The restaurant has a delightful view of an inlet running under a festively painted small railroad bridge and the dining room is rustic in a charming way with old beams decorated with lobster buoys and other seafaring memorabilia. The menu consists of mostly fresh seafood, as it should, with a fish market owned by the [...]
‘Jackass’ star Ryan Dunn died June 20 of injuries sustained in a car crash in suburban Philadelphia. Dunn’s Porsche may have been traveling as fast as 140 mph in a 55 mph zone when it jumped a guardrail, flew into a wooded ravine, struck a tree and burst into flames, police said. His blood-alcohol level [...]
Every now and again a book crosses my desk that I wished I had when I was approaching middle school. In the 1970s, I grew up on a remote town north of Boston that was tenuously connected to Lynn and Swampscott by a narrow two mile long causeway. Winter was long and there was no [...]
Forty-five minutes into the one-hour drive from Baltimore to Cafe Tuscany in Westminster, I’m cursing my editor. With all of the restaurants in Baltimore, why is it necessary to go this far out for Italian food? “This place better be worth it,” I said jokingly to my companion as we pulled up in front of [...]
Exactly one year ago, I wrote of my fear that, in the current self-publishing boom, “slush fatigue” — a form of existential nausea, once suffered only by a few entry-level staffers in the book business, brought on by overexposure to terrible manuscripts — could infect the general public. How innocent those days seem now! As [...]
BOISE — Senator John McGee, the Majority Caucus Chair in the Idaho Statehouse, was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with grand theft and driving under the influence. Ada County Sheriff’s Deputies said it all began Saturday night when McGee started drinking at a golf course at about 10. They said he later left the [...]