The Dallas Morning News
The deep porches are lined with pumpkins and chrysanthemums in McKinney’s Tucker Hill neighborhood. Not-so-scary scarecrows smile. Rocking chairs and benches have fall-theme pillows. In short, it’s a nostalgic view of a small town. “It’s like living in the pages of Southern Living magazine,” says...(size: 4.0Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
Each fall, high schools celebrate homecoming with the traditional pep rally, the football game, the dance and the crowning of the homecoming king and queen. And, as tradition goes, that highest honor is reserved for the most popular jock and cheerleader. But this year at Plano West Senior High,...(size: 5.1Kb)
Khaleej Times
DISGUISED AS a Halloween party, this October 31 Cloud 9, the hotel and care centre for cats and dogs, is hosting an adoption day for abandoned and rescued pets. There will be many furry friends for adoption, in urgent need of a good home, including a seven months old Persian ginger Tom kitty, found...(size: 4.2Kb)
Mail Guardian South Africa
The taming of the beasts, Shanghai. Our Coverage Finding words to express an appreciation of the work of street artist Faith47 need not be an academic exercise. That’s the beauty of street art: it is there for its own sake, to interrupt the flow of human traffic, to add to the noise of the...(size: 10.7Kb)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the summer of 1955, the big buzz at my grandparents' house was the upcoming picnic put on by the Sons of Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini Lodge. I had been hearing about these legendary get-togethers since I could first remember. And that year, for reasons arrived at by some adult reasoning, we kids...(size: 5.1Kb)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
What a natural wonder the pumpkin is. Orange. Round. Personable. This fruit of the vine is exotic, arguably erotic -- quixotic, if not downright hypnotic. OK, let me catch my breath. These were some of the plump thoughts I was entertaining on a recent Saturday while harvesting pumpkins. Yes, wife...(size: 5.6Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
The palm tree at the entrance to Carrollton’s city-owned water park is a splendid specimen of the species Washingtonia Filifera, sturdy and tall with a gorgeous canopy of emerald fronds trailing wispy threads from their tips. It looks like park designers planned it that way, to lend a tropical touch...(size: 4.9Kb)
WPXI
After several years of on-and-off planning, the childhood home of "Little Richard" Penniman may finally get state attention during the planned widening of Interstate 75 through the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The highway bisected the historic neighborhood nearly half a century ago, and the house...(size: 6.6Kb)
MSNBC
The Bras on Broadway effort - that's united so many folks in the valley - has taken an ugly turn. That's after about one thousand dollars in donation money was stolen after a fundraising party in downtown Fargo this week. By all accounts it was a beautiful night to raise money for a beautiful cause,...(size: 2.5Kb)
Xinhua
BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- China’s yuan hit its strong-side limit with Friday’s first trade and firmly hugged the trading band boundary all day...(size: 1.0Kb)