Ernest Hemingway

Two hurt as bulls escape Tom Cruise film set (ABC)

Two women were slightly hurt on Sunday when they were struck by bulls that escaped the set of a new film that stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Seven bulls roamed the narrow streets of Cadiz in southern Spain for about 40...

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Will 2010 be the breakout year for e-book readers?

"I'm just waiting to see what other kinds of books will be available." (Dawn Majors/P-D) When Sheila Effan found a Kindle electronic reader among her gifts last Christmas, one of her first thoughts was whether she'd miss the...

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Atlanta native had varied career before landing in Macon

By LINDA S. MORRIS - lmorris@macon.com Jeff Bean grew up in Atlanta, but when he ended up in Bibb County a couple of years ago, it wasn’t a straight shot down Interstate 75. Bean, 57, owns the Five Guys Burgers and Fries...

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and #8216;Green Fairy' tasting enlightening

‘Green Fairy' tasting enlightening Toastmaster Jerome Cloche sips a glass of the once forbidden absinthe at Worcester Art Museum's absinthe tasting event. An SRO crowd of about 150 people got a chance to lift their spirits at...

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Five literary places to stay

Book in to the atmospheric houses and homes that inspired Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Shakespeare and Hemingway Samuel Taylor Coleridge Greta Hall, nr Keswick, Cumbria Be inspired by the stunning grandeur of the Lake District...

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Bill Nighy pretty much lived this role

LOS ANGELES -- Bill Nighy's journey to mid-'60s England began in, of all places, mid-'60s England. As a teen, he left home for Paris to write, came back unwritten, then became an actor, later to play a key (imaginary) figure in...

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Oak Park's phallic blog follies

Oak Park's new tourism logo was intended to be edgy, hip and make a few waves. Oak Park's new tourism logo erupted in a wave of Internet debate. Bloggers say it looks like a penis. Looking for a better way to promote its Frank...

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Robert Fisk’s World: Scars of the past reveal Britain's doomed empire in Hong Kong

Up on Diamond Hill, the British Second World War pillbox looks like one of Enver Hoxha's frontier bunkers, a dome of pre-stressed concrete with rectangular gun slits, the last remnant of Britain's imperial disaster in Hong...

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Our Man in Boston: That Write Stuff [Writing About Writers]

Now that I am more kindly disposed toward The Paris Review—the literary institution founded by George Plimpton and a cohort of his pals back in the wild and crazy 1950s—since they have dropped the hyperbolic “DNA of literature”...

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Certain statements have staying power no matter who makes them.

Out of the mouths of babes… Along with editorial about the nefarious side of our industry, the inimitable George Parker (Adcam/the Horror!) often posts sexy photos of supermodel, Kate Moss. English and silly; it’s like page 3...

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