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Paul Newman movie quotes
Actor Paul Newman died Friday, but his work on the silver screen will live on for years to come. Here are 10 quotations from some of the characters he played during his illustrious career. “I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.” -As Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) […]
Talking about talking like a pirate
By Matthew Ralph As I’m sure you’ve heard 500 times already, today is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Did I mention, today is Talk Like A Pirate Day? For those of you who haven’t heard about it already, I apologize. I don’t meant to give any more publicity to this ridiculous and overhyped “holiday” but […]
Doctor names
1. Richard “Dick” Chopp, MD, is a practicing urologist with the Urologist Team in Austin, Texas. When vasectomy patients leave Dr. Chopp’s practice, they walk away with an “I got ‘chopped’ at the Urology Team” T-shirt. Source: American Medical Association News 2. Kevin Blinder, MD, is a retina surgeon in St. Louis and associate professor […]
Article: Of inadequacy and remembrance
By Matthew Ralph (originally published on Sept. 17, 2002) Inadequate. When he said the word, I suddenly started to feel a lot better about the assignment at hand, perhaps the most difficult I have ever taken on in my young career as a journalist. After all, that’s exactly how I felt on the phone two […]
Articles: Politics and the singer
By Jamie Barnes Sometimes I think people feel let down when I refuse to make political commentary from the stage. Or I refuse to play a local candidates’ rally (I’ve been asked to play more than a few). Or, to get into debates with them out at a club before or after the show. For some […]
Articles: A legend’s final bow
By Bobby Gilles Johnny Cash wrote his first song in 1955, a song about a train called “Hey Porter.” His final composition, released in 2006 on the posthumous American V: A Hundred Highways, is also about a train. The Delta blues-inspired “Like The 309” shows that he remained a master storyteller to the end. “Hey […]
Article: A Subway Prayer
By Jesse Eubanks Nine years ago, I was living in Oakland, California with five other Christians in a small apartment on the West Side of the city. We had moved there as part of a nationwide program that was seeking to battle the ills and pains of the inner-city by getting on the front lines. […]