Detroit Free Press

And I am now a geek.So this is what it feels like.I never thought as a geek before. I never embraced geekdom. But I cannot deny it. Tonight, during the Academy Awards, while others root for serious dramatic fare -- serial killers, abuse victims, lonely salesmen -- I will be rooting for orcs, elves and dwarfs. I will be wishing for wizards. Hoping for hobbits."Lord of The Rings" geek?Guilty.

The thing about college sports is that the clock is always ticking. From the moment you arrive, the hourglass is ...

My sister married a wonderful guy. His father was a Hungarian Jew. During World War II, he and his eight brothers and sisters were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Some were killed in gas chambers. Others were put on a boat that was deliberately sunk.By the war's end, my brother-in-law's father was the only one left. For years, his wife would find bread stuffed under his pillow, a habit from Nazi starvation.Every now and then some nut case says the Holocaust was faked. Usually, you dismiss him as pathetic.

Last week, a group of Michigan lawmakers, hoping to stem the alarming divorce rate, proposed a law: couples would ...

That thump you just heard was the sound of a city falling to its knees and begging Curtis Joseph to forgive and ...

Istill remember the girls screaming. Because I was only a kid, it really didn't faze me. I didn't know what songs ...