Depression News

Saturday, January 02, 2010 No News Today, But... I've been looking into WWII and Depression recipe books, because they use the rationing of sugar and meat .

At Brookgreen Gardens, a 9,000-acre preserve just south of the resort town of Myrtle Beach, both high art and the flora, fauna, and natural beauty of South Carolina's Lowcountry merge and flourish.

A Christmas orange is an old tradition of which many younger generations are unaware.

Much of Greg Harm's life has revolved around the Nebraska State Capitol. Stone sculptures' diamond year Lee Lawrie's artwork adorning the Nebraska State Capitol was completed 75 years ago this month.

Reguly in Europe This time, the gold bugs might be right Soaring levels of U.S. debt, record stimulus, rock-bottom interest rates and tsunami waves of government bond sales will help to push the U.S. dollar ever lower, making gold increasingly attractive Eric Reguly Published on Thursday, Nov.

Most people would have passed by a 90-year-old, broken-down, P.A. Starck Co. piano sitting on a curb outside a house.

Some people still remember losing their family farms to TVA, the peril of annual floods replaced with the permanence of a man-made flood that covered their ancestral homes for all time.

Roman Polanski.... Talented?.. Definitely. Controversial? Absolutely... In jail waiting to be extradited to the U.S..... A fact.

RON CSILLAG Last updated on Friday, Oct. 02, 2009 02:39AM EDT C harles Sydney Frost was a dinosaur and proud of it.

The labor strife of the past in Pittsburgh area steel mills seems far away now, the stuff of folklore.

T HERE was no mention of Tom Kenny's passing on the nightly news. Flags over Parliament House were not set at half-mast, and nor was he spoken of over half empty pots at the local RSL.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has declared that the recession is over. Addison Wiggin, executive publisher of Agora Financial, isn't buying it.

Appearances are deceptive, whichever way you look at Mumford and Sons. For a start, frontman Marcus Mumford isn't nearly as grizzled as either his oak-aged voice or his band name suggests.

This is National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week . So I have a print out post: four lies used about and against those with Invisible Chronic Illness'. You can print them out, carry them with you, to identify and console yourself, to root out of your own head these misconceptions regarding Invisible Chronic Illnesses.

Opening Friday September 4th at the Muir Gallery, "Me and My Shadows: A Fine Art Sidetrack" is the gallery's first show of the Fall season.

When it came to food, my grandfather prized quantity. Maybe it was something about being a kid during the Depression and then an adult during World War II rationing, but he relished, like little else, walking into the dining room of a second-rate hotel restaurant, and seeing brunch laid out: a legion of steaming metal tubs on tables in rows, like ...

Hell's gong was chiming loudly outside B.C. Place before AC/DC's second Vancouver concert on its wildly popular global Black Ice tour.

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1, review Vincent Cassel exudes seductive, dangerous charisma as French gangster Jacques Mesrine.

Duayne Hatchett will proudly tell you that his grandmother raised him in Oklahoma during the Depression.

RAY JEROME BAKER / 1985 Work in the pineapple fields was hot and grueling. CRAIG T. KOJIMA / 1990 Del Monte worker Corazon Tacras, above, prepares to work in the Wahiawa pineapple fields.