In our province not so very long ago, my alarm clock was not a cell phone tucked underneath my pillow. I would wake up to the sound of birds.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20080515-136598/Caged-birds-free-birds

Specialty of the House features local chefs who cook up exciting new dishes for readers to make at home. Steven Sprague is today's chef.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080514/NEWS/805140415/1013/RSS01&source=rss

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) loves New York and vice versa, but might the fest, with its successful 2008 installment just behind it, be getting itchy for the world-class status of Toronto, Sundance or Cannes?
http://filmjournal.com/filmjournal/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003799229&&&imw=Y

Their distinctive, ultraviolet-blue flowers charm onlookers. But they infamously shed the blossoms, leaving a sticky residue behind. The drive down Pasadena's Del Mar Boulevard under a canopy of ultraviolet-blue jacarandas has lost none of its effect on Roland Clements after all these years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jacaranda12-2008may12,0,3212410.story?track=rss

On Oct. 22, 2002, Montgomery County bus driver Conrad E. Johnson was getting ready to begin his morning route in Aspen Hill when he was shot in the abdomen. Johnson died later that day at an area hospital.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=26232

Menopause is the subject of jokes and jabs, a rite of passage women used to whisper about and now discuss in detail with one another and their doctors.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9217750?source=rss

It's kind of like "Gossip Girl" - but a whole lot nastier. A real-life gossip site for the college set - JuicyCampus.com - takes mean to another level.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/11/2008-05-11_earn_your_degree_in_online_bullying_with.html