Many Good News Today

"And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold."

“There’s so much talent in this city, it’s amazing any work gets done,” organizer Ted Carty joked on stage at the Rainbow Bistro on Friday as musician after musician wowed the crowd at the 3rd edition of the Capital Professional’s Open Mic (CAPO).

"Soon the train will stop. The border guard will give me back my passport – but I know we’ll be back again soon."

"As we enter the old hilltown graveyard, stone rows rise toward the church like a long flight of stillness..."

"I’m never finished answering to the dead."

"My black cat sprints through the kitchen door, a glassy-eyed cottontail hanging limp from his jaws."

Who's ready for a St. Louis-centric beer run?

"Tornado or torbellino or something else, I ask her about the valley’s strange wind. And she laughs, says that she was calling to ask me the same thing."

The European Parliament's bibliographic book-sector review names books and reading second only to watching and listening to programs in culture.

The IRIScan Express 4 is a capable, if unremarkable, manual-feed portable document scanner for feeding pages, receipts, and business cards to your laptop on road trips.