Dec 2nd, 2008 · Wanted: a couple willing to run a Victorian bed-and-breakfast perched on a tiny island off San Francisco. Must be willing to cook, clean and endure a foghorn going off every 20 seconds half of the year. The historic lighthouse, turned guesthouse, is beautiful but isolated. As the outgoing tenants told the San Francisco Chronicle,"We'd probably stay forever if we could figure out how to get a pizza delivered."
Nov 5th, 2008 · After his victory speech in Chicago Tuesday night, President-elect Barack Obama awoke to have breakfast with his daughters. He then headed to the gym and later went to his campaign headquarters to thank the staff.
Oct 14th, 2008 · In 1950, a mathematician asked, if a computer could think, how could we tell? His answer: it could hold a conversation. In this spirit, the annual Loebner Artificial Intelligence Prize goes to the most human-like computer. This year, to a program called Elbot. When asked, how's it going? Elbot responded: I feel terrible today. This morning I poured milk over my breakfast instead of oil, and it rusted before I could eat it.
Oct 9th, 2008 · A sports-mad gay couple doesn't quite know how to cope with the flamboyant boy they end up foster-parenting. Laurie Lynd's cozy comedy aims to say a thing or two about tolerance — without forgetting the laughs.
Sep 20th, 2008 · The manager of the Image Hotel in Marmaris, Turkey has fired all of her male employees, after learning that many of them were providing more than just room service to foreign female tourists. She now employs only females at the 27-room hotel.
Aug 28th, 2008 · We hear voices from this morning's Unity Breakfast at the Democratic National Convention. Many people were deeply moved by the naming of the first African American as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
Aug 26th, 2008 · Free summer staging of the '60s musical has New Yorkers camping out overnight — but a sense of shared adventure (and bike messengers bearing delivery breakfasts) help pass the time.
Aug 10th, 2008 · In an era of chefs as stars, one young chef on the rise walked out of the trendy restaurant world and decided instead to oversee the menu at a soup kitchen. Now Steve Badt and scores of volunteers make and serve breakfast to hundreds of homeless people in the basement of a church a mile from the White House.