Ouch. A popular Nashville TV personality/radio host/author has been arrested in a prostitution sting. According to The Tennesseean, 73-year-old Teddy Bart was one of nine men who responded to an Internet offer of sex-for-pay: “They were cited after agreeing to pay a female undercover officer for sexual activity.” A staple on the Nashville broadcast scene [...]
A noted children’s-literature advocate, author and radio host has lashed out against how literature is now being taught to primary-school kids in his native UK. The situation is similar in the US as well: Kids are not asked to tackle entire books. Michael Rosen said that it was “absurd and pathetic” that reading assignments [...]
Oldtimers remember the late actor Lloyd Bridges, star of the TV show “Sea Hunt,” which ran from 1958 to 1961. His widow, Dorothy Bridges — mother of the actors Jeff and Beau Bridges, died Monday in Los Angeles at age 93. This least-famous member of the Bridges clan was a poet for five decades, according to [...]
A British novelist has died because he walked home from the hospital that had just discharged him. “A hospital has been censured by health watchdogs for letting an elderly man walk home unsupervised to his death after a blood transfusion,” we read in the Daily Mail. “Aplyn Wynn-Jones, 80, was discharged from the hospital after [...]
An author who advocated fiercely on behalf of autistic children has been murdered by her autistic son. Kent State political science/women’s studies professor Gertrude Steuernagel, the 60-year-old author of Political Philosophy as Therapy: Marcuse Reconsidered and coauthor of Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines, died last Friday in an Ohio hospital from injuries [...]
Yet another celebrity is taking the literary route. This time it’s Kanye West, who plans to release a book this fall titled Kanye West: Glow In The Dark. Early reports say that it will include memories of his travels and photographs of fashion shows he has attended, as well as pictures spotlighting his Louis Vuitton [...]
This is one of those only-in-Berkeley stories. The public library in this self-congratulatorily radical California town is locking horns with the local “Peace and Justice Commission” (I know, I know) “over whether a service contract for the book check-out system violates the city’s nuclear-free ordinance,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “The dispute centers on [...]
The author of a popular memoir that was later revealed to be fraudulent has now been murdered, his body found in a Belgian garage, according to the Daily Mail. Using the pseudonym Tom Carew, Philip Sessarego claimed in Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan that he was an ex-British Special Forces (SAS) agent highly trained in [...]
A University of Florida associate professor of anthropology whose books include Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia and The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon was arrested last Saturday night on cocaine charges in Gainesville, according to FirstCoastNews. “An officer driving toward 46-year-old Michael Heckenberger saw him toss a small bag [...]
From KTKA.com comes news of an HIV-fighting comic-book superhero: An area pastor has teamed up with a designer to create a comic book hero whose purpose is to fight social problems such as HIV and domestic and gang violence. The character is called Wichita Man, and he will make his debut at the end of the [...]