Though skeptical about the blogosphere, local author Andromeda Romano-Lax noticed a need and decided to fill it. Consider the tagline for her latest literary venture, the book blog at 49writers.blogspot.com: "49 Writers, No Moose."

STAFF and pupils at Marlwood School have been celebrating after winning special science funding. The Alveston school was awarded the money and a Special Merit Award in the national Rolls-Royce Science Prize competition.

When Lisa Bergmann started home-schooling her children about 10 years ago, she wasn’t too sure of herself. Her husband Tom was somewhat cool to the idea.

Saturday Night Live player Bill Hader wrote, stars in The Line; head writer/Weekend Update co-anchor Seth Meyers directs; writer Simon Rich helps to pen scripts.

When Erick Erickson, editor in chief of the conservative Web site RedState.com, wrote a post that called Cindy Sheehan a “left-wing media whore,” he expected angry feedback.   He didn’t, though, expect commenters at Daily Kos to post his contact in