We get it Tim. You love TV time. Syracuse entered the Big East Tournament for the first time since 2005 knowing they were in the NCAA Tournament before they set foot on the floor in MSG. Therefore it was interesting to see how they would start against a team they demolished in the regular season. Sy...

by Jason Hicks Being an all out music addict has its pros and cons.  It causes you to be perpetually poor since you've spent all your money on CDs and records, can lead to girlfriends/wives leaving you and just takes over your life in general.  On the plus side, you get t...

Media outlets preyed upon people's emotions this week in its reporting of President Barack Obama's decision to overturn the Bush Administration ban on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research is a hot topic among pro-life advocates because it involves the destructi...

I recently had the luck of spending a few stimulating days at LIFT 09.As in the past the pre-conference workshops and two full days of interesting conversations flooded my slow brain with ideas that have started sedimenting, hopefully to then resurface in my thinking patterns in the upcoming months....

Words by: Corby Anderson | Images by: Andrew Quist Gramble On Big Sur :: 02.28.09 :: Fernwood Lodge :: Big Sur, CA Bluhm & Greene :: 02.28 :: Big Sur The venerable and stony Fernwood Resort in Big Sur scored a real musical coup out on the Central Coast by hosting the ascendant trio of Skinny Sin...

Back in November our Team's Swim Rep sent out a Survey about the coaches, swimming, etc.  The survey had four questions and an option to add anything else you like.  I posted the survey and my answers to the questions.  But since I took a few days to think out my answers I emai...

I recently received a letter from one who is evidently an earnest Christian woman but who was in a condition of great depression because some years ago, when in college, she felt that perhaps she was called to go to China but did not want to go but became engaged to a Christian man, whom she married...

New York Times: Sunday Book Review cover: Pico Iyer on The Vagrants by Yiyun Li: "If 'The Vagrants' sounds like a grim and lightless book, though heart-rending at every turn, it is. Steadily collecting atrocities and amassing paragraphs with the solidity of bricks, it replaces ...

Bishop Allen's new album, Grrr.... hits stores tomorrow, and is another dose of pitch-perfect indie pop goodness from the band. This week is filled with releases worth your time (and ears). From the albums I have already heard, I can definitely recommend Anni Rossi's Rockwell , Balmorhea's All Is Wi...

Bishop Allen's new album, Grrr.... hits stores tomorrow, and is another dose of pitch-perfect indie pop goodness from the band. This week is filled with releases worth your time (and ears). From the albums I have already heard, I can definitely recommend Anni Rossi's Rockwell , Balmorhea's All Is Wi...