Unsung Savior- July 15, 2008 From San Salvador to Budapest to Washington: The tides of memory and forgetting swept into the El Salvador Embassy on 16th Street NW the other day, transporting ghosts.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815834/AR2008071... Fox to Comedy Writers: Let's Try This at Home- July 15, 2008 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 14 Fox will tackle the comedy-series crisis by taking meetings with sitcom writers at their homes, or in restaurants of their choosing, to make them more comfortable, the head of Fox Entertainment told TV critics at Thank God I'm Working Summer TV Press Tour 2008.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815855/AR2008071... It's Funny How Humor Is So Ticklish- July 15, 2008 Call it the attack of the Jonathan Swiftboaters. A New Yorker cover illustration, showing Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim fist-bumping his gun-toting wife, fell afoul of the humor police yesterday. To some, it was satire. To others, it was aid and comfort to the malice mongers who hide under the...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815846/AR2008071... Highlights- July 15, 2008 Yankee Stadium hosts the 79th Major League Baseball All-Star Game (Channels 5 and 45 at 8), which, like any worthwhile event, deserves a red carpet. The "Red Carpet Parade Special" (at 7) precedes the midsummer classic.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815863/AR2008071... The Reliable Source- July 15, 2008http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815848/AR2008071... Seeing Red- July 15, 2008 The news out of Mars lately has been so exciting that some scientists started talking about growing vegetables up there. Turns out that's not going to happen, but discoveries on the Red Planet are telling us much more than we have ever known about Earth's closest neighbor in the Milky Way galaxy.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815871/AR2008071... Chicago Editor Quits as Tribune Cuts Deeper- July 15, 2008 The editor of the Chicago Tribune resigned yesterday, six days after its parent company ordered the paper to cut 14 percent of its newsroom staff and slash the number of news pages it publishes by the same percentage.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815851/AR2008071... Modest at Best, but No Less Operatic- July 15, 2008 What is the difference between opera and musical theater Some composers will tell you that it's an opera house. That's not the view of Opera Alterna, a small new company with a mission to bring opera to different kinds of spaces around the Washington area. Example: the Capital Fringe Festival,...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815865/AR2008071... 'The Cleaner': Addiction Drama Unlikely to Be Habit-Forming- July 15, 2008 When producers title their new TV program "The Cleaner," they're asking for it. For what For an assortment of derisive hoots and jeers, probably. "The Cleaner" -- what does he do Track down missing buttons in his spare timehttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815853/AR2008071... HINTS FROM HELOISE- July 15, 2008 Dear Heloise: It seems in the past several months that I'm finding more and more weevils in my flour, cornmeal and biscuit mixes. Is it my housekeeping, or am I bringing them home from the grocery store I don't have room in our freezerfridge for these staples. What can I do to ensure clean flour...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815869/AR2008071... |