Ogden Nash

Last week, Times Community News got a surprise visit from a poet. No, Rita Dove or Mark Strand didn't stop by the newsroom. But our story on DrunkRescue, a new Huntington Beach business that offers rides home for out-on-the-town drunks, got an online...

Good morning, Dan. I'd like to add my opinion about billboards to your--I'm sure--growing list. TEAR ALL THE DAMNED THINGS DOWN. That includes LED boards, rotating slat boards, and plain boards. (I'll exempt Times Square in New York, but that's a...

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive” ~ Ogden Nash To view original article click here –> Life Lessons from a 5 Year Old New York Times article on Fidgeting and Fitness –> The Fi...

"Every Thing on It" By Shel Silverstein HarperCollins, $19.99, ages 6-12 The late Shel Silverstein made a certain vein of poetry — with echoes of Edward Lear and Ogden Nash — a laugh-aloud family event for several generations. He provided for...

The multimedia exhibit "Homeless in Paradise" opened Nov. 5 at BC Space Gallery in Laguna Beach. The show was created by Laguna artists Faye Chapman and Tim Carmody, and Los Angeles Times photographer Genaro Molina in recognition of National Hunger and...

Mark Twain will appear on a new stamp, with a celebration at the Hannibal, Missouri post office June 25....

The turtle has landed. In mid-december, I wrote about Carol Bachicha, whom everyone in Winter Park calls “The Turtle Lady.” She takes her hard-shelled pets out for “strolls” in the city’s Central Park downtown almost every...

Natalie Merchant, solo artist and former frontwoman for the 10,000 Maniacs, will be introducing her new album, "Leave Your Sleep," to L.A. at what might seem like an unlikely venue -- the Getty Center in Brentwood. Unlikely, that is, until......

Natalie Merchant on Tuesday releases the album "Leave Your Sleep," 26 poems set to music. She's been working on the project for six years and will bring it to Los Angeles on April 20. She previewed the tracks in a......

In their dispute over an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, President Bush and Congress agree with Whitney Houston. They believe, that is, that children are our future. The quibbling isn't over the notion that kids...

Poems 1959-2009 Frederick Seidel Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 510 pp., $40 In September 1968, a wide-ranging New York Times lifestyle piece headlined "Central Park's New Era: Fun for Everyone" took the measure of several New Yorkers, including a college...

Larry Fessenden is a filmmaker with an uncanny gift for the creation of unsettling moods, capable, among other things, of bringing out the spookiness and menace inherent in a bleak winter landscape. He makes unusual, almost handmade art horror films, of...