Bird Dictionary Links

Have You Had an Epiphany While Camping? (About.com)

According to Dictionary.com, epiphany is a noun that means: a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely,...

Eartha Kitt: Forever feline, forever fierce (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)

"Je cherche un billionaire," Eartha Kitt purred last year from the stage of New York's Cafe Carlyle, the chic, intimate club in the Carlyle Hotel that had been her regu- lar stomping ground for more than a decade. ... - By Stephen Holden The New York Times

Hair of whose dog? (Eureka Times-Standard)

”If this dog do you bite, soon as out of your bed, take a hair of the tail in the morning.” Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 1889 Good morning!

Appreciation: Eartha Kitt never lost what made her special (The State)

“Je cherche un billionaire,” Eartha Kitt purred last year from the stage of the Cafe Carlyle, the chic, intimate club in the Carlyle Hotel that had been her regular stamping ground for more than a decade. It was an ideal setting for Kitt to strut her archetypal show business persona: a glamorous, calculating international gold digger enslaving rich men with exaggerated feline wiles, then ...

A tip of the hat to theater's 2009 milestones (San Francisco Chronicle)

It's almost too serendipitous. The same new year that sees America inaugurate its first African American president, Broadway will - or should - celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first play by a black woman, Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun." More...