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As war stories echo around her, an 82-year-old woman drinks her medicine, relates strains of memories and talks about "the last real president." Story
[Times photo: Dirk Shadd] |
It happened that day
The terrorist attacks on the United States weren’t the only important events of Sept. 11. We now interrupt this bulletin to bring you everyday life.
The restaurant
Opening day wasn't the happy crush they had hoped, but the owners of a new restaurant find that those first customers have since become loyal patrons and friends.
Joseph Ambrosini
When Joseph Ambrosini died at 76, his loved ones suffered a very personal loss amid the nation's profoundly public one.
Dominic and Dawson
Life begins. Babies cry, nurse and sleep, even when death fills the TV screens in the labor and delivery ward.
Birthdays
The good news is, birthdays come every year. The bad news? The date will always be the same.
Jurors
Life and death become all too real when jurors see TV coverage of the terrorist attacks on the last day of a murder trial.
Terry Yoakum
The whir of the edger stopped, and a Tampa man wondered where his friend and handyman had gone. He found him lying on the ground. |
Mamma Mia! Can this show save Broadway?
Full to the brim with kitschy ABBA songs backed by a paper thin plot, Mamma Mia! is an unlikely rescuer. But as tourists stay home and other shows suffer, its ticket sales are confounding critics.
Scratching new ground at the Chicken Ranch
Live wire Ann-Margret has it all together as the singer-dancer-actor unites her talents in her first stage play, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Arts Talk
Florida Hall of Fame
Audio Files
NEW ORDER, GET READY (Reprise) For children of the '80s like me who locked themselves in their rooms, dressed all in black, listening to Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart over and over, New Order is the musical equivalent of comfort food. Now that we're getting older and acquiring all those nasty responsibilities, we should be thankful New Order is still making music.
