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The most appropriate response to David Fincher's movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may be the three-word first sentence of Keit...

Whatever else it is, John Patrick Shanley's movie of his Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play Doubt is an acting tour de force. On Broadway...

Here's a Reuters report on Sunday's service at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit (site of Rosa Parks' funeral), at which the ...

The Associated Press reminded us Monday that Dec. 1 was the anniversary of the opening of the world's first drive-in service station, in...

I just learned that my colleague John Wiseman, emeritus professor of history at Frostburg State University, once was a cause celebre. In hi...

Late in every presidential election cycle, pundits begin to fret openly about those mysterious undecided voters: Who are they, how can they...

I have sold my first sequel, a 12,000-word novelette titled "The Dragaman's Bride," to co-editors Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann...

Charles Barkley tells CNN's Campbell Brown he plans to run for governor of his home state, Alabama, something he's been talking abo...

In case you haven't seen Ron Howard's campaign video, here's the link .

University of Maryland archaeologists have unearthed in Annapolis a 300-year-old sand-and-clay bundle of lead shot, pins and nails, with a ...

On Oct. 24, 1901, sixtysomething schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor became the first human to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live. ...

Frostburg's Main Street Hangar, a new restaurant and bar with a military-aviation theme, has a Smith Miniplane on its roof, to the delig...

The more I read the campaign statement of Ringo Nelson , write-in candidate for sheriff of Mineral County, W.Va., the more I admire it: I sa...

I wrote this letter to the editor published in the Oct. 15 Cumberland Times-News -- my first published letter in four months -- but when I...

Earlier I linked to the eloquent letter in the Oct. 12 Cumberland Times-News by my colleague John Wiseman, endorsing Barack Obama. On Oct...

Goat cheeses from FireFly Farms of Bittinger, Md., won gold, silver and bronze medals Sept. 29 at the World Cheese Awards in Dublin, says ...

My colleague John Wiseman, emeritus professor of history at Frostburg State University , has a good letter to the editor in today's Cum...

The Knight Foundation has provided startup funding for the Appalachian Independent , a fledgling online newspaper with the ambition of cove...

I admire without reservation this ad for the MAFIA, a.k.a. the Mollie A. Fearing Insurance Agency in Manteo, N.C., which we saw in Real Esta...

You can't tell from the crop in this online version of the article, but I was pleased to recognize immediately, in the May Southern Liv...