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IF change is as good as a holiday then why do my family holidays invariably end up in the same place? If we go overseas, we go to New York. If we go to the beach, we go to Rosedale on the NSW south coast. If we go camping, we go to Treachery on the [...]

Lonnie Pursifull already was planning early Saturday morning, long before funeral services began for LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, to meet with Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church leaders, specifically Westboro founder Fred Phelps Sr.
“So, when he gets here at 10 o’clock, I’m going to preach [...]

Dear Abby: “On Foot in Orlando” (Nov. 23) wrote about being nearly run down by bicycles going too fast, especially when they don’t warn that they’re approaching. When I’m on my bike, I always slow down and call out “On your left!” to warn the walker that I’m [...]

ROGER SANCHEZ, 39, is to clubgoing, dance-music circles what the state%26#8217;s most official music celebrity, Bruce Springsteen, is to working-class devotees of classic-rock radio: a spokesman and hero. Within the span of the next several weeks Mr. Sanchez will make D.J. stops at gossip-column-worthy clubs in Manhattan, Las Vegas, [...]

“So how, Grandad,” they will ask, in the grip of their amazement, “was it done?” And I will reply, “Why, by piling into the back and sitting on each other’s heads, of course. And I’m not your grandad, by the way.”I might decorate my lectures on this theme with recollections of my own childhood experiences, [...]

Spilt Milk is an example of what is becoming an increasingly rare phenomenon: it’s a bona fide Overlooked Classic, a Great Lost Album. If we are going to get pedantic, it lacks some of the allegedly quintessential qualities of other Lost Albums. Nobody involved in its creation has - up to the time of writing, [...]

The combined effect of Keegan’s two previous stints elevated him to messianic status on Tyneside, a place that likes to pursue secular interests - be they football, drinking or wearing very few clothes on cold nights - with something akin to religious devotion. In this respect, Keegan and Newcastle are well-matched. They’re both proud, passionate [...]

ROGER SANCHEZ, 39, is to clubgoing, dance-music circles what the state%26#8217;s most official music celebrity, Bruce Springsteen, is to working-class devotees of classic-rock radio: a spokesman and hero. Within the span of the next several weeks Mr. Sanchez will make D.J. stops at gossip-column-worthy clubs in Manhattan, Las Vegas, [...]