Odds & Ends: Psychic Octopus To Sing Elvis, Dog Snacks On Owner’s Toe, Barfing Bus Driver, Dissatisfied Robber Complains Odds & Ends: Psychic Octopus To Sing Elvis, Dog Snacks On Owner’s Toe, Barfing Bus Driver, Dissatisfied Robber Complains Dateline: England— The U.K.’s Metro newspaper reports that Paul, the “psychic” octopus who correctly predicted the winner of the recent World Cup soccer [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 12, 2010 Read More
Blueprint For A Dream: An Undocumented Student Imagines A Life Deemed Legal An Undocumented Student Imagines A Life Deemed Legal Maria’s passion for architecture and work as a graduate student fall prey to one consideration: She is an undocumented student. Every life decision [...] Anne Artley \ Aug 12, 2010 Read More
Hail, Velocipede! Trail-A-Week: Biking Tramway "Gross," quoth my boyfriend when I told him I’d be riding and writing on Tramway Boulevard this week. "That road is home to [...] Betty Sprocket \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More The autoless portion of the Tramway trail near Candelaria (Betty Sprocket)
Ortiz Y Pino: Now The Gop Wants To Talk About The Deficit? When professional magicians make coins, cards or pigeons disappear, we call it “sleight of hand.” That suggests to me that when professional politicians [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More ( Bobster855 )
Council Watch: Mind On Its Money, Money On Its Mind Coming off a monthlong break, the Council slid back into taking care of business at the Monday, Aug. 2 meeting. But it was [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More
Rugby, Up Close And Nuclear They’re The Atomic Sisters, And They Want You On this side of the pond, rugby conjures mental images of battle waged on a muddy terrain in Europe, where brawny, rain-drenched Clive [...] Khyber Oser \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More During a “theme” match in Arizona last season, clubs took to the field in prom dresses. (Aaron Gonzales, agonzales@cs.unm.edu)
Protesters Make A Stand Against Anti-Abortion Group Operation Rescue "Operation Rescue, not in my community" was the call-and-response chant of the pink-clad abortion rights supporters outside Planned Parenthood. More than a hundred [...] Marisa Demarco \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More
Odds & Ends: Oldest Man Fraud, Housewives “Economically Nonproductive,” Robber Cuts In Line, Gross Elvis Auction Odds & Ends: Oldest Man Fraud, Housewives “Economically Nonproductive,” Robber Cuts In Line, Gross Elvis Auction Dateline: Tokyo— In a shocking discovery, police in Tokyo have found that the city’s oldest living man has been cheating the record books, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More
¡Ask A Mexican! Dear Mexican : I am a retired gringa living in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Most of us foreigners here are liberal and sympathetic to the [...] Gustavo Arellano \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More
Letters: Domestic Abuse And The Legal System; Roky Erickson; Not A Hangout; This Is Why John Bear Was Fired; Please Depress Me; Yay, Stieg Larsson; Stolen Bernco Slabs On Domestic Abuse And The Legal System Victimizing the victim in domestic abuse is far from new and perhaps not so isolated [News, “Wrong Side of the Law," July 29-Aug. [...] Alibi \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More
