LET ME tell you about my friend Michael Thaler. As a copy editor and headline writer at The Record, he worked with words, but he poured his soul into pictures his remarkable photographs of East Village street life. That's one in a bundle of contradictions about Michael.
Twenty years ago, Southwest Virginia had only a small handful of sushi joints. Now, it seems that every time I turn around, someone is opening another sushi restaurant or adding a sushi bar to their establishment. As my colleague Ralph Berrier Jr. quipped, "Did you know they're now serving sushi at the Texas Tavern?
Two friends of mine (one of whom was my colleague for several years) - Matthew Woosner and April Kelly-Woosner - have published an exhaustively researched book. "The Still Divided Academy," and several thoughtful essays on higher education. Although it is impossible for me to present their detailed work in a few short paragraphs, I would like to mention some of their findings that may be of general interest.
Years ago, in Chile, I was walking around a city on a warm day with a close American friend and colleague. As we walked up a hill, in business attire, my colleague began to perspire. A former basketball and football player, he was much larger than most Chileans and was in good shape, but inherently perspires more than most. Upon reaching the top of the hill, a Chilean gentleman noticed us and stated the obvious, "You are sweating a lot.
dbyrne@lnpnews.com With a tip of the cap to my colleague Mike Gross, here are 31 things you need to know about Lancaster-Lebanon League wrestling, 2009-10.
In March, we traveled to Spain and Italy with a group of high school students and parents. Each year provides new experiences as well as some repeats. We try to visit some places we haven't been before and we usually revisit some other cities or places of interest. This year we were visiting Madrid for the first time along with Toledo and Zaragoza, Spain. We revisited Barcelona and Rome. We had a group of 24 from Warrick County and we were excited to explore Spain and Italy. One thing I can always count on is that there will be something different on every trip. My first tip that this year was going to be different was when I walked into the Louisville airport and my colleague Dana Meyer said, "Have you heard?" In the split second before I responded, "No," I quickly assessed ...
Unimaginable as it seems, the bedrock economic strategies of the Obama administration and the Tea Party Nation share a major blind spot. Both aim to accelerate America's sluggish recovery while virtually ignoring the towering obstacles erected to real prosperity by U.S. trade and other globalization policies. My colleague, Kevin L. Kearns, and I explained in the New York Times last year how these policies, and the import bloat they've fostered, were inevitably sandbagging the president's stimulus program and would have undercut even less-wasteful versions. As of last spring, fully 85 percent of the spending power created by the stimulus was offset by U.S. trade deficits run up since its enactment.
On Tuesday we reveled; today, we repent. But when Thursday rolls around and self-denial begins for Lent, well, then it gets fuzzy. What to do? Will you give up chocolate, or alcohol, or begin a more rigorous fast as many of my Eastern Orthodox friends do each year? As we all ponder these questions, I can say I've come to one conclusion: No tomato aspic from the Calvary Waffle Shop for me. Not a bit. Though my colleague Michael Donahue will dine on a salad plate from Calvary every day, just a few feet away from my desk, no aspic will cross my lips.
Last week, East Valley investor Wil Cardon announced he'd challenge Congressman Jeff Flake for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate in what could be described as the Political Consultant Employment Act of 2011. In these times, a complete lack of experience is somehow touted as a benefit when it comes to running for political office. With that in mind, Cardon seems to be the man for the job. His political experience appears largely limited to making political contributions ... to Flake. My colleague, Jeremy Duda reported that since 1999, Cardon has shelled out at least $8,700 to Flake's campaigns, and even as recently as March served on the host committee for a Flake fundraiser. That wouldn't seem to qualify him as the pure "outsider" he has labeled himself on his website. Still,...
The morning after last week's primary elections, my first thought was to seek out Leonard Sykes to get his take on the results. For years, Sykes a fellow Journal Sentinel reporter regularly covered election nights in Milwaukee. The final results after polls closed seldom surprised him; Sykes could usually predict local winners and losers with little difficulty because of his intimate knowledge of the political dynamics in town.
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