Actors June Allyson, left and Jimmy Stewart, who performed together in "The Stratton Story" and "The Glenn Miller Story" pose together in Cap d'Antibes, France, during the Cannes Film Festival in this May 1985 file photo. Allyson, the sunny, cracked-voiced "perfect wife" of James Stewart,…
Stebbijo offers proof that the North Idaho yucca plant is not just an old wive's tale here.*Toad/Synaptic Disunion was surprised when his boys quieted down and began enjoying the 40th anniversary version of "Mary Poppins" here.*Waterford Park Homes is becoming the topic of conversation in…
Shep, a two-year old Border Collie, herds ducks toward a pen during the 51st Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville, N.C., Friday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)Top Cutlines:1. Governor Risch readies the Idaho House of Representatives for a special session -- Arpie.2.…
We all sail a cruiserthat we dock down at Duane’sand we spend shipboard hourscounting capital gains.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
This image from ESPN TV of France's Zinedine Zidane head-butting Italy's Marco Materazzi during the World Cup final Sunday proves French athletes can be as ugly as any American ones. You can see Zidane's cowardly attack here. (ESPN/AP Photo)Question: Does Zidane's attack on the Italian…
Issue: AP: Reparations gain momentum: Wire service claims it's gone from fringe-group to mainstream movement/Associated Press DFO: We've debated this one somewhat in the HBO comments section, with Unbearable Bob supporting reparations and Dave Tolle and other conservatives opposing them. I come down on the…
At 9th & Locust this morning, a Huckleberry Picker out for her morning walk spies two seventysomething grandpas peddlin' side by side on bicycles. One wore a T-shirt with this message: "Grandpas Are Dads Without Rules." The outlaw uber-dad, however, was wearing a helmet. So…
Shep, a two-year old Border Collie, herds ducks toward a pen during the 51st Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville, N.C., Friday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Many of us, particularly in booming areas of North Idaho and resort communities south of us, feel the pain of escalating property taxes. On the plus side, though, our property's value is likewise skyrocketing. That's a dilemma millions of Americans with flat or decreasing property…
IDVandal: In the May 1, 2006 edition of the Capitol Hill newspaper "Roll Call", ("LaRocco Quits D.C. for a Shot at No. 2") LoRocco criticized Risch for only representing Ada County and not representing the rest of the state. Now, after LoRocco returns to Idaho…
Claude de Waalz: It was a glorious day on Tubbs Hill (Saturday). I've never seen so many people there. There is a growing problem, though. There were beer cans, trash and broken beer bottles everywhere. Tubbs is a park. It's time for the PD to…
What do you think of ex-CBS newsman Dan Rather possibly instructing at Harvard? 1. Excellent! An outstanding newsman teaching America's brightest students 2. Rather's reporting experience would certainly help journalist wannabes learn the craft 3. Better to have Rather in the classroom than on the…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
