The New York Daily News has reported on a crazed woman passenger who bit a driver over the unavailability of a hybrid bus. However, if the Daily News had investigated the background of the upset passenger, Shelia Bolar, they would have found out that she was every bit as qualified to deliver an Obam...

'Push' premieres to positive buzz (Mariah Carey is behind the movie adaptation of Sapphire's amazing novel Push. Also check out these two Sundance films about teens "Stay the Same Never Change" and "Dare" (featuring "Friday Night Lights" hottie Zach Gilford) - as an aside, I produced a fundraiser fo...

Gosh, there is so much that I didn't get around to discussing getting off my chest about the coronation yesterday, but the evening slipped away from me. For this post, I'd like to give a mild dissection of that trainwreck of an Inaugural Poem. First of all, who was that chick?! I hadn't heard the na...

In TNR Adam Kirsch says: Alexander was an inevitable choice to be Obama's laureate. Like Obama, Alexander is an establishment figure-a professor at Yale, a Pulitzer Prize finalist--who is very conscious of the ways she does not fit the usual establishment image--she is a black woman in a field once ...

Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the nation's first African American president yesterday, summoning a vast crowd and a watching nation to the task of reviving a country in crisis....

Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the nation's first African American president yesterday, summoning a vast crowd and a watching nation to the task of reviving a country in crisis....

Well, I thought it would be interesting to look up Elizabeth Alexander.  So I did.  Here is a link at Poets.org , a wonderful poetry site and below is one of her poems.  Enjoy.  I did. Blues by Elizabeth Alexander I am lazy, the laziestgirl in the world. I sleep duringthe day whe...

While it's fair to say I'm not the most qualified to judge President-elect Obama's choices for the Interior (I was never much for decorating) or the Treasury (as every other Thursday I'm lucky if I have enough money for lunch), but Christianity and poetry are two of the few things I'm qualified to c...

It's never too late to come up with a literary stocking stuffer, at least as long as your neighborhood bookstore is open on Christmas Eve. What you’re looking for, of course, is something not too big that packs a punch. Isn’t that precisely the definition of a novella? Melville House, the small ...