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Alternative music radio station WTMD-FM recently sponsored a pledge-drive, week-long marathon of The Top 500 Desert Island Songs of All Tim...

The primary reason I attended UC-Santa Cruz was for its green-gorgeous campus—the university is inside a redwood forest, on a tall hilltop ...

Suddenly my daughter, E-girl, can't get enough of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." She begs to watch an episode of it whenever she h...

Instead of having to search for individual web sites for contests, here are some sites that compile them for you: • Poets and Writers Subm...

Thanks to David Simon, I am terrified of driving to Baltimore.  As an avid viewer of Homicide: Life on the Street , and now The Wire , I ha...

Strangely foreshadowed by thunder, snow descended upon us last Wednesday. Trees laden with the thick, heavy snow bent down to the ground, r...

 AVSM Flashback is a new and occasional feature in which I'll reconnect with the people who once appeared in the pages of my publication...

People from my past are popping up with more rapidity lately, due mostly to Facebook’s cheerful but insistent suggestions that I friend peo...

Much has already been said recently about the new version of Huckleberry Finn that replaces the N-word (which appears more than 100 times ...

Mostly, the Washington Post offers news of the right-now, whether politics, tragedies, or entertainment. But there are stories of regular p...