JoAnne Worley joyously returns to B'way
Friday, August 31, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) — JoAnne Worley swirls into Angus McIndoe's, the Broadway theater hangout, notices a crooked painting on the wall, straightens it and then settles into a back corner table for a light bite.
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Hopkins acquires Mencken collection
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
BALTIMORE (AP) — Nearly 6,000 books, photographs and letters by and about H.L. Mencken have been acquired by Johns Hopkins University from the estate of an accountant with a penchant for the curmudgeonly journalist known as the Sage of Baltimore.
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The fiddler on the sidewalk
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Sometimes it's a melancholy tune that drifts on the breeze outside the Snohomish County courthouse.
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Remains of Czar heir may have been found
Thursday, August 23, 2007
MOSCOW (AP) — The remains of the last czar's hemophiliac son and heir to the Russian throne, missing since the royal family was gunned down nine decades by Bolsheviks in a basement room, may have been found, an archaeologist said Thursday.
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Stressed opera singers turn to drugs
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Stripping away opera's glamor, singers are increasingly speaking out about a more sordid side of their world — increased drug and alcohol use sparked by relentless pressure to perform often and well.
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