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Conflicts

Whether it's whose dog is barking too much or where a tree falls on a property line, when your home is only a few feet away, sooner or later you …

Hurricane

Diarrhea kills 4 in Katrina's wake

Deadly disease is spreading on the Gulf Coast:

Film

A Review of "Big Enough"

Intense, humbling attention is given to the day-to-day lives of little people in a new documentary from independent filmmaker and Stanford University professor Jan Krawitz. At once heartbreaking, humorous, inspirational …

Theater

Heartbreakers

Take some of music legend Neil Sadaka's best songs, add a handful of comedy, a touch of romance, let simmer for three weeks in Jackson's 89 degrees and 99 percent …

Film

A Different Kind of Road Trip

An elderly woman drags her walker behind her as she trudges through a field, occasionally glancing at an unassuming building behind her while Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" …

Culture

[Geek] (Re)Enter The Atomic Age: A Review of "Atomika"

Imagine a world of ideals: black and white, good and evil, supermen full of vision and idealistic fervor, the perfect model and epitome of one doctrine. Now, imagine the ideal …

Drink

[Drink] Mixin' It Up

Often, it's hard to decide on just one type of wine. Sure, if you're shopping for yourself, you can go for what you like or take a chance on something …

Books

Love for an Enemy

In America, as elsewhere on the planet, terrorism in the name of religious fundamentalism seems to be humankind's currently unavoidable cause of suffering, providing fertile fields for bigotry, hatred, wars …

Technology

Life Management Made Quickie

Wikis have been around long enough that folks are starting to get used to the concept—derived from the Hawaiian word wiki wiki, which means quick, wikis are Web pages that …

Games

Innovation: A Review of Tales of Symphonia

When someone thinks of a Role Playing Game, they picture a group of characters with gravity-defying hair standing in a row waiting to take potshots at an equally outrageous group …

Film

Chaos and Perseverance

It's the movie that we all knew was coming. From the day of the September 11th attacks there was talk that it would one day be the next disaster blockbuster, …

Games

A ‘Star Wars' Game? Brilliant!

Xbox | PS2 | PC

You know, I might be a little biased against "Star Wars" games. It's not that I don't like the franchise. I love "Star Wars." I even have a pair of …

Politics

Wash Post: The Reformer and his Free Cell-Phone Towers

The Washington Post is reporting that John McCain has a fresh ethics problem on his hands, even as he presents himself as a "reformer" of rampant ethics problems in Washington:

Politics

NY Times Examines Barbour Role in Energy Policy

In a long piece Sunday, The New York Times examined Haley Barbour's role in Bush energy/environmental policies: "Just six weeks into the Bush administration, Haley Barbour, a former Republican party …

Politics

Who's the Better Dancer: Barack or Michelle?

Watch a very fun clip from the Ellen show; hat/tip Folo:

Fly

Valentine's Origns

It is almost impossible to write a definitive history of Valentine's Day because most of it is lost. What we do know is a strange mix of religious facts and …

Cooking

Edible Gifts

While I prefer to make "food" gifts, I don't always have time. I have finally accepted the fact that it's perfectly OK to let other people do the work for …

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Victoria Scantlebury

"It's interesting when people just look at me and think I'm black," says Victoria Scantlebury. "And then when I open my mouth, they're like, 'Oh, wow.'"

Jacksonian

eZra Brown

With a soft voice laced with traces of his native South Carolina, eZra Brown speaks earnestly about the positives he's found in Mississippi since coming here in 1992. "I'm excited …

Jacksonian

[Natchezinian] Regina Charboneau

Yes, they eat biscuits and listen to blues in San Francisco. Thanks to Regina Charboneau, that is. The Biscuits and Blues nightclub, started in 1995, is one of the several …