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Paul Akers, editorial page editor of The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., has a fine column about the news that Circuit City is lay...

Debbie Parkhurst of Calvert, Md., tells her beautifully named local newspaper, the Cecil Whig, that her golden retriever, Toby, saved her l...

I am pleased to read in today's Cumberland Times-News that first-place winners in this year's Allegany County History Day competiti...

The company that printed the misspelled "West Virgina" T-shirts that the NIT champions wore in Madison Square Garden after Thursda...

In a recent news release about the Make It Shine cleanup programs, the state of West Virginia printed not the Make It Shine number, but the...

Sydney's paper at this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts was titled "Lost Girl: The Diminution of Do...

I was pleased to see Nick DiChario at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Nick was in the audience to root for Rick ...

Fortune cookies frequently criticize me, directly or indirectly. Here's a fortune I got this month in Florida: "Cleverness is serv...

Some Shakespeare plays I've seen three or four times too many and don't care to see again -- The Merchant of Venice comes to mind -...

In Washington, D.C., on a business trip earlier in March, I explored the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial at the foot of Capitol Hill. The larges...

In Washington, D.C., on business earlier in March, I visited the grove of trees at the west end of the Air and Space Museum, planted by the ...

Here are some photos I took on the final night of this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. (This is the sixth...

Here are some photos I took on the final night of this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. (This is the fifth...

The most photogenic person at this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts -- as every year -- was, of course, Sydn...

Here are some photos I took on the final night of this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. (This is the third...

Here are some photos I took on the final night of this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. (This is the secon...

Here are some of the photos I took on the final night of this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. (This is th...

As if the Library of America edition of his stories weren't proof enough of the mainstreaming of H.P. Lovecraft, now The Associated Pre...

The humane and cantankerous spirit of the late Harry Golden , publisher of The Carolina Israelite , is alive in the Orlando Sentinel column...