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The ice is thicker than ever, it’s been cold enough to freeze water to a smooth, shiny surface, and until this week’s big dumps volunteers building the city’s outdoor ice oval had not been overwhelmed by heaps of snow.But the gates to the city’s outdoor ice oval at Exhibition Park have remained closed.Instead of training in their own backyard for this weekend’s interclub long track speed skating ...
Few musicians would allow a journalist to accompany their band through one of the world's most dangerous countries. Even fewer, one suspects, would be happy about that journalist being their father. But Manu Chao is not just any musician, and his father, Ramón, a critic for le Monde Diplomatique, is not just any journalist - so perhaps it should surprise no one that they ended up together on ...
Dear Heloise: I have been cleaning and found 11 pairs of old eyeglasses, and I understand you have an address where people can mail them. Would you please publish that address so I can mail them out? -- Sharon Kennedy, via e-mail
Editorial assistant Brenda Duncan interviewed Judithe Williamson, of Canastota, who had one of her children's books, "Tiny Village" published recently.
Vern Miller, the state's former attorney general, recently turned 80 and it seemed that all of Wichi ...
His spirit broken by financial fears, German billionaire Adolf Merckle took his own life this week, becoming the latest high-profile casualty of a global economic crisis that has already claimed many lives in the US and Europe.
The beloved characters from "Sesame Street," known to children and parents alike, will gather onstage to entertain as they ponder aloud the age-old child's question: What do I want to be when I grow up?
When critics, commentators and even fans describe comedian Lisa Lampanelli, they almost always use the same words -- the "Queen of Mean," or "one of the best female insult comics." But gender modifiers are out of place on Lampanelli. The 47-year-old is by all accounts one of the... By Charlie Deitch.
EXPERIENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM -- Discovery Square, 420 French St., 453-3743, www.eriechildrensmuseum.org -- more than 55 interactive exhibits designed to promote learning as fun, intended for children 2-12 -- Wed.-Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun. 1-4 p.m.
The Year of the Ox begins Jan. 26, and stores all over Chinatown are selling bright red decorations to mark the New Year. Though it's easy to pick up cheap souvenirs at shops around the neighborhood, it's also worth spending a day seeking out the unfamiliar. You can sample new dishes, listen to a two-stringed fiddle called an erhu, or even visit a Buddhist temple.
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