Right attitude can break language barrier (San Francisco Chronicle)
So it turns out chickens in Japan don't go "cluck cluck." Who knew? But the ideal time to discover this - and I can say this with some authority - is not when you're standing on the crowded floor of an Osaka department store with your hands tucked under your...

"It's about time someone write about Cal!" exclaimed friend and fellow composer Vivian Adelberg Rudow on our first ... (All About Jazz)
Now, here is a nagging thought: why is it the producer of such landmark recordings as Miles Davis' Porgy And Bess (Columbia, 1958), and Richard "Groove" Holmes' charted hit "Misty"—someone who worked with Leonard Bernstein, Mahalia Jackson and Dave Brubeck receive so little attention from the music press?

Features Archive: F1 (Motorsport.com)
Bravo! Bravo! 2008-12-31 Write Line Len Lesch Len Lesch agrees with Berthold Bouman's proposal to leave well enough alone ... Read the article >

Still looking to grow: Master-planned community proposed in north Hanford (The Hanford Sentinel)
A slumping economy and housing market crash don't seem to stop Ennis Homes and Jim Clark.

Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday (Phillyist)
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Heh heh. The JLA Christmas party . Not only will Steve Jobs not be attending the Macworld 2009, it'll be the last Macworld the corporation attends . Which we assume means there won't be a Macworld anymore, because what would it be without Apple? Word is that Tim Robbins has been cast as Howard Stark , Tony Stark's ...