Spanish Dream Team Is a Basketball Power (Washington Post)
With five NBA players on the roster, the Spanish national team is the dominant story at the European basketball championship. ...more...Foreign (Daily Dispatch)
Indonesia spared massive damage as quakes rattle DEVASTATION: A woman feeds her daughter next to the ruins of her house, destroyed by a strong earthquake in Lais, Bengkulu, Sumatra island, Indonesia, yesterday. Three powerful earthquakes jolted Indonesia in less than 24 hours, triggering tsunam......more... Cal Rep settles in (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
Company's new space features a variety of challenges. How do you turn a bright, cavernous and echoing gymnasium into a dark, acoustically sound and cozy 99-seat theater?...more... STEPHEN HENDERSON: Sting of whispers hurts Kilpatrick (Detroit Free Press)
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wants to be clear: It's not the jury in the $6.5-million cop whistle-blower case that has him steaming. "I think it's bigger than that," he said Wednesday during a wide-ranging talk in his office....more... FIVE QUESTIONS: Five questions with Folk singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart (Detroit Free Press)
Twenty-six-year-old Devendra Banhart is part of the scene that has regrettably been termed "freak-folk" or "acid-folk." Such labels don't tell you anything useful about the many and diverse practitioners of the new, largely acoustic music, and they certainly don't prepare you for Banhart's stylistic whirlwind....more... A TIME TO REFLECT: Ramadan: A month of special prayers and fasting for metro Muslims (Detroit Free Press)
Thousands of Muslims across metro Detroit today will start a month of special prayers and fasting, but how they mark those 30 days varies, reflecting the influence of new immigrant communities. In east Dearborn, bakeries and cafés will be open all night as Arab-American Muslims feast after a day of abstaining from food and water....more... Try new tastes with DIY condiments (Detroit Free Press)
Americans love their ketchup and mustard, especially on the all-American standard, the hot dog. But if you're open to new tastes, why not riff on the old favorites -- homemade ketchups and mustards bursting with piquant spices and fresh produce?...more... Football teams put rivalry aside (Northwest Herald)
JOHNSBURG ? Johnsburg High School athletic boosters want to show McHenry High School that their long-standing rivalry only exists on the sports fields....more... Local versus nonlocal (Visalia Times-Delta)
With the arrest of College of the Sequoias football player Omar Bryant there have been people that have asked the question of what is a local community college....more... |