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
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 brunches and poetry in bed and a legitimate shot at legitimacy I want to know pain but not too much and to skirt death but not too soon I want to cry not because the world is not fair but that there is fairness in every ant and plant and even […]
07.30.2006
Would I were a king or a crazy beatnik writing poetry or prose that never rhymes and that would be okay for the world yearns to spin but never […]
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 […]
04.01.2006
Former surgeon Richard Selzer dissects ‘The Doctor as Writer’ By Leigh E. Rich It’s taken him 37 years, but surgeon-turnedauthor Richard Selzer knows his worth—at least as a writer. “It’s not much, but it’s something,” the soon-to-be 78-year-old says with a wry smile and a wink. No politician or pop star, Selzer undersells himself. The […]
