| Date |
Item |
11/22/04
Publishers Weekly |
Soupsong's Exaltation of Soups given a fine review! |
11/20/04
The Advertiser |
Prisoner Douglas Robinson is his book Warts & All reveals all the details of his cellmate's double murder: Matthew Wales poisoned his socialite mother and her husband by lacing their minestrone with sleeping pill paste. |
11/19/04
San Francisco Chronicle |
Heather Knight reports on a Lowell choral group dining on alligator soup during its musical tour through China. |
11/18/04
Africa News |
Zimbabwean Member of Parliament Roy Bennett, sentenced to hard labor for giving the Justice Minister a shove in Parliament, is being fed only small portions of sazda, cabbage soup, and bean soup in prison. |
11/18/04
Associated Press State & Local |
Wendi Andriano was found guilty in Phoenix of poisoning her husband sodium azide-laced soup then slashing his throat, though she claimed he inadvertently killed himself in the struggle for the knife. |
11/17/04
The Guardian |
Sophi Arie reports on Marco Bellochio's film "Buongiorno Notte," dramatizing the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and showing Moro eating soup in a dark cupboard, contemplating his fate and writing letters to the Pope. |
11/17/04
International Herald Tribune |
Mike Zwerin reports on the life and times of singer Marianne Faithful who at one point, addicted to morphine, nodded off with her face in her soup at a dinner party given by the earl of Warwick at his castle. |
11/16/04
New York Daily News |
David Biancutti reports the true story of the film The Great Escape--even more heroic a POW escape in 1944 than shown, including the prisoners skimming soup of its fat to make candles that would light the escape tunnel. |
11/16/04
Deutsche Press-Agentur |
An 11-year-old Cambodian boy was axed in the head 3 times by his 19-year-old cousin when he refused to forsake his homework to leave the house and buy his cousin some noodle soup. |
11/15/04
AP Worldstream |
Cain Burdeau reports on the U.S. exhorting other nations to protect sharks that are severely overfished because their fins are popularly used to make the delicacy shark fin soup. |
11/8/04
Associated Press |
A shoplifter in Phoenix who'd stolen canned soup fled by bicycle, was tracked by helicopter, then shocked with a taser gun while being apprehended. |
11/6/04
Financial Times |
New York subway photographer Bruce Davidson talks about filling up on matzo-ball soup at Katz' deli on the lower east side before going out for shoots. |
11/4/04
Chicago Lawyer |
Julian Franzin reviews Annie Reiner's new play "The Family Gold," saying it's really about a bowl of split pea soup--which opens the play and is never removed. |
11/3/04
AP Online |
Nedra Pickler reports that Senator Kerry followed a nap with a meal of vegetable soup before awaiting election results. |
11/3/04
St. Petersburg Times |
Bill Adair reports that President Bush followed election results with family and friends in the White House over bowls of squash soup. |
11/3/04
The Australian |
Valerie Elliot reports on a British warnings against eating manwater, Jamaican goat's head soup, for fear of mad-goat disease. |
11/3/04
Contra Costa Times |
Chuck Barney reports on Dan Rather's election analysis: "Kerry's lead is as thin a turnip soup." |
11/3/04
Moscow News |
Austrian film director Torsten Johnson reports that 7 weeks in Russian has taught him to eat soup every day. |
11/1/04
AP Online |
Lara Sukhtian reports that Arafat is improving in Paris, eating vegetable soup. |