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  • Long after his death, Ernest Hemingway still casts a long shadow Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 12:01AMOak Park native son Ernest Hemingway has been called many things. Dull isn’t one of them.The Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author died 50 years ago this weekend, killing himself (on July 2, 1961) with a gunshot — a violent end to what can only be described as a turbulent, hard-driving and over-the-top life. Four wives, seven novels, six short-story collections and enough booze to float his ...
  • CU & Boulder's Best 2010... as chosen by you Wednesday, November 24, 2010 @ 10:02AMWhen it comes to picking the best in Boulder, nothing beats going straight to the source.
  • A burden beyond their age Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 6:38PMCairo's 'lost boys,' far from their families, hustle street work in the Egyptian capital, collecting garbage, washing cars and hauling bricks, sending their meager earnings home to their villages. Ahmed knocks.
  • Evolving suburbs more inviting than ever to Vancouver families Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 2:48AMThe lure of the backyard and the white picket fence still draws young families away from city centres and to the suburbs -- in spite of pop culture representations of the "burbs" as a graveyard of conformist culture stocked with desperate housewives and blighted by urban sprawl.
  • Vancouver's suburbs thriving, report suggests Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 7:50PMStats Can study shows a high percentage of 25 to 44 yr olds migrate to the burbs in major city centres
  • Tiny island, big heart Friday, February 12, 2010 @ 6:09PMCraig Tansley returns to Mitiaro after 30 years and finds his childhood memories of carefree days and heart-warming hospitality unchanged.
  • Dreaming of a skeptic's Christmas Wednesday, December 9, 2009 @ 7:35AMSt. Joseph Skeptics Society members claimed they tried to avoid controversy when they put the sign “Be Good for Goodness Sake,” in Krug Park. David Carr, spokesman for the group, said all they wanted to do was express their sentiments for the holiday.
  • Area residents knock Alderman Garrity on Walmart Tuesday, September 8, 2009 @ 11:09PMResidents of Gold and South Beech streets are upset about traffic plans and rezoning.