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Mother Nature continues to show a mean streak recently with the line of storms and tornadoes ripping across the Midwest, South and Atlantic coast. Death and destruction were left in their wakes. I’ve been fortunate in my life to not be touched by such natural devastation. I haven’t even had a tornado take a hamburger […]

 It’s that time of year when all the stores are filled with hollow chocolate bunnies, fake grass and jelly beans. Yep, Easter is approaching and the iconic candies including those famous little animal-shaped marshmallows known as Peeps associated with the holiday are all on sale now. For the fifth year, the Washington Post challenged […]

With bad weather ripping through the area any outdoor activities have been canceled today, so I’m stuck in my apartment. I’m avoiding the typical household chores like cleaning and the walls of my abode are closing in. After watching this video, I’m inspired to make music though. The performers find ways to create sounds in […]

We’ve become a society that appreciates disposability over durability. Recycling is on the rise, but we still toss out way more than we reuse. Plastic bottles are one of the biggest offenders usually ending up in the trash, or even worse, tossed out into nature. There are ways to repurpose those 20-ounce containers. If you […]

Public art installations often cause controversies because art truly is a subjective topic. What is a creative masterpiece to one person is a trashy eyesore to another. Some citizens of Detroit may love their upcoming RoboCop statue, while others in the city may find the movie icon unfit for their home town. I’m guessing not […]

The Major League Baseball season is a week old today. With their lengthy 162-game schedules, there are still plenty of chances to catch a game at your favorite stadium and cheer on the home team and possibly some future Hall of Famers. To get a few extra fannies in the bleachers, MLB teams will occasionally […]

With the arrival of April a few days ago, sunshine and warm spring weather (hopefully) have to be just in our immediate future. That means more outdoor activities like bike riding are on the horizon. Break out the two-wheeler and hit the road or let Google Maps for Bicyclists chart your path, but be sure […]

The Japanese disaster of March 11 has resulted in many fascinating stories, most of the heartbreaking nature. With so much death and destruction in its wake and the number of missing citizens still in the thousands, any family reunited is a near miracle, even if it is of the canine variety. Last Friday, three weeks […]

Inspiration for creative people can come from many sources. A glance into an aquarium can result in dazzling dresses based on exotic fish or maybe a blinking stoplight results in a dress encased in LEDs. Or in the case of designer Ryan Novelline, familiar children’s literature sparked an itch to create. Normally books are the […]

It’s never good business to lose part of your inventory whether it be to shoplifting or employee negligence. But when your inventory can be deadly, it ratchets up the urgency to find that item. That was the case this past weekend at the Bronx Zoo. An Egyptian cobra came up missing, necessitating the closure of […]

Folks in Waco, Texas can now order a Supa Fly Ho without worrying about a police sting operation arresting them for solicitation of a prostitute. Lakita Evans, a 23-year-old woman inspired to create the name of her establishment while watching the movie “Phat Girlz”, has opened a new restaurant named Fat Ho Burgers in the […]

It’s a big week for UFOs in the news. Even the world of rock and roll has gotten in on the alien act. The Iranians have built their own flying saucer. Folks in Colorado captured video of a triangular set of lights in the sky. And maybe even bigger, former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar […]

The giant statues of Easter Island have been a mystery for centuries. Now the mystery of the Easter Bunny‘s evolutionary history has been solved. Bones of the whopping ancestor to the rabbit were found on a small island off the coast of Spain. It wasn’t quite as big as a T. Rex skeleton, but it […]