Edgar Allan Poe

Video: Sartre's Sink: Doing DIY with the greats

Mark Crick performs 'Hanging Wallpaper with Ernest Hemmingway' and 'Boarding an Attic with Edgar Allan Poe' from his new book of The Great Writers' Book of DIY two universities, a sports arena and a performing arts center. the...

The eternal adventure: The amazing tale of the Arabian Nights

In the caliph's palace, a girl is frying multi-coloured fish when a woman with a wand bursts through the wall and demands to know of the fish if they are true to their covenant. A young man mounts a flying horse. The horse...

Laptops in the classroom help middle-schoolers learn

Posted: Today at 8:10 a.m. Updated: Today at 9:10 a.m. Raleigh, N.C. — Laptops in the hands of middle-schoolers. Teachers and students say it has made a big difference in learning at Centennial Campus Middle School in Raleigh....

Another 10 Celebrity Corpses

Ten more photos of famous people after they have died. Requiescat in pace.^Ten more photos of famous people after they have died. Requiescat in pace.^Ten more photos of famous people after they have died. This list is...

Fit Chick Blog: Mad Season

Essentially a fitness blog with a wider lens. The end of the racing season combined with November's dreary weather leaves some dedicated cyclists in a unique state of mind. By Selene Yeager Whoever said April is the cruelest...

New on DVD today: 'Wall-E,' 'Tropic Thunder'

By Forrest Hartman • forrest@rgj.com • November 17, 2008 It's a great week for home video, as most of the major releases are outstanding. Children should be particularly excited because the Pixar hit "WALL-E" finally is...

Best of Scotland by Robert Ritchie

Published Date: 19 November 2008 SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: It's impossible to overstate the impact of this efflorescence of creativity – speculative, scientific, artistic – in our small nation. ABERDEEN: I spent holidays in...

Entrepreneurs who rose from the ashes

How seven self-made titans financed their success The nice thing about those problems is that they exist in every economic climate--and that means constant opportunities for the entrepreneurs and financiers with enough...

The General - Kino's Ultimate 2-Disc Edition

A column on the world of early cinema by DVDTalk reviewer John Sinnott Wow. Where did all the time go? Seems like only last week I was putting out the last column. My editorial duties at DVDTalk have been taking...

Apr 24, 2009: RavenCon 2009 at Crowne Plaza Richmond West

Science Fiction & Fantasy return to Richmond with RavenCon 2009, a weekend celebrating the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. (And as we're playing the Edgar Allan Poe angle, we're Mystery friendly, too!) Join our...