When you read the following paragraph, consider the following: Tornado season hasn't even started yet.

When they make a movie of your book, they're not going to have to "base it on a true story," because this true story is more dramatic than fiction. I can see Jack Black collecting an Oscar as Steve.

Steve Goodman, Madagascar's most intrepid field biologist, has nearly a dozen species of insects, animals and plants named after him. In some cases that's because his colleagues admire him. In others, it's because they plucked the creatures off him.

Folk singer Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson gave a sold-out crowd something they've needed since Hurricane Katrina - good music, a good time and a reminder of what they love most about this city.

Those 15 cars and 15 restless riders that Arlo Guthrie sang about in Steve Goodman's tribute to the "City of New Orleans" are perilously close to derailing. The Bush administration's goal of dismantling the nation's Amtrak train service came one whistle-stop closer to its destination on Nov.