Fans ask whatever happened to attention 'The Wiz' deserves? Sep 11, 2008
Actress Roxann Dawson ("Star Trek: Voyager") and actor Scott Patterson ("Gilmore Girls") are 50. Actress Virginia Madsen ("Sideways," "American Dreams") is 47. (Munster Times, IN)
Find a cruise to match your hobbies Aug 2, 2008
The Regent Seven Seas Voyager features art auctions on board. You might be able to find a similar cruise, or one that matches your tastes, on the new Web site ThemeCruiseFinder. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Exeter/Hampton/Rockingham area community calendar Aug 1, 2008
After the program, check out his "veggie voyager," a colorful van powered by vegetable oil. 329-6411. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
The Impossible Art of Deciphering Manuscripts Feb 8, 2008
A passage in which Frost alluded to fifth-century Mediterranean voyager Hanno the Carthaginian came out as "Hannof the Carlingian." Context is all. That same sentence mentioned the "coast of West Africa." Carthage, at least, should have popped to mind. (Slate)
Thirty years tracking faint whispers from space Sep 1, 2007
When NASA's Voyager probes set sail they were the most sophisticated spacecraft ever built ... Launched on September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 zoomed past Jupiter in 1979, and Saturn in 1980, heading on a path clear out of the solar system ... Today Voyager 1 is humanity's most remote object, 15. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
A slice of heaven Aug 22, 2007
Cruise or sail the Mystic River aboard a vessel or chartered boat ride with Voyager Cruises (15 Holmes St., 860-536-0416, ) or Mystic Whaler (860-535-1556, mystic ), or aboard the Sabino (at Mystic Seaport, 860-572-5371, ), one of the country's last operational wooden, coal-powered steamboats. Fishing is an option, too, through Benmar Custom Charters (Mason's Island Marina, Old North Road, 860-614-2484, ) or Lorna Anne Charters (Mystic Shipyard East, 18 Stafford St., 860-423-9121, lornaanne ). (Boston Globe)
ABC seeks that magic touch with 'Pushing Daisies' Aug 20, 2007
Freelance scripts for Deep Space Nine led to a job on Star Trek: Voyager and then to his first original work, Dead Like Me, a Showtime series about undead grim reapers. He left to develop Wonderfalls, a Fox drama about a girl in a Niagara Falls gift shop who converses with collectibles. (USA Today)
Bored with the same ol'? Worlds wackiest cruises Feb 28, 2007
Ships are adding and revamping programs that revolve around the voyagers' personal interests, like wine, caviar or car racing -- whether it's a newly found passion or a long-forgotten love ... On board the Seven Seas Voyager, you can sample the multiple faces of fine Valrhona on a ship packed with cocoa bean experts and pastry chefs. (MSNBC -- Travel)
