Posted Thursday, may 24, 2012, at 8:50 AM Photo by Steven Foster For photo prints, go to www.stevenfoster.com/prints.html Of the 250 or more species of Asclepias, Asclepias tuberosa is perhaps the showiest. Butterflyweed, or pleurisy root, is one of the more glorious flowering roadside plants in America, and here in the Ozarks it has started to bloom. Historically, it is considered one of the better herbal remedies...

Sruti Akula’s impressive run at the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in Thursday morning’s semifinals when she missed the word “gimbaled.” Akula, 14, of Horseheads, spelled it “gymballed.” It’s a transitive verb that means “to supply with or support on gimbals,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Okay, great. So what,...

This is a guest post from Christina who writes on the blog greattravels.co.uk A night or day trip to the theatre can be a great experience, particularly when combined with a trip to the rest of London’s West end district. Perhaps the most famous theatre district in the world alongside Broadway in new York, the West end offers long running musicals such...

Students in San Antonio Schools in 2008 will have college savings options that haven’t existed since 2003. The Texas Tomorrow II plan is a revamped version of the original state savings program that many residents in San Antonio Schools blasted as useless before it was ended in 2003. The problem with the original plan was that it didn’t account for inflation. so San Antonio Schools families who used it...

By Colin St. John | May 29th, 2012 | 5 comments It’s a tough loss for the musical landscape, if only because Ween toed so many different lines between jam, metal, darkness and laughter. After I saw Ween play a show on its most recent New Year’s run in Denver, I wrote this: “There aren’t many bands that can jump from genre to genre like Ween...