims, 51, shakes out his blanket last month at the Bannon Street homeless camp, where he had been living August. Bannon Street, and a site near the Blue Diamond almond factory, are two of the area's largest camps, despite regular police sweeps ...... Read More »
30 December 2008, 10:07 pm
This is the time of year when the studios send DVDs of their movies to the members of the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild and, in my case, the Writers Guild. It's not altruism. They're hoping to garner our votes for the various awards being ...... Read More »
30 December 2008, 8:59 am
There were many things "wrong" with 2008. But no amount of money, no volume of words, no mountain of compassion can change what has occurred. We can learn from the past, but we mustn't live there. A Sanskrit proverb says, "Yesterday is but a dream ...... Read More »
29 December 2008, 3:56 pm
Each week until the March release of Warner Bros.' film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “ Watchmen ,” Eisner-Award winning retailers Carr D’Angelo ( Earth-2 Comics in Sherman Oaks, CA) and Atom! Freeman ( Brave New World in Newhall ...... Read More »
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