Like our first date or our first baseball glove, we all remember our first car. Even NASCAR drivers, who have driven millions of miles in their lifetimes, don't forget them. First cars represent freedom. They are sometimes cool. Sometimes geeky. Always memorable. With a little help, I gathered up memories from a half-dozen drivers in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 about their own first cars. The drivers
ONE of the more pleasant surprises of this year, in terms of exhibitions at least, has been the remarkable success of The Medieval Imagination, a show of illuminated manuscripts at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne.
SACRAMENTO - John Velasquez certainly didn't make things easy on himself. Competing with a sprained ankle after a tetherball game gone wrong, the Vacaville High School senior barely even made the boys shot put finals at Thursday's Sac-Joaquin Section Masters meet at Hughes Stadium.
Manuel Avila will celebrate an anniversary of sorts on Saturday a hard-hitting anniversary. Avila will step into the ring for the Fiesta Days Boxing program, a series of 15 bouts featuring local and regional talent. The Fairfield boxer was 10 when he stepped into the ring for his first bout during the Fiesta Days 2003 card.
The predominant rule about Japanese gardens is that there are no rules. • That every element of a Japanese garden must be in some way symbolic of this ancient culture; • That to create a genuine Japanese garden, you have to be in touch with Zen principles; • That the more ornamentation you put into a Japanese garden – the more water elements, bridges, gates and bonzai trees – the more authentic
When anti-alcohol crusader Carrie Nation visited Miami in 1908, national prohibition was still 12 years away but most of the counties in the South -- including much of Florida -- had already banned alcohol sales. These were ``dry counties.''
If I were in a grade-giving mode, I’d give them collectively, an “S”, for spectacular (followed by an asterisk). The “them” are the 44 applicants for the New Israel Fund Social Justice Fellowship whose applications I have just finished reading.
WENTWORTH, England: Paul McGinley of Ireland set the early pace after a seven under par 65, a new record for Wentworth's remodelled West Course, on the first day of the 2008 BMW PGA Championships on Thursday.
If the art of pottery conjures peaceful images of a spinning wheel and a lump of clay gently formed into a bowl or vase, followed by many hours baking in a kiln, the art of raku could be described as the extreme sports version of pottery.