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I'm doing a reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the second-floor coffeehouse in the student center at Allegheny College in Meadvill...

At Greg Frost's Feb. 21 reading at Main Street Books, we were pleased to meet Mount Savage, Md., artists Leah and Shane Odom of Miscella...

My story "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse," from Jonathan Strahan's anthology Eclipse One , is a Nebula Award nominee. Here...

On the subject of my Jim Anchower stocking cap, Oz Drummond writes: Posting this comment without the comparative photos is simply not crick...

The controversial practice of "active SETI" was news to Lex Alexander, as it was to me before I read the Seed article about Alex...

Of John Kanzius' discovery that radio waves kill cancers , Oz Drummond writes: Unfortunately, the medical community will probably pooh-...

On the question of whether Stephen Colbert can fairly be described as a "fake TV pundit," Richard Parks writes: I look at it simi...

Having seen the proposed table of contents of Payseur & Schmidt's volume of Flannery O'Connor tribute fictions , my hero Ted Chi...

Gregory Frost will read from and sign copies of his new fantasy novel, Shadowbridge , at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Main Street Books ...

The invaluable Palace Theatre in downtown Frostburg is showing Juan Antonio Bayona's ghost story The Orphanage (a.k.a. El Orfanato ) F...

My hero Brett Cox reports that Payseur & Schmidt , publisher of fine, beautifully designed books such as John Clute's The Darkening ...

... that I lived in a crumbling but still glamorous brownstone high-rise in the city. The name of the building, spelled out in stained glas...

I am as amused as anyone by Stephen Colbert's latest stunt -- talking the National Portrait Gallery into temporarily hanging his portrai...

Pennsylvania cancer patient John Kanzius, whose field is not medicine but electronics, wondered whether radio waves might kill cancer cells....

What was the 16-inch piece of burning-hot metal that fell from the sky and through the roof of Susan Wilson's SUV outside Happy Harry...

We just don't know why 5-year-old Chucky Beutel of Sellersburg, Ind., spontaneously combusted in the bathroom .

A kitchen fire in Hartlepool was put out by a pair of extra-large knickers . For further local color, note that the fire broke out while the...

Whereas an Italian court apparently summoned Tweety Bird, Mickey Mouse and Donald and Daisy Duck to appear as witnesses in a counterfeiting...

"Who Speaks for Earth?" is a fascinating Seed magazine article that asks whether "active SETI" -- broadcasting our exi...

Sydney says my stocking cap looks like Jim Anchower's. This stops short of saying that in my stocking cap I look like Jim Anchower, b...