Democrats celebrate a series of ‘firsts’ at a landmark convention By Leigh E. Rich The Democrats touted their 2008 gathering in Denver as “a convention of firsts,” with its live high-definition streaming, its Spanish language simulcast and its “Delegate Service Day,” according to their Web site, www.demconvention.com. Michelle Obama, and many of the other speakers […]
09.04.2008
08.28.2008
Health roundtable kicks off the Denver DNC By Leigh E. Rich Four hours before DNC Chairman Howard Deans banged the gavel and began the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, physicians, public health specialists, medical researchers and CEOs gathered at Boettcher Concert Hall for a Rocky Mountain Roundtable on “Health, Wellness and Prevention,” moderated by […]
08.28.2008
Biden gets two thumbs up from Georgia delegates By Leigh E. Rich DENVER—If the Democratic Party struggled in selecting a vice presidential candidate to complete the Barack Obama ticket, all they needed to do was ask Savannah City Councilwoman and Obama-pledged delegate Mary Osborne. “Oh, I love him,” she said. “He was my choice all […]
08.28.2008
Georgia delegates proud of Hillary Clinton’s call for unity By Leigh E. Rich DENVER—Four years ago, John Edwards talked about two Americas. On Monday, the opening night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Michelle Obama depicted America as one nation. Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who lost in her bid to […]
08.27.2008
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Chance meeting leads to political connection By Leigh E. Rich DENVER—Whoever said nice guys finish last certainly wasn’t from Savannah. I might not be a native of Savannah, but three years in the “Hostess City of the South” has rubbed off on me—so much so that I can’t help but lend a hand to lost […]
09.19.2007
I want Bloody Mary brunchesand poetry in bedand a legitimate shot atlegitimacy I want to know painbut not too muchand to skirt deathbut not too soon I want to cry notbecause the world is not fairbut that there is fairnessin every ant and plantand even those half-living creaturesthat cause us harm invisibly I want to […]
07.30.2006
Would I were a king or a crazy beatnik writing poetry or prose that never rhymes and that would be okayfor the world wonts to spin but never in iambic pentameter […]
07.17.2006
Forget 33 17 is prime knew it all […]
04.19.2006
1868 melodrama about love (and insurance scams) revived By Leigh E. Rich The Gaslight Theatre has been a Tucson favorite for melodramatic family entertainment since brothers Tony and Tom Terry set up shop in Trail Dust Town in 1977. Two decades and three moves later, the Gaslight now resides in the (renovated) Jerry Lewis Theatre […]
04.03.2006
Surgeon-turned-writer shares his ‘Mortal Lessons’ with Savannah By Leigh E. Rich Maimonides. Chekhov. Keats. Rabelais. William Carlos Williams. Richard Selzer chuckles while ticking off names of his predecessors as if seating arrangements for an Algonquin soiree. He is but one, he says, in a long line of physician-writers. “I’m the one that’s just alive,” the […]
