Just like the biblical lamentations of Sodom, 25-year-old Destiny Akwaka kept on shedding tears uncontrollably inside the cell at the Police Headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos. He cried and cried but could not be consoled.
What goes up must not necessarily come down. Just ask the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, where both attendance and numbers of events have been on the upswing since the venue's opening in the fall of 2006.
With modern warfare comes modern communications. Gone are the days when letters were the only way soldiers could send news back home. Now, the choice is e-mail.
News Call or email the Newsroom at (507) 434-2230. Memorial Day is upon us. Time to unfurl Old Glory from the closet. Time to doff the cap when Color Guards march by.
Television, Gore Vidal wearily announced on The South Bank Show last week, is a medium used for perpetrating lies "all over society". We were supposed to take that on trust. I'm glad he remembered to lay into TV, though, because every other institution worth noting was subjected to his magnificently urbane disdain: from the president ("demented"), to John Updike ("I'm sure he has virtues, it's
It was snowing hard, unusual to say the least for May 20, but even more unusual was the 10 inches of old winter snow still lying on the balsam forest on either side of the trail.
The next time you take a trip, pack a Travel cover and have a photo taken in front of someplace photogenic. (Be imaginative!) E-mail your photo to Papertrails@timespicayune.com or send it by snail mail to Paper Trails, Travel Section, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125-1429.
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