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  • Oprah's Book Club Turns Over A New Page
    Oprah Winfrey says her Book Club grew out of a desire to talk to authors after finishing their books. While the original version of the club ended when Winfrey's television show went off the air in 2011, it has now been rebooted online and on the new Oprah Winfrey Network as Book Club 2.0.
  • The beloved pool hall/restaurant's famous sign.
    Booches' Famous Burgers Seek New Buns After Hostess Plant Closes
    It's not just Twinkie hoarders and Ding Dong lovers that feel the pain of the Hostess factory closings. For the first time in about 40 years, Booches Billiard Hall in Columbia, Mo. has to go elsewhere to source the buns for its famous burgers. Regulars say they are adapting to the change.
  • Vía Prímo: Express Bus Service To Downtown And Medical Center
    Prímo, San Antonio’s bus rapid transit (BRT) system, will officially launch Dec. 17 amid a transition for the organization; Vía Metropolitan Transit CEO…
  • Judge's Report Due On Regulating British Press
    On Thursday, Lord Justice Leveson is expected to release his report on regulating the British press, following phone hacking and other abuses by the tabloids. The report, and Prime Minister David Cameron's response to it, will likely be controversial.
  • Apatosaurus (right, opposite a <em>Diplodocus</em> skeleton at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh), is what paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh actually found when he thought he'd discovered the Brontosaurus.
    Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed
    Even if you knew that, you may not know how the fictional dinosaur came to star in the prehistoric landscape of popular imagination for so long. The story starts 130 years ago, in a time known as the "Bone Wars."
  • Making Permanent Digital Records Not So Permanent
    The Internet is forever — and so are texts, tweets and Facebook updates — but a startup has big ambitions to bring privacy and impermanence to online communication. The company, called Wickr, lets users decide how long a message lives.
  • An image from the Binders Full of Women Tumblr.
    Want Thousands Of Twitter Followers? Put A Meme On It
    It is now clear that we are living in a world of viral memes that take no sides when it comes to spoofing politicians or debate moderators. So what's a politician to do as the target of a social media parody? Run with it.
  • Military special forces surround supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo on Wednesday. A few hours later, the military ousted Morsi and suspended the constitution.
    Egypt's Military Reasserts Its Enduring Power
    Egypt's military has played a dominant role in the country since a 1952 military coup. The military reasserted its power as it staged a coup on Wednesday.
  • Gina Chersevani makes a Red, White and Blue Float at her restored soda fountain in Washington, D.C.
    Fizz And Fireworks: Make A Patriotic Homemade Soda For The Fourth
    Homemade sodas are hot these days: Americans bought more than 1.2 million home carbonators last year. For the Fourth of July, we asked mixologist Gina Chersevani to help us tap into the trend with a soda float inspired by Independence Day.
  • In Post-Coup Egypt, Morsi Allies Feel Effects
    One day after Egypt's military deposed the nation's first democratically elected president, it began a crackdown on Mohammed Morsi's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
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