Issue: Pastry-wielding hooligans ought to learn a new trick -- or go attack someone other than nerdy types/Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.DFO: Roeper's column is worth a read. In it, he points out that creeps who hit speakers with pies generally target nerdy types. Targets have…
...Kimberley Osberg/Fresh Air needs your help. Quoth: I’m trying to get an understanding of why people use different blogging tools – i.e. what draws them towards one tool set versus another, particularly for those who use more than one for different types of writing. I…
Tom Clouse’s story “Police investigate infant homicide” on the paper’s website was remarkable here. I’m going to watch Eyenitwit News at 4, 5, and 6 tonight to see how well (and breathlessly with intense urgency) our local television news people cover this “breaking story”. I’m…
Bonsai Bistro General Manager Christine Ramos and Executive Chef Troy Chandler/Tom Davenport photoby Patrick/Making Flippy Floppy, who was impressed that the Hagadone Corp got the smell out of the old bank/bomb shelter/Dakotah Direct building and by the ambience, but not by the food here.Also, Patrick…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a press conference on Kabul today. You write the cutline ...
First, you should recall that talented sportswriter Mitch Albom (right) wrote "Tuesdays with Morrie," the heart-warming story of his relationship with his college mentor, Morrie Schwartz. Now, you need to know that Albom was caught fabricating a column for the Detroit Free Press. Editors at…
...question: "Do you support the Coeur d'Alene School District's proposed $7.3 million levy, which in part would improve education for advanced learners?" 56% of 57 people said yes (as of 9:21 a.m.), 32% said no. Where do you stand?
Issue: Years after war, a son is lost: Vietnam veteran poisoned by Agent Orange to be honored at Wall/Kevin Graman, SR.DFO: One of my most moving experiences last summer was to visit the traveling Vietnam memorial wall when it stopped at the Coeur d'Alene Indian…
APhoto Fix: Oakland pitcher Barry Zito is making a contribution to the war effort. See No. 5.Wal-Mart plans to spend $35 million over the next decade in compensation for wildlife habitat lost under its corporate footprint. The corporation estimates that the doughnation will preserve at…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
