Shackleford nears rematch with Animal Kingdom

06/01/11 Preakness S. (G1) winner SHACKLEFORD (Forestry) arrived at Belmont Park just before 10 a.m. (EDT) Monday in advance of a possible start in the 143rd running of the $1 million Belmont S. (G1) on June 11.

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Album reviews: Brad Paisley and Skip James

06/01/11 New album: This Is Country Music Artist: Brad Paisley Label: RCA Rating: 4 stars out of 5 With the huge commercial success of Garth Brooks and Shania Twain in the 1990s, Nashville shed much of its artistic merit for a pop song with a cowboy hat...

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The Gospel at Colonus brings the church to the Gaillard

06/01/11 What do you get when you mix an ancient Greek tragedy and a Pentecostal church? How about a hippie musician and a visionary theater practitioner? Still don't know? Well, if you are in attendance at the Gaillard Auditorium next week, you will discover exactly what comes when these seemingly disparate worlds collide. The Gospel at Colonus is a retelling of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus set ...

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Revolution in the short term

05/28/11 Of the 32 films that applied for entry to the Kam Festival, 31 were admitted into the competition. That shows how inclusive the festival was. True to its name, which means "how much?" in Arabic, the festival did not have a viewing panel in the usual sense of the word.

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Bus crash victim: Palestinian who visited Israeli friends

05/28/11 The sole victim of Tuesday's collision between an Egged bus and a truck has been named as Anas Maloul, 25, from the village of Salat al-Dahr northwest of Nablus. He was buried in his village yesterday.

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Boston Red Sox Enjoy a Little Afternoon Delight During Midwestern Swing

05/27/11 Afternoon baseball. Back in the day, when baseball was still America's pastime, afternoon baseball was the rule, not the exception. In the 1970s, Curt Flood, Andy Messersmith, Marvin Miller and the era of free agency drove the need for ever-increasing revenues. Baseball's ownership determined the best way to drive revenue was to move the vast majority of games to prime time, seeking the almighty ...

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Is Organic Food the Answer? [Tomorrow's Table]

05/27/11 The journalist Marc Gunther recently posted a thoughtful article discussing public perceptions of the role of organic agriculture in a future sustainable food system. He found that many consumers believe that there are only two ways to produce food: "The first can be described, depending upon who's talking, as big, fast, modern, conventional, industrial, intensive, chemical, genetically-modified ...

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Mariners can't solve Blackburn, lose 4-2 to Twins

05/27/11 MINNEAPOLIS -- Nick Blackburn came through with a desperately needed complete game and Denard Span had three hits and an RBI to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 4-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.

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Rick Santorum meets P.T. Barnum

05/27/11 As a politician, Rick Santorum presents an enigma. While most politicians seek power by ingratiating

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Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, Weather, Alabama, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Hoover, Birmingham

05/20/11 Funeral service for Lucille P. Nicholson, 92, was Friday, May 20, 2011 at 10 a.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Phillip Hines officiating and Garvice G. Nicholson Jr. performing the reading. Peck Funeral Home directed.

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Thanks for the memories

05/19/11 Today, gentle reader, I want to tell you what I think about thank-you notes. First, however, indulge me, and stick with a rather complicated thank-you note, addressed to the most important intellectual influence in my life, Naomi Gordon Lebowitz.

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Long overdue, Scott's Hall election comes in due time

05/19/11 For sheer talent, Jake Scott might be the best player to wear a Georgia uniform. So why did it take 43 years to get into the College Football Hall of Fame? There's blame to go around, Tony Barnhart says, and Scott gets a share.

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Focus on SWAC

05/18/11 The day before they left town, members of the Southern baseball team gathered one last time at Lee-Hines Field. A few hundred yards away, the Mississippi River kept rising. The rest of the campus was quiet.

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Heaven or no, there are angels in our midst

05/18/11 Stephen Hawking, whose genius for physics is beyond debate, provided fodder for plenty of debate this week when he ventured into the realm of metaphysics with his declaration that there is no heaven.

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Confirmation vote scheduled on Liu's nomination

05/18/11 A confirmation vote has finally been scheduled on Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to a federal appeals court.

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Howling Bells Say the Killers' Mark Stoermer 'Became Like a Band Member'

05/17/11 Howling Bells have revealed how the Killers ' bassist Mark Stoermer became like "a member of the band" when he produced their forthcoming new album. Talking exclusively to Spinner, the band's frontwoman Juanita Stein says that their sessions recording in Las Vegas were some of the best they'd ever done. "It was just brilliant, it just totally felt like we had another guy in the band," she says ...

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Peter King: Giants' Tuck works to aid Tuscaloosa victims

05/17/11 Giants defensive lineman Justin Tuck was raised in Alabama, and he knows Tuscaloosa and its surroundings very well. At least he used to. He spent two days there last week on a mercy mission after a series of 12 tornadoes hit the area April 27, killing at least 236 people and destroying entire towns.

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Closing the Manchester Soccer Divide

05/15/11 Manchester City won the F.A. Cup on Saturday, ending years of mockery by its more glamorous crosstown rival, Manchester United, even as United was claiming the Premier League title.

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NBC Unveils Fall Primetime Schedule for 2011-12 Season

05/15/11 New Comedies Are "Up All Night," "Whitney," "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea," "Free Agents," "Best Friends Forever" and "Bent" NEW YORK CITY -- May 15, 2011 -- NBC has introduced its 2011-12 primetime schedule, showcasing six new dramas and six new comedies from a roster of renowned hit-makers that includes Steven Spielberg, Lorne Michaels, Brian Grazer, Tom Werner, John Grisham and ...

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NBC: The fall schedule

05/15/11 It's the week of the broadcast May upfronts, and NBC kicked off the mayhem with a Sunday afternoon announcement of its fall schedule ( posted below) as well as a conference call with NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt and NBC broadcasting chairman Ted Harbert. Here are some highlights:

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