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In this interview with The Toronto Star , Neil Gaiman says Coraline was partially inspired by "The New Mother" by Lucy Clifford (...

Co-editor Gardner Dozois gave us contributors the OK to share John Jude Palencar's cover art for The Dragon Book , to be published in ha...

This article by Martin Lindstrom in the Jan. 4 issue of Parade includes some trivia about Corona and lime: The Corona-and-lime ritual date...

This is the back cover of Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair, a 1963 paperback original novel from Bantam. (I bought it in October f...

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 ...